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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Getting Out the Boats: A Primer on Hard Times | |
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| Time to Get Out Our Boats | |
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| Facing up to the Future | |
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| Hurry Up, Please; It's Time | |
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| Defining Our Terms | |
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| With What Will We Fix It, Dear Liza, Dear Liza? | |
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| Actions as Activism: The New Home Front and the Riot for Austerity | |
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| The Riot for Austerity | |
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| On the New Home Front | |
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| Reconsidering Public and Private | |
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| Women's Work and Political Power | |
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| The Political is Also the Personal | |
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| The Power Lines | |
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| Coming Together on the Home Front | |
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| The Church Model of Community Building | |
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| Time to Pick Up Your Hat | |
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| Pick Up Your Hat | |
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| Feels Like I'm Dyin' From that Old Used-to-Be | |
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| The Long-Term Problem of Technological Solutions | |
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| Not the End of the World | |
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| The Theory of Anyway | |
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| Money Changes Everything | |
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| Meet the Real Economy | |
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| Confronting the Real Economy | |
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| Self-sufficiency as the Opposite of Poverty | |
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| Peasant Economics for Everyone | |
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| Digging for Dollars | |
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| Making Ends Meet | |
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| The Problem of Consumption | |
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| Use-What-You-Have Adaptation | |
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| Get Out of Debt | |
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| Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do or Do Without | |
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| Hang On to Your House | |
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| Real Family Values - Facing the Future Together | |
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| Talking Population With the Old Men | |
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| Why Bring Up Population? | |
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| Trusting Women | |
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| The Limits of I=PAT | |
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| Understanding the Demographic Transition | |
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| The Tragedy of the Bathroom | |
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| The Permaculture of Family | |
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| Home Economics and the "Mommy Wars" | |
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| Husbanding Our Resources | |
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| This is the Way the World Ends... With Your Brother-in-Law Sleeping on Your Couch | |
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| Raising Kids in a New World: Family Life and Education | |
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| I Don't Know How She Does It! | |
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| Toys are Not Us | |
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| Childhood in a Changing World | |
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| School and Energy | |
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| Home Economics, Home-Land Security | |
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| Little House in the Suburbs | |
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| Home is Where You are Now | |
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| Staying Put | |
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| Buy or Rent? | |
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| Where to Live? | |
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| Sufficiency Plan for a Suburban Home | |
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| The Beauty and Necessity of the Low-Energy Home | |
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| Why the Lights Go Out and What to Do About It | |
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| What Life in Our Low-Energy Home Looks Like | |
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| Food and Health: The New Basics | |
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| The Bountiful Home: Grow and Preserve What You Need | |
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| The Crazy Lady and the Garden | |
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| The Bull's-Eye Diet | |
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| How to Start Your Garden | |
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| Squirrel Time | |
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| The Hand that Stirs the Pot, Rules the World | |
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| It's All About Food | |
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| Getting Over Picky | |
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| Food Preservation and Democracy | |
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| Frugality, Economy, Preparedness | |
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| How to Eat Cheap | |
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| Health Care | |
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| Public Health | |
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| The Myths of Medicine | |
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| The Costs and Benefits of Modern Medicine | |
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| Why Health Care Should Be at the Center of Things | |
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| The Most Bang for the Health Care Buck | |
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| The Beginning and the End | |
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| Recompense | |
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| Abundance, Democracy, Joy | |
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| Scared? Duh! | |
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| Abundance | |
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| Am I Romanticizing Poverty? | |
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| The One Thing We Did Right | |
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| Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Difficult Times | |
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| The Best Books About Nearly Everything | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |