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1. Dutch Oven Paella Try cooking up this savory Spanish style dish over a campfire to achieve the authentic crispy bottom layer! Ingredients:  4-6 chicken thighs 4 sausages, sliced Olive oil 1/2 onion 2 cloves garlic 2...

This post was published earlier. But Thanksgiving (in the US) seemed like a good time to think about the ideas again.

Anyone who has spent much time discussing peak oil, the collapse of civilizations, climate change or modern security issues eventually confronts the issue of historical antecedents...

How economic progress comes from the accumulation of privately owned tools of production; demonstrates the need for tools by showing a young couple with their infant child in a wilderness with nothing but natural resources...

Analysis from The Oil Drum : Mr. Jeff Vail from ASPO-USA 2010 Peak Oil Conference. More: http://www.aspousa.org/ Below the fold are the slides, and a rough approximation of my presentation entitled "Rescuing Suburbia"...

This is a guest post by Cameron Leckie, known on The Oil Drum as leckos. Cameron is an officer in the Australian army. He is a member of ASPO Australia and lives in Brisbane with his wife and two young children.

If a young person is just starting out, and is wondering what career choice to make, what would you suggest?

If the world will be changing, what should we be saying to our children about it?

The continued expansion of the internet has brought with it a surge in information, analysis, opinion and insight. At the same time the vast mental and social freedom in cyberspace has manifested an exponentially growing...

We all have things that we like to do, or are important to us. We also have things we want to do that might be helpful for the long term.

Joseph Tainter, a Professor in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University, and author of the seminal work "The Collapse of Complex Societies", gave a speech about a year ago on complexity and resource...

This is a guest post by Kurt Cobb. It originally ran on his blog, Resource Insights. A frequent critique of those who claim we still have enormous stocks of resources left to exploit is that the flow or rate of extraction...

This has been a busy week. I had started a longer Campfire piece on Democracy and Greshams Law but didn't finish. Instead, lets share 3 things that we learned this week. How about '2 facts and an insight'?

This is a guest post by Ryan King. Ryan is a biologist, independent journalist, and community “eco-preneur” in Costa Rica. Below, he provides a brief introduction to decentralized biodiesel and biochar production in...

This is a guest post by George Mobus. George is an Associate Professor of Computing and Software Systems at the University of Washington, Tacoma. His blog is Question Everything.