IntheWake

A Collective Manual-in-progress for Outliving Civilization

This site is a collection of interviews, analysis, and how-tos related to peak oil, climate change, collapse, and related subjects.

The bulk of the content on this site is offered for archival purposes with no significant changes or updates planned for the forseeable future. I keep getting emails to ask about further content here, but most of my time now goes to local action (like social justice and food relocalization projects) or to other writing (Derrick Jensen and I have written a book called What We Leave Behind, upcoming from Seven Stories Press). A few older pages would benefit from clarification, amendment, or expansion I wish I had time for, but there still seems to be interest in them as-is. Some of the most popular pages on the site are linked to below. You can also buy the book that emerged from this site, Peak Oil Survival. I'll be posting updates about other projects here intermittently, including excerpts from my upcoming book with Derrick. You can go directly to the old index page if you like. Thanks! — Aric McBay, June 2008. Contact.

Popular Stuff

Interviews

Lierre Keith on fighting back, patriarchy, fomenting revolution, taking down civilization, and (of course) collapse.

Megan Quinn on Peak Oil and preparation, and on community reponses to Peak Oil in Cuba.

Chellis Glendinning on land-based cultures and the psychology of collapse.

George Draffan on mass media, control, and technology.

Matt Savinar on the end of the oil age, collapse, renewables, and the mythology of the future.

Richard Heinberg on industrial collapse and related thoughts.

How-To Pages

Practical Q&A Series was a 9 issue set of questions and answers driven by readers from toothpaste to birth control to folding kayaks.

Tools for Gridcrash includes sections on Water, Latrines and Greywater, A note on Heat, Cool Food Storage, Cooking, Quick Lighting and Heat, and Waste Disposal.

Other how-tos include some DIY recycling such as how to make plastic grocery bags durable plastic sheets and, for gardeners, four uses for yogurt containers when starting seeds.

Reviews

My favourite reviews were Derrick Jensen's incredibly important book Endgame (reviewed way back before we were co-authors) and this neat Pocket Chainsaw.

Order Peak Oil Survival

A collection of tools and techniques originally posted here, published as a book in 2006 by Lyon's Press. Read more about it or order below.

You can order it for $12.95 per copy, plus $1 for shipping in the US. You can order via paypal, or email me to send a cheque or money order.