Canada is Already Well Populated
By: Peter Goodchild Much of the misconception about “underpopulated” Canada is due to a misunderstanding of its unique geography. Most of Canada is bare, uninhabitable rock, mainly the famous Canadian [...]
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Survival Fishing
I’ve done a little fishing over the years, but especially in my younger days, and when I get back to Ontario (very soon) I intend to do more. Of course, in my youth (Late Stone Age) there were no GPS devices, no $5,000 sonar “fish finders,” and no giant motor boats, so maybe I get to skip a few “survival” classes. Blandford’s Netmaking (available online) is an amazing 90-page document. There must be lots of other information hidden out there. Multiple hooks, or nets and traps of various sorts, are the only way to get some of the 4,000 to 5,000 daily calories needed in wilderness living. Certainly “sport” fishing — one hook, one line, one rod, one reel — bears little resemblance to “survival” fishing. Some of the latter is not even illegal, but laws vary from one place to another.
Seven Steps to Improving ESL (English as a Second Language)
By: Peter Goodchild The improvement of ESL teaching begins with four issues that might be loosely described as “methodological”: discipline, testing, method, and sequence. (1) By “improving discipline” I mean [...]
eBook: If You’re Not Crazy, There’s Something Wrong with You!
Excerpt from the eBook: When civilization collapses Because of some technical lapses That cause electronical bungles, The people who live in the jungles Will be collecting each berry and root, [...]
An Experiment in Country Living
One thing my wife and I learned from nine years in rural Ontario, from 2000 to 2008, is that country living did not mean freedom from money issues. Of all [...]
Peter’s Proverbs
After five thousand years of civilization, we are still all sentenced to a life of hard labor. All happy books are fiction. Any government is just a bunch of people [...]
My Arab Spring
The college in Oman where I was teaching exemplified all the definitions of “corruption,” a concept few Americans or Canadians can fully grasp. Corruption is the perpetual question of “who [...]
Houses in the Post-Peak World
What are some practical responses to house-building in a world where petroleum and other natural resource declines to a small fraction of their present annual production? In particular, let us [...]
Seven Problems of Teaching English as a Second Language
The following notes are merely my own informal observations from several years of teaching ESL. The problems mentioned below certainly do not apply to every ESL school in the world; [...]
The Criminalization of the Localized Economy
Richard Heinberg’s recent Museletter 237, “The Fight of the Century,” includes a curious point about criminalization: “. . . It will increasingly be up to households and communities to provide [...]
