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WSKG’s Community Conversation program with Crystal Sarakis featured a discussion, Beyond Fossil Fuels, on July 27, 2010 with three local citizen activists including Katie Quinn-Jacobs from PreparedTompkins.org.  Katie spoke about energy descent and home preparedness.

Guests included: Dominic Frongillo, Deputy Town Supervisor for the Town of Caroline; Katie Quinn-Jacobs, founder of IthaCan and PreparedTompkins.org; and Chris Burger, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition.

You can listen online or download the program here.

This is the second of a two part series on home preparedness.  Part One of Preparedness Basics focused on short-term home preparedness to prepare your household for a sudden and temporary interruption of goods and services.  In this segment, the focus will be on long-term planning in anticipation of energy descent as we begin the lifestyle transition away from fossil fuels.

Long term planning for energy descent can be simplified into three steps: research, plan and take action.

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