Reply #9: Just read the Salon article.

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Which really makes me wonder about where good places to live would be? I have to admit that the moderate climate down here makes me want to stay. Also, as I look around Dallas, I see a LOT of green space that could be converted into farms and gardens. I have an eighth of an acre, for example, and most of my neighborhood is like this. If people were to really put their energies towards food production gardening in this neighborhood I have no doubt that we would be able to feed ourselves. One of my neighbors even keeps chickens and I am thinking of doing the same. Of course, we are a neighborhood of gardeners, which is why we live in this area, which is a very old neighborhood for Dallas -- 30s and 40s. The new exurbs, which feature 4000 square feet of house on 4005 square feet of land, would have problems, IMO.

Energy, however, would be another thing. I don't think we could go off-grid very easily. Has anyone done much looking into solar?

Has anyone here done some thinking about this in general?