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My Grandma is cleaning out a spare bedroom this week to house some family for a 4th of July party and she ran across this magazine. It’s Rodale’s New Shelter, May/June issue 1983. She gave it to Zippy and I because it has some great information in it. Both Zippy and I read it and are almost completely stunned by how pathetic America (and the world in general) really is. I scanned the Magazine to a low quality PDF so you can download it here.
This magazine is 25 years old yet completely full of Solar inovations & energy creating/saving tips. I’m not just talking about photovaltic panels either. This covers solar heat exchangers, solar hot water heaters, and the United States Vs. Japans program for photovaltics just to get started. There is even an ad in there for Ford stating they hit a new personal best for MPG in a pickup truck. What happened to this trend? I know I shouldn’t consider it astonishing but this is just one random magazine from 1983. All the technology was already there and the need to get away from fossil fuel is more then obvious. Just glancing through it makes me wonder if we are making steps forward as an intelligent civilization or if we are just destroying the spinning rock we live on.
Roadle’s New Shelter May/June issue 1983 (Right Click, Save As) It’s 12 megs.
Heh, I remember when grampa raised chickens to save money. When it finally came to slaugtering the damned things, all you did was stroke the neck of the chicken to make it calm and passive. Then… BAM!!! Chop the head right off!
Don’t worry, all this solar stuff is really wacky. Oil is the answer. It’ll fix and do everything. Besides, it’s really cheap. …BAM!!!…
The story of the golden goose applys here too. Except the goose is dying, being killed slowly by starvation and canabalism.
Just think 25 years later, where would we be now? HMMM….
Dad
Posted by mhoughtelin, on July 7th, 2008, às 4:51 am. #.
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