Part of preparing for peak oil includes becoming more self sufficient. One way to achieve this is to grow your own food. Your edible landscaping can include fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, grape arbors, a lawn of vegetables and even chickens for eggs.

Growing your own food reduces the need for the importation of food by fossil-fueled trucks, trains, and ships. And, an organic vegetarian diet reduces your carbon footprint by 18%. Even just reducing meat intake is a good way to prepare for peak oil and the Europeanization of Vancouver. North Americans eat 1.6 times as much meat as Europeans. If going vegetarian cold turkey seems too difficult, try cutting out the biggest culprit on an oil, water, and climate change level: beef. It’ll help you prepare for a post-oil world, and get more in line with a standard of living sustainable for all people on the planet.