The New Economy Book Series

This Series could also be called Survival Guide to Hard Times. Its purpose is to enable living to continue in the face of job loss, inflation, market crash, limited fossil fuel, and/or economic depression.These books make unique contributions to the Money Problems, otherwise known as the New Economy, answering to any or all of these factors.:Inflation is reducing the purchasing power of the dollar.
Out of control spending has created us as a debtor nation in the world community. Less oil available by whatever means means transportation problems that will realign our entire culture.

What's Happening?

Jobs are being outsourced overseas regardless of their effect on the national economy.

Our inability to compete for foreign oil as a debtor nation will cause a massive change in our culture.

The shortage of oil in an oil dependent culture will disrupt everybody’s life style.

The resulting unemployment will require a much more independent way of living.

Water or food or energy shortages will compete to be the next crisis with oil leading the way

The Key Word is Surviving the changes in our culture by any of these factors.
The sooner you accept the problem and start working on your own behalf, the easier Survival will be for you and your family.
Face the fact that this catastrophe is with us and will not go away.
It’s like a Party. You plan for it, accumulate the things you need, and when the event arrives, you are ready and can make it to the end with minimum stress.
Well, we are all going to a Party and the consequences of not preparing are very unpleasant. In fact, they are life threatening.
I can tell you how it ends. Sometime in the future, your great-grand-kids will shake their heads and say, "Poor old Gramps. He’s/ She’s hallucinating again. After a few generations of good times, the hard earned lessons are all forgotten.
"If you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it."
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Some Things need to be said to everybody.
We are taking a big step in this direction by providing information as a FREE SERVICE in ebook form.
The first effor is to promote rabbits as an independent meat source, so we can all keep eating, no matter what the economy does.
Good Eating With Rabbits- Recipes For A High Protien, Low Fat Meat Source.
Back Yard Rabbits- Notes About Raising A Few Rabbits For Your Own Meat Supply.
You may request both books, but on separate emails ( That's the way we are set up). You must also identiy your State or Country- Town or City optional. That is all. We will send the book as an attachment by reply to your email.
So, send off your request now, to ralph-ritchie@comcast,net.

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The Books:
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Barter Handbook

Barter? Oh yeah, that’s when people trade things without money. So, what?

Sooner or later you will either be without money or the money you have will not buy anything, or you do not have enough money to pay bills, plus buy food, plus keep warm- the list goes on and on.

But I don’t know a thing about barter.

Now is the time to start learning.Now is the time to acquire items for barter: The kind of items that everybody needs, or wants.

Where do I go to Barter?

What about barter items that are not new?

This is an entire book that answers these questions, plus several more, about barter.

Surviving The Peak Oil - Life After The Oil Crash
Ralph W. Ritchie

This book is unique among the flood of books coming out on Peak Oil. I make the same claim in all of my books: They are all written from personal experience.

I read Hubbert’s Peak Oil prediction in the 50's and took it to heart. I began my own personal, quiet quest for energy conservation. This book is truly part of the Disaster Preparedness Series. Peak Oil will be a disaster of massive proportions, with changes or elimination of most of what we call a "normal" life style today.

This book contains the experience that worked for us during the Depression of the 1930's, the first oil shortage in the 1970's, and all the bumps from way back, down to the present, including loss of our retirement package.

When others our age wait for their big event at the Senior Center, sharing stories, we are alive and active and working for a living. These books are the proof.
We will learn a new way of life.
It is time to start, NOW. This book is a must.

All That's Practical About WOOD: Stoves, As A Fuel, Heating
Ralph W. Ritchie

To the chagrin of tree lovers, wood is still the universal emergency heating fuel. Here is a book that tells you how to do it right. All of the aspects of using wood for heating or cooking are covered. If you must use wood, do it right.

Cooking Without A Kitchen / Survival Cooking- Cooking In An Improvised Situation

Ralph W. Ritchie, Fern J. Ritchie

This book takes on a new importance under Peak Oil. First, blackouts are more likely to occur. That was an original reason for this book.
Second, Your food supply may be limited to what you have on hand. But that's all right, you have stocked up for emergencies, haven't you? That food stock may have to last until you have learned to grow your own food.. Better study this book as well as the Vegetable Handbook, or the entire Edibles Series.

Hard Times - They Say That We Are Going To Revert Back
To The 1900's Because of Peak Oil.

I Don’t Think So.

Sometimes I think that the guys who established the Official Poverty Level were Aliens- from another world. Or maybe it is politically astute not to mention people living in the pits. Even admitting to a depression is a political no-no.

Gosh, we have known times when we would have been delighted to live at half- the official poverty level. Here is what we define as poverty. Frugal is not a new word to us.

People who lose their home to foreclosure and rent a storage locker to put their belongings in; then fail to make rental payments and find that all of their belongings were sold for pennies. When walking is the only available means of transportation, you will want this book. Why not get a head start and see what you need to do when your funds run short all the time.

Did you expect to see a fancy color cover on a book about Hard Times?

Hard Times, Vol 2 Food, cover

Hard Times - Peak Oil, Volume II, Food. Basic Information That Should Be Studied Prior To Acquiring Your Own Storage Foods.

We believe that the fossil fuel shortage will ultimately become a fuel famine. Among a myriad of problems, the primary problem will become your personal food supply. The fix will not come overnight, and that’s the problem

Cheap oil has given us the luxury of abundant food sources, however remote. A shortage means that none of these will be accessible- the national companies producing these will go out of business if they do not have the means of delivering them to their customers.

Massive farming and processing machinery will lay idle without an economically viable fuel source. Eventually, we will solve this problem, however many years it takes.

Whatever the reason: job loss, job downsizing, location, competition for available stocks, Uncle Sugar will not be able to feed the entire population, and throwing money at the problem will be of little help: You cannot eat a dollar bill. You may substitute your own government and currency here, the problem is international.

This book is an answer to many food problems: What to grow, how to garden, raising small animals and birds, preserving your harvest, storing your harvest. The book is based upon 60 year’s experience of the authors and they are survivors.

Part of the New Economy Series, Volume 1 deals with the Hard Times predicament, and (this) Volume 2 is totally devoted to what you need to know and do to keep eating.

This is deadly serious and you have no time to waste before you begin your independent food supply.

Hard Times, Peak Oil, Volume III, Energy- Basic Information For Making The Best Use ofThe Fuel You Have For The Essential Human Needs

For most of you, this is a new thing.You probably have always had cheap, abundant energy. You most likely could pay for all the energy you wanted, whether it was to run your car, heat your home, cook, or put lights everywhere.

Times are changing and all of the above will either change or vanish.

About now, you may be one of many who just lost your job. At the time of this writing, over 70,000 people lost their jobs yesterday. Times will become tougher- have no doubts about that.

And this happens to coincide with higher energy costs and less of it.

And that is why I wrote this book

This book was easy to write: The research for most of it had already been done for our other books; many of the topics could be taken from our other energy books. All that needed to be done is to decide on what this book should contain. As with our other books, we write about things based upon our personal experience, and we have been through Hard Times more then once.

Gosh, what an opportunity you have to get a head start , based upon our experience. We have already made many of the mistakes for you.

Water Handbook. A Resource For The Individuaal To Meet The
Growing, world-Wide Water Problem.

A lot has been written about water, but not all in the same place. I am writing this book, because water is destined to become our next crisis, either before, or after the economy, or after peak oil, or after global warming, or after overpopulation, or whatever. Take your pick, but having a clean, pure source of water for human use has primary importance. One day, doing without water, has serious consequences for human beings- for most living things.

Recycle and Reclaim Fabrics By Weaving Them -- Again

The Best of Recycling, Whether it is weaving yardage, upholstery, for clothing or whatever you can imagine, using prewoven material to be woven once again is an exciting, limitless undertaking. How to do it, new techniques, and the insight from a master weaver are in the book. 111 pages, 40 full page color photos, plus 67 more, less than ful page color photos. This is a hands-on book about a new weaving technology.

Back Yard Rabbits and A Sustainable Garden

Note: There may be problems linking to the Rabbits page. Use the link on the site map from the Home Page

The Free pamphlets still exist and you may want them as an introduction, but if you decide to get serious about having your own meat supply, you will want this book. You can do everything you need to do from this book- and its time to get started.

These books are only available as an Ebook or a CD book. There are no printed editions. That is our way of conserving materials and keeping these books at a price that everybody can afford. We pray that you will buy your own copy so we may continue to earn a living. No big, corporate monster here- just us.

Are You New To This Entire Topic?

Wake Up ! The fallacy in Rip Van Winkle’s long sleep fable is that he didn’t starve in his sleep. You should be so lucky. The race is starting and you have yet to find the starting gate. No, the government sources will not tell you about it. "It would create a panic amongst the populace". That’s called dodging the bullet.

About Ebooks

Since this entire Series is to be available only in Ebook editions, here is the word about Ebooks:

Our E-books are simply exact electronic copies in Adobe, PDF format, of your favorite titles.

You can download E-books and read them immediately so there is no waiting for shipment.

E-books offer the convenience of size and portability, you can store your own personal library of E-books in your PC, laptop or handheld device.

Advantages of E-books INSTANT DELIVERY: You can buy and start reading your E-book today, without having to wait for the book to be shipped to you.

CONVENIENCE: E-books are ordered online and delivered electronically to your computer. E-books are compact, convenient and portable;

SAVE MONEY: You save money with no shipping costs and the lowest prices.

ECO-FRIENDLY: Help save our natural resources. It uses exactly 0 trees to receive an E-book.

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