What should I do?

This What Should I Do? blog series is intended to surface knowledge and perspective useful to preparing for a future defined by Peak Oil. The content is written by PeakProsperity.com readers and is based in their own experiences in putting into practice many of the ideas exchanged on this site. If there are topics you'd like to see featured here, or if you have interest in contributing a post in a relevant area of your expertise, please indicate so in ourWhat Should I Do? series feedback forum.

If you have not yet seen the other articles in this series, you can find them here:

• A Case Study in Creating Community (SagerXX)
• Peak Certainty, Food Resilience, and Aquaponics (Farmer Brown)
• Creating Healthy Snacks from Your Garden (EndGamePlayer)
• The Essential Gardening and Food Resilience Library (Old Hippie)
• Installing A Solar Energy System (rhare)
• The Keys to Transitioning Healthcare: Empowerment, Education, & Prevention (suziegruber)
• A Quiet Revolution in Bicycles: Recapturing a Role as Utilitarian People-Movers - Part 1 (Cycle9)
• A Quiet Revolution in Bicycles: Recapturing a Role as Utilitarian People-Movers - Part 2 (Cycle9)
• Practical Survival Skills 101 - Fire Starting (Aaron Moyer)
• Raising Your Own Chickens (Woodman)
• Dealing With a Reluctant Partner (Becca Martenson)
• Making the Urban-to-Rural Transition (joemanc)
• Prepping on a Shoestring (Amanda)
• Practical Survival Skills 101 - Water (Aaron Moyer)
• Small-Scale Beekeeping (apismellifera)
• Making Soap (maceves)
• Woodworking (bklement)
• Practical Survival Skills 101 - Obtaining Shelter (Aaron Moyer)
• Extending the Harvest in Your Home Garden (Woodman)
• Problem Solving: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome (Mooselick7)
• Cultivating Inner Resilience in the Face of Crisis (suziegruber)
• Protecting Yourself Against Crime and Violence (thc0655)
• Managing Pain Without Meds (JAG)
• How to Explain the Current Economic Situation to Friends & Family (rhare)
• Practical Survival Skills 101 - Understanding Emergencies (Aaron Moyer)
• Quick Primer on Contamination Control Measures (Dogs_In_A_Pile)
• Food Storage Made Easy (Adam)
• Fortifying Yourself And Your Home Against Crime (thc0655)

This series is a companion to this site's free What Should I Do? Guide, which provides guidance from Chris and the PeakProsperity.com staff on specific strategies, products, and services that individuals should consider in their preparations.