Front Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Where Are We? -- Chapter 1: Getting Out the Boats: A Primer on Hard Times -- Chapter 2: Actions as Activism: The New Home Front and the Riot for Austerity -- Chapter 3: Time to Pick Up Your Hat -- Part Two: Money Changes Everything -- Chapter 4: Meet the Real Economy -- Chapter 5: Making Ends Meet -- Part Three: Real Family Values-Facing the Future Together -- Chapter 6: Talking Population With the Old Men -- Chapter 7: The Permaculture of Family -- Chapter 8: Raising Kids in a New World: Family Life and Education -- Part Four: Home Economics, Home-Land Security -- Chapter 9: Little House in the Suburbs -- Chapter 10: The Beauty and Necessity of the Low-Energy Home -- Part Five: Food and Health: The New Basics -- Chapter 11: The Bountiful Home: Grow and Preserve What You Need -- Chapter 12: The Hand that Stirs the Pot, Rules the World -- Chapter 13: Health Care -- Part Six: Recompense -- Chapter 14: Abundance, Democracy, Joy -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Index -- About the Author.