The post-carbon era is going to require knowledge and skills that are not commonly acquired in most formal educational settings today. There are numerous areas in which people will need to be educated, not only to meet the needs of an energy-constrained future but to develop their own useful livelihoods:
• Training in organic growing and permaculture
• Retrofitting old housing and building stock
• Refashioning metals for practical tools and machinery
• Setting up and running local businesses
• Reindustrializing for small-scale local production of needed goods
• Developing health-care delivery alternatives and establishing local currencies