About half way down the page there are lots of good ideas of how we can work with the collapse problems in a local transition town way. Deals with financies, water, food, oil, refugees, governement failure and more.
Personally I think that the timelines on the problems are longer than what may happen and also miss out other events such as ET disclosure, pole shift, contential plate changes etc. And still valid and useful article.
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-05-11/transition-and-collapse-scenario