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This blog is about simple, local solutions to the problems we may face as the economic collapse continues.
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Well Water and Compositing Toilets
An inexpensive emergency well bucket can retrieve water from a 6 inch well during a power outage. A 2 inch diameter PVC pipe 5 feet long can hold approximately 0.9 gallons of water. Add a bottom fitted check valve and you have an emergency well bucket that can be lowered by rope into the well casing alongside existing wires and plumbing, allowed to sink, then raised full of water. This clean water should not be used to flush a toilet because of the human effort needed to haul water from the well. Use an inexpensive homemade composting toilet that requires no water.
Financial Armageddon simply explained
Highly Recommended Reading
Highly recommended reading: How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It by James Wesley Rawles founder of Survivalblog.com.
20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Economy Collapses And The Next Great Depression Begins
From Backwoods Home magazine: The excellent news is, many things you’ll need to know no matter where you live can be learned and practiced right in the middle of town, and little by little. For instance: more
Downsizing Floor Space and Energy
- Tiny Houses is a collection of videos, floorplans and blogs related to tiny houses. Very popular.
- Electricity is mostly about solar energy.
- Space Heating includes primary and secondary heating alternatives. Redundant and simple systems are an engineer’s joy.
- Composting Toilets help save fresh water and provide useful fertilizer. Give some thought about how useful this is if the water suply becomes intermittent or unavailable.
- Clothes Washing, some options.
Food and Water
- Food Selection, Preservation and Storage Featuring ten excellent and informative videos by Tammy (a.k.a. Dehydrate2store). Excellent videos! Tammy has a new website http://dehydrate2store.com/
- Food Production
- Food Preparation
- Food Storage FAQ
- East Coast Food Storage (Troy, VA). Inventory includes dehydrated and freeze dried food packaged for long term storage and emergency supplies. Located approximately 11 miles East of Charlottesville. Email link: eastcoastfoodstorage@yahoo.com or (434) 242-9762. Website link.
- Disaster Survival Food Pantry Basics
- Survival Food Resources
- Water
- Buy and Sell *Local*
- The Quest for Sustainable Living
- About Chickens
- Emergency Stoves and Fire Starters
- Disaster Stuff is a supplier of Disaster Equipment, Emergency Supplies, and Survival Kits
- How To Homestead
- Practical Permaculture
Alternative Health Care
- Alternative Health Care: Colloidal Silver, Sodium Chlorite (a.k.a. MMS).
Finance, Foreclosure and Economic Collapse
- Protecting your wealth prior to the Economic Collapse. Read/listen to Max Keiser, Gerald Celente, Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, Jim Sinclair, Don Stott, etc.
- Foreclosure – Fight for Fairness: A lawyer’s experience and advice about preventing foreclosure and renegotiating the loan.
- Economic Crisis as a Catalyst for Spiritual and Community Renewal: Letting go of the old and creating anew.
- How Russia Survived Their Economic Collapse during the 90′s: Articles and video by Dmitry Orlov
- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil: Learn how Cuba survived and adapted as the result of their peak oil experience.
- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (DVD) or watch the YouTube version here.
Other Stuff
- My Website
- Back to Basics Creating Sustainability and Conscious Community in Nelson County, Virginia.
- Soap Making, the Old Fashioned Way
- Free download of the 1911 Boy Scout Handbook, 1st edition and the 1920 Girl Scout Handbook, 1st edition. Consider purchasing hard copies that can be read without a computer. Also purchase a Boy Scout Fieldbook.
- Build a Leopold Bench for the garden. Click on image for a larger picture.
