This is a collection of what you will need to be self-sufficient in an urban, suburban, rural, or wilderness environment. If it concerns the wellbeing of the body, it’ll be here. Food, water, shelter, defense and weapons – everything in the bottom three levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy.
This is the ninth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter again covers diet on multiple levels and how it relates to inner peace and relative harmony.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 9
I’ve been thinking about what’s been said so far and I thought it [...]
Before currency, people used barter to exchange services or goods in the marketplace. Within the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in bartering, especially online. Below is a free online bartering site that allows you to swap, sell, buy or giveaway services and items.
Via ~Swapace
3 Easy Steps To Using SwapAce
SwapAce allows you to [...]
An article from the Vancouver Sun, is a great illustration of how black markets rise in response from increased theft from the State. The article highlights the rise of Canada’s black market trade of cigarettes, due to increased taxation from the state.
The State seeks to invade every facet of our human experience, in this [...]
Another useful DIY from instructables could help you resurrect your old iPod without having to shell out FRN’s for a new one.
Via member bryceronie
If you have a broken ipod , with a business card and five minutes it will be fixed!
I enjoy instructionables that are easy to do , short to complete, and will work [...]
Another great diy project from instructables.com by member hpstoutharrow. If you plan on working on this project, check out the original article for comments to improvise your design, and additional pictures to help you visually. Below are step-by-step instructions and a quick video showing the setup process, build and sink in action.
While this new wash [...]
An informative article titled “New underground economy” from the Washington Times, provides data points that demonstrate the growth of the underground “black” economy. It reveals that the public is naturally gravitating towards an agorist way of commerce, based over economic oppression and distrust of the state.
The article highlights a significant rise of “unbanked” households, [...]
This is the eighth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter highlights several different diet techniques that could best suit your lifestyle and goals for weight loss.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 8
Now where was I? Diet, right… Today I think we [...]
Writer’s Voice has released a very interesting pair of interviews about the impact the reemergence of the commons — especially the digital commons — has had on society, commerce, and politics.
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with David Bollier about his latest book, VIRAL SPIRAL. It’s about how the Internet is building a new digital republic. And [...]
This is another great set of tips from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob discusses the optimal backpacking setup.
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My standard list of backpacking gear has changed very little in the past twenty years.
I favor fairly heavy leather boots [...]
The Guardian has posted a two-part minidoc by Heydon Prowse and William Pine about DIY as political and community-building action:
Part one of two — DIY Britain: the real big society
As our jobs become more specialised fewer of us possess the practical skills to look after basic human needs like shelter, food and water. Journalists Heydon [...]
I am always surprised by the number of people I run into that do not have any supplies in their car for emergency situations. I guess most of them have the, “it can’t happen to me” mentality — that mentality will get you killed.
Every year, stories pop up in the news about a person or [...]
Gizmodo’s Kyle VanHemert writes about a simple and brilliant program to bring important information to people who have less access to it — the InfoLadies of Bangladesh:
Many people living in Bangladesh’s impoverished villages haven’t yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology’s [...]
Now we can all be bomb-throwing anarchists without hurting anyone! I came across a recipe for making seed bombs.
Here’s the recipe:
5 parts dry red clay*
3 parts dry organic compost
1 part seed
1 – 2 parts water
*For the clay it is recommended that you use dry potter’s clay. You should be able to obtain this at any [...]
This is the seventh chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter addresses diet, and the practice of eating with gratitude.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 7
We’ve all heard the phrase, “You are what you eat.” You’ve probably also heard, “As a [...]
This is another great how-to from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob breaks down the art and science of building a quick-and-easy teepee (tipi).
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A few days before Christmas I had a sudden hankering for a Teepee. Don’t ask [...]
Bombs Away! Make Seed Bombs for an Environmentally Friendly Form of Civil Disobedience
Fake Anarchists Plan To Crash Tea Parties (UPDATED)
DIY: Make Yourself Invisible To Video Cameras
Closing the Collapse Gap: Preparedness of the USSR vs. the USA
5 DIY Upside-down Tomato Planters (and 3 pre-made ones)
