Physical
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.
By Ben on April 30, 2011
Posted in Food, Garden | Tagged cattle, farming, lawn, livestock, Mother Earth News, pest control, pigs, poultry, sheep, sustainable living, weeds |
From Mother Earth News:
Homestead Helpers: Sheep, Cattle, Pigs and Poultry
Livestock aren’t just useful for meat and eggs. They can mow lawns, work garden soil, dig stumps and more!
Lawns first became fashionable in the Middle Ages. Back then, the only alternative to sending flocks of sheep to graze the lawn was hiring men with scythes. Since [...]
By Ben on April 15, 2011
Posted in DIY, Technology, Tools | Tagged blueprints, fabrication, farming, machining, manufacture, Marcin Jakubowski, open-source, sustainability, TED, video |
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
About This Talk
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village [...]
By Ben on April 14, 2011
Posted in Food | Tagged barter, beverages, caffeine, coffee, food preservation, James Rawles, roasting, SurvivalBlog |
SurvivalBlog has posted this handy guide to maintaining your caffeine addiction during even the worst of times — but who says you have to wait? The idea of roasting your own coffee sounds rather intriguing on its own. James Rawles lays out the basics below:
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Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society
By James Wesley Rawles
I have read many [...]
By Ben on March 8, 2011
Posted in Communication | Tagged Gonzo Times, mutual aid, PDF, print, zine |
Gonzo Times has just released a PDF of the first issue of their mutual aid print publication. The PDF is available in several formats, seen below:
Here is the first issue of Gonzo Times for Print. We ask that you print not only one for yourself but others to distribute in your area. Coffee Shops, Libraries, [...]
By Ben on February 25, 2011
Posted in Tools | Tagged Alex Himmelbaum, blacksmithing, crafts, how-to, Make Magazine, Marsha Trattner, Meg Allan Cole, metal, metalwork, She-Weld studios, towel holder |
Meg joins Alex Himmelbaum who shows us how to shape hot steel into a rustic paper towel holder for the kitchen. More info: http://bit.ly/gH7YgI
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By Ben on February 15, 2011
Posted in Food | Tagged Bob, cabbage, fermentaton, food preservation, jarring, sauerkraut |
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 shares his favorite methods for making sauerkraut at home.
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So around thanksgiving the snows were getting two feet deep and it was getting cold enough to [...]
By Ben on November 15, 2010
Posted in Art, Books, Communication, Digital, Music | Tagged copyleft, copyright, Samuel Konkin |
Found a great post on lewrockwell by SEKIII about his view on the fallacy of copyrights. These ideas can be expanded to the current digital media debate with the RIAA. A novel take on copyright licenses that allows free use of someones work in the public domain, is called copyleft. This basically gives each person [...]
By Harold on July 27, 2010
Posted in Food, Les Visible | Tagged diet, Food, Les Visible, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
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 [...]
By Harold on July 27, 2010
Posted in Finances | Tagged agora, agorism, barter, trade |
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 [...]
By Harold on July 26, 2010
Posted in Finances, News and Views | Tagged agora, behavior, black markets, Canada, cigarettes, state, statism, tax |
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 [...]
By Harold on July 26, 2010
Posted in DIY, MacGyver, Technology | Tagged DIY, iPod, MacGyver |
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 [...]
By Harold on July 12, 2010
Posted in DIY, Sanitation | Tagged camping, DIY, sanitary, Water |
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 [...]
By Harold on July 8, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Finances, News and Views, Philosophy | Tagged agorism, anarcho-capitalism, anti-state, ba, black markets, government, Samuel Konkin, state |
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, [...]
By Harold on June 15, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Les Visible | Tagged diet, Les Visible, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
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 [...]
By Ben on June 11, 2010
Posted in Communication, Digital, Politics | Tagged audio, commons, copyright, Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, David Bollier, Internet, interview, NPR, Writers Voice |
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 [...]
