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Prepper medicine: How to use sage, a versatile healing herb
Prepper medicine: How to use sage, a versatile healing herb (Natural News) Sage is a flavorful herb that’s often used during Thanksgiving to season turkey and homemade stuffing. The herb may be popular as a culinary seasoning for holiday recipes, but you also need to learn the medicinal uses of sage before SHTF. (h/t to TheSurvivalMom.com) Sage: […]
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4 How Much Food Can You Fit? It’s a long article. I’m trying to distract you with cute Corgi pictures. A Word on Self-Sufficiency Let’s talk about the big question of the year: “How much do I grow to feed my family for the year?” It gets […]
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 3
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 3 Planning to Plant the Plot Deer Tongue and Romaine lettuces When do we plant? Vegetable gardens in this country are largely seen as a “summer thing”, and I believe this is because the crops people associate with vegetable gardens are mainly summer growing. These are […]
Living bioregionally, now
Living bioregionally, now Given the climate and other environmental stresses being experienced by ecosystems all over the world, a major rethink is taking place regarding alternative forms of governance, more adept at both preventing and mitigating these crises. One compelling idea being put forward is that of bioregional forms of governance, which start from the […]
Futures That Work
Futures That Work Among the most curious features of the current predicament of industrial society is that so much of it was set out in great detail so many decades ago. Just at the moment I’m not thinking of the extensive literature on resource depletion that started appearing in the 1950s, which set out in […]
Humanity’s Biggest Crisis Since WW2?
Humanity’s Biggest Crisis Since WW2?
Top Scientists: We Face “A Ghastly Future”
Top Scientists: We Face “A Ghastly Future” Editor’s note: According to the scientists who wrote the following paper, “future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed […]
The Alarm Bells of Civilizational Collapse Are Ringing — But Are We Listening?
The Alarm Bells of Civilizational Collapse Are Ringing — But Are We Listening? If Our Civilization Is Going to Survive, It’s Going to Have to Change Like This — Fast Image Credit: TRT News Right about now, you’re probably feeling overwhelmed. With all the chaos out there. This is the Age of Too Much Chaos. Every […]
How To Make A Homemade Berkey Water Filter
How To Make A Homemade Berkey Water Filter If you’ve been at this survivalist stuff for any amount of time, you’ve probably know that the berkey water filtration system is among the best, if not THE best water filter available on the market. The problem is, they cost around $300. But what if I […]
The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon Us.
The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon Us. If we don’t pull our heads in, we’re doomed. If we do, the future is bright. “Galileo Sees the Earth” by sjrankin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0._c WHEN I WAS TEACHING in Japan 20 years ago, one of my students introduced me to The Three Great […]
UCSB Scientists See the End of ‘Normal’ Climate
UCSB Scientists See the End of ‘Normal’ Climate Researcher Asks: ‘What Happens If You Know the Drought Is Never Going to End?’ Credit: Courtesy In August, Governor Gavin Newsom and officials from the Department of Water Resources released a new Water Supply Strategy, saying that because of California’s “hotter, drier climate,” the state needed to find […]
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture
Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture Soil degradation is a global problem. A third of the planet’s land is already severely degraded, and soil is being degraded at a speed that threatens the health of the planet and the civilizations that depend on it (Whitmee et al. 2015). Depletion […]
In America, Clean Water Is Becoming a Luxury
In America, Clean Water Is Becoming a Luxury Our water system’s collapsing—and I found out the hard way. Getty I can’t forget to turn the kettle on before bed. In the morning, I’ll need that water to wash my hands and brush my teeth. The rest I’ll carefully store in the fridge, away from light and […]
Global Food Supply Crises May Worsen Due to Poor US Harvest
Farmer harvests corn in Princeton, Ind., on Oct. 11, 2021. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Global Food Supply Crises May Worsen Due to Poor US Harvest U.S. agriculture has been facing a poor harvest this year, aggravating the global food supply crisis, industry executives have said. The supply of food worldwide has been tight, since Russia’s war in Ukraine cut […]
Water. Food. Energy.
Water. Food. Energy. Unless you have spent the past summer under a rock on a remote island, you have probably heard about the severe droughts besetting Asia, Europe, and the United States. Rivers turning into mere trickles. Crops failing or delivering less than half of their usual yields. Power plants shutting down due to a […]
