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Primitive Survival Skills: Surviving Without Supplies
Primitive Survival Skills: Surviving Without Supplies Although modern day technology has made outdoor living easier than the last few thousand years it is still very important to have knowledge of primitive survival skills. Knowing primitive survival skills will ensure survival without gear or supplies. A vast majority of people lately have been gathering gear and […]
3 Types of Emergencies That Could Happen to Anyone
3 Types of Emergencies That Could Happen to Anyone Maybe you’re brand new to prepping and not sure where to start. Maybe you aren’t really interested in emergency preparedness but your well-meaning in-laws keep sending you links to websites about the topic. Maybe you go to those websites and you see so much doom and […]
How to Make A Campfire Last All Night
How to Make A Campfire Last All Night How to make a campfire that will last all night with little or no further maintenance beyond the initial phase. This fire lay (or a variation) was a traditional fire used in the Scandinavian countries of Finland, Norway and Sweden. It was and is used as an […]
PROPER PREPPING: WHAT’S WHAT WITH WATT?
PROPER PREPPING: WHAT’S WHAT WITH WATT? Regular readers may remember a humorous post from November of 2014 by Mrs. Cog titled ‘Amps Times Volts Equals Watts’. In that article Mrs. Cog relates with a giggle her struggle to understand the basic fundamentals of electricity, something she had previously given no more thought to for her […]
Have you done the Transition Health Check yet?
Have you done the Transition Health Check yet? Believe or not the Transition Health Check is not about measuring everyone’s blood pressure in your Transition group or seeing how fit you all are. It’s actually a great tool for you to use to see how your group is doing, one that many Transition groups have already found […]
A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World
A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World Popular media today, including television and cinema, are rife with examples of what is often referred to as moral relativism — the use of false and fictional moral dilemmas designed to promote the rationalization of an “ends justify the means” narrative. We are also bombarded lately with entertainment […]
The Age of Consequences
The Age of Consequences I have a new book out from Counterpoint Press! It is titled The Age of Consequences: a Chronicle of Concern and Hope and it includes an Introduction by Wendell Berry. Here is a brief description, followed by a selection from the Prologue. For a review (and to order) see: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-61902-454-0 This is a book […]
The One Way Forward
The One Way Forward All things considered, 2015 just isn’t shaping up to be a good year for believers in business as usual. Since last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report, the anti-austerity party Syriza has swept the Greek elections, to the enthusiastic cheers of similar parties all over Europe and the discomfiture of the […]
TIGHTEN THOSE CHIN STRAPS FOLKS BECAUSE HERE COMES A RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY (RUD)
TIGHTEN THOSE CHIN STRAPS FOLKS BECAUSE HERE COMES A RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY (RUD) Please stick with this piece dear reader for it does not end on the same path from which it starts. Being a child of the 50’s and 60’s, it comes as no surprise to anyone from that era that I’m a bit […]
The Time Has Come For Local Agriculture
The Time Has Come For Local Agriculture Joan Dye Gussow will be 87 this year. I visited her last August at her lovely home on the Hudson River north of New York City. The house, designed by her and her late husband, the painter Alan Gussow, abuts the road at the front. Most of Joan’s energy, […]
5 Ways to Unf*ck the World
5 Ways to Unf*ck the World “I rebel; therefore we exist.” –Albert Camus Here’s the thing: the earth is not fucked. The earth will go on evolving with or without us. In fact, in many ways it is better off without us. No, it’s the human world that’s fucked. Either we adapt and overcome by making […]
Is “resilience” the new sustainababble?
Is “resilience” the new sustainababble? | Grist. Suddenly, “resilience” is everywhere. It’s the subject of serious books and breezy news articles, of high-minded initiatives and of many, many conferences. After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey “A State of Resilience.” What’s going on? Does all this talk about resilience mean that we’ve basically given up on […]
In eastern Ukraine’s Miusynsk, pensioners struggle to survive winter
In eastern Ukraine’s Miusynsk, pensioners struggle to survive winter MIUSYNSK, Ukraine — Natalia Shevchenko, 57, doesn’t know if she and her husband are going to survive the winter. Her last pension check arrived in June, and since then, she and her husband have eaten through most of the pickled tomatoes and canned food on their […]
What Should I Do? – Crash Course Chapter 26
What Should I Do? – Crash Course Chapter 26 Chapter 26 of the Crash Course — the final chapter — is now publicly available and ready for watching below. If there’s one message to take away from this newly-updated Crash Course video series, it’s this: It’s time for you to become more resilient and more engaged. Things are […]
10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet
10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet. It was in 2011 that I first understood what off-grid living really meant. Before then I had heard people claim they were off-grid if they switched their cell phone off for a day or two. Other people thought anyone who lived in remote places was […]
