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The Radio Ecoshock Show: RUNNING OUT OF FUTURE
The Radio Ecoshock Show: RUNNING OUT OF FUTURE.
SUMMARY: Super scientist Kevin Trenberth on why oceans now hottest in recorded history, why that can make Europe colder. Stephen Leahy: we bankrupt water supplies with consumer purchases. Rob Aldrich on a generation with Nature Deficit Disorder. Radio Ecoshock 141203
Welcome back to Radio Ecoshock. Not a week goes by without a new, strange, and dangerous threat emerging out of the shadowy future. We start with the biggest under-reported story: unseen by land mammals, the world’s oceans are heating up. That determines the future and the new coastlines for hundreds of years. We’ll talk with Dr. Kevin Trenberth, one of the world’s top climate scientists.
Did you know great rivers of fresh water are travelling around the world, hidden in the consumer products we buy? Environmental journalist Stephen Leahy explains his new book “Your Water Footprint”.
Then Rob Aldrich says “yes, there is a growing health crisis in the Western world, and the cause is Nature Deficit Disorder”.
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Pad Your Pantry: How to Preserve Your Thanksgiving Leftovers |
Pad Your Pantry: How to Preserve Your Thanksgiving Leftovers |.
The day after Thanksgiving, most people’s refrigerators are so full with leftovers that getting to door shut requires the family engineer to play Tupperware Jenga with all of the containers of food. Inevitably, in many households, much of the leftovers go to waste after the 10th turkey sandwich in a row. In this economy, none of us can afford to let anything go to waste, however. There’s a lot more you can do with those leftovers besides referring to your book of 101 Ways to Make a Turkey Sandwich. The preserving goes way past turkey – there are lots of tasty ways to preserve your other leftovers too.
Today, instead of fighting the Black Friday crowds, spend the day adding things that are frugal and delicious to your pantry.
Freezing
Nearly all leftovers can be successfully frozen and used in other meals. For Tess Pennington’s guidelines on freezing food, click HERE.
- Freeze vegetables in cheese sauce to be used later in a pureed soup. Cheesy cauliflower and cheesy broccoli soup are big hits in our household. Simply thaw the veggies in cheese sauce and add to some white potatoes boiled in water. Thin the mixture down as desired with milk and serve piping hot.
- Freeze chopped meat mixed with gravy as the basis for a future speedy stew. If you want, you can also add cooked carrots and roasted potatoes to the mixture.
- Freeze leftover dinner rolls. You can reheat them as needed to use as rolls or you can dice them finely and freeze them for use in stuffing.
- Freeze desserts in individual servings for brown bag treats. They’ll be thawed out and delicious by lunch time.
- Freeze single servings of casseroles, lasagnas, etc. You’ll have the best lunches in the office!
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List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies
List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies.
Here’s my list of Collapse medical supplies with natural remedies included (we should have these as back-ups or for first use supplies to save commercially made items!). Dr.Bones and I spend a lot of time and energy researching “back-up” plans for traditional medicine. We want YOU to have the knowledge to provide medical help if we have a collapse. I have planted over 60 different medicinal herbs in my raised beds and am learning how incredible natural remedies can be.
Collapse medical supplies:
- oral antibiotics- may also include garlic oil, honey,cayenne,thyme oil,peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil as herbal alternatives or fresh garlic or ginger
- antibiotic ointment and/or antibacterial herbal salve ( with calendula/tea tree oil/lavender oils)
- multi size bandages- lots of these in several sizes, spot, knuckle, size 1×3 is great to cover most lacerations
- ace bandages- 3 or 4
- steri strips and butterfly bandages to close minor lacerations
- TONS of gauze/dressings (sterile and non-sterile 4x4s)
- include lots of “telfa” pads( non-adherent-so healing wounds won’t stick to the dressing) and a xeroform petroleum dressing (non stick)
- ABD pads (usually 5×9) also called combine dressings
10×30 trauma dressing - tapes- include duct, adhesive and paper ( for adhesive tape allergies)
- quality bandage scissor/trauma shear ( ALL METAL, the plastic handle ones break cutting jean material!)
- Pliable fracture material
- mole skin- for blisters
- scalpels
- LOTS of nitrile gloves
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Multipurpose Items To Survive Crisis | Survival skills, survival guns, survival guide
Multipurpose Items To Survive Crisis | Survival skills, survival guns, survival guide.
History has already proven how fragile the global economy is and it really wouldn’t take much to have it collapse altogether. If that should happen, life will get exponentially tougher for the majority of us, so being prepared in advance is crucial.
As preppers, we’re always looking for ways to re-use, repurpose and get creative with what we have on hand so in that spirit, we’ve put together a list of common household multipurpose items to use when surviving an economic crisis. Don’t wait til the economy collapses, though.
These items are great to use now because they’re also environmentally friendly!
Duct Tape
I know that we preach the value of duct tape all the time, but it really can’t be overstated as an invaluable multi-use item that every prepper should have. Just a few things that you can use duct tape for include:
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Winter Storms | How to Stay Warm and Survive – Survival Life | Preppers | Survival Gear | Blog
Winter Storms | How to Stay Warm and Survive – Survival Life | Preppers | Survival Gear | Blog.
The recent winter storms have left Buffalo, New York under seven feet of snow and counting.
These winter storms can be devastating. Obviously those affected have to deal with cold temperatures, snow and ice, and there’s also the risk of power outages, roofs collapsing, and even flooding once the snow melts.
People in the areas affected by these storms are sometimes unable to leave their homes for days or weeks at a time — or worse, they end up trapped in their car on the highway, like many drivers in the Dallas area experienced during last year’s winter storms.
In short, if you’re going to survive a winter storm of this magnitude, you need to be prepared.
We’ve had several posts on our site full of survival tips for winter weather. We’ve decided to compile them all in one list so that you can have a go-to place for winter storm survival.
Read on to learn more.
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How To Get a Family of Four Prepped for The Coming Collapse – In The Quickest and Easiest Way Possible…
Because I gotten so many emails and questions about this article, I decided to repost it here today for all of out new readers.
This morning as I was trying to catch up on my email (I get a massive amount of email each month, last month over 3,000), I opened a great one from John W. In a nutshell John, is new to prepping and hasn’t really done anything prep-wise yet, but he has been thinking and making plans.
John said that he has his home on two acres paid-off, and that he has a job and works to support his wife and two children (one 6 and the other 9 years old). He said that he knows from all of the newsand the tell-tell signs that something big is coming, and that his main fear is a total economic collapse.
He said that he has $10,000 to spend on preps and that he wanted to be ready as quickly as possible, without all of the buying a can of food here and another can another day or a few extra cans each time he goes to the grocery store. He also insists on long-term storage foods, with a shelf-life of 25 years or more, because he doesn’t want to be bothered with all of the rotating and other stuff involved when stockpiling perishable foods.
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Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: ‘Farming Like the Earth Matters’ | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grassfed, and regenerative.
Seed saving, composting, fertilizing with manure, polycultures, no-till and raising livestock entirely on grass—all of which we associate today with sustainable food production—was the norm in the “old days” of merely a century ago. And somehow we managed to feed ourselves and do so in a manner that followed nature’s model of regeneration.
“Farming like water and soil and land matter. Farming like clean air matters. Farming like human health, animal health and ecosystem health matters.”
We all know what happened next: the plow, the tractor, fossil fuels, monocrops, nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, feedlots, animal byproducts, e. coli, CAFOs, GMOs, erosion, despair—practices and conditions that most Americans today think of as “normal,” when they think about agriculture at all.
Fortunately, a movement to rediscover and implement “old” practices of bygone days has risen rapidly, abetted by innovations in technology, breakthroughs in scientific knowledge, and tons of old-fashioned, on-the-ground problem-solving.
OPSEC for Tomorrow But How to Stay Out of Jail Today
OPSEC for Tomorrow But How to Stay Out of Jail Today.
Operational Security or OPSEC as it is commonly called is probably the most important term you will learn in your prepping endeavors. Yes we hear people talking about it and yes we know we should be doing it but are you really practicing it? And when you think of OPSEC do you think you have to protect your location or your cache from a band of marauders coming into your home and trying to steal your stuff or kill your family? What if I were to tell you that a band of Marauders is the last thing you have to worry about at the current time? You would say I am crazy, you would say that marauders and thieves are exactly why we practice OPSEC.
The reality is IF this was a post apocalyptic world and we lived day to day, I would agree with you in saying protecting our families is exactly why we practice OPSEC. Protecting our families is why we have to keep our actions a secret and let in only trusted members that we can entrust with our lives. Because remember at the end of the day, entrusting others with our lives and the lives of our family members is exactly what we are doing when we let people in our group.
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Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes | Reuters
Old, cold and bold: Ice Age people dwelled high in Peru’s Andes | Reuters.
(Reuters) – In a bleak, treeless landscape high in the southern Peruvian Andes, bands of intrepid Ice Age people hunkered down in rudimentary dwellings and withstood frigid weather, thin air and other hardships.
Scientists on Thursday described the world’s highest known Ice Age settlements, two archaeological sites about 2.8 miles (4.5 km) above sea level and about 12,000 years old packed with artifacts including a rock shelter, stone tools, animal bones, food remnants and primitive artwork.
“What this tells us is that hunter-gatherers were capable of colonizing a very extreme environment, the high Andes, despite the challenges at the end of the Ice Age,” said archaeologist Kurt Rademaker of Germany’s University of Tübingen, who led the study published in the journal Science.
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Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions
Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions.
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Strategic Relocation Guide: How To Position Yourself To Survive A Major TEOTWAWKI Event
Strategic Relocation Guide: How To Position Yourself To Survive A Major TEOTWAWKI Event.
The following guide has been contributed by Todd Savage as the second part of the ‘Strategic Relocation Bugging Out: Dreams vs. Reality’ series.
Click to read Part I: The Gut Wrenching Reality: One of the Best Bug-Out Strategy Guides You’ll Ever Read
If you’ve ever wanted to know how a professional retreat consultant addresses the issue of safe and sustainable survival properties, then keep reading. Todd is the founder of Survival Retreat Consulting and most recently the Strategic Relocation For Sale By Owner web site where you can find nationwide listings for top-tier homestead and retreat properties.
Finding that perfect home or retreat can seem like a daunting task, but as you’ll see from the extensive guide below, it can be done quite efficiently if you take the right approach. Sure, you want water and a place to grow food, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. As we saw in the first part of this series, there’s the dreamworld that’s been created by sensationalized and highly edited TV shows, and then there’s the gut wrenching reality of it.
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Richard Gould: Learning From Ancient Human Cultures | Peak Prosperity
Richard Gould: Learning From Ancient Human Cultures | Peak Prosperity.
Richard Gould is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Brown University (where I was his student) and one of the foremost experts on hunter-gatherer societies. In the 1960s, he and his wife spent years living with the aborigines in Australia’s Western Desert, observing first-hand their way of life. Through study of these people and many others around the world, his work focused on understanding how human culture and behavior adapts to environmental stress, risk and uncertainty.
We’ve invited him to this week’s podcast to discuss what insights ancient cultures may be able to offer in terms of “natural human behavior” that may fit well within our specie’s blueprint. Humans lived sustainably, with their food systems and each other, for many millennia. And yet, in today’s modern age, we have infinitely “more” than these primitive societies, but have much less general happiness (and are fast-exhausting our resource base, to boot). Are there best practices for being human that we can perhaps re-learn from our cultural predecessors?
