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How To Make A MacGyver Style Indestructible Maple Sugar Evaporator From A Filing Cabinet

Just when you think you saw it all, here comes this MacGyver style indestructible maple sugar evaporator made from a filing cabinet. In a post SHTF situation, this actually may come in handy though. Why? Because maple sugar and maple

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DIY Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT)

Here’s a great example of creating alternative power rather than relying on your local electric company. Because when the SHTF, there most likely won’t be any power as we know it now. Of course there’s solar power, but there’s also

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7 DIY Pop Can Solar Heaters

Passive solar air heating is considered the most cost-effective renewable energy utilizing the energy from the sun by capturing it with an absorbing medium. It is the only “free” heating source out there. The only downfall is it doesn’t work at

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DIY Pop Can Solar Heating Panel

Here’s a great example of using the energy that is given to us for free combined with some old soda or beer cans and converting this energy into solar heat. What you see mounted on the side of this house

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10 DIY Salvage Makeovers

Just came across a great page that shows 28 different DIY salvage and re-purposing projects for you to take stuff that no longer has any use that they were originally constructed and re-purpose them into works of art you can

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Sustainable Soap That Grows On Trees

You know the saying, “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” But did you know that soap does? I’m not joking you. There really is a soap-growing tree! In fact, other plants also produce natural detergent, but today’s focus is on the

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Prepper Power: The Advantage of Hydroelectricity

It’s a fact that energy makes our lives far more comfortable and in some cases, even safer. Preppers who are able to have a reliable source of energy during and after an unexpected event, will fare much better than those

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Off Grid Passive Solar Cabin Design

Want to know what it’s like to live off the grid? Build one of these passive solar cabins on your land. This is certainly a more advanced DIY project you’ll come across. You’re literally building a home. Definitely a cool

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30 Perennial Vegetables You Can Plant Once and Enjoy Forever

It’s about that time to start your survival garden for the spring and summer seasons. And wouldn’t it be nice to be able to plant a crop just one time and enjoy it season after season? Well, with these 30

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6 Tips To Eliminate Weeds From Your Survival Garden

It’s no secret that weeds are the enemy of gardeners around the globe! They are responsible for choking the life from vegetable and flower gardens, while stealing life-giving nutrients away from our plants. Weeds are also the reason many gardeners

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