Your ability to improvise is one of the most important survival skills you can possess. It’s impossible to be perfectly prepared for an imperfect world. Sometimes you just have to go MacGyver and solve common problems by using the resources
Just came across this hands on “how-to” which will show you how to size and build your own emergency power system. It covers all the soup to nuts including what you’ll want to power with the system, and then design
Did you know that you can make a cardboard box into an oven that works just as well as your oven at home? You can! And with this type of oven, you never have to worry about what to eat when
There is a primal link between man and fire. Every man or woman should know how to start one. And you should know how to start a fire without matches. It’s an essential survival skill. You never know when you’ll
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
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
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s rhetoric over nuclear weapons and the possibility of war with the United States and its allies makes almost no plausible sense considering that their long range missile capabilities are lacking and their military hardware is reportedly
A composting toilet is a good idea for rural or remote areas where indoor plumbing isn’t available. Outhouses are common, but can be cold, smelly, uncomfortable, and can contaminate ground water. A compost toilet doesn’t have these problems, can be
