Preparedness

Is your home prepared for life’s emergencies? A disaster of any kind rarely stops with the initial event and has the capacity to last days or longer. Because of this, it is important to have a well-rounded approach to your preparedness efforts. Our research-based resources on emergency scenarios, emergency checklists, and disaster scenarios offer family-based preparedness advice to create a multi-layered approach so your family can be prepared for anything! Learn more about survival food, potable water, safety and security issues, how to live in an off-grid environment with alternative power and how to get your pet prepared for emergencies.

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Venezuela: A Prepper’s Nightmare Come to Life

Socialist systems do not by their nature, respond well to shock and disruptions.

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Venezuelans Facing Severe Food Shortages and Malnutrition Turn to Urban Farming

Venezuelan President calls for “food sovereignty,” and urges urban people to start small farms and raise chickens in their homes in order to feed themselves.

Video: A Billboard Transformed into a Potable Water Generator

A billboard that produces potable (drinkable) water? It works in the desert, even in a climate with up to 90% humidity, and produces about 100 liters a day.

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Video: Convert a Washing Machine Motor to Create Free Energy

In our consumption-based society, as soon as something is broken, we don’t think twice about tossing it to the curb and buying a new one. We do this without realizing the other uses these appliances or their parts could serve us in the future.

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Video: How To Build a Survival Shelter. Your Life May Depend on It

Though time consuming, if left to our own devices, it is possible survive the elements. All that is needed is to know how to get the supplies for a shelter and the ingenuity for how to make it.

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Video: How To Press Your Own Cooking Oil

Pressing your own vegetable oils is a sustainable way to ensure you have this recommended pantry staple for long-term use.

Vitamins, Minerals, and Survival

If you are ever faced with a true life and death survival situation, do you know what to eat to keep you alive? Are you willing to eat whatever it takes to keep you alert and moving forward? Survival and nutrition go hand in hand. If you are in a survival situation, you must know specifically what types of food your body needs in order to thrive. Reading this article will increase your chances of survival.

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Want All the Green Beans You Can Eat? Get the Best Harvest With These Growing Tips

Here’s everything you need to know about growing a great and bountiful green bean harvest.

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Wasteful Society: 80% of Easter Pets End Up Here

“Within the first few weeks of Easter, an estimated 30 percent of all Easter ‘pets’ die, and another 70 percent to 80 percent are abandoned or turned in to shelters.” Our warped society has turned living animals (that require adequate shelter and food), into playthings. And, as with all toys, children grow old of them and move on to other things.

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Water Procurement: Setting Up a Low-Budget Water Catchment System and Why It Will Save Your Life

Using the information from Part 1 & 2, the setup of a water system, decontamination station, and rain catchment procedures entailed to blend all parts together.

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Wattle and Daub: A Great Way to Build a House From Local Materials

Just in case you need to build a cheap and easy structure after the SHTF, it wouldn’t hurt to learn how to work with wattle and daub.

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Weathering the Economic Collapse: Can You Reduce Any of These 10 Fixed Expenses?

The economic storm is bearing down on us, and the most important preparation you can make right now is to figure out how to weather it.

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