Trying to make fire from ice isn’t as easy as everyone makes it out to be. It’s not as simple as shaping a piece of ice into a lens and letting the sun shine through it.
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Survival Skills
How To Navigate Using the Sun and Stars
Finding the right direction is just as important as traveling the right distance. Nature gives us two very predictable methods for navigating – the sun and stars. Here’s a great article on how to use them to find our direction.
Your Ancestors Had Some Hard Core Survival Instincts… This is How You Can Get Back to Your Roots
When we were hunter-gatherers and even after human settlements such as towns and villages were established thousands of years ago…our ancestors used all of their senses. All of them.
Finding Your Way: Land Navigation Series, Part 1 – The Pace Count
Your pace count is your key to movement and land navigation on your feet. It is the basis for your two components of land navigation when traveling from one location to another: distance and direction.
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How to Use a [BUSTED] Cell Phone to Meet 5 Basic Survival Needs
Sometimes in a survival situation all we have to survive is what we have in our pockets. This article can show you how to use a busted cellular phone to meet 5 basic survival needs.
Why Learning a Different Language Can Improve Your Survivability
Learning a foreign language (or several foreign languages) will give you and your family a distinct advantage when the SHTF.
Smart Survival: This is How You Find Water When There Is None To Be Found
With water being one of your main survival priorities, you want to know multiple ways of procuring water in an emergency situation. Knowing the hidden sources of water in your area and how to procure it will keep you alive.
How to Retread Your Old Shoes With a Car Tire
Consider the fact that your typical car tire is responsible for carrying thousands of pounds over tens of thousands of miles.
Why Being a “Tree Hugger” Builds Self-Reliance
Embrace your love of trees and learn to be stewards of these towers of the forest!
Winter Survival: How to Blend into a Winter Environment
Make sure you blend with your surroundings, whatever they may be.
6 Critical Tips You Need to Know In Order To Survive Being Stranded in Your Car in Freezing Temperatures
With the unusual winter weather that many parts of the country are experiencing, driving conditions will be harsh and potentially dangerous. Moreover, getting stranded in your vehicle could become a very real threat, especially if you are traveling in isolated parts of the country. If this happens, you have a potentially dangerous survival situation on your hands.
A Green Beret’s Guide To Building an Emergency Winter Shelter
Surviving the wilderness in the bitter cold is not for the faint of heart. These basic winter survival shelters will insulate and protect you from the harsh elements outside.
Crock Pot Soap – An Easy Recipe For Beginners
You are going to love how easy this soap recipe is! Anyone can do it. All you need is a crockpot and a few soap making ingredients!
7 Tips to Keep You Alive and Found in the Wilderness
Even the most innocent outings are potential survival situations.
Chump To Champ: How to Train Your Body To Act Instinctively for Self-Defense
Our last line of defense is knowing how to defend ourselves and to do this you need to be fit and train your body to react to the circumstances you may find yourself in.
Blending In: The Secret to Keeping The Target Off Your Back
As the sun sets on America’s affluent lifestyle, it will become more likely that you’ll find yourself in the company of desperate and dangerous people, no matter where you live.
Six Primitive Traps For Catching Food In The Woods
If you do find yourself in the wilderness and need food, there are a lot of ways to fill the plate for dinner. But you need to learn and practice the skills.
Prepper Sustainability: How to Observe and Monitor Local Game
In a grid-down, SHTF situation, you’re going to need to eat, and you probably will not be able to grow everything you need or raise all the livestock you will use to support the family.
Operational Essential Task Lists for When the “S” Hits the Fan
These are tasks that everyone needs to know how to do when everything comes apart…to be able to operate as a family and as individuals working for the good of your family
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The Grim Reality About Pandemics They Don’t Want You To Know: “No Country is Prepared”
It’s been 100 years since the Spanish Flu caused a global pandemic. While you can rest easy right now knowing a global pandemic is not currently a threat, it is just a matter of time before the next one arrives. And when the next one does arrive, “scientists say an outbreak of a flu-like illness could sweep across the planet in 36 hours and kill tens of millions due to our constantly-traveling population.”
The Well-Stocked Sick Room
To decrease the chances of an infectious illness spreading and infecting other household members, consider setting up a sick room. Learn what supplies should be on hand and some preventative measures that will ensure the illness is contained.
Bugging In? 5 Great Tools for Staying in Shape in Your Own Home
I don’t have to tell you that staying inside all day will put you on the fast track to flab town (I should know. I stay inside all day writing articles like this. You’re welcome).
3 Emergency Uses for Plastic Sheeting
It is important for you to pick up a few rolls of plastic sheeting for your home that can benefit you and your family not just for use in a greenhouse, but in a disaster, as well.
50 Things To Do During Home Quarantine
The fear of Ebola is real. With the laws and executive orders in place to govern the control of contagions, the government can force you into quarantine. Here are 50 things to do after you have napped and watched movie marathons.
The Hidden (and Deadly) Dangers of Snow on Your Roof
There are many potential dangers associated with winter weather, but there’s one you might not have given much thought to snow and ice on your home’s roof. Here’s how to assess how much snow your roof can handle, how to determine if you need to remove snow, how to remove it safely, and the unique dangers that thawing ice and snow pose.
U.S. Disaster Zones: Are You Living In A Place Where Disasters Are Common?
With constant media bombardment of fears of a nuclear war, many have begun to prepare for a disaster. But government uncertainty isn’t the only thing on the minds of the masses. Volcanic activity appears to be increasing and earthquakes seem to be getting more severe. That begs the question: do you live in a disaster zone?
25 Hardcore Healthy Foods You Need in Your Emergency Pantry
Here’s how to build an emergency pantry that is packed with nutritious, shelf-stable foods that will help your family keep energy levels up.
10 Selfless Acts Amid Terrible Tragedies That Will Blow Your Mind
Frankly, it’s a shame that the ugliness of our species receives so much more attention than our acts of mercy, compassion, and sacrifice. These 10 acts of human kindness will restore your faith in humanity.
10 Tips To Teach Kids About Internet Safety
Our children live in such a drastically different world as we grew up in. Dangers seem to be around every corner, and the Internet has invited those dangers into our homes and our children’s bedrooms.
