Picking the brain of a global resilience expert
Vinay Gupta has worked with global resilience, failed state solutions, resource scarcity and global system risks for many years, he’s the inventor of the Hexayurt (a potential solution to the housing...
View ArticleIs True Self-Reliance a Myth?
Self-reliance is a wonderful ideal that is hardwired in the American psyche. Stories of the pioneers who went west and set up homesteads give us a romantic feeling that can draw us toward a rural way...
View ArticleHarvesting the Three Sisters Garden for Self-Sufficiency
There was a time long ago when most Americans planted, cultivated, harvested and ate their own crops. The fresh bounty of nutritional foods grown in fertile fields formed the foundation of American...
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Decentralize Big-Retail – How to Uproot Walmart & Bring Jobs Back Home
In many towns across America, Walmart, or a similar mega-retailer, is the only option you have when you need (almost) anything. Big-retail is a monopoly in its truest form and it has become so, not...
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Timeless Lessons in Permaculture & Tree Crops From Tuscany, Sardinia & Corsica
For the French Kingdom, chestnut was also “the food of laziness” because “a chestnut forest does not require any cultivation” (de Pommereul 1779, as cited in Pitte 1986:116). Chestnut was considered a...
View ArticleHow To Keep a Family Business Running for 1,300 years (And Build a Lasting...
Owned by the same family for 1,300 years, the Japanese inn Houshi Ryokan is a marvel of tradition and resilience. This ryokan (a traditional japanese style hotel) was built over a natural hot spring in...
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How to Prepare for a Collapse in 9 Steps – a Case Study with David Holmgren
It’s 2025, the long troubled financial markets have finally crashed the overleveraged banking system and the world is experiencing global depression on a massive scale. Precipitated by environmental...
View ArticleWhen the Power Goes Out, People Go Out
Yesterday at about 15:40 local time, San Diego lost power—along with many other parts of Southern California, Arizona, and Mexico. Our power was out for 11 hours. The experience was fascinating for me,...
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Why You Need To Prepare For “Just-In-Time” Failure
Here’s something to think about: How long will the world continue to work if a disaster (a big pandemic, war, etc.) shuts down global transportation? A think tank in the UK (Chatham House) has come up...
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How to Hedge Your Retirement Against Financial Collapse
On a planet with an inherently unstable and fragile financial system, where governments around the world are slashing pensions and central banks are inflating away our purchasing power, what’s the best...
View ArticleThe DIY Backyard UNDERGROUND Apocalyptic Bunker
Could this be the ultimate man cave and survival cell for backyard gardens everywhere? British garage inventor and video maker Colin Furze managed to get a TV channel to sponsor a doomsday bunker in...
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The Threat Probability Matrix – Six Levels of Resilience
Are you prepared for emergencies, or in the process of preparing? I hope you are, because we live in a fragile society. This fragility runs through everything from the food we buy in the supermarket...
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10 Reasons Why You Do Not Want to Bug Out
The plan seems simple doesn’t it? All you need for the best chance of survival for your family is a well-stocked bug out bag, a keen attention to your surroundings and careful monitoring of what is...
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Don’t Throw Away Your Wealth
I met Dr. T.H. Culhane a couple of years ago at a National Geographic conference. He is on a lifelong mission to help the world’s poor, both urban and rural, bootstrap themselves out of poverty and...
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Arctic Ancestral Survivalism with the Sami People
The Sami people are one of the oldest semi-nomadic indigenous groups in the world. Traditionally herding reindeer in the Arctic regions of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia’s Kola Peninsula (the...
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