… I welcome anyone and everyone who want to learn, teach, and contribute to this community about EVERYTHING survival...first aid, water purification, horticulture, carpentry, sewing, martial arts, security, fitness, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, tracking, herbology, off the grid living, solar energy, food storage, cooking, biochemistry, stress reduction, emergency response, urban, wilderness survival, and everthing otherwise.    I have a unique assortment of mentors, teachers, and friends wit …

… Of that, the largest single portion, 32%, is the energy involved in household food storage and cooking. Put it another way: If we reduced agricultural energy use by 5%, nationwide, we'd save about 20 trillion British Thermal Units of energy a year." But if just 5% of American households got a more efficient refrigerator, we'd save 54 trillion BTU. For those of you with edible gardens, I've just added a handy planting guide calendar to the photo album (click on "Photos" at left). One of our membe …

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Permaculture is a holistic design science and open source technology for building sustainable communities. Preparedness is a state of mind and lifestyle that improves quality of life now, while increasing individual/family/community self-reliance when disruption to normalcy occurs. By combining permaculture and preparedness we're able to grow beyond the finite duration of self-reliance and mature to an infinite state of community sufficiency.