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January 25th, 2016 Video courtesy of The Good Stuff An Earthship is a home that captures its own water, recycles its own sewage, and produces all its own electricity and food. It’s meant to function completely independent of the power ...

A former CIA director and former executive director of the EMP Task Force are charging that the Obama administration is failing to protect America from a potential power grid-crippling solar storm, choosing instead to conduct more studies on a potential ...

Nassau, New York, could be the first town in the United States voluntarily to go completely off the grid. The town board is so fed up with unreliable service from the local utility that it is planning to look into ...

Earth’s potable water reserves are depleting fast, and while we hope for the best, we must prepare for the worst-case scenario. So today, let’s look at a few DIY desalination projects. Water desalinization really works, and you don’t have to ...

Just buying and stockpiling food and gear is not enough to ensure that you’ll survive during a natural or man-made disaster. In fact, the greatest threat for the regular Joe Survivalist is not represented by economic collapse of predator drones, ...

Let us imagine that on one dark, stormy night, Facebook goes down … for an hour. You might think that this wouldn’t be much of a big deal, since it’s merely a social network that enables pictures of cats and ...

August 31st, 2015 Convert a junk TV into a 2000ºF solar cooker. Here’s a technique for hacking a 4 foot mega magnifying lens out of your old TV, and some of the things you can do with it! Video courtesy ...

Quietly and with little public attention, the federal government has made moves in recent months to prepare for a nationwide blackout that could last weeks or months. It’s something you’ll likely hear more about later this year, and it’s the ...

Can you cram in 12 hours all the survival essentials you would need to save your family for several months? That’s all the warning you would have before a solar storm takes out the power grid, according to a new ...

You’ve probably heard all about the horrible things that an EMP will do, if we are ever unfortunate enough to have an enemy set one off over the United States. (Or if we experience a Carrington-like major solar storm.) It’s ...