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By now, pretty much everyone who has any interest in survival has heard that they need one gallon of water per person per day for survival drinking and cooking. While that statement may be true, it’s not complete. Drinking and cooking aren’t the only things we need water for, even in a survival situation. So anyone who is planning one gallon per person per day, isn’t planning enough water. The average American family of four uses a little over 400 gallons of water per day. If only four gallons of that are used for drinking and cooking, what are the...

Bugging out, and more specifically the bug out bag, have become one of the central themes of prepping. Everyone agrees on the need of a bug out bag, as well as a complete plan for bugging out, should the need arise. At the same time, I as well as many others who write on the topic of survival, have cautioned people to bug in whenever they can, rather than bugging out. The big problem with bugging out is the difficulty of surviving in the wild. Few people, even amongst the prepping community, actually have the necessary skills to survive for...

When it comes to measuring the efficiency of a device, especially one that creates clean and green energy you have to be cautious. One should only compare efficiency on a like versus like basis. What I mean is that it’s not an accurate representation to compare the efficiency of biodiesel engine with the efficiency of a wind turbine. At best the only real comparison between the two that could be made is the rate of improvement seen in each medium. To rate the efficiency of one wind turbine you can only compare it to another wind turbine. Anything else would be...

If you have spent some time putting a great deal of food, water and other emergency supplies on your shelves, you are officially a prepper. You have probably thought of everything. Every little thing you could possibly need to survive and thrive after a major disaster or some kind of catastrophic event disrupts the world as we know it has been covered. You are set. Or are you? What about your dog? What do you plan on feeding your dog? Do you have enough food to spare with your dog? This is something you must consider now, before things go south....

What would you say are some important skills that one would need in a survival or disaster scenario? Finding and preparing water and food, being able to defend yourself, and having first aid and navigational skills probably come to mind. Well, have you ever thought of sewing as being a top survival skill that you should learn? You don’t have to be a professional sewer by any means in a survival situation. Nonetheless, simply learning basic sewing skills is not only an important survival skill to have, it’s an important life skill. With sewing skills, you can repair clothing, fix a...