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Life after the world has been dealt a major blow is going to be tough. Things like running water, electricity, restaurants and grocery stores will gone. Learning to get by and live without things that we have taken for granted for so long will be incredibly difficult. This is why preppers are making it a goal to prepare themselves for this time by stockpiling food and water. If you have food and water, you can focus your energy on rebuilding a shelter and starting over. Having a stockpile of food takes a huge weight off your shoulders. You will know...

If there's one thing every prepper agrees on, it's the need to have a bug out bag. But that's about where the agreement ends. What should be in that bug out bag is another story entirely. Not everyone is in agreement about what they should carry. In fact, other than some common items, there is little agreement. Part of the problem is that everyone has their own idea of bugging out. When FEMA talks about it, they're expecting you to bug out to a shelter that they are running. When most survivalists talk about it, they're expecting you to live...

The distillation of water using solar energy is not a new concept. People have been doing it for literally thousands of years. Aristotle did not invent the method, but he did document the process. This is our first glimpse into the historical uses of sun to distill water. The history of when the technique was actually invented goes back farther than recorded history. The technique had been practiced successfully for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the 1800s that a large scale plant was built dedicated to purifying and distilling water through solar power. The plant was originally located in...

Stockpiling food in your disaster food storage requires much more than just going to the grocery store, buying a bunch of food and putting it away in your pantry. You’ve got to select the right sorts of food to go into your disaster food storage and package it correctly so that it will last until you need to use that disaster food storage. The way that most food comes from the grocery store will only keep it fresh for a few months. In fact, the only foods you buy in the grocery store, which are truly packaged for long-term storage...

One of the hardest things about preparing for a disaster, is that we don't know what disaster we're going to face or when it will happen. That can cause us a wide variety of problems, most notably in knowing what we're going to need. Invariably, we tend to prepare for the situation as we see it in our mind, not as it ends up being. But the two may be quite different. I've been at this for a long time, and I'm constantly looking at what other people are doing. You never know where you're going to find a good...