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I'm going to start this article out with an assumption. That is, you have some sort of survival kit. Whether you call it a bug out bag, a get home bag, an everyday bag or a survival kit, you've got something that you intend to take with you, if you ever find yourself in a survival situation. That's a good start. But I'd like to ask you a question. When was the last time you revised your bag, removing items you don't need and adding items you do? I don't mean just throwing some new gadget you got into it,...

There has been a lot of talk at one time or another about using gardening as part of a long-term survival strategy. I’ve even talked about it a bit myself. But I have to say, I think a lot of that talk is a bit unrealistic. When people talk about a four foot square garden providing all their nutritional needs, I start getting skeptical. I have a garden; it’s 15 by 30 feet and contains four large raised beds, totaling over 200 square feet. That’s 14 times larger than a garden that’s a four foot square. Yet even with all...

Although not normally listed as such, the ability to defend yourself is high up there on the list of survival priorities. It won’t kill you in 30 minutes, like losing your body heat will; nor will it kill you in 3 days, like going without water; you can’t even say that it will kill you in 30 days, like a lack of food can. For some, the inability to defend themselves will never make a difference at all. But for others, that lack could allow someone to kill them in a matter of seconds. A lot depends on the specific...

For several decades, solar energy has been hyped in many countries as an alternative power source. Progressively, however, solar is standing toe to toe with all the other traditional power sources as a cost-effective, viable option for electricity. As soon as solar energy spurt onto the scene in the early 1980s, nobody was actually making an economic case for including it in the utility electric fleet of America. All the arguments in favor of solar was principally environmental. PV (Photovoltaic) panels generate energy even without carbon emissions and also without the continuous need for fuel. Since the year 1998, however, the...

Algae is the unwanted slime in your home aquarium or the goo that’s putting you off going for a swim in your public lake. It can grow almost everywhere there is water and sunlight, and under the right conditions it can double its volume within hours. Scientists and industrialists agree that its potential is huge. It can grow in fresh water, polluted water or even sea water.  It is used to purify your sewage and it also consumes nearly twice its weight in carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas that is discharged by vehicles. There are several types of...