A major must-archive directory of off-grid 'how-to' information
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From this page:
http://rethinksurvival.com/how-to-kn...afety-security
FOOD AND WATER “HOW TO” POSTS
Water Treatment
Water Procurement and Storage
Food Procurement / Gardening
Food Storage and Preservation
Make Specific Foods
Other Food Considerations
HEALTH AND SANITATION “HOW TO” POSTS
Health Concerns
First Aid / Emergency Medical Info
Hygiene and Sanitation Concerns
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wow ! incredible work you've done here Bill, thank you very much!
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SAFETY AND SECURITY “HOW TO” POSTS
Home Safety / Personal Safety
OPSEC / Privacy
Defense / Security / Weapons
STOVES AND FIRE “HOW TO” POSTS
Fire Resources
Stoves and Ovens
POWER AND ENERGY “HOW TO” POSTS
Solar Options
Generators / Alternative Power
Other Energy Considerations
Heating and Cooling
Lighting / Communications
MISCELLANEOUS “HOW TO” POSTS
Bug Out / Wilderness Considerations
Alternative Shelter / Clothing
Everything Else
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Superb! Excellent Bill -- this is incredibly valuable!
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All the above active links in one 16-page PDF (A4 format, but as a digital resource that doesn't really matter):
http://projectavalon.net/HOW_TO_Knowledge_Base.pdf
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Thank you very much Bill for your very useful post and your PDF file.
I wish you all the best for this year !!!
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hi Bill,
fantastic !! useful and extremely essential
thanks a lot !!!
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Earth Angel
wow ! incredible work you've done here Bill, thank you very much!
Kudos not to me, but to another forum member whose identity I should maybe diligently protect here. (Thank you again! You know who you are. :) )
This person sent me the very valuable source web page, and I just reformatted the whole thing as a couple of long posts plus the PDF. Very happy to help make the info widely available, as was the original intention. I agree that it is most extremely useful.
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Thanks Bill for taking the time to beautifully organize all of this information here for all of us to use.
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Thank you Bill and thanks to whoever put this together. Lots of reading to do now... :)
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Wow! Thank you Bill, some incredible information here!
:)
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Really good Bill! :) I'm going to study these and share them with a couple friends who are also "aware" and discuss these matters privately.
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Pardon me if I’m mistaken here, but doesn’t this excellent resource presuppose availability of an internet connection – and the power to run one under duress? Seems to me that when the power went out for several days in Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy people were mainly frantic that they couldn’t recharge their smartphones to get online.... That’s no way to garner good advice in a prolonged grid/infrastructure power shutdown, which itself is a high-probability event no matter what the cause.
I’m a proponent of good old fashioned printed reference books for this reason. No power required.
• Excellent survival texts with a good deal of this info can be had cheaply from Amazon as used or paperbacks. Under duress a small library of these essentials is worth more than their weight in gold. Books come laden with diagrams and details often unavailable on websites. Here is my personal list of essential faves I assembled at The Golden Thread http://www.thegoldenthread.info/phpB...hp?f=19&t=2585
• I’ve also taken the precaution of printing out interesting website survival instructions and popping them into a binder. (And I’ve printed out duplicates of a few essentials to give to the inevitable clueless friends who will really need the info – I know better than to ‘loan’ anyone my last copy of anything....LOL) Binder is thick, but priceless.
• I’ve also stuffed a printed copy of the ‘how to’ diagrams etc along with the bundle of supplies for same. i.e. How to make a solar oven/water filter/use a whatever etc. along with the supplies for each. Otherwise, I might have bags of sand, gravel, charcoal and a metal screen but no idea how to assemble them correctly to make a water filter...
• If TSHTF and longer-term (more than a few weeks) considerations start to take hold, those books on gardening, first aid, cooking, sanitation, sheltering etc will start to become more and more useful.
Thanks for this list, Bill and *whomever* :cool:. I’ll be adding to my collection.
Cheers,
Selene
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Very precious resources here guys. Thanks.
I would like to add a model of can stove similar to the one listed above, but a little bit better, imo. Small details make big diferences in the result. This video has been posted somewhere here in Avalon already, but it is so good that i think it should be in this thread as well.
" How To Turn A Beer Can Into The Only Camping Stove You'll Ever Need ", by Tom Allen.
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Selene
Pardon me if I’m mistaken here, but doesn’t this excellent resource presuppose availability of an internet connection – and the power to run one under duress?
Quite a job, of course, but it would be a few hours well spent to save each linked web page of interest as a PDF and then archive it (or print it). (Some of them are PDFs already.) Similarly, YouTube videos can be archived using http://keepvid.com.
Many Avalonians will already have substantial amounts of self-help and other material archived. For any new members reading this, do take a look at the very valuable Interesting Free Books in PDF thread, where there's an immense amount of material in downloadable e-book form.
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My first chose was
Bottle Fish Trap
http://www.instructables.com/id/FEC-...two-soda-bott/
But I did not find any clue on how can I make it
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Was recently thinking about the challenge of running a refrigerator when living off grid, today I found this webpage that describes use of a chest freezer, with some significant modifications, that uses 10 times less energy than a normal fridge.
http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.html
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Excellent resource - thank you Bill and 'other forum member'.
I concur with Selene though, on the value of printed hard copy.
I have a mate who filled a 1 terabyte external hard drive with similar material as insurance
against network failure. Then his hard drive packed it in.
I'm sure a tech could retrieve the data onto another drive - but it does demonstrate the
transient nature of storing anything digitally.
I guess there is no substitute for the memory - especially when gained through the
experience of living as self sufficient and sustainably as naturally possible.
It's going to take years of camping trips with my kids to practice all this stuff.
How long have we got? :)
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Tangri
Look to the right side, under related or take it here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Fish-Bottle-Trap/ :)
Johnny
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THANK YOU for bumping these outer corners of the forum, its needed.
