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The skill set that you posses for your current job might not be transferable to a post-modern lifestyle, a post-collapse…

Shelter is a number one priority for survival under some circumstances – namely hypothermia. Our core body temperature can quickly…

For your safety, know these 4 poisonous (venomous) snakes, and what they look like – to avoid being bitten by…

Think about this… you live either in the city or in the densely populated metroplex of suburbia immediately surrounding the…

Evidence of the first man-made fire (campfire) dates as far back as the stone age, while no other living creature…

Learn what you don’t know how to do – particularly those skills that you may need to know in a…

A dug well is a simply a hole in the ground dug by shovel or backhoe. Years ago, a ‘dug…