Are You Prepared to Survive a Blizzard? Blizzards can be deadly, and knowing how to survive a blizzard is crucial, especially if you live in a colder climate. One of the most dangerous aspects of blizzards is the loss of visibility. The blinding snow can cause serious issues, especially if you are outdoors. In addition, the steep decline in temperature blizzards bring in can cause in frostbite or even hypothermia, so be sure to stay indoors! With this in mind, it’s important that you and your family are prepared and know how to stay safe, should you find yourself fighting against this severe snowstorm. Here are 5 recommendations to help you and your family survive a bliz...
Paleo Principles: Increase Your Chances of Survival
What are Paleo Principles? The paleolithic (paleo) diet is derived from the diet cavemen were limited to during the Paleolithic era. Cavemen didn't have it easy. Hunting for food could be dangerous and avoiding becoming a predator's food was even more challenging. Cavemen had to contend with attacks from leopards, wolves, tigers, and other beasts sharing their habitats. The weather further complicated scavenging for food as well. That said, cavemen survived these threats and evolved into the humans we are today. Let's discuss paleo principles: the types of food cavemen survived on and how sticking to these foods could help our chances of surviving a SHTF event. The paleo diet...
Why an Energy Efficient Home is Necessary
When Resources are Scarce, Conservation is Critical During long term disruptions, whether the result of natural disasters or wars between nations, resources become scarce. The electrical grid could become compromised and supply chains could be obstructed. If we truly want to prepare ourselves for SHTF events, then it's important that we make the most of what little we have. Americans today tend to want bigger things and more of them. Houses are growing larger and the average number of household appliances is rising. This trend depletes the amount of our finite global resources at a faster rate than we've seen in the past. Moreover, by engaging in the practice of "bigger and more,"...
SHTF Coffee Guide
From Addicted to Advantaged: SHTF Coffee Guide Coffee is one of the few constants in many of our lives. We need that jolt in the morning to take on the day and our afternoon cup helps us combat post-lunch drowsiness. Our routine caffeine fix may seem necessary now, but many will be forced to break this habit if SHTF. What would we do for our cup of joe then? Fortunately, we can take steps now to ensure that we won't need to face that reality. Not only will these steps enable us to continue enjoying our habitual practice, they can also make us better equipped for survival. Below is your SHTF Coffee Guide. Storage and Sourcing Many of us recognize ungro...
Adapting to a Warming World
Worse than Expected Recent headlines revealed that the impacts of climate change are even worse than initially expected. It comes as no surprise to me that researchers' climate change models were wrong. Anticipating weather events is difficult enough, but attempting to predict the speed, scale, and effects of such a dynamic and complex phenomenon as global warming is borderline arrogant. While I completely support researchers' efforts, I think it is impossible to truly understand the harm we are causing in continuing to warm the globe. It's imperative we change our behaviors if we want to improve the conditions in which we live. Countless papers, blog posts, articles...
