Month: February 2010

Fight or be consumed

Whether the coming economic collapse is simply a re-creation of the Great Depression or turns into an all out “blood in the streets” sort of affair, there are mitigating steps to...

Wheat – superfood

Wheat should be an integral part of your food storage plan. With a ready source of wheat you can grind flour to make bread, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereals, pasta...

Taxing cigarettes for the economy

Taxing cigarettes for the economy

Word from Reuters today states that increasing cigarette taxes by $1 a pack would raise more than $9 billion a year for states. Furthermore, a poll suggests that 60% of Americans...

Transition Town, USA

Transition Town, USA

A transition town is a simple concept. It involves motivated people pooling their creative and intellectual resources to redefine what a “city” or “town” means in the United...

Who wants to be a freegan?

Who wants to be a freegan?

A vegan is a person who declines to make animal products a part of their diet. Vegans go even a step further than making food choices similar to vegetarians in that they use no...

Feuding for fun

Holding grudges and seeking revenge are the norm in many cultures. There is a certain mindset that you may run into from time to time where a person perceives themselves as...

Reading for survival

Some people learn basic survival skills in the form of knowledge passed down from parents or grandparents, but not everyone is lucky enough to have a resource like that,...

Out of oil? Not so fast.

Out of oil? Not so fast.

The prevailing theory regarding world oil reserves goes something like this: millions of years ago all the dinosaurs in the world fell over dead. As years rolled past, their...

Toxic Nazi discovery still with us today

Toxic Nazi discovery still with us today

In 1938, two German scientists were attempting to create stronger pesticides when they inadvertently discovered the formula for a toxic agent 500 times more lethal than cyanide....