We’ll be honest – in the beginning of this website there were those who warned us away from including the word “holistic” in the name. To summarize the general sentiment, “Holistic Survival,” they warned, “is going to make everyone think you’re a bunch of whack job granola heads.” In our opinion, it’s unfortunate that the [...]

Somebody tell the federal government they’re not needed to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Don’t need their money. Don’t need their poorly planned, bureaucratic layers of indolent effort. The best people to clean up the mess are the people who created it, namely British Petroleum (BP). No one on this [...]

What kind of person do you become when the ever-lovin’ excrement hits the fan? Do you function calmly and rationally or go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel? In the interest of perpetuation of the species, we at Holistic Survival hope it’s more of the former and less of the latter.
There [...]

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 States. People create a Transition Initiative because they’re concerned about a modern problem or even a handful of modern problems.
For some, the reason is peak oil, climate [...]

Anyone remember the rest of that famous saying? All together now:
“The tough get going!”
This is not just some drill sergeant rhetoric designed to boost morale in the flagging troops. This is for you and lots of other people who plan on living into the very uncertain worldwide future we’re facing. When we say Holistic Survival [...]

The presupposition in the headline is, of course, blatantly ridiculous. Politicians do not have spines. They might have been born with them, like normal human beings but, at the first sign of interest in participating in the political system, spines are summarily removed and replaced with a non-toxic Jell-O mold.
That explains a lot about the [...]