Archive for the ‘Sanitation’ Category

Posted by The Holistic Survival Team on May 24th, 2010 ADD COMMENTS

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 [...]

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Categories: Leadership, Sanitation
Posted by The Holistic Survival Team on April 24th, 2010 ADD COMMENTS

Last year (September 13) the New York Times published an article detailing how 1 in 10 Americans are drinking tainted tap water. Their source? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who just happen to be the dudes and dudettes charged with keeping the world around us clean. Uh oh, look’s like the nanny state is shirking [...]

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Categories: Sanitation
Posted by Jason Hartman on October 15th, 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Cleaning up dirty water

Interruption of the water supply by natural disaster is a very real possibility at some point in everyone’s life. Going without water is a whole different ballgame than food. A healthy person can live as long as eight weeks without food but only a matter of days in the absence of water. [...]

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Posted by The www.HolisticSurvival.com Team on October 5th, 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Contrary to popular belief, it might actually make more ecological sense to use that handy dishwasher than to wash and dry those dinner remains by hand. That’s what a recent survey by researchers at Bonn University in Germany have concluded.
Their official finding was that firing up the appliance saves energy, time, and money. How about [...]

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Categories: Sanitation
Posted by The www.HolisticSurvival.com Team on August 21st, 2009 ADD COMMENTS

No matter what sort of emergency you might find yourself in the midst of, there’s one thing for sure, everybody likes clean underwear! Clothes too. There’s no sour outlook that can’t be improved by putting on fresh smelling garments.
Let’s say the power grid is down because the state forget to pay the bill. You’re a [...]

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Categories: Sanitation, Survivalism