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Collapsniks and Survivalists

Loki's Revenge

Fires, Floods, Crop Fails, Stolen Jobs & AI Collapse Funnies
8 minutes ago
Bison Prepper

dipped 2 of 2
2 hours ago
SHTF Plan

Leaked Obama Plan To Fight Election-Day Meddling Included ‘Martial Law’
2 hours ago
TheSurvivalistBlog.net

What Did You Do To Prep This Week?
3 hours ago
Outdoor Life

A Short History of Sporting Dog Trends in the 20th Century
3 hours ago
James H. Kunstler

Meow
3 hours ago
Ask a Prepper

24 Prepping Items I Don’t Spend Money On
5 hours ago
Survivopedia

Survival Guns: Q&A On Deep Cleaning Your Ruger LCR
5 hours ago
Modern Survival Blog

Poison Ivy Itch Relief Remedy That Works Fast!
6 hours ago
The Economic Collapse

Would You Like To Steal 128 Million Dollars?
17 hours ago
Know Prepare Survive

How to Build a DIY Rocket Stove
18 hours ago
The Prepper Journal

Just what is Backfeeding?
19 hours ago
The Modern Survivalist »

Glock 19 vs the 17 for prepping
20 hours ago
Urban Survival Site

23 Herbs and Veggies You Can Grow on Your Porch
23 hours ago
Bio Prepper

Back To Basics: How To Make Sugar At Home
1 day ago
RESOURCE CRISIS

Mining the asteroids: how desperate can we become?
1 day ago
Guide Outdoors

Grizzly Bear Charges Car in a Strange Act of Aggression [VIDEO]
1 day ago
Notes From The Bunker

Earthquake stuff
2 days ago
Survival Life

Primitive Skills | How To Sight In A Slingshot And Score An Easy Meal
2 days ago
The Survival Mom

Worst Case Scenario Plans From Real-Life Preppers
2 days ago
Doomsday Moose

5 Apps Every Survivalist Needs
2 days ago
Prep-Blog.com

The Next Major War will include Cyber Attacks
2 days ago
Our Finite World

The Next Financial Crisis Is Not Far Away
2 weeks ago
Survival Frog Blog

What You Really Need to Do to Survive A Terror Attack
5 weeks ago
Collapse of Industrial Civilization

Sic Transit Imperium
2 months ago
Economic Undertow

Break …
3 months ago
Decline of the Empire

The Best Kept Secret On Earth
3 months ago
Graywolf Survival

5 Gray Man secrets I learned as a surveillance operative
6 months ago
SurvivalBlog.com

Notes for Monday – October 03, 2016
9 months ago
Prepper Pages Survival Medicine

Preppers Beware of Unintentional Weight Loss!
1 year ago
Backwoods Survival Blog

REVIEW: The Walking Dead: Season 6 Finale - Episode 16 "Last Day On Earth"
1 year ago

Useful Websites

After The Deadline
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Internet Anagram Server
KUSC
Strong Towns
TextBroker
The Book Of Life
ToodleDo
Weather Underground
Wind Globe
Yahoo! Mail

Podcasts and Videos

The Survival Podcast

Episode-2048- Expert Council Q&A for 7-21-17
The Permaculture Podcast

1720 – Permaculture Magazine, North America
The Radical Personal Finance Podcast

470 – The Danger of a Financial Plan Built on Extremely Low Spending Projections
Doom and Bloom (TM)

All About Urinary Tract Infections
Chicken Whisperer

Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer brought to you by Kalmbach Feeds
Living the Good Life Naturally

Podcast: Learn about Fascia
Peak Moment Television

Connecting with Ourselves, Each Other, and Earth — Personal Tools for These Times, part 2 (332)
Harvest Eating Podcast

375-Keto Beef Casserole
Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

376 – How to do a kickstarter – part 3
Self-Sufficient Homestead - Surviving Civilization on the Homestead

SSHomestead-01 Log Cabin
Grateful Dread Public Radio

Rewilders and Bushcrafters

Voice In The Wilderness

The Nature of Love and Relationships
3 weeks ago
Primitive Technology

Reusable Charcoal Mound
4 weeks ago
Peter Michael Bauer

Community Hotline Interview
4 months ago
Dirttime

The Lord of the Flies
6 months ago
Wood Trekker

Wood Trekker Update
6 months ago
Wilderness Innovation

Five Questions About Our Survival Blanket Answered
10 months ago

Favorite Forums

AGelbert's Renewable Revolution Forum
Doomstead Diner Forum
Golden Oxen's First Amendment Forum
Green Wizards Forum
Paracord Forum
Permies.com Forum
SUN 4 Living Forum
Square Foot Gardening Forum
The Commons Free Speech Area
The Survivalist Blog

Blog Crypt

Aquaponics at RatherYes.com
Bacon and Eggs
Cheap-Ass-Living
Gardening Along The Creek...
James M. Dakin
Living Prepared
New Growth Homestead
Of The Hands
Peak Oil Debunked
Small Batch Garden
TEOTWAWKI Blog
The Deliberate Agrarian
The Flying Tortoise
The Gardener of Eden
The Leibowitz Society
The Oil Drum
Thermal Cooking
Thoughts from Frank and Fern
Veggiegobbler

Fellow Upslopers

Root Simple

The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza - When Cuba fell into crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union, artist Ernesto Oroza was just graduating with a degree in industrial design in a country wit...
1 hour ago
one hundred dollars a month

Work More, Sleep Less, Die Sooner - How many hours of sleep a night do you get? Did you know that if you aren’t sleeping enough, you might be setting yourself up for a whole mess of health ...
2 hours ago
A Home Grown Journal

Stayin' Cool, Man, Cool - Or At Least Trying - It was very hot and humid here yesterday hitting 90 degrees in the sun. The humidity, as always, made it more uncomfortable than the temperature. We made...
3 hours ago
the irresistible fleet of bicycles

SAFN award deadlines extended until july 28th 2017 - The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition has just announced that the deadlines for both the Christine Wilson Award and the Thomas Marchione A...
3 hours ago
PRACTICAL PARSIMONY

Windfall - A card came in the mail informing me my share of a class action suit had been mailed. ??? I know nothing of this class action and would not join. As far as...
3 hours ago
Organic Authority

Chipotle Mexican Grill Stock Tanks After Presence of Rodents and Norovirus - After a recent string of unfortunate events at two Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants, the Mexican fast dining chain’s stock has dropped more than 3 perc...
5 hours ago
Ready Nutrition

How to Stay Sane When You’re All Alone in a Survival Situation - The average person probably doesn't appreciate just how important social interaction is for their well-being. They know it's important, but they don't real...
7 hours ago
Tiny House Blog

Just-Right Tiny Living in The Lucky Linden - Two Videos and a Tiny House Love StoryIf a tiny home is like a self-portrait, then a DIY tiny home is perhaps the most accurate portraiture. One that showc...
9 hours ago
MorningChores

5 Best Stud Finder Reviews: Accurate Magnetic and Electronic Tools - A stud finder is an excellent tool for when you need to hang up a picture, install a new set of shelves, or mount a new television on the wall. Many house...
14 hours ago
Sunnybrook Farm

Jul 20 17 - Worked in the garden early then more messing with the model A. Today I took the carburetor apart along with an old one and was able to rebuild it after cl...
15 hours ago
*Framboise Manor*

garden, july 2017 - hits and misses. and a bunch of kimchi!!! - the days are getting hotter and true summer has arrived. soon we'll be celebrating daily river days - we can't wait! jambaloney even started clearing us a...
18 hours ago
Wilderness Dweller

Fire Update - Thank you once again all the people who have written. Your concerns are comforting. Here is the latest fire update. The Bella Coola Valley, where I hav...
19 hours ago
Shareable.com

How to Run Collaborative Projects That Don't Fall Prey to Bureaucracy - Today, when people call something "bureaucratic," they usually mean that in a negative sense, but bureaucracy didn't always have this negative connotati...
19 hours ago
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

Unforeseen Benefits: A Special Visitor Session Sept 3-17 - You may recall us raving about how awesome our women’s visitor session was last year. It was such an amazing experience for all involved that we knew immed...
23 hours ago
Paracord Projects, Art and Tutorials

Mad Max cobra bracelet (my first ever paracord) - [image: Mad Max cobra bracelet (my first ever paracord)] submitted by /u/sebwiers [link] [comments]
1 day ago
Financial Velociraptor

Upgrading my MLP ETF from AMLP to AMZA - I sold AMLP. music selection: “Whiskey River” — Willie Nelson I like the MLP space for high yields and steady growth. This is a sector that is poised for...
1 day ago
Rain's Garden

A Pea and a Beet Walk Into A Bar...and a Cheesy Weekend - So a pea and a beet walk into a bar. Pea: "Hey, you're looking tired my friend." Beet: "Yeah, it's been a long day, I'm just beet." Har har...Yes, I made ...
1 day ago
Epic Gardening

Spanish Moss: Grow and Care for Tillandsia Usneoides - The post Spanish Moss: Grow and Care for Tillandsia Usneoides is by Kevin and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic garde...
2 days ago
The Homestead Survival

Different Bug Bites Appearance and Treatment - Learn different bug bites appearance and treatment for them. With summertime in full swing and kids spending more and more of their time outside the oppo...
2 days ago
PASA Events

PASA Education Event - Dragon Husbandry: Making, Storing, and Using Biogas and Biodigester Effluent -
2 days ago
Miss Mustard Seed

sharing my “honey holes” | north & east - First off, thank you so much for all of your comments on my “moving story“. I especially feel so loved by those in Minnesota who have welcomed our famil...
2 days ago
Around The Cabin

An 18th Century German Recipe - This recipe for “Farina Soup” comes from a 1795 German Cookbook, the title of which translates, “Instructions Of All Kind Of Cookery And Pastry.” Thanks ...
2 days ago
A Moveable Garden

July Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day - The garden is in full swing now, even though the first week of June was cold and rainy.
2 days ago
coldantlerfarm

Funded! - Great news, guys! The Kiva loan has been funded! I'll get the truck to the mechanic to investigate/repair the failing transmission, get fencing and repair...
2 days ago
Mom's Scribbles

Some mornings... - are better than others. This morning is one of those. Beautiful sunrise. Cool enough yet to have my windows open. Birds singing their little hearts out in ...
3 days ago
Rural Revolution

Garden update - Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your condolences regarding Lydia's unexpected passing. It's funny how the loss of a pet can send a family ree...
3 days ago
Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm

Third filter theory - This blog is now available as an mp3 podcast through the link: www.ferngladefarm.com.au Long term readers will recall my sordid love affair with the coffe...
4 days ago
--- Living Prepared ---

- *Cherry-Cream Cheese Coffee Cake* This is just too easy and is it good! Below is my very first try at this recipe using the Pillsbury Crescent Dough. I pl...
5 days ago
Cairncrest Farm

Rising Waters - Water and time have forever been linked in the literary imagination. In Genesis the first acts of creation are the definition and separation of waters. Fit...
5 days ago
Oklahoma Transient

Get Moving!! - The one day we get to sleep in just a little, the clock rang at 6:00AM. Time to rise and shine…everyone in the house was up, dressed, had coffee, and br...
5 days ago
Of Brambles and Bears....

Decomposing is my favorite thing.... - Well regular visitors to my irregular scribbles here probably know by now that despite everything I am just a simple bugger trying to live a very uncom...
6 days ago
The Self-Sufficient Blog

4 Reasons Why We Eat the Animals We Love - Sorry PETA, eating the "right" meat is best for people, the animals and the environment. Of all the decisions we contemplated when we began farming a deca...
6 days ago
Gully Grove

Are chickens expensive? - Keeping chickens can be expensive, especially if you have a high predator load to contend with. Or they can be expensive, in the same way you might treat a...
1 week ago
Tramp's Camp

Trail Cam Captures - June - A couple of lucky shots from my trail cam last month.
1 week ago
Eat The Weeds and other things, too

Ti, Good Luck Plant - Array
1 week ago
Planning And Foresight

Week of July 4th - I took off the week of July 4th to take keep the boys out of the house since Sweetheart works from home. I tried to pack a full schedule to keep them occup...
1 week ago
Temperate Climate Permaculture

Holistic Management Beyond the Pasture - I recently wrote an article (Pigs, Pride, & Permaculture) on the recent re-evaluation of our farm endeavors. Basically, we had become overwhelmed by trying...
2 weeks ago
The Essential Herbal Blog

Debra's Icicle Pickles - (Fall) Memories of Country Pickles Debra Sturdevant From the Sept/Oct 16 issue of The Essential Herbal Illustration also by Debra Sturdevant - The Countr...
2 weeks ago
Deep Green Permaculture

Winter Fruit Tree Pruning – Free Workshop - Winter Fruit Tree Pruning Free Workshop Pruning fruit trees may be regarded as an art and a science, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, it’s fai...
2 weeks ago
Plain and Joyful Living

Why the Debate over whether climate change is real or not is irrelevant - So, this topic has been on my mind lately and I have decided to write down my thoughts. Mike and I read, watch youtube videos, subscribe to twitter fe...
2 weeks ago
Milkwood - Courses + Skills for Real Life

10 Days without a phone. Also, Barnacles… - When I was little, I was really into barnacles. Yes, actual barnacles – the ones on the rock shelf at low tide. I lived by the beach, so I visited them ...
3 weeks ago
The Wealthy Earth

Growing tomatoes vertically - Here’s the short continuation to my last post. Using one of these, a t-post, is the perfect thing to grow your tomatoes vertically. They are solid and wont...
4 weeks ago
500 Dollar Tomato

Where You Find It - The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take f...
5 weeks ago
Moneyless World - Free World - Priceless World

For Self-Proclaimed Christians in Trumpeting America - A little something for self-proclaimed Christians in Trumpeting America. Not my opinions, just quotes. Judge for yourselves whether or not this is your re...
1 month ago
LOW-TECH MAGAZINE

Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone? - Unlike solar and wind energy, human power is always available, no matter the season or time of day. Unlike fossil fuels, human power can be a clean energy ...
1 month ago
Frippery Farm

Weeding - You might notice I am changing my blog a bit. I'll be weeding out some old posts, changing the format and layout some. Just a general weeding and freshening ...
1 month ago
Living Echo

Your Freelance Writing Questions, Answered - At this point, I feel like I have ample proof that not only is freelance writing NOT an internet scam, it's a perfectly viable employment opportunity for...
1 month ago
Upland

Announcing..."This Agrarian Life"(My New Vlog) - Dateline: 15 May 2017 Video blogging is now where it's at with savvy online marketing. Whether it's the marketing of ideas or products, more people will...
2 months ago
Farm Hack Blog

Julien Reynier and Fabrice Clerc from L’Atelier Paysan on Self-Build Communities in Farming - Original post at Commons Transition On: Mar 17 Categories: Building the OS Circular Economy, Commoners in Transition, Julien Reynier and Fabrice Clerc No C...
3 months ago
Ecological Gardening

Climate Change Doesn’t Care about Anyone’s Opinion: Notes on Reciprocity and Sacrifice - Bison grazing in the Black Hills As the Delphic oracle laconically informed the Spartans, Erasmus paraphrased in Latin, and someone later rendered into E...
3 months ago
Casaubon's Book

Foster Care, Immigration and Where We are Headed - Four years ago we were foster parents to two wonderful children whose family was broken up by deportation. The parents had overstayed their visas (ie, they...
4 months ago
Agriphemera

Three Vintage Hogs! - Photo from "Connecticut and the Hog." Click the picture for a larger view. If you like pigs, you're going to love this collection of three rare, vintage, ...
4 months ago
Maple Seeds of Maine

Knitting and Reading -
5 months ago
Small Holding

Sunday Reading - The Real Enemy Shows Itself - I been pointing this out for 10 years or so now and although it has always been relatively obvious to me I find most people either are unable or refuse to ...
5 months ago
Polyface Hen House

Kick the Supermarket Habit! 10 Tips for Identifying Nutritious, Life-Giving Foods - Tip #10 – Ignore the food pyramid… and the “My Plate” Let’s take a look at the role of the USDA in this mess we’re in. Why does it continue to recommend D...
6 months ago
Epiphany Now

Plutocracy - I don't understand how they get away with it. That is the mystery to me. All of the power should be with the people as we have the numbers, but it's not...
6 months ago
Simple Everyday Living

Canning Salmon, Smoked Salmon, and Tuna - I have been canning salmon for many years. Canning salmon is a great way to free up freezer space. Just be sure to thaw your salmon before canning. Canned ...
6 months ago
Catvocate Blog - The NoBowl Feeding System™

The NoBowl Feeding System™ has launched in the UK! - We know the United Kingdom is a nation of cat lovers, and we're very proud to introduce The NoBowl Feeding System™ to our friends across the pond – just in...
7 months ago
treeseeddreaming

Defcon 3 - Crazy enough, in the midst of our scandalous Presidential election, we have managed to get up to Defcon 3 in a battle of wills with Russia. Our Defcon (de...
9 months ago
EducationalGardens

How to Keep Your Garden Safe from Wildlife - They’re so cute! William Moss, Master Gardener with the National Gardening Association, knows that everyone likes wildlife. The sight of a pair of deer pau...
9 months ago
FoodProduction101

How to Start and Maintain a Worm Compost Bin - I've been planning to start a worm compost bin for the past seven years, but it was always one of those things that gets stuck on the to-do-list. With my c...
9 months ago
MrBrownThumb

How to Pickle Green Tomatoes - Do you love tomatoes and just can't imagine letting any go to waste? If you have had a productive year growing tomatoes the end of the season can feel a li...
9 months ago
The Thrifty Garden/Home

Purposely Going .... - ... 'Old School' .... (Made in the U.S.A.) Sick and tired of crummy crackly VoIP phone service with wireless handset, we've gotten our land line back and op...
10 months ago
Tales From Fox Wood

Forest Gardening and the Five F's - Part 1 - Learning all about forest gardening with Martin Crawford In the last post I mentioned that I had been busy putting up a lot of wire mesh fencing to keep ra...
1 year ago
Krazo Acres

Where, oh where..... - .....has my little blog gone? Oh where or where can it be? With its posts cut short and the intervals so long. Oh where or where can it be? I have no ex...
1 year ago
Becca's Mini-Homestead

Time Management - I totally stink when it comes to time management. I either overload myself so much I can’t keep up (and I’m not that great at asking for help) or I leave...
1 year ago
Open Source Ecology

Open Building Institute Approaches Launch Date - Introducing the Open Building Institute: a Q&A with Marcin Jakubowski by Cat Johnson The Open Building Institute is an open source effort to make affordabl...
1 year ago
Highly Uncivilized

The Object of our Faith, Love, and Hope - Section One Faith, Love, and Hope 1 Thess. 1:3 (KJV) Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord ...
1 year ago
Arthur Haines Blog

Have we traded some of our human-ness for longevity? - Many wild animals live longer in a captive setting. While there are some exceptions (such as elephants), most animals provided with shelter, a constant su...
1 year ago
Ornamentals News

Bold and Beautiful Zinnias for Container Gardening! - While zinnias are considered a home garden staple, they're often overlooked for patio container gardening. A number of the more dwarf zinnia varieties len...
1 year ago
Living a Simple Life

She loses it. - Still at it in our natural home. In this video we are finishing the reclaimed brick floor, go to an italian party and freak out over rope. So we’ve been B...
1 year ago
Restful Trails Food Forest Garden

Ramp is done - well the ramp itself is done and painted, but now needs some second coat areas and touch up paint, as well as a few missed spots that don't really show up...
2 years ago
Prepared Housewives

Pressure Canner + Water Bath Canner + Self Reliant School = AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!! - I love free stuff, and even more than that, I love when it’s good stuff! If you care about preserving your food, or living a more self reliant lifestyle,...
2 years ago
Adventures in Urban Sustainability

Mushroom and apple foraging adventures in the Southern Highlands - What fun we had on our first mushroom foraging adventure this weekend, thanks to some mushrooming enthusiast friends of ours. Venturing into Belanglo Sta...
2 years ago
The Path to Frugality

Life Re-Invented - I turned 56 years old on March 8th. For the past 6 months I have been working on looking at what I want to do beyond homemaking with my life. I am determ...
2 years ago
Small virtues

Here I am - Goodness, I've been procrastinating. I often do that when I'm uncertain of myself or what direction I'm pursuing. Not long after I started this blog, I sta...
2 years ago
eighth acre farm

trees-- growing to the sky - daughter. and plums. I was working in the backyard last week with Hunter, a fellow blogger- whose blog has also gone partially dormant. We were making ci...
2 years ago
UrbanFoodWarrior

Want to Help Pollinators? Go to Seed! - Last night I taught a seed saving class at a community garden. It's a funny thing, because I always talk about how you have to let multiple plants go to se...
2 years ago
Paracord Forum

The Easiest Paracord Bracelet You Will Ever Make! - Making items out of paracord is enjoyable and relaxing. It is nice to be able to kick back with a hank of cord and see what you can create. The sky is th...
3 years ago

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Food For Thought

Open Culture

Russian History & Literature Come to Life in Wonderfully Colorized Portraits: See Photos of Tolstoy, Chekhov, the Romanovs & More - Colorized episodes of I Love Lucy verge on sacrilege, but Olga Shirnina, a translator and amateur colorist of considerable talent, has unquestionably nob...
7 minutes ago
Digital Trends

This new travel app uses AR to keep kids entertained on layovers - Augmented reality can now help keep kids entertained while waiting for flights with a digital geocaching kids travel app from Heathrow. Kids find digital...
49 minutes ago
The Foggy Shore

The Addiction of Success - I sigh in satisfaction at the tiny grass shoots emerging from the soil. I planted those. I added the compost and mixed it with the existing soil. I bought ...
51 minutes ago
Jon Rappoport's Blog

The individual vs. the illusion of consensus reality - The individual vs. the illusion of consensus reality by Jon Rappoport This is such a supercharged subject, I could start from a dozen places. But let’s beg...
1 hour ago
Inhabitat

US DOI scientist claims he was reassigned for speaking up on climate change - Is the Donald Trump administration reassigning employees who speak out on the dangers of climate change? Joel Clement, former Office of Policy Analysis dir...
1 hour ago
CleanTechnica

Massachusetts’ Bay State Wind Receives BOEM’s First Wind Site Assessment Plan Approval - The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued its first approval of an offshore wind Site Assessment Plan to the Bay State Wind offshore wind farm ...
1 hour ago
Amazon.com: Best Selling Nonfiction Kindle

#8: Edible Wild Plants for Beginners: The Essential Edible Plants and Recipes to Get Started - [image: Edible Wild Plants for Beginners] Edible Wild Plants for Beginners: The Essential Edible Plants and Recipes to Get Started Althea Press (Author) [...
1 hour ago
The Daily Sheeple

Here Are America’s Most Underfunded Corporate Pensions - There are some problems that are too large for even U.S. taxpayers to fix and, with an underfunding of $52,000 (mid-point) per household, somehow we suspec...
1 hour ago
WAKING SCIENCE

Lipoic acid in nutritional supplements found to help prevent multiple sclerosis, study finds - Authored by Rhonda Johannson via Natural News, The results of a new pilot study showed the efficacy of lipoic acid in the reduction of whole brain atroph...
1 hour ago
Mother Nature Network

The world's biggest (and most powerful) water pistol can blast through a pane of glass - Maybe it's time to rethink the rules of water warfare and retreat to the age of squirt guns and water balloons.
2 hours ago
TreeHugger

Elon Musk gets "verbal approval" for east coast underground Hyperloop - But as Mal said to Shepherd Bush in Serenity, "That's a long wait for a train don't come."
2 hours ago
The Market Ticker

The Market Ticker - Incoming MASSIVE Quantitative Tightening - *No, the "risk" from "quantitative tightening" is not The Fed.* *Yes, the reduction of their balance sheet will be a tightening.* *But you're a fool if y...
3 hours ago
PopularResistance.Org

Trumpcare Is Dead. ‘Single Payer Is The Only Real Answer’ - By Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - THANKS TO A PAIR of defections from more GOP senators late yesterday, the Republican plan to repeal and replace or simp...
4 hours ago
Permaliv

La oss gjøre kineserne grønne av misunnelse - Kommentar: Da vesten uansett er dømt til å tape økonomimesterskapet foreslår jeg at vi boikotter hele arrangementet og skaper vårt eget alternativ! Det er ...
6 hours ago
Mythcreants

Five Essential Habits for Guiding Players - Running a game is hard. A GM has to not only manage the story but also the game’s participants. GMs are asked to guide everyone to a satisfactory ending wh...
9 hours ago
Sixbears in the Woods

Alternative Medicine - The doctors have done what they could for my leg and foot. The infection is long gone, but my leg still swells up as the day goes on. I have to stop and ...
12 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth... - *Lies, half-truths and cover-ups are all manifestations of fatal weakness.* *When we can no longer tell the truth because the truth will bring the whole rot...
15 hours ago
un-Denial

By Charles Hugh Smith: The Inevitability of DeGrowth - While there are no new ideas in this essay, I decided to post it because it is a well written primer on the intersecting issues of wealth, energy, debt, an...
18 hours ago
Richard Heinberg

Museletter #302: Controversy Explodes over Renewable Energy - MuseLetter #302 / July 2017 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 121 KB) Controversy Explodes over Renewable Energy A heated deb...
22 hours ago
Lowering the Bar

They’re Brawling Again in Taiwan’s Parliament - Over infrastructure, of all things. Related Stories - In New Hampshire, Pregnant Women No Longer Allowed to Kill With Impunity - Idaho ...
1 day ago
HRBlock Talk

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On Being a Good Meeting Participant - As a cooperative group process consultant I mostly focus on the role of the facilitator, because it's a major leverage point in how well meetings function....
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Men Unlike Gods - The crisis of our age has many facets. All of them have their roots in the basic fact of our time, the head-on collision between the limitless economic g...
1 day ago
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NO TECH MAGAZINE

No Tech Reader #13 - Move Fast and Break Things. [Guardian] Bitcoin = Death Processors. [Medium] Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals. [Guard...
3 days ago
Question Everything

Summer reading list - I thought I would share some of the books I have been reading lately. All relate to the theme of watching the world fall apart. The End of Normal, by James...
3 days ago
Granola Shotgun

The Stealth Triplex - There was a time not all that long ago when ordinary people built simple small scale mixed use buildings on Main Street in every little town in North Ameri...
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The Spiral Staircase

While Kings Slept - Allow me to propose a hypothetical, to conduct a thought experiment if you will. Let’s say that the powers that be, our governmental and corporate overlord...
4 days ago
The Great Change

Snowflake Summer - "*Why has academia descended into neo-fascist regimentation?*" We didn’t give serious thought to snowflakes until a friend, James Howard Kunstler, got cro...
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Peak Energy

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Tiny Yellow Teardrop

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1 week ago
Into the Ruins

Staying Grounded in Upheaval - One of the particular pleasures of living in the city is the opportunities it provides for walking. I take advantage of those opportunities throughout the ...
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22 Billion Energy Slaves

S is for Short Story Update - Phew - apologies for the delay but I have now selected which pieces will appear in the forthcoming short story anthology of post-industrial fiction I ha...
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Speaking Truth to Power

Yale Professor Timothy Snyder On The Deeper Significance Of Collusion With Russia - Overall, Snyder's message is that the United States is not unique—neither in the world today nor against the backdrop of history—in being pushed in more au...
2 weeks ago
Donal Fagan

The Angry Blue Planet - My weekend morning ritual has been to watch reruns of Men Into Space (1959) at 7:30 AM on Comet TV. Although I was completely unaware of the show until a f...
3 weeks ago
The Archdruid Report

This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...
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S G P - FOURTH ANNIVERSARY - Today is the fourth anniversary of my little blog. It has been a delight sharing my unusual perspective on the world with you, and I greatly appreciate y...
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Star Of Ishtar

Duality - Happy New Moon in Gemini everyone! Today is a very auspicious time to set clear intent that you speak from highest wisdom – now & always. Gemini moon asks ...
1 month ago
The Long Now Blog

How Hard Would It Be To Restart Civilization From Scratch? - It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. That’s what Designer Thomas Thwaites learned when he set hi...
2 months ago
Karl North Eco-Intelligence

The holarchy of rules and the problem of silos of knowledge in the quest for the survival of humanity - Seen in retrospect, the failure of those concerned with the advancement of knowledge to respect the complexity of the world, and to move toward ways of doi...
3 months ago
Pattern Literacy by Toby Hemenway

Announcing The Toby Hemenway Memorial Library - The following message is from Erin Axelrod, Outreach Director for the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastapol, CA: I hope your hearts are healing from t...
3 months ago
Piper Michael

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More Crows than Eagles

Extra Extra - Democratic Party Commits Suicide “Our platform of secret trade deals, poor-shaming, and not being Donald Trump is better than whatever it was you people ca...
4 months ago
Permaculture Plus Houskeeping

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5 months ago
Off the Grid in Minneapolis

On Healing the Earth and People - As an American citizen, I find that neither the Democratic or Republican parties say much of anything that resonates with me. Most of what they talk abo...
7 months ago
Jake's Health Solutions

Creative High School Students Invent Better Light Therapy Device for SAD Sufferers - A team of high school students has invented a new light therapy device that may provide relief for the millions of people who suffer from a seasonal form o...
9 months ago
Liberation Ecology

Update to Permaculture Research Design Course - The complete list of instructors is finally up, the schedule is nearly finalized… and I’m just getting more excited about this course. As far as I know, th...
11 months ago
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Easy Survival Medicine HAM Radio DIY Build - Emergency communications have always been integral to medicine and survival. In this video post we’ll be showing you a quick and easy Survival Medicine H...
1 year ago
Ecoshock Show Notes

Dark Climate - Now and Coming - Seas rising much faster, super storms in the coming decades, doubling and re-doubling of polar ice melt - new Hansen paper. We talk with co-author Isabella...
1 year ago
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Maybe we will get our ice age afterall! - As some of the climate change skeptics (correctly) point out, it wasn't all that long ago that the big concern was that we would flip back over into an ice...
1 year ago
Do the Math

You Call this Progress? - One of the prevailing narratives of our time is that we are innovating our way into the future at break-neck speed. It’s just dizzying how quickly the worl...
1 year ago
Leaving Babylon

Compost me please! - We should all get the hell out of the way, with our bodies decently planted in the earth to nourish other forms of life — weeds, flowers, shrubs, trees, wh...
4 years ago
The Long Ascent

Why I Use Toilet Paper - On the surface, the answer is trite and obvious, and this may seem like a strange topic, especially for a blog concerned with the "big picture". The timin...
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The Novice Gardener: Fighting weeds, drought, and plain forgetfulness – Pinetree Garden Seeds - At this point, most gardeners have reached a sort of holding pattern. Seeds have been direct seeded into their ground space or containers, and seedlings ha...
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Row Covers and Garden Tunnels for Plant Protection - Extend your gardening season and protect your plants from frost, wind and insect damage! Guest Author: Mark Greene Floating Row Covers protect plants ag...
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