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Collapsniks and Survivalists

  • Ask a Prepper
    How To Make Biodiesel Fuel: Beat the System, Power Yourself
    2 hours ago
  • SurvivalBlog.com
    Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — July 9, 2025
    4 hours ago
  • SHTF Plan
    12 Questions All Should Be Asking About The Jeffrey Epstein Cover Up
    13 hours ago
  • Urban Survival Site
    How to Make and Use a Fire Piston
    14 hours ago
  • The Economic Collapse
    Brace Yourself! More Than 400 Earthquakes Just Shook Mt. Rainier In Washington State And More Than 1,300 Earthquakes Just Rattled Japan
    15 hours ago
  • Collapse of Industrial Civilization
    Scorched Aperture
    21 hours ago
  • James H. Kunstler
    Cage Match
    1 day ago
  • Survival Life
    Long-Term Food Storage: Which Method Matches Your Rotation Needs Best
    2 days ago
  • Notes From The Bunker
    Buy once, cry nonce
    3 days ago
  • Survivopedia
    Why the USA Attacking Iran Is a Losing Bet
    1 week ago
  • The Survival Mom
    Essential Medical Supplies Beyond First Aid
    2 weeks ago
  • Our Finite World
    What should individuals do in a world filled with conflict?
    2 weeks ago
  • The Prepper Journal
    Nuclear Panic: Separating Fear from Facts for the Modern Prepper
    2 weeks ago
  • Modern Survival Blog
    Does Potassium Iodide Expire? Tablets Shelf Life – Answered
    2 months ago
  • Knowledge Weighs Nothing
    Microinverters: Revolutionizing Solar Panel Efficiency
    2 months ago
  • Economic Undertow
    Ending The War In Ukraine By Attacking Russian Railroads
    3 months ago
  • TheSurvivalistBlog.net
    24 Must-Have Items That Will Vanish First in a Crisis
    10 months ago
  • Bio Prepper
    20 Medicinal Herbs Every Prepper Must Grow
    11 months ago
  • Know Prepare Survive
    Self Defense Weapons for Minors
    1 year ago
  • RESOURCE CRISIS
    Margherita Sarfatti: the Woman Who Destroyed Mussolini
    1 year ago
  • Guide Outdoors
    Forward-Facing Sonar is Changing Much of Fishing
    2 years ago
  • Graywolf Survival
    How to communicate when the world goes silent
    3 years ago
  • Bison Prepper
    April Article- Newer Relocation Guide
    3 years ago
  • The Modern Survivalist »
    Land of the Free, home of the Brave… so you mean Denmark?
    3 years ago
  • Survival Frog Blog
    Hurricane Survival 101
    3 years ago
  • Outdoor Life
    How I Introduced My City Kid to His First Hunting Gun
    4 years ago
  • Loki's Revenge
    Green Energy Kills Natives
    4 years ago
  • Skilled Survivor
    Top 10 Essential Survival Skills For The Wilderness
    5 years ago
  • The Doomsday Moose
    How to Create a Bug-Out Motorcycle
    5 years ago
  • Bison Prepper Bonus Material
    free today
    7 years ago

Useful Websites

  • After The Deadline
  • Aldi's
  • Amazing Koala (Jokes)
  • Butler Eagle Classified Ads
  • Classical Daily Download
  • Club Orlov
  • Google Calendar
  • H&R Block Small Business
  • ImgFlip Meme Maker
  • Internet Anagram Server
  • KUSC
  • Spiral Survival: The Card Game
  • Straight Talk
  • Strong Towns
  • TextBroker
  • The Book Of Life
  • ToodleDo
  • Weather Underground
  • Wind Globe
  • Yahoo! Mail

News and Aggregation Sites

  • Bullets, Beans, and Bullion
  • Daily Collapse Report
  • Daily Good
  • Daily Sheeple
  • Doomstead Diner News
  • KDog's Reading Room
  • Ol' Remus's Woodpile Report
  • Prepper Website
  • The Daily SUN

Podcasts and Videos

  • The Survival Podcast
    F3 Vehicle Defense Systems with Michael Mercer – Epi-3700
  • Doom and Bloom (TM)
    Surviving A Flood
  • The Permaculture Podcast
    Q&A: Client-Centered Design
  • Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton
    Podcast 708 – Suze’s Consultation – Part 2
  • Grateful Dread Public Radio
    Cowboy Coins
  • EatTheWeeds
    Sign Up
  • Peak Moment Television
    End of an Era
  • Living the Good Life Naturally
    Natural Thyroid Tips, Connecting to Leptin
  • Harvest Eating Podcast
    424-Roasted Carrots w Sesame, ORange & Honey
  • The Radical Personal Finance Podcast
    583 – Mega Friday Q&A: (two days early) Richest Man in Babylon, Children and F.I., Invest All at Once, Preparing for Marriage, What’s Next, Etc!
  • Chicken Whisperer
    Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer
  • Self-Sufficient Homestead - Surviving Civilization on the Homestead
    SSHomestead-01 Log Cabin

Rewilders and Bushcrafters

  • Voice In The Wilderness
    Excerpt from "Watermelon Dreams" on Love
    3 months ago
  • Dirttime
    My Fall Colors Drive
    2 years ago
  • Peter Michael Bauer
    Episode 18: A Conversation w/ Eli Loomis
    3 years ago
  • Wilderness Innovation
    How to Choose a Poncho Size
    6 years ago
  • Primitive Technology
    Wood ash cement
    6 years ago
  • Wood Trekker
    Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products
    8 years 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
  • Decline of the Empire
  • 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 Deliberate Agrarian 2.0
  • The Deliberate American
  • The Flying Tortoise
  • The Gardener of Eden
  • The Leibowitz Society
  • The Oil Drum
  • The Prepper Pages
  • Thermal Cooking
  • Thoughts from Frank and Fern
  • Toby Hemenway
  • Upland
  • Upland
  • Veggiegobbler

Fellow Upslopers

  • one hundred dollars a month
    Garden Happenings - I went out to our little kitchen garden this morning to have a look around and you know what? Things are looking really healthy! The HH was a little worr...
    1 hour ago
  • My Adventures in selfreliance
    We have to learn from mistakes made. - I am not going to bash the folks in Texas as this was a natural disaster. I had no idea a flash flood could hit so fast, despite reading flash floods rise ...
    5 hours ago
  • Paracord Projects, Art and Tutorials
    Two newest pieces - [image: Two newest pieces] Been working on perfecting the two colour monkey fist. I think I'm almost there. submitted by /u/Antman013 [link] [comments]
    11 hours ago
  • Epic Gardening
    13 Shrubs With Stunning Summer Flowers - The post 13 Shrubs With Stunning Summer Flowers is by Melissa Strauss and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardenin...
    19 hours ago
  • A Moveable Garden
    LINK FEST: 8 JULY 2025 - Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless ...
    20 hours ago
  • Miss Mustard Seed
    Amazon Prime Day Deals - I usually don’t do shopping/sale posts, but as I was checking out Amazon Prime Day Deals, I noticed several items I own, love, and have shared in previou...
    21 hours ago
  • Rural Revolution
    When I'm that age... - We have an older couple who lives down the road from us. They're in their late 80s or early 90s and are as active as anyone I've ever met. Bill, the husb...
    23 hours ago
  • Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
    Showing Up in Community Life: A Dancing Rabbit Update - Howdy, reader! Kenny here with a meditation on individual responsibility within the collective whole (or at least, what thoughts I can stick together as ...
    1 day ago
  • Organic Authority
    Can You Microwave Ziploc Bags? A Class-Action Lawsuit Argues You Can’t - It seems Ziploc hid product safety details from consumers, as the bags can transfer microplastics into your food when heated […] The post Can You Microwa...
    1 day ago
  • M.D. Creekmore
    Read This Before You Waste Another Dollar - Cabin lived in by the “king” of frugal living in Appalachia old Tom Cassidy. “I’ve got that little cot in there, a chair, a stove for heat and cooking, a f...
    1 day ago
  • Root Simple
    As Usual: a Smoky, Noisy 4th - Forth of July fireworks here in Los Angeles start up in June with random explosions, including a few at odd hours, like 4:30 a.m. The identity of the weird...
    2 days ago
  • Deep Green Permaculture
    Buckwheat – Growing Guide - Overview Description Buckwheat is a fast-growing, herbaceous broadleaf annual plant belonging to the Polygonaceae (knotweed or smartweed) family, which al...
    4 days ago
  • The Essential Herbal Blog
    July/August 2025 Essential Herbal Magazine - I don't know if I'll ever get used to starting out with an empty folder, adding in my own contributions to an issue, and then watching it get fat and ju...
    1 week ago
  • Tiny House Blog
    The Tiny House Secret That Everyone’s Talking About - Living Large in 399 Square Feet: Meet Tisa Tisa is crushing it. She’s a nurse who ditched the traditional housing game for something way cooler – a gorge...
    2 weeks ago
  • Shareable.com
    Systems are breaking—And that’s our opportunity - A few months ago, I reconnected with a friend whom I had worked with on an initiative on ‘the sharing economy’. At the time, we were both ‘Young Global L...
    2 weeks ago
  • MorningChores
    How to Prevent Barn Fire and What to Do When It Happens - A farmer's worst nightmare is the barn going up in flames. Here's how you can prevent fire on your farm and in your animal barns.
    3 weeks ago
  • Milkwood - Courses + Skills for Real Life
    Solstice Campfire Resources - It doesn’t need to be a big campfire, if that’s not where you’re at, this season. It can be just a few sticks. That’s fine. Solstice campfires take many ...
    3 weeks ago
  • LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
    How to Dress and Undress your Home - [image: Image: “Arabs in the desert”, a painting by Vasili Veresjtsjagin. End of 19th or early 20th century. Image in the public domain. Insid...
    3 weeks ago
  • Wilderness Dweller
    Leaves at Last - Our deciduous trees are without leaves for nearly 8 months of the year. The first hint of spring green was visible from my window on May 11th. A lot earlie...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Homestead Survival
    Ultimate Guide to Predator-Proofing Your Chicken Coop - Raising backyard chickens is deeply rewarding, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges—chief among them: predators. Losing part of your flock t...
    5 weeks ago
  • PRACTICAL PARSIMONY
    Xray Day - Today, we got little done, but they were important things. For the first time in months, we picked up food. We shared it with someone and gave away lots...
    2 months ago
  • Mom's Scribbles
    This and That - Thinking about my Dad today. I was loudly complaining one day years ago, after weeding the garden and mucking out the hog barn. Dirty, sweaty and crab...
    2 months ago
  • Open Source Ecology
    Introducing the OSE Fellowship - Announcement: A World-Changing Opportunity Open Source Ecology (OSE) is pleased to announce the OSE Fellowship, a four-year program providing a $100,000 ...
    2 months ago
  • Ecological Gardening
    To Garden Honestly - [image: To Garden Honestly] From "Minnesota" 1980 by Joan Mitchell The call to action appeared in my inbox: “are we gardening while the world burns?” Yes, ...
    3 months ago
  • Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
    Pasa joins lawsuit to restore funding to farmers - Dear Pasa Community, Earlier today, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Public Rights Project jointly filed a lawsuit against the US governm...
    3 months ago
  • Heavenstretch
    Apple Syrup in February - Here’s another short (and sweet) essay by Lyle Stout. It was sent to me last month (February) but I’m a little late getting it on here (“a little late” is ...
    3 months ago
  • The Wealthy Earth
    Plantings of Mache in my square foot garden - This is such a great and tasty gem that many in the U.S. are not familiar with. I finished teaching a class last night and ended up having a discussion wit...
    3 months ago
  • Small Holding
    The Small Hold Has Lost The Fight - This will be the last post for The Small Hold. Pioneer Preppy loved sharing his thoughts on this blog and he had a lot to say! He was smart, funny, opini...
    6 months ago
  • A Home Grown Journal
    A Change - *Blogging was different when I made my first post in mid-2008. I've thoroughly enjoyed it as a way of communication and treasure the many readers with who...
    1 year ago
  • Small virtues
    Replanting a thought - Northern hemisphere readers will be taking in the sunshine, as summer days increase the enjoyment of outdoors. It's quite the opposite in the Southern h...
    1 year ago
  • Living on a Dime
    Cottage Cheese Salad Recipe – Cool And Refreshing! - This quick and easy cottage cheese salad recipe is a tasty and colorful way to take a break from regular veggie salads and sweet salads. The post Cottage...
    1 year ago
  • Gully Grove
    - *2022* Hello there, dwelling place of the crickets. My last post was almost a year ago. What happened? A lot! I could say it was a lack of time and that ...
    1 year ago
  • Food Assets
    Ocean Currents - A basic overview of how the world’s ocean currents work:
    1 year ago
  • Rain's Garden
    Rain Frances Creations - Are you looking for Thursday Art and Dinner Date? Please click on the above image to be redirected to my new website where TADD is now hosted!
    1 year ago
  • Cairncrest Farm
    Gratitude vs. Thanksgiving - Gratitude journals are fairly thick on the ground these days. Try to find a solution to most any problem, from raising an adolescent to an obsession with...
    1 year ago
  • Dark Green Mountain Survival Research Centre
    Every Day Is Halloween. Fires, Floods And Fascism - Preppers had their Fe-wings hurt when that meme showed up in the spring, about this year. I’d been warning them about this since my first year of this blog...
    1 year ago
  • Chicken Feathers
    Dear Friends - Coopville Monday, August 21, 2023 Dear friends..... I have decided to put the blog to bed. I am having too many problems with Blogger and my old, ol...
    1 year ago
  • Living Echo
    Putting the Home into Homesteading - We have been living at The Knob for less than a week and we are already up to our eyeballs in projects. First off was the task of unloading every shiny ...
    2 years ago
  • --- Living Prepared ---
    Good Bye Mrs. Yukon - Good Bye Mrs. Yukon, we will miss you, especially me! She was in perfect medical condition but on 9/4, she had a seizure which led to the discovery of...
    2 years ago
  • Ready Nutrition
    This Giant ‘Water Battery’ Under the Swiss Alps Could Be a Game-Changer for Renewable Energy in Europe - There is a gigantic water battery located in the canton of Valais, under the Swiss Alps, called Nant de Drance. It's a hydropower plant that provides the...
    2 years ago
  • Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Sedum: Stonecrop - Confessions of forager: In a general sense I have known for many years that “Stonecrops” were edible. I avoided them as they were usually associated by ...
    3 years ago
  • Financial Velociraptor
    Bull Call Spread Dell and strangle QYLD - Two trades this week. music selection: “Drive” — The Cars weigh-in: 193.8 n/c I like the chart on DELL. It is in a steady uptrend with only very minor p...
    3 years ago
  • The Self-Sufficient Blog
    How to respond to “why are your farm products so expensive?” - The post How to respond to “why are your farm products so expensive?” appeared first on Farm Websites & Marketing Support for Farm & Craft Food Businesses.
    3 years ago
  • Around The Cabin
    Video Game Scum - Scum is a game I have been playing and find very interesting. The post Video Game Scum appeared first on WWW.AROUNDTHECABIN.COM.
    3 years ago
  • FoodProduction101
    อาหารที่มีคุณภาพดีอย่างไร - ในปัจจุบันนี้เรื่องของอาหารนั้นก็เป็นเรื่องหนึ่งที่เราเองก็ควรที่จะต้องให้ความสนใจและให้ความสำคัญกันอย่างที่สุดจะยิ่งเป็นเรื่องที่ดีเพราะว่า...
    4 years ago
  • Highly Uncivilized
    What Makes The Best Belize Fly Fishing Lodges Different Than A Regular Fishing Lodge? - When someone says Belize many things tend to come to mind: Beautiful Island Living White Sandy Beaches Friendly, English Speaking People But, when a fly ...
    4 years ago
  • coldantlerfarm
    A FRESH START! - Hey all! Great news! The new home of this blog is at coldantlerfarmny.com with updates several times a week in a much snazzier viewer! Also all the farm ...
    4 years ago
  • Mind Your Dirt
    Hired Goons: Protecting My Backyard Chickens from Hawks in the Most Organic Way Ever. An Army of Crows. - Have you ever stepped out into your yard to admire your flock while sipping the morning coffee and scratching your butt only to hear that death scream from...
    4 years ago
  • The Natural Health Library | Site-Wide Activity
    Angie posted an update in the group Recommended Products: I bought a Rumblex Plus - you may have heard me mention it [ ] - I bought a Rumblex Plus – you may have heard me mention it in the FB group. I highly recommend them. I noticed a difference from the first time I used mi...
    4 years ago
  • Of Brambles and Bears....
    Reset.... - Been slacking a little with regards work this week, just found myself absolutely knackered mentally and a tad physically. Trouble is with this slackin...
    5 years ago
  • Arthur Haines Blog
    #GetOverYourselfYounger - I read the following article recently (“OK boomer” isn’t just about the past. It’s about our apocalyptic future; URL: https://www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20963...
    5 years ago
  • Paradise Lot
    2020 Garden Help Days - Spring is on its way! Winter is winding down – some might say it never really arrived. We’re looking forward to seeing all of our wonderful volunteers agai...
    5 years ago
  • City Farmer News
    Missouri charmer led double life, masterminded one of the biggest frauds in farm history - One of the biggest organic farm scams in history By Mike Hendricks Kansas City Star January 12, 2020 Excerpt: Records showed that in 2016 he sold 7 percent...
    5 years ago
  • Tenth Acre Farm
    How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff - Learn how to build a rain garden that captures rainwater runoff from hard surfaces, such as a roof or pavement, for irrigation or to reduce water polluti...
    5 years ago
  • Plain and Joyful Living
    Monday, December 2nd - Hello friends, Today we woke to a few inches of freshly fallen snow and all looks beautiful. I thought I would share a little bit about our handmade an...
    5 years ago
  • Scirpidiella's Plants
    Hybrid of Hardy Tamarillo’s (Cyphomandra corymbiflora x fragrans) - part 3 - On July 2019 I posted the photos of first flowers the hybrid of *Hardy Tamarillo **Cyphomandra corymbiflora* (female parent) and male *Guava Tamarillo **C....
    5 years ago
  • Frippery Farm
    Protect Yourself - I refuse to be dragged into the politics of the various mass and public shootings we have recently had in this country. What this post is about is Protectin...
    5 years ago
  • Food Forest at Restful Trails
    4th of July 2019 - Well Joel bought the three of us a new to us used car. Had a few glitches, as we had to replace the brakes, they were a mess, wierd fluid in them. But it...
    6 years ago
  • Temperate Climate Permaculture
    Permaculture Showcase Garden - Here are a couple photos from a garden area next to our house... what I am calling our Showcase Permaculture Garden. It's only a couple seasons old, so the...
    6 years ago
  • Oklahoma Transient
    *****Winners Announced***** - The winners of the Gerber Suspension Multi-Plier + Sheath, and the Victorniox Swiss Army Knife are: Wyoming Heart, you won the *Gerber* And Hobo, you ...
    6 years ago
  • Tramp's Camp
    Flicker Family - This season we have three Flickers that are visiting regularly. The first time we had them visit some years ago, one was working hard to chisel away at ...
    6 years ago
  • Moneyless World - Free World - Priceless World
    Gift Economy - Suelo's TEDx talk - *[*As of today (March 11, 2019), I finally published the edited written transcript of the TEDx talk, with slides, on my website: Suelo's TEDx talk & Tra...
    6 years ago
  • Sunnybrook Farm
    Monday walk to the barn - Aggy went for a walk to the barn and a doe was watching her from near the creek. She had probably never seen a dog spinning around in a circle and of cou...
    6 years ago
  • The Thrifty Garden/Home
    Historical Docu-Drama - ... set between 1785 through 1812 in the state of Maine, USA. *A Midwife's Tale*, ..."*this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household ...
    6 years ago
  • Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm
    We have moved to a new website... - Hi everyone! The blog continues, but at a permanent new location: http://ferngladefarm.com.au/ I look forward to seeing you all there. Comments posted he...
    7 years ago
  • Krazo Acres
    Dem Bones - We butchered one of our Boer goats last month…..or was it the month before? “BBQ” the wether was past prime butchering time (i.e. we should have last fal...
    7 years ago
  • Farm Hack Blog
    Gathering for Open Ag Technology! - Hello Farm Hack community! You are invited to apply for GOAT: Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology hosted at the Omega Institute in New York state ...
    7 years ago
  • *Framboise Manor*
    Welcome March 1, 2018 - we know that we have 30 more days of potential storms, lots of snow, power outages, etc., but when march 1 looks like this, we are more than pleased! that...
    7 years ago
  • 500 Dollar Tomato
    Time Flies - A few weeks ago I got the bright idea to start a Facebook Group for Family pictures. Sort of a Ancestry.com for my Mom, siblings and their extended familie...
    7 years ago
  • the irresistible fleet of bicycles
    - Agriculture Conference 2018 will take place from the 7th to 10th of February at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The biodynamic preparations bring vitality to th...
    7 years ago
  • Planning And Foresight
    A Much Needed Update - Like the title suggests, I'm doing a much needed update and probably the last one of the year. I'll try to cover all the bases... Since my schooling has of...
    7 years 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...
    8 years ago
  • Agriphemera
    1941Planet Jr.Agricultural Implements Catalog - Cover of the 1941 Planet Jr. Catalog Here's a great find for the Planet Jr. collector. This 1941 catalog has 48 pages and is packed with photos and infor...
    8 years ago
  • Maple Seeds of Maine
    Knitting and Reading -
    8 years ago
  • Polyface Hen House
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  • Epiphany Now
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  • Simple Everyday Living
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    8 years 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...
    8 years ago
  • EducationalGardens
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    8 years ago
  • MrBrownThumb
    Fall Vegetable Gardening: What to Plant in September - Are you the kind of gardener who thinks the season is over once your tomatoes ripen? Maybe life got in the way and you didn't plant a summer garden and thi...
    8 years 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...
    9 years ago
  • Ornamentals News
    Capture Summer with This Cut Flower Marigold - When we consider what garden flowers to cut for the indoors, marigolds typically don't immediately come to mind. But marigolds make an excellent home c...
    9 years 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...
    9 years ago
  • Tales From Fox Wood
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    9 years ago
  • Restful Trails Food Forest Garden
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    10 years ago
  • Prepared Housewives
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    10 years ago
  • Adventures in Urban Sustainability
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    10 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 deter...
    10 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...
    10 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...
    10 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...
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    7 hours ago
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  • PopularResistance.Org
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    12 hours ago
  • 99% Invisible
    Food Deserts - Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The cit...
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  • Do the Math
    The Writing on the Wall - I put my dunderheadedness on display as to how I repeatedly missed the net-negative impact written language has had on the living planet. Continue reading →
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  • The Spiral Staircase
    Offered Without Comment 36 - From Martin Gurri’s book The Revolt of the Public (2018): Commercial applications for email were developed in the late 1980s. The first server on the World...
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    Where’s the Tip? - "When you live on the edge, which way is forward?" *This week began with the noonish Monday* opening of a long-awaited and oversold event. Nope. Not Glas...
    2 days ago
  • CONTRARY BRIN
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  • Lowering the Bar
    Justice Harlan on Dirty Movies: “By Jove! Extraordinary!” - Great Odin's Raven!
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    Hot And Polluted Episodes - Breaking climate news: hot humid heat domes over Eastern North America, UK, and Europe. Scientist Michael Mann blames changed planetary waves. Gabriele Mes...
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  • NO TECH MAGAZINE
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  • Digital Trends
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  • THE SEA GYPSY PHILOSOPHER
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    1 month ago
  • WAKING SCIENCE
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  • Inhabitat
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  • Peter Turchin
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    2 months ago
  • Laird's Commentary on Community and Consensus
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    8 months ago
  • Pennsylvania Archives - Only In Your State
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    10 months ago
  • Mato's Blog
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    1 year ago
  • Karl North Eco-Intelligence
    Stories of my Life: A Swiss Scavenger Hunt - Joe Dassin was sweating bullets. He was scribbling frantically amid a pile of dirty coffee cups on scratch paper that he had covered with algebraic calcula...
    1 year ago
  • how to save the world
    Adapting to Collapse: Some More Reminders - A friend of mine asked me the other day how I reconcile my disbelief in free will with the very human need to do something, anything, to cope with, deal wi...
    1 year ago
  • Speaking Truth to Power
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  • The Vulgar Curmudgeon
    You Are One Step Away From The New Home Page - Hopefully I am all done moving around. You can find me OVER HERE NOW. Please update your blogrolls and bookmarks. It’s been one hell of a journey but I’m h...
    3 years ago
  • Question Everything
    Happy Summer Solstice, Goodbye and Thanks for All the Fish - The time has come to wind this blogging up. I had thought I would try the "rethinking everything" approach, but I've realized that blogging isn't a particu...
    4 years ago
  • Leaving Babylon
    Even Iran is laughing at us - So we have had ourselves a nasty little election. And the fix is in. It seems a bit tedious to recount all the, er, irregularities in certain states. The v...
    4 years ago
  • Granola Shotgun
    New Granola Shotgun Location - Granola Shotgun has moved to a new host platform. If I did this correctly (BIG if…) it can now be found via SquareSpace. The domain name remains the same. ...
    4 years ago
  • Openmind – A Buddhist Monastery Blog
    NEW BLOG “Neurotic Evolution” - Evolutionary Psychology The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, to...
    4 years ago
  • Mother Nature Network
    Forest products help power local economies - Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs help weather tough times.
    5 years ago
  • Into the Ruins
    The Future of Into the Ruins - The sun is streaming in through my living room window on this chilly but sunny day–the sort of day that always seems to show up at some point each February...
    5 years ago
  • The Foggy Shore
    The Edge of Functioning - “You need to record that. Right now.” my friend Betsy says with conviction. She has paused on the trail, so I pause and look at her. She understands. She k...
    5 years ago
  • Donal Fagan
    Tonto & Flike - I added the 1952 film, Umberto D, to my Youtube TV watch list months ago, and finally watched it last weekend, commercial-free thanks to TCM. The title cha...
    5 years ago
  • Tiny Yellow Teardrop
    The Sunflower Is For Sale - I have decided to sell my Tiny Yellow Teardrop. This is a sad day for me, but I have enjoyed my teardrop trailer for way over a decade and have had some am...
    5 years ago
  • 22 Billion Energy Slaves
    Prodigies of Peace - I’m not sure what to write about. I’ve been stuck in a kind of mental turmoil, my thoughts frozen on the event horizon of a black hole of catastrophe....
    6 years ago
  • Peak Energy
    Twilight In The Desert ? - Bloomberg reports that Matt Simmons may have been right after all - according to data released by Saudi Aramco the Ghawar field appears to have substantial...
    6 years ago
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    6 years ago
  • Piper Michael
    First Blood - First Blood Our heart goes out to Rep. Steve Scalise, and everybody else who’s become the first blood of what is rapidly becoming Civil War II. We have ar...
    7 years ago
  • Liberation Ecology
    April 20th @ Haverford College. Beyond the Grassroots: Participatory Ecology and Political Praxis - Very excited about this event next month. Please join us! Free, no registration required. Details below. Participatory ecology as movement. Grassroots move...
    7 years ago
  • HRBlock Talk
    IRS tax reform updates under the TCJA: Here’s what to expect - Editor’s Note: We’ll see new forms, updated forms, and some new processes as tax reform changes are implemented by the IRS. The IRS is working on impleme...
    7 years ago
  • TreeHugger
    How to take care of your hair this winter - During cold weather, doing less to your hair will benefit it more.
    7 years ago
  • 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 ...
    8 years ago
  • Permaculture Plus Houskeeping
    Table of Contents - Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something. Please check out o...
    8 years 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 ab...
    8 years 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...
    8 years ago
  • SurvivalChemistry4Preppers.org
    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...
    9 years ago
  • More Crows than Eagles
    Unnecessariat - I remember AIDS. I’m older than you probably think I am, and I remember what AIDS in America meant in the eighties, when William F. Buckley suggested all “...
    9 years ago
  • reflexiones finales
    Rebellious precrime - At Page 99 Test there is an interesting discusion about just what sort of training manuals should be allowed. Although the discussion in the post is abou...
    9 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...
    12 years ago
  • No More Fake News
    THE NAKED FEAR OF HEALTH FREEDOM - THE NAKED FEAR OF HEALTH FREEDOM by Jon Rappoport www.nomorefakenews.com In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s an election year… Usually, when politicians...
    12 years ago
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    Winner of a Medium Freeze Dryer - Congratulations to Charles I. from Kentucky! He is the winner of a medium Harvest Right freeze dryer! Want your chance to win? Enter our next giveaway HE...
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  • Holistic Management International
    Insights Generate Immediate Impact During Texas Grazing School - We’re excited to share the success of our recent 2-day grazing school on August 3rd & 4th, the first in a series of workshops funded by a grant awarded t...
    9 months ago
  • Will Falk
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  • ALL Power Labs
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    6 years ago
  • Pinetree Garden Seeds
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    6 years ago
  • Avian Aqua Miser
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  • Catvocate Blog - The NoBowl Feeding System™
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    8 years ago
  • Harris Seeds
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    9 years ago
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