Power Without the Grid – Historic Ways Cultures Worked, Built, and Produced Energy

The custom of shared family meals is common across most cultures. In all likelihood, our ancestors sat down together for shared meals as families, clans or tribes, before they could be called anatomically modern humans. Shared family meals are a universal and ancient tradition and one that has many benefits. It seems like elements of […]

There is a question that doesn’t get asked nearly enough in the prepping community, and honestly, the silence around it is a little unsettling. We spend a lot of time talking about gear lists, bug-out routes and survival protocols. Sure, all of that is valuable, and none of it is wasted effort, but somewhere along […]

A man can stretch food. He can sleep cold. He can work through pain. But when water turns bad, runs low, or disappears, the clock starts ticking fast. That truth was understood long before bottled water, electric pumps, and plastic filters. Native tribes, pioneer families, and Amish communities all survived by learning one lesson well: […]

If you are a student of survival, I probably don’t have to tell you how important the psychological aspects of survival are. In all but the briefest survival ordeals, most of those who die, do so because they gave up. Once a survivor loses the psychological battle, the loss of the physiological war soon follows. […]

A few weeks ago, Alec Deacon asked me to test the ArcShield 3000, and I went into it with the same question most preppers would have: Would this actually help my family during a real blackout? Not a quick power flicker. Not a comfortable camping weekend. I mean a real outage where the fridge is […]

When Plans Fall Apart Whether it’s a known threat, such as a natural disaster or a failed crop season or a Black Swan (an event that you failed to anticipate that harms you), resilience and antifragility are built through adaptation and trust in the process. It is a fact that things don’t always go as […]