Emergency Preparedness

How To Survive An Emergency

Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Guest Post by Matthew Stein, P.E., Author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency In l...

Ice Storm War Zone in Kentucky

Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living


Mary Lou Song

Arkansas and Kentucky were hit the hardest in a recent ice storm, and AnneB, a Kentucky resident, described how people were surviving in an icy Bluegrass State.

Revelations In The Midst Of The Mid Moderate 5.4 Los Angeles Earthquake

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living


Stacie Krajchir

I did scan all news sites seconds after the earthquake, just to see who would be the fastest to file a report -- it took close to 15 minutes to even see anything appear online!

The New Survivalism

New York Times | Alex Williams | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living


THE traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned g...