I don’t think I’m yet convinced that in the UK we need to worry too much about being prepared for disasters. However, I found these articles interesting and worthy of ‘bookmarking’ to consider later. 100 Items to Disappear First “From a Sarajevo War Survivor” 1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy…target of
An impressive achievement with their water supply system (from 2009)
A background to survivalism and going off-grid – some of it rather depressing Environmental catastrophe, economic collapse, global pandemic … does it feel like the world is ending? If you think Armageddon is near and are trying to get ready, you are not alone. National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Preppers – a reality TV series that
And about time! French oil major Total confirmed on Monday that it had stopped all production of coal as of last week after the South African government approved the sale of its coal mining operations there. “We cannot claim to be providing solutions to climate change while continuing to produce or market coal, the fossil
Bring it on! The energy storage market is set to soar, predicts Navigant Research. How big will the market become? According to Navigant, we can expect market revenue of nearly $75 billion for energy storage enabling technologies from 2015 to 2024: Energy Storage Enabling Technologies Revenue is Expected to Total Nearly $75 Billion from 2015
An overview of the US prepping movement from 2012 Meet the preppers, a rattled, robust survivalist movement whose members just hate being called survivalists. Emily Matchar investigates the 21st century’s wildest new apocalyptic scene. BEING PREPARED is just the sensible thing to do, Scott Hunt tells me. Power outage? Superstorm? Nuclear attack? He’ll be ready.
A view on Prepping from April 2014 While channel surfing a little while back, I stumbled across the National Geographic channel’s show Doomsday Preppers which follows people who have essentially made a lifestyle of preparing for what they believe is going to be a catastrophic disaster that will lead to the end of civilization as
An interesting analogy: the earth’s resources as a battery running down In the quiet of summer, a couple of U.S. scientists argued in the pages of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that modern civilization has drained the Earth — an ancient battery of stored chemical energy — to a dangerous low. Although
Two renowned scientists—Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich and UC-Berkeley’s John Harte — argue that feeding the planet goes way beyond food. Revolutionary political, economic and social shifts are necessary to avoid unprecedented chaos. How do you make sure billions of people around the world have access to food? You start a revolution. At least that’s what two
A look back at November 2012 Brian Shebairo, the owner of hipster hot dog haven Crif Dogs in Manhattan’s East Village, just made it through Hurricane Sandy’s devastating power outage without closing down. Now he’s sitting on 210 gallons of gas — during a quasi-apocalyptic fuel shortage — in anticipation of another looming crisis: the
