The Functional Future
See summary parent article on short-term disaster resilience and prepping for other priorities. Financial resilience means financial diversification and is obviously a subset of resilience more generally. For a starter, download FEMA’s Emergency Financial First Aid Kit in which they discuss finding and safely storing documents, reviewing insurance policies, and a checklist to ensure you […]
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Our two boys were very excited to join the Cub/Boy Scouts. Because of their excitement and our desire as parents that they learn wilderness/outdoor/resilience skills, consistent with learning to thrive on one planet (see this brief post for the big picture of One Planet Thriving) that we urbanites couldn’t teach, we checked it out by
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Hopefully, we will gradually transition from the dysfunctional status quo to long-term thriving using the planet’s available resources (one planet thriving) through expert use of physical technologies (like alcohol, stirling engines, and rocket mass heaters) and social technologies. Storing food is part of preparing for relatively short-term disasters, one of 10 prepping priorities for short-term
“There’s no home like place” – L.W. Wofati (see also), earthship buildings, other earth-integrated structures (such as the Simon Dale Hobbit House or Tony Wrench’s roundhouse), prefab and professionally build hobbit homes, or open-source, earth brick buildings. Documentary on building codes relevant for building these and other unusual structures. Small is beautiful https://www.facebook.com/936abchobart/videos/10154974695824218/?inf_contact_key=46dfd55d707a26fb79930b746b5973a1386f55a852b6e69c1ab7b4d323c74c11 A picture is
Water & Resilience. Through a case-study of Troy Gardens Community Co-housing. Related post: Food; Filtering Water Summary: With 101,920 square feet of impermeable surface area, Troy can harvest about 1.8 M gallons of water (63% of the water we use). NOW: How much of the harvestable water can we actually store and use? Use depends
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For those who like to put things in context, read this short post covering the big picture of One Planet Thriving. The point of life is sustainable well-being: happiness, health, and long lives achieved in a way that can be sustained over multiple generations. That means we have to achieve our well-being while using only
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In consulting with Mandy and Ryan from withinreachmovie.com, they suggested we contact Robert Griffin as someone who had visited Tamera, a Peace Village in Portugal that seems like a very interesting model for community living. They also recommended Robert as someone who is easy to talk to, accessible, and who has some pretty deep and
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One of the best videos I’ve seen on the case for urgency for forming physical networks of people to provide each other with needs that will not be available in the depression that she believes is coming within the next few years. Here is the free version and here is the longer version with her
This post has been moved to a better, more complete version: Life Designers.
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Tamera, a peace-oriented ecovillage in Portugal, garnered an “Honorable Mention” (#3 of 150 proposals) in the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Tamera was started in 1995, but it was only the latest evolution of a conscious series of community experiments starting in 1978 and some of those experiments still continue as well (e.g., ZEGG in Germany). It
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