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Sacred Order of Survival (4 elements)
1. Shelter- to protect you against hyperthermia or hypothermia, which can be very debilitating. (days till needed: 1)
2. Water-it's core to our being.(days till needed: 2-4)
3. Fire- to purify water and warmth (days till needed: varies)
4. Food- kinda obvious.(weeks till needed: 2-4)
*This is the general order of importance, in some situations it may need to be rearranged.
Attitude is important, be cool.
Important knowledge to have:
A. Plant and Tree identification, use, preparation,etc.
B. Stone Tools - how to make and use them.
C. Fire - know the woods and become proficient at this skill.
D. Landscape - geology, geography, history, etc.
The Survival Skills info. is based on Tom Brown Jr.'s stuff, you can look for his books. Also, you can check out Prairie Wolf for resources.
Beyond Vegetarianism "Transcending outdated dogmas." Reports from veterans of vegetarian and raw-food diets, veganism, fruitarianism, and instinctive eating, plus new science from paleolithic diet research and clinical nutrition.
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Food Insects Newsletter
Article on Insect Nutrition
Links to More Insect Eating Pages
One can also search the internet or check out books in the Library for Edible Wild Plants. The Plants For a Future database is a good start, see below.
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- great site on the global trends in agriculture, genetic engineering and what you can do about
it.
Ask your local library to carry the books listed as merchandice.
- Welldone.
Excellent database. It's features some great essays like
The Garden of Love: A visit to
Robert Hart's Forest Garden, Why Perennials?,
Vegan-Organics - The Basic
Principles, and many others. A great links section.
Edited Version Of The Permaculture Community by Bill Mollison.
The Suburban Lawn by Bill Mollison. On the waste of the American lawn and what to do about it.
The Phantom Treeplanters' Manifesto
Agrigarians and Hunter/Gathers are they compatable - An interesting Discussion that took place on the KKA boards.
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Always look to the shelters of the indigenous peoples from the area that you live. They have created some excellent shelters that work really well, are free, and sustainable.
Cob - it's an essay about cob (earthen housing), it has a critique of the current constuction
and housing industry.
Cob Cottage Company
Cob Builders Handbook by Becky Bee
Squatting - Do it!
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Viva Sasé: Tierra y Libertad - Reports from the squatted village in Spain
Occupy, Resist, Produce: Brasil's Landless Peasants - Movimento Sem Terra
For those of you all that for whatever reason still choose to live in an urban area and pay rent, you can get "off the grid" to reduce the destructive effects of techno-urban living. Don't pay for electricity, water, gas or any utilities. Electricity generally comes from burning coal or oil or using uranium, which adds to ozone depletion. Water is pumped from some ecosystem dirupting the established balance killing creatures. Utilities can also be pirated. Some reading and perhaps a class or so at a local college will give you the knowlege needed. This way your at least are not financially supporting an earth destroying company.
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Mass production of clothing by techno-industrial means will not last forever so it may be of value to aquire the skills of primitive cloth making. Again, look to the earth-based cultures of the region that you wish to inhabit.
Second hand clothes can be obtained without pissing away money into the megamachine (see Steal This Book- good old yippe stuff. A survival guide for the prison that is the system. Mostly urban stuff. Some of it is dated.)
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If you really would like to keep things simple just make your deposites at the bottom of a tree after clearing away the mulch layer, clean up with leaves/moss/etc. then cover your gift of fertility with the mulch that was brushed aside.
Amongst the Ojibewa, the act of defecation is considered a gifting to the earth, a return of what was taken. By using conventional toilets you not only cause environmental destruction but break the cycle of gifting. To many earth-based cultures, using a toilet is a sign of being colonized and alienated from the earth, no longer native.
A Place to Gather
It is important for us to have places in every city or town throughout the country to come together and meet face to face, to develop affinity and community. Examples of places to meet could be at a cafe, a community center, in a park, etc. Here's an idea: a meeting place at a public park is set up for once a week. Make it a potluck where people can bring food (stolen, dumpstered, homegrown, forraged) and come together to eat and share. People could also bring literature to distribute and you can hold workshops and discussions. People could write letters to prisoners, give news updates, and plan actions.
I prefer the park setting because of its non-commercial aspects, which are usually present at places like cafes (you're expected to buy something in most cases). It's also outdoors.
An interesting article worth reading: Where Do we Meet, Face to Face?
Traveling
Free Travel - Some of this links info is dated.
DIY Health Center
A space could be created for people to come together to share knowledge and treatement on various methods of healing like the use of herbs, massage, etc. Trips could be organized to identify local medicinal plants in the wilds where then can be harvested and prepared.
General Do it Yourself (DIY) Sites:
Steward Community Woodland 'How To' guides
(De)classifieds Ideas and actions.
Other Stuff
Critical Mass is a project wherein people in places all over the world gather once a month to ride their bikes through the streets, showing that bike-riders ARE traffic (in the positive sense) and that bicycling is a viable alternative to expensive, petroleum-dependent (with all the ramifications thereof), pollution-creating cars and car culture. (Critical Ass is a hilarious version of the same activity, wherein everything is the same except that the riders are naked. Sometimes Critical Mass bike rides have a Critical Ass section within them. Critical Ass challenges the dominant culture's fear of, alienation from, and revulsion towards the body, and all that goes along with that.)
Graffiti and Wheatpasting (a.k.a. reclamation and redecoration of public space): Wheat Team