Archive for the 'Emergency Preparedness' Category
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- 200 Things: Family |
Posted by e4 on Feb 09 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Talk to your older kids about sex, birth control, responsibility, your values and what you expect of them. Have this conversation early and often, and combine it with a discussion of peak oil, so that they can understand what the implications of early sexual activity ...
- 200 Things: Home |
Posted by e4 on Feb 06 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** If you live in a place where it gets hot in the summer, consider building a screen room (a room with screened windows all around or almost always around), either attached to your house or separate. You can put a wood cookstove in the screenroom ...
- 200 Things: Fall |
Posted by e4 on Feb 04 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Simple, cheap insulating strategies (window quilts and blankets, draft stoppers, etc...) are easily made from cheap or free materials - goodwill, for example, often has jeans, tshirts and shrunken wool sweaters, of quality too poor to sell, that can be used for quilting material and ...
- 200 Things: Spring |
Posted by e4 on Jan 30 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Rethink your seed starting regimen. How will you do it without potting soil, grow lights and warming mats. Consider creating manure heated hotbeds, using your own compost, building a greenhouse, or coldframe, direct seeding early versions of transplanted crops, etc... **** Your local feed store has chicks ...
- 200 Things: Winter |
Posted by e4 on Jan 27 2008
By Sharon Astyk. Reprinted with permission. **** Your local adult education program almost certainly has something useful to teach you - woodworking, crocheting, music training, horseback riding, CPR, herbalism, vegetarian cookery... take advantage of people who want to teach their skills **** Get serious about land use planning - even if you live in ...