Category: Mutual-Aid

• 2026

  Foraging: Why “know local edibles” & “learn 5–10 safe, local edible plants and fungi” is a Darwin Award Lottery Ticket.

  Getting Foraging Wrong Can Be Lethal Because people get stuff wrong. Other foraging books/videos might not adequately differentiate between plants or give warnings; in fact, some social media foraging groups…
• 2026

  And those who prepare for danger are wise and prudent (Proverbs 22).

  Preppers used to be ridiculed — but we’re all stockpiling now The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t…
• 2026

  Collapse: An overused term that fails to describe the decline of great civilizations

  The Financial Times reported that heatwaves have impacted Europe’s potato crop: https://www.ft.com/content/8eda412f-caed-4b31-bdee-b76fc9f3ba82?syn-25a6b1a6=1 (Now a paywalled article) Iran: Drought & Over-Extraction of Water, Coupled with Accelerating Global Climate Heating, already written…
• 2026

  Survival Skills: The skills and knowledge that enable a deep connection to nature

  Rekindling your connection to nature may be the most rewarding thing you do in your lifetime; it offers lifelong learning in skills that bring you into close communication with plants…
• 2026

  Xylem Water Filtration: Plant-Based, Sustainable Water Filters Approved by MIT Engineers

  The Gold Standard: Settling, Filtration/Flocculation, Chemical Sterilisation (chlorine-based) and Boiling. Water filtration can be achieved with Xylem water filters, sustainably and without expensive equipment. MIT engineers have made filters from…
• 2026

  Water in the Ecological Crisis: A Dwindling Resource: Harvesting, Storage & Processing

  This post is an amalgamation of multiple posts from my Blogger blog published between 2020 and 2024 The climate and ecological crisis is also a water crisis. Here are some…