Livin' Simple in a Complicated World

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How and what to stockpile in your pantry…

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Consumer’s Guide: Preparing an Emergency Food Supply Long Term Food Storage

This is a very nice page detailing the nutritonal requirements of an emergency food store, and provides information on what to rotate out and at what rate.

Consider stocking some…

Well-intentioned governmental stupidity.

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I’m currently working on job building a new library. It’s a state of the art, modern-day “green” masterpiece. The lighting in this place runs off of 277V to reduce I2R losses. I personally don’t think there’d be that much of…

John Seymour on local economics and self-sufficiency

Friday, November 14th, 2008

From the introduction to “The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It”

Unless we come from a race of traveling people, we are all pretty much “locals.” We live somewhere, and what goes on in the locality of where we…

Evil utility companies and their tips to save you money…

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Alliant Energy has a very nice page full of tips on reducing your energy consumption.

Nothing else to say about it, just found it interesting and thought I’d pass it along!

Good advice.

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

From reviewjournal.com:

My wife, who has never had the faintest interest in ham radio, decided she wanted to learn Morse code herself. She turned to the Internet and printed out the dots and dashes that make up the nearly anachronistic…

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