Entries Tagged as 'survivalism'

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Clever Garage Storage

via alpharubicon.com Clever storage solution via rightc0ast. Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Vertical Gardens, Grown on Walls

via nytimes.com These days, Mr. Riley’s project isn’t that unusual. Vertical gardens — which began as an experiment in 1988 by Patrick Blanc, a French botanist intent on creating a garden without dirt — are becoming increasingly popular at home. Avid and aspiring gardeners, frustrated with little outdoor space, are taking another look at their [...]

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish and Circulating Water

via nytimes.com “THERE’S a “Beyond Thunderdome” quality to Rob Torcellini’s greenhouse. The 10-by-12-foot structure is undistinguished on the outside: he built it from a $700 kit, alongside his family’s Victorian-style farmhouse in Eastford, Conn., a former farming town 35 miles east of Hartford. What is going on inside, however, is either a glimpse at the [...]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Macrame for Survivalists

Macrame for Survivalists For example, learn how to make a utility belt that with one flip and a pull, turns into a safety/escape/rescue rope: Via flutterby.

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Opinions of MGI MARCK-15 modular AR-15?

[crossposted to guns] MGI MARCK-15 Modular Weapons System (pdf) manufactured by MGI military ? I’m interested in the gun from a emergency preparedness perspective. With the appropriate mag wells and barrels, the gun can currently accept the following magazines: 5.56 x 45 AR-15 7.62×39 AK-47 9 mm Colt style or the traditionally modified Uzi style [...]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Not so safe deposit boxes

Not-So-Safe-Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizens’ Property to Balance Their Budgets Resources to Search for Unclaimed Property in Your Name By ELISABETH LEAMY May 12, 2008 — The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they’re supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a “Good Morning America” investigation found [...]