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Is there a good collection of survival knowledge compiled somewhere? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a wide variety of topics. Feel free to call me crazy :)! But I would love any/all info regarding the following:

Self-sufficient farming and gardening techniques
Solar power installation and maintenance
Water collection and filtration methods
Off-grid food preservation options (canning, fermenting, dehydration)
Constructing and maintaining off-grid shelters (tiny homes, yurts, earthships)
Sustainable waste management practices
Home remedies and natural medicine for common ailments
Wild foraging and hunting skills
Basic wilderness survival skills (fire building, shelter construction, navigation)
Off-grid communication methods (shortwave radios, Morse code)
DIY appliances and tools for off-grid living
Sustainable living practices (permaculture, composting, recycling)
Essential off-grid kitchen equipment and cooking techniques
Emergency preparedness and disaster management
Financial planning and budgeting for off-grid living.

Please feel free to include any topics along those lines. I'm sure if you've read to this point you get where I'm going.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found this book to be a good start: https://www.howtoinventeverything.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I own this one, as well as Dartnell's The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch because I am a massive tech history nerd. (I'd love the idea of being able to survive a collapse but I'm too self-aware of my insufficient physical fitness for that, lol.)

Also for those who've not heard of the BBC series Connections, it's AWESOME. More useful for entertainment than as a reference, but the first episode literally explores the question "what would a single human have to do to survive if modern life suddenly became unavailable?" Here are all the episodes on Archive.org.