Someday the grid might go down and if so, our way of life will drastically change. All of those ebooks and websites that we use for reference will be gone. Sure you can limp along on a mobile device or laptop by using a generator or solar powered recharging, but sooner or later electronics will fail. The decision needs to ...

Sanitation. We all know about it, but no one really wants to talk about it. We eat, we use the energy, we excrete the wastes. “Ewwww gross”, trust me, I have children, I am painfully aware that this is gross. We really need to discuss our Grid Down Sanitation Plan.

If the grid goes down and suddenly there is no electricity, no natural gas and no water coming into your home, what will you do? How much thought and planning have you given to surviving without the Grid?

In the wild you have to make due with what you can find around you. On this trip I found items that allowed me to make a bushcraft slingshot.

A man who knows something about survival, explains that his training did not make him indestructible, but taught him to recognize his limitations and compensate for them, using survival of the mind.