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When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency | |||||||
 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-08-18 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 493 Ean: 9781933392455 Book Isbn: 1933392452  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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There’s never been a better time to “be prepared.” Matthew Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills—from food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skills—prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live “green” in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe.When Technology Fails covers the gamut. You’ll learn how to start a fire and keep warm if you’ve been left temporarily homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home or business. You’ll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. You’ll learn alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era of profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity. Each chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials) offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good times and bad.Fully revised and expanded—the first edition was written pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of social disruption seriously—When Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on "Making the Shift to Sustainability," which offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal, community and global levels. |
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 Written on June 9, 2007 Summary: An old Boy Scout manual is more effective I saw a copy at my local library, and, like the Whole Earth Catalog, it contained a whole lot of stuff not related to survival--unless you count SOUL survival. Isn't that what the bible was written for? As someone who married a Boy Scout, preparedness is always top priority around here. I found my brother's old 70's field manual to be more helpful than anything else available (I stress OLD because new ones rely on pre-manufactured things like tents, sleeping bags, dried foods, etc.). Just what is a 2007 Boy Scout supposed to do in a TRUE emergency without access to those things? An old manual would have the answers--how to build shelter, hunt/prepare/store food, leave signs and trails, and how to disappear when needed--and how to do these things FROM SCRATCH! I, for one, don't see the need to buy this book. Like new Boy Scout manuals, it relies too much on the purchase of commercial items to "prepare". It's a Sears catalog for hippies.  Written on January 8, 2007 Summary: Got it at the library. Amazon kept me hanging for months promising a book they never delivered. I finally got it at the local library.  Written on March 16, 2006 Summary: Great guide for anyone interested in learning survival skills! This is a comprehensive guide for anyone who wishes to learn a little or a lot about survival. It offers advice for preparing for everthing from minor disruptions in power to disaster preparedness to wilderness survival. Especially useful if you are aware of the impending fossil fuels crisis and want to arm yourself and/or your family with basic skills many of us don't know or have forgotten. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Written on February 25, 2006 Summary: When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival Excellent book for a wide range of topics related to survival. If you have read other survival books this one is more geared to pre-preperation and survival on a homefront or fixed location rather than finding yourself in a survival situation while traveling. However much of the information is usuable in a variety of situations and it appears more up to date than others. It also has plenty of info for use in non emergency/survival situation such as gardening and alternative energy generation etc... Written on December 29, 2005 Summary: Good information, not all is practical or needed There is a lot of good information in this book, especially good are the reference and resource areas and websites the author includes. With that said, I found a lot of stuff that simply wasn't practical or necessary to have. Some questions I have after reading it are: Where would the average person store that roughly 1200 lbs of grain, 240 lbs of legumes, 200 lbs of dairy, etc, etc. needed for a family of 4 to survive a year? And what would you do at the end of the year when you had eaten all your food? Also the average uban dweller probably isn't likely to be able to drill their own well for drinking water. And what about your neighbors? Is it really practical to expect that they would let you eat drink and be merry while the whole village starved? Some of the things the author lists for survival also seem ridiculous. How about the condom that you can put in a sock to create a water bottle. Why not just keep a couple water bottles around? He lists a compass and matches and candles. Unless you are planning to do hiking in previously unnavigated areas, the compass seems not necessary. Candles and matches! I live in South Florida where we get a lot of power outages from hurricanes- the last one left us without electricity for two weeks. My best suggestion is a couple really good flash lights (battery powered and solar) and some solar lanterns and stock up on those batteries. I couldn't decide if this book was for the end of the world, a nuclear attack, or a beginning primer to for the end of fossil fuels. This book seemed more like a hodge podge of other more succinct works giving the most extreme examples. Since we aren't at the end of the world yet, there are lots of ways to reduce your personal dependence on the modern electrical grid. If we all do this collectively, then a manual like this becomes less necessary. Buy compact fluorescent light bulbs- 1/4 the energy usage- lasts 10x as long. Get a tankless water heater or one that is solar powered. Turn off your lights and unplug your appliances when you aren't using them. Buy appliances that have an energystar rating. Plant some trees- they will give you shade and soak up some of that carbon modern societies love to emit. Plant some vegetables. Compost & buy a rain catcher for plant irrigation. Recycle everything! Buy a hybrid car. Plan your shopping excursions to maximize your time out driving. ETC, ETC. And most importantly demand an energy policy that works from your elected officials! You can also buy those appliances that won't leave you stranded if there is an extended outage. Solar cookers, gas grills, solar refrigerators, and like I noted earlier the flash lights and solar lanterns. Stock up on some water and non perishible items if you live in a place that gets hit with hurricanes. So, in sum, while this book gives a lot of good advice, its not very concise and also gives you a lot of info that you won't likely need. |
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| Release date | 2008-08-18 | 2002-04 | 2006-04-01 | 2002-10-22 | 2007-09-20 | 2003-03-17 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 493 | 320 | 360 | 304 | 450 | 312 |
| Ean | 9781933392455 | 9780936348070 | 9780865715530 | 9780761563679 | 9781423601050 | 9780789493323 |
| Book Isbn | 1933392452 | 0936348070 | 086571553X | 0761563679 | 142360105X | 0789493322 |
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