Essential System #5 – First Aid Kit

August 31, 2006

...ld be included. We have copied this list (and added a few things) from the book Mountaineering The Freedom of the Hills. Adhesive bandages – six 1-inch Butterfly bandages – three, in various sizes Sterile gauze pads – four 4-inch b 4-inch Carlisle dressing or sanitary napkin – one 4-inch (note sanitary napkins are much cheaper and make excellent bandages and provide some low-brow humor potential to cheer up the patient who may find themselves with...

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Secure your Ride Part I

Mr. Homegrown

August 9, 2006

Bikes

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...or to the SurviveLA compound, Nicholas Sammond author of the award winning book Babes in Tomorrowland and a former NYC bike messenger back in the day. Now, many of our modern rides come with quick release levers so that folks can throw their bikes in the back of their Hummers and drive to the nearest bike path. Unfortunately these quick release levers make it real easy for crackheads out there to steal wheels for their daily fix. Comrade Nic sugge...

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Country Wisdom

Mr. Homegrown

November 18, 2006

Resources

...eLA augmented our homesteading library with a copy of the extremely useful book, Country Wisdom & Know-How by the editors of Storey Books. Country Wisdom is a compendium of tips culled from the Country Wisdom Bulletin published in the 1970s and oriented to the “back to the land” movement of that time. While geared to country living there is plenty in here for city dwellers such as ourselves. Divided into sections covering animals, cooking, crafts,...

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Free Introduction to Permaculture

Mr. Homegrown

January 11, 2007

Permaculture

...on and photographer Nigel Valdez will do a slide show and talk about their book Little House on a Small Planet. SurviveLA attended Khan’s introductory lecture last month and found it thought provoking and informative. Here is Khan’s description of this brief introductory talk: Using ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food, shelter, renewable energy and community. Permaculture is the perfect solution for creating sustainable l...

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Pee on your Compost

Mr. Homegrown

January 24, 2007

Composting

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...e application at a respectable interval before harvesting. There is even a book called Liquid Gold on the subject of pee as fertilizer and the ever more resourceful Europeans have developed a number of urine diverting flush toilets similar to the one we profiled earlier to take the labor out of urine saving. Perhaps the most convenient way to use urine is to simply pee on your compost pile. That way you don’t need to worry about saving it in a con...

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