The Apartment Prepper’s Guide to Energy Independence
Here is a guide to building a discreet, space-efficient backup system designed specifically for apartment living.
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The Urban Off Grid Starter Kit for Apartment Dwellers
A simple guide to surviving short outages in small spaces
How to Store Power for a Weeklong Blackout
When the grid goes down, even for a few hours, most people realize how dependent they are on constant electricity.
But a weeklong blackout is a different challenge altogether.
Storing enough power to keep essentials running for seven days requires more than a few flashlights and batteries—it requires planning,
Could You Last a Week Without Power? A Realistic Self-Reliance Test
If the lights went out tonight and didn’t come back on for days — no grocery runs, no tap water, no deliveries — how long could you really make it on what’s already in your house?
Not what you plan to buy.
Not what’s on your Amazon wish list.
The Fourth Turning: Why We’re Living Through the Crisis Cycle — and How to Prepare for What Comes Next
What Is “The Fourth Turning”?
In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy — a book that argued that history moves not in a straight line, but in cycles of roughly 80 to 100 years, divided into four “turnings.”
Each turning represents a generational
Fuel for the Apocalypse: How to Source and Make Fuel When the Gas Pumps Stop Pumping
Today, we're tackling a topic that's straight out of a dystopian novel: what happens when the gas pumps run dry?
In a world where supply chains collapse, be it from natural disasters, societal breakdown, or that zombie apocalypse we've all joked about, fuel becomes
How Long Could You Survive on What’s in Your House Right Now? Take this Self-Test
If disaster struck today, power out, supply chains frozen, shelves bare, how long could you and your household really last with just what you have on hand?
Not what you plan to stock up on, not what you wish you had.
I mean right now.
This isn’t about fear,