A couple of weeks ago I looked out our living room window at smoke billowing up from trees, a couple of miles away, at the base of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in Colorado. Two miles suddenly seemed pretty...

>Here is the link to a free ebook I just wrote. It is titled: Emergency Water Storage at Home: Why, How, How Much Water, and at What Cost? It is a PDF file. If you just click on the link, it will open in a...

Our water storage shares the bottom of the kitchen pantry with our cardboard recycling. Home water storage is one of those good ideas for just-in-case. If your water suddenly wasn’t coming in the...

Has the power gone out at your place in the past year? Are you more or less prepared for being without electricity for a while? I’ve got five tips. With the power grid vulnerable to a variety of events,...