Online Resources
(in English unless otherwise indicated)
www.ecologiste.org (French)
www.peakoil.net
www.energywatchgroup.org (German & English)
www.odac-info.org
www.ihs.com
www.energyinsights.net
www.worldenergyoutlook.org
www.cleanbreak.ca
www.grinningplanet.com
www.petroleum-economist.com
www.fao.org
www.dieoff.com
www.resilience.org
www.energybulletin.net
www.theoildrum.com
www.transitiontowns.org
www.postcarbon.org
www.urbandanger.com
www.wfad.org
www.forum-monetaire.com (French with some articles in English)
www.chrismortenson.com
www.lastoilshock.com
www.caseyresearch.com
www.asc-cybernetics.org
www.green-energy-news.com
www.foet.org
www.undp.org
www.worldbank.org
us.fsc.org
www.oxfam.org
www.jovanovic.com/blog (French)
www.collapsenet.net
Section 2
Collapse Theory
English
Chamberlain, Shaun, The Transition Timeline: For a Local, Resilient Future, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009.
Deffeyes, Kenneth S., Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak, Hill and Wang, 2006.
Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Viking, 2004.
Doucet, Clive, Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, New Society Publishers, 2007.
Greer, John Michael, The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, New Society Publishers, 2008.
Heinberg, Richard, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, New Society Publishers, 2005.
Hopkins, Rob, The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Vintage, 1989.
Klein, Naomi, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador, 2008.
Kunstler, James Howard, The Long Emergency—Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 20th Century, Grove Press, 2006.
Murphy, Pat, Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change, 2008.
Orlov, Dmitry, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects, Rev. Ed., New Society Publishers, 2011.
Ruppert, Michael C., Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, New Society Publishers, 2004.
Stein, Matthew, When Technology Fails: A Manuel for Self-Relience, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency, 2nd ed., Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
Tainter, Joseph, The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Taylor, Graeme, Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of our World, New Society Publishers, 2008.
Worth, Kenneth D., Peak Oil and the Second Great Depression (2010-2030): A Survival Guide for Investors and Savers After Peak Oil, Outskirts Press, 2010.
French
Drac, Michel, Eurocalypse, Le Retour aux Sources, 2009.
Supplemental
Hermann Huppen, Jeremiah (comic book series), Glénat, 1979-2003. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_(comics).
Jericho (television series), CBS Paramount, 2006-2008. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(TV_series).
Survivors (television series), British Broadcasting Corporation, 2008-2010. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(2008_TV_series).
Sections 3 and 4
Survivalism
English
Bridgewater, Alan and Bridgewater, Gill, The Self-Sufficiency Handbook, Skyhorse Publishing, 2007.
Department of Defense, U.S. Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76, CreateSpace, 2011.
Gonzales, Laurence, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Norton, 2005.
McNab, Chris, How to Survive Anything, Anywhere: A Handbook of Survival Skills for Every Scenario and Environment, McGraw & Hill, 2004.
____, Special Forces Survival Guide: Wilderness Survival Skills from the World’s Most Elite Military Units, Ulysses Press, 2008.
Rawles, James Wesley, How to Survive the End of the World As We Know It, Plume, 2009.
Wiseman, James, SAS Survival Handbook, Collins, 2009.
French
Allègre, Jade, Survivre en ville... quand tout s’arrêt!, 2nd ed., 2005.
Ayoub et al., G5G: déclaration de guerre, Éditions Le Retour aux Sources, 2010.
Bachman, Albert and Grosjean, Georges, Défense civile, Éditions Miles, Aarau, 1969.
Le Brun, Dominique, Manuel de survie, France Loisirs, 1988.
Maniquet, Xavier, Survivre: comment vaincre en milieu hostile, Albin Michel, 1988.
Provencher, Paul, Vivre en forêt, Les Éditions de l’Homme, 1973.
Rabhi, Pierre, Manifeste pour la terre et l’humanisme, Actes Sud, 2008.
____, Vers la sobriété heureuse, Actes Sud, 2010.
Tyrode et al., Manuel de survie face aux attentats et catastrophes naturelles ou industrielles, Albin Michel, 2002.
German
Nehberg, Rüdiger, Survival-Lexikon, Piper, 2000.
Von Lichtenfels, Karl Leopold, Lexikon des Überlebens: Handbuch für Krisenzeiten, Anaconda, 2006.
Italian
Bertuccini, Ivan, Sopravvivenza estrema : guida al piano B, Macro Edizioni, 2010.
Maolucci et al., Surviving : istruzioni de sopravvivenza individuale e di gruppo, Hoepli, 2010.
Online Resources
www.survivalblog.com
www.terravivos.com
www.self-sufficiency.net
www.carninglipress.co.uk
Water, Water filters, Cisterns, etc.
Online Resources
www.survivalunlimited.com/waterfilter.htm
www.katadyn.com
www.bigberkey.com
www.steripen.com
www.crystalquest.com
www.seychelle.com
www.buglogical.com
Water, Plants, Agriculture, and Animal Husbandry
English
Ashworth, Suzanne, Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetables Gardens, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002.
Chioffi, Nancy and Mead, Gretchen, Keeping the Harvest: Discover the Homegrown Goodness of Putting Up Your Own Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs, Storey Publishing, 1976.
Emery, Carla, The Encyclopedia of Country Living: The Original Manuel for Living Off the Land and Doing It Yourself, Sasquatch Books, 1994.
Kindersley, Dorling, The New Self-Sufficient Gardener, Dorling Kindersley, 2008.
Klein, Carol, Grow Your Own Garden, BBC Books, 2010.
Layton, Peggy, Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook, Clarkson Potter, 2002.
Logsdon, Gene, Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers, 2nd ed. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009.
Seymour, John, The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency, Dorling Kindersley, 2003.
Solomon, Steve, Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food In Hard Times, New Society Publishers, 2009.
Strawbridge, Dick, Practical Self-Sufficiency, Dorling Kindersley, 2010.
French
De Boivert, Clotilde, La cuisine des plantes sauvage, Dargaud, 1984.
Gerbault, Snezana, Jardins et potagers de montagne, Éditions du Rouergue, 2011.
LeConte, Yves, Le traité rustica de l’apiculture, Éditions Rustica, 2006.
Renaud, Victor, Le traité rustica du potager, Éditions Rustica, 2007.
Thun, Maria, Pratiquer la bio-dynamie au jardin: rythmes cosmiques et préparations bio-dynamiques, Mouvement de Culture Bio-Dynamique, 2005.
Online Resources
English
permaculture.com
norseco.com (with French)
French
www.multiroir.com
www.multibac.com
www.ocongel.com
www.sobek-france.com
www.aideauxmontagnards.ch
www.eglisedejesuschrist.fr
www.eglisedejesuschrist.be
www.eglise-de-jesus-christ.ch
www.prospeciarara.ch (with German and Italian)
www.terre-humanisme.fr
www.bassins-et-jardins.com
www.afloredeau.fr
www.biogarten.ch (with German)
German
www.ettima.ch
www.hm-spoerri.ch
www.fsamasch.ch
www.discount.ch
Hygiene, Medicine, and Health
English
Craig, Glenn C., U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Handbook, Paladin Press, 1988.
Dickson, Murray, Where There Is No Dentist, Hesperian Foundation, 1983.
Doyle, Gerard, Where There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Health Care in Challenging Times, Process Media, 2010.
Werner, David, Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook, Rev. ed. Hesperion Foundation, 1992.
United States Army, 68W Advanced Field Craft: Combat Medic Skills, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010.
United States Army, NATO Manual on Emergency War Surgery, Desert Publications, 1992.
French
Brunner et al., Guide de soins infirmiers médicine et chirurgie, Éditions de Boeck, 1998.
Druais, Pierre-Louis and Gay, Bernard, Médecine générale, Éditions Masson, 2009.
Energy
English
Degunther, Rik, Solar Power Your Home for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, 2008.
Thorne Amann et al., Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, 9th ed., New Society Publishing, 2007.
Woofenden, Ian, Wind Power for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, 2009.
French
Dubois-Pressof, Marie-Pierre, Une maison écologique et économe, Massin Éditions, 2009.
Fouin, Julien, Construire sa maison écologique zéro énergie de A à Z, Marabout Éditions, 2010.
Internet Links
English
www.all-battery.com
www.mobilesolarpower.net
www.iland-solar.com
www.aceee.org
www.eceee.org
www.energystar.gov
www.p3international.com
www.wattsupmeters.com
www.brandelectronics.com
www.solarenergy.org
www.greenpowerscience.com
www.cleanenergy.com
French
www.websolaire.com
www.espaceampoules.fr
www.blueenergy.fr (with English)
German
www.magnet-motor.de (with English)
www.bsrsolar.de (with English)
Self-Defense, Tactics, and Combat
English
Grossman, Don Mann David, The Modern Day Gunslinger: The Ultimate Handgun Training Manual, Skyhorse Publishing, 2010.
Suarez, Gabriel, The Tactical Shotgun: The Best Techniques and Tactics for Employing the Shotgun in Personal Combat, Paladin Press, 1996.
DVDs from Magpul Dynamic
The Art of the Dynamic Shotgun
The Art of the Tactical Carbine, Vols. 1 & 2
The Art of the Dynamic Handgun
French
Baeriswyl, Alain and Perottie, Phillipe, L’Instruction du tir, NDS, 2006.
Francard, Loup and Piroth, Christian, Émeutes, terrorisme, guérilla...violence at contre-violence en zone urbaine, Éditions Economica, 2010.
Habersetzer, Roland, Tir d’action à l’arme de poing, Éditions Amphora, 2009.
Malfatti, René, Manuel de rechargement, Éditions Crépin-Leblond, 2004.
Morel, Guillaume and Bouammache, Frédéric, Protegor: guide pratique de scurit personelle, self-defense et survie urbaine, Éditions Amphora, 2008.
Perotti, Philipe, Tir de combat au fusil d’assault, NDS, 2003.
____, Le sniping de 4e génération, NDS, 2008.
____, Instruction de base au pistolet, NDS, 2003.
____, Tireur d’élite, NDS, 2005.
Perotti et al., Techniques d’action immédiate, NDS, 2004.
Perrin, Fred, Combats à l’arme blanche, NDS, 2005.
Online Resources
English
www.michiganknives.com
www.knifecenter.com
www.511tactical.com
www.arcteryx.com
www.blackhawk.com
www.bladecraft.com
www.bauer.com
www.steinbrucke.org/site/index.php?lang=en&page=training
www.chiefsupply.com
www.eagleindustries.com
www.galls.com
www.hatch-corp.com
www.newgraham.com
www.odlo.com
www.ortliebusa.com
www.orgear.com
www.petzl.com
www.surefire.com
www.szaboinc.com
www.usmkpro.com
www.uscav.com
French
www.lagardere.ch
www.armes-cornet.com
www.armurie-delattre.com
www.armurie-delmotte.be
www.armuriecarpentier.com
www.armurie-croixrousse.fr
www.armes-occasion.com
www.larquebusier.com
www.nantesarmes.fr
www.gatimel-armurier.com
www.expe.fr
www.unique-fmr.com
www.france-securite.com
www.generalarmystore.fr
www.gkprod.com (with English)
www.matiex-armurie.com
www.omega-ic.com (with English)
www.tir1000.com
www.protegor.net
www.feulibre.com
www.chassons.com
German
www.gunfactory.ch
kurse.ballenbergkurse.ch
www.armystore.ch
The Social Bond and Communal Life
Estill, Lyle, Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy, New Society Publishers, 2008.
Lerch, Daniel, Post-Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty, Post Carbon Press, 2008.
Online Resources
www.maweb.ch (German)
Appendices
72-hour Survival Kit
This list describes the contents of a 72-Hour Survival Kit (“Bug out Bag”) for a family. Such a kit must be easy to access (so do not store it in the basement or the attic, etc.) and stored in a bag that is easy to transport (backpack or sporting bag). You can customize the contents—there are many videos on YouTube outlining different approaches—but, at the very least, it should include the following:
Food and Water (per person)
Water bottles—1 gallon
Dehydrated Meals or MREs (Meals Ready to Eat)—3
Dark chocolate or cereal bars—6 units
Broth cubes
Clothing (per person)
Underwear—1
Thermal blanket and ordinary blanket—1
Shoes and socks—1 pair each
Trousers, wind-breaker, gloves and hat—1
T-shirts—2
Medical Kit
Roll of homeostatic bandages
Scissors
Headache tablets
Anti-diarrhea tablets
Compress bandage
Disinfectant (chlorhexadine)
Band-aids.
Hygiene
Toothbrush—1 per person
Toothpaste—1
Soap bar—1
Disposable razor—1
Tampons—1
Tissues—1
Water filter—1
Water purification pills—1
Tools
Pocket lamp with extra batteries
F
olding shovel
Camp axe
Multi-tool with tweezers and knife blade
(e.g. Leatherman, Victorinox).
Others
Plastic tarpaulin
Paracord 550—10m / 33 feet
Matches (wrapped or in a sealed container)
Lighter
Candles
Aluminum cup
Forks and spoons
Aluminum plates—1 per person
Identity papers (e.g. Passport etc.)
Copies of property titles
Vaccination history
Outdoor survival manual
Writing materials (paper, soft pencil, ballpoint pen, marker, chalk, etc.)
Scotch© and duct tape
Re-sealable bags (of the Ziplock© type)
Garbage bags 40/60 liters (10/16 gallons)—1-3
Aluminum foil sheets
Signaling mirror
Luminescent stick
Compass
Charged battery or battery charger for your cell phone
Road map
Cash in small denominations
Insect spray
Sewing kit (needle and thread).
Auxiliary Items
These can be stored, but you should be ready to take them with you when you depart for your SAB.
Camping material (sleeping bags, tent)
Roll of aluminum foil
Roll of plastic food wrap
Bath towel
Moist toilet wipes
Small gas heater
Shovel
Foods to Stock
Type
Unit
Per person, per month
Shelf Life
Pasta
2.2 lbs.
10
30+ years
Canned fish
2.2 lbs.
2
10 years
Canned meat
2.2 lbs.
2
10 years
Canned vegetables
2.2 lbs.
15
10-15 years
Canned fruit
2.2 lbs.
5
10-15 years
Legumes
2.2 lbs.
4
30+ years
Flour
2.2 lbs.
8
3 years
Nuts (bagged)
1.1 lbs.
1
3-5 years
Oil
1 quart
1
3-5 years
Potatoes
2.2 lbs.
4
1-2 years
Rice
2.2 lbs.
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