Reddit reviews When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, 2nd Edition

I'd going to answer in two posts here, this one will link stuff to websites or amazon for physical books. The other will be more discussion based. (e.g. this is just a raw data dump.)

I have used some google foo and I'm willing to post links, note that many of these will overlap (that is they have the same free PDFs or HTML pages etc.) Others are a bit further out there, e.g. magnetic pole reversal etc.

You get the point though people compiled whatever they though the world might need after aliens, the clintons took your guns, or trump and putin nuke everybody, global warming, plague, etc. Since it takes a massive amount of work to put these together and most people are not dedicated enough to do so, they all have the flavor of whatever the person building them thought was most important.

Here is a list, use from it what you can. Including in the list are things like RACHEL, hardware hotspot for wifi that any computer can connect to, like a library box or pirate box. Many of these resources are focused on and in use in 3^rd world nations. things like the one laptop per child might be a perfect resource to allow some technology designed cheaply but ruggedly to have to access this stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD3WD

https://worldpossible.org/rachel

http://librarybox.us/

http://one.laptop.org/

http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM

cd3wd torrent magnet link. 2012 version

dropbox link for torrent files for the above if the magnet or trackers aren't working.

http://oer2go.org/

Pole shift library magnet link

Need 55 gigs of wikipedia offline? get it at this link

http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/borden/Portlet.aspx?ID=cb88853d-5b33-4b3f-968c-2cd95f7b7809

http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/

https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061992860

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452295831

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570618402

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933392452

https://graywolfsurvival.com/3083/documents-need-bugout-bag/

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

Sounds like When Technology Fails. It talks about making shampoo, snares, and LOTS of other stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/When-Technology-Fails-Self-Reliance-Sustainability/dp/1933392452

Back to Basics covers a lot of it. This is a great book because it starts with selecting the land for your cabin, follows through on how to build the cabin, and then right through stuff like how to forge your own tools, stock your own food and make your own clothes. It's practically a field guide on how to start from scratch.

When Technology Fails is also a pretty substantial resource. I haven't finished reading it yet, so I can't really say much about it.

Not all books, but if I had to choose only 5, these would be them:

• "Possum Living" by Dolly Freed (living very cheaply)
  
• Botany in a Day (pattern method of plant identification)
  
• Dmitri Orlov's Blog (creative solutions to housing, skills, self-employment)
  
• Deconstructing Dinner (Best radio show on the food system and the models rising to replace it)
  
• When Technology Fails (here because it's such an empowering book, shows you how to do everything yourself if you ever have to.)
  
  
  

I totally agree with this book it is excellent especially with the hunting and trapping. For other things I also have When Technology Fails it had everything i needed including things that you don't exactly need to use for the end of time. It includes things such as at home water distillation as well as useful ways for farming with small plots of land. It also has a huge section on insulation and home design. One of the best buys I saw!

I highly recommend "Northern Bushcraft" by Mors Kochanski:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mors_Kochanski. I also have and recommend the Army manual. Not exactly same thing but I recently bought "When Technology Fails" http://www.amazon.com/When-Technology-Fails-Revised-Expanded/dp/1933392452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290468358&sr=8-1. It has a lot of very useful information in a surprisingly compact volume.

Sounds like a good plan.

Something similar does exist and may give you more ideas and areas to cover.

When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency

https://www.amazon.com/When-Technology-Fails-Self-Reliance-Sustainability/dp/1933392452