Another nice resilient piece of equipment. Assuming you’ve got some local water storage – hopefully big rainwater tanks – you need to be able to get to the water in case of long power shortages, where mains water is likely to be unavailable and power cannot be spared for electric water pumps. Here’s what you [...]
Archive for the ‘Resilience’ Category
4 Feb
How are you coping with the snow?
Whether you’re out building snowmen or huddling around a radiator, now is a good time to reflect on how prepared you are for these type of events. If you can’t get your car out, then consider how much food you have stored. How long can you stay at home without getting hungry? There are a [...]
17 Jan
How much firewood should you store?
Huge numbers of people are putting in Wood Burning Stoves, Boilers and Ranges at the moment. They’re doing this for a number of reasons: to beat rising gas and electricity prices, to reduce their carbon footprint, or to improve the resilience of their heating system in the face of peak-oil based supply issues. The first [...]
19 Dec
Containers for storing food
There are a heap of problems to watch out for if you’re planning a large store of food: – making sure that it doesn’t get eaten by a whole range of pesky critters – keeping it dry – keeping it safe from everyday accidents (getting knocked off the shelf, shelves collapsing, earthquake – that sort of [...]
19 Sep
Resilience: Coping with the energy crisis at home (2)
This is the second post in my series looking at our personal resilience, and what plans we need to put in place to make sure that we are in a position to help our local community through any deep potholes on our otherwise Gentle Descent. These posts are not designed to provide long-term solutions, rather [...]
30 Aug
Resilience: Coping with the energy crisis at home
Resilience is one of the main themes in the Transition movement, focusing on how to ensure that your community is resilient and will be able to survive in a post-peak-oil world. In this post I’m going to take it to a more personal level though – looking at immediate solutions to ensure that we are [...]
