| When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency |  | Author: Matthew Stein
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 5,841
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 493
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1933392452
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781933392455
Publication Date: August 18, 2008
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Theres never been a better time to be prepared. Matthew Steins comprehensive primer on sustainable living skillsfrom food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skillsprepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live green in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe.When Technology Fails covers the gamut. Youll learn how to start a fire and keep warm if youve been left temporarily homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home or business. Youll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. Youll learn alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era of profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity. Each chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials) offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good times and bad.Fully revised and expandedthe first edition was written pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of social disruption seriouslyWhen Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on "Making the Shift to Sustainability," which offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal, community and global levels.
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 An Introduction to Self Reliance. July 25, 2010
Glenn M. Mcclain
If you are looking for a one volume "how to" book on this topic you'll be disappointed. The author introduces a variety of useful topics for those interested in self reliance. As a jumping off point this book is fine but a lot of additional research and experimentation will be required before someone would be competent in a lot of these skills and techniques. As an introduction to this mind set the book is fine.
 Global Warming Blather June 30, 2010
Shodan144
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book may as well have been written by Al-the greatest con-man in history-Gore. Global warming won't create the catastrophic event, man will.
Irony June 5, 2010
Christine Shirtcliff (MA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't you think it's a little weird that a book by this title is available on Kindle?
Like others have said, mostly great April 14, 2010
K. Boreing
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'll say 90-95% of this book is filled with great information for someone who has no formal training in military/survival or tactics. There are parts of this book that you could rip the pages out of it to lighten it up some and have a great technical manual for standard survival skills. Some covered subjects in this book are not done as in depth or at all in other survival manuals. The medical and identification sections of plants and animals I particularly like as a more comprehensive source than other guides.
The pages that could be torn out are pure trash and liberal garbage as an attempt to get people to think the "progressive" way (global warming, greenhouse, peak oil, the usual), even for someone that may have no real interest in those topics. I would love to give this book 5 stars for the wealth of practical information, but those few sections ruin it and drop a star. If the publisher would re-print this book with the same information in the practical and majority sections of this book, then call it the "comprehensive survival guide for the outdoor enthusiast," it would be a 5 star best seller in the genre.
Even if you aren't a liberal type and, like many survivalist type people, lean towards a conservative viewpoint, get this book for the wealth of content and just laugh at the other pages or use them for kindling.
 What you need to know! March 10, 2010
Raina
From how to rid yourself of parasites, to how to build a shelter ... this book has it all. Lots of good 'how-to' and 'what-if' solutions for surviving without modern technology, medicine, power, etc.
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