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Military and Economic Strategist. Best selling author (Brave New War). Entrepreneur. Pilot. Tier one special ops.
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This year, the most anticipated planting in my family’s garden is a watermelon called the “Golden Midget.” It should be clear why.  It looks …

Can You Use Paleo Fitness to Become More Resilient?
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How do you stay fit? It’s clear that staying fit is an investment in personal resilience.  It builds up strength, energy, and health that …

Tinkering our way into a Resilient Future
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Are there new technologies that will zoom local production and improve our resilience? Of course. In fact, nearly all of the technologies we need, …

How You and Your Community Can Avoid Catastrophic Failure
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How do you and your community avoid catastrophic failure? To give you a good answer, I need to share with you a lesson I …

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IS the global financial system still breaking down? Given the drumbeat of news we are getting, it’s just getting started. We see the breakdown …

Contagious Community:  An Inside Look At the West Philly Tool Library
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Today’s letter is from Arun Prabhakaran, an entrepreneurial member of our rapidly growing resilient network. In it, he interviews Michael Froelich, the founder of the …

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Here are two extremely simple ways to get a neighborhood thinking like a community.   It’s always amazing to me how even a small project …

Weekend Edition:  The Failure of Central Planning
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Networked resilient communities aren’t only a great hedge against the global system run amok.  Networked resilient communities are also the future of the global …

Windbreaks or Gone with the Wind?
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I learned early on that wind matters. Here’s why: I received my professional pilot training in West Texas. If you haven’t been there before, the …

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Nomadic farming — farms that move from location to location — is interesting.  Let’s explore it a bit. If you are wondering what a …