This site is a thesis. What we want to explore is how to make adjustments to your life so that you’re not dependant upon so much of the infrastructure we take for granted these days.
How would you need to live life if your country didn’t have
From those three things, look at what falls out: Any factory or business that needs electricity in order to be in business won’t produce any goods or services. Phones (of any kind) won’t work. Water purification will become an issue. Taking showers, or flushing a toilet becomes impossible fairly quickly. Medical care is compromised. Batteries will become scarce, then nonexistent.
It sounds like the end of the world as we know it… but not for all of us. Many peoples across the globe already live under those conditions. Perhaps they have a thing or two to teach us. This web site aims to collect that knowledge.
But we also want to aim for more than outlining primitive living skills, because we still have more than they did. We get to play with 21st century inventions or refinements to older inventions. For example, we have the bicycle. We also have (although not as ubiquitous) solar cells. Can we do useful stuff with this?
The content in this site have been brought to you by Andrew Netherton and Robert Hahn. At the time of this post, neither of us have any experience with primitive living. We’ll be doing research, some thinking out loud, and maybe take a course or two. This site is as much for our benefit as we hope it will be for yours.
If you know more about a topic than we do, please contact us. We’ll be happy to accept submissions and consider them for placement here.