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Survival, Self Sufficiency and Sustainable LivingThis site is for people who would like to learn about the self sufficiency, sustainable living, wilderness survival, and self sufficient living skills that people knew in ancient times — before we became dependent on modern fossil-fuel-based technology. That includes myself, i.e. I am learning this as I go, and writing it up on the site as I get around to it. The What's New? page shows updates to survival.org.au. NEW: Surviving the Economic Crash — Web Links, Survival Courses Near Sydney and the Blue Mountains, What the Economic Crisis Really Means - and What We Can Do About It (Video), Updates to the pages What is Peak Oil?, and What to Do About the Upcoming Economic Crash. LATEST PAGES: Bush Tucker Plant Foods - All natives on one page, Online Video Section, What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (Video), The End of Suburbia (Video), Arithmetic, Population and Energy (Video), Why the Global Economy is About to Crash, What To Do About the Upcoming Economic Crash. SOMEWHAT RECENT: Waterproof Bible, Free Video Bible Course, Books About Near-Death Experiences, 7 New Survival Books, Even More Edible Weeds, New Edible Weeds, Make a Simple Wire Snare Loop, Books by Tom Brown, Jr., Survival DVDs, 14 New Survival Books, 13 New Birds, Growing Fruit Trees (19 pages), 7 New Bush Tucker Plants, The Bush Tucker Diet — A Nutritional Analysis, Bush Tucker Survival Guide, Gould's Birds of Australia, New Australian Birds, Surviving Christmas, Tracking, Survival Essentials: How To Survive In The Wilderness. NOT THAT NEW ANYMORE: I am currently developing a new news section of this survival and self sufficiency website, which lists the latest self sufficiency, sustainable living, wilderness survival, transition preparation, energy descent, economic and peak oil information from all around the world. The first news page is online for viewing now. Welcome to survival.org.auOne thing I have always loved is to spend time outdoors, in unspoiled, natural settings. This came quite naturally to me as a child. My childhood home backed onto bushland and a large amount of my time was spent exploring this green world. Almost every rock and every tree had a name or some kind of significance.
Even when removed from fast paced environments, very
few of us are able to slow down enough to appreciate the full splendour
of nature.... Yet that connection can be reestablished—in large
part simply by awakening and nourishing our innate awareness. With
a few simple skills and some dedicated practice, any person can open
his or her senses to the full richness of nature, regardless of what
he or she seeks there. Why would I want to learn self sufficiency and wilderness survival skills? The idea I have adopted for myself, as a path to learning self sufficiency, sustainable living, and wilderness survival skills, is to isolate a small enough number of core topics that I can feel somewhat proficient in them, after having practiced them myself. The skills I have chosen are in four categories: Plant food, animal food, fire, and cordage. I have left out water, since in the area where I live it's easy to find water. I have left out shelter, since I think it would be possible to make some kind of shelter without a lot of knowledge. I think I could figure out the essentials of shelter if I really needed to, and more than that can be learned later. The site will start off very small, and simple, and I will add content to it as I go. Photographs of how to perform the techniques will be included as I get around to it. Why This Site?There is a wide variety of (mostly non-Australian) sustainable living, self-sufficiency, and wilderness survival material existing on the web already. I am not intending to reproduce what is already available, but rather to provide a record of my own development that could be used as an introduction to the techniques. I feel that much of what is already available is written for people who are already experienced in wilderness survival, tracking, nature observation, awareness, and/or self-sufficiency. Or, is written for beginners, but does not include enough details for a person with little or no experience to be able to follow easily. Or, it is written by North Americans and featuring North American plants and animals, which are mostly fairly different from what we have here in Australia. living self sufficiency survival wilderness
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