Jessica Moore

Sharing is caring! The Wilson Solar Grill was designed in 2012 by MIT professor Dr. David Wilson with the help of MIT graduate students. It not only cooks your food when the sun is out during the day, but it can store that heat energy and so you can cook your food at night. How, […]

Sharing is caring! Disasters can strike at any time, often making the things we take for granted inaccessible, like readily available & clean water. Water always becomes the number one priority in an emergency, followed by food and shelter.  Everyone should prepare for disasters by keeping an emergency supply of water in their homes and

Sharing is caring! What zombie apocalypse? That’s what you’ll be saying if you owned this freaking awesome bug-out bug tank. Yes! It’s a tank! Bug Out Bug Tank – Aka. “The Frog”Image: Atomictoasters   Here’s another one. WITH MISSILES! 😉 I think this one is more ready for the impending apocalypse. Volkswagen Bug TankSource: Jalopnik

Sharing is caring! Knowledge is power, and being able to build your own tools for survival is important. Flintknapping, or knapping, is the art of shaping flint or other types of stone into tools and weapons such as arrowheads and spearheads. Once a necessary skill for human survival, knapping has, for the most part, become

Sharing is caring! Starting a fire with water may seem counterintuitive, but water is actually a very useful tool for starting fires in emergency situations if no other options are available.  Water can be used to create a lens of sorts, which can concentrate the light of the sun, similar to this crystal ball solar

Sharing is caring! Most people know to keep candles and flashlights in their home emergency kits in case of power outages, but how about a tub of Crisco? A very simple and very long-lasting emergency candle can be made with nothing more than shortening and a wick.  Great Northern Prepper shows how to do this

Sharing is caring! Fish traps, also called weirs, have been utilized for thousands of years all over the world for catching fish in rivers, lakes, and oceans. They were widely used by Native Americans to catch large amounts of fish for trade and for food.  Traditional weirs, usually made of stone or wood, were often

Sharing is caring! Cattails are an extremely useful plant that can be found along streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes – virtually anywhere there is a water source. Did you know that almost every part of the cattail plant is edible?  No matter what time of year you find it, at least one part of the

Sharing is caring! This crazy-looking tower creates 25 gallons of drinking water per day from thin air. It’s basically an atmospheric water collector which gathers dew from the air. “…The 9 m tall bamboo framework has a special fabric hanging inside capable to collect potable water from the air by condensation…” It’s called the WarkaWater:

Sharing is caring! In circumstances where water is plentiful but unsafe to drink, knowing how to obtain clean drinking water could mean the difference between life and death. Sadly, there are many disaster situations where people die of thirst when there is water all around them because they do not know how to make the