This is the second of a two part series on home preparedness.  Part One of Preparedness Basics focused on short-term home preparedness to prepare your household for a sudden and temporary interruption of goods and services.  In this segment, the focus will be on long-term planning in anticipation of energy descent as we begin the [...]

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Prepared households build prepared communities.
This is the first of a two part series on home preparedness.  This segment focuses on short-term preparedness.  To read the PreparedTompkins.org post on long-term preparedness click here.
What does preparedness entail given the current landscape? A few years ago, articles on home preparedness began by explaining the impending environmental, economic and [...]

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If you haven’t seen it yet…The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard is a must see. This creative short documentary takes on a complex and heavy subject (where we get our stuff and where it goes after we’re done with it) in a breezy twenty minutes. Featuring animated stick figures and a voice [...]

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Just after the birds have begun to sing and shortly before the twins have had their breakfast, you’ll hear the telltale squeak of rope running through a metal pulley and you know, without even opening your eyes, that it’s a sunny day, for those staccato squeals are the unmistakable sounds of the Geddon [...]

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