DIY Portable Woodstove A woodstove can be a handy thing to have on a long camping trip or when ice fishing. Great for your backyard as a focal point for outdoor entertaining or for use in a SHTF scenario. It is very easy to make one on your own and out of easily found materials (often recycled) …
DIY Solar Panel Tracker That Follows The Sun This is a pretty neat tutorial. Make the most of a sunny day by making a DIY solar panel tracker. The project it’s self is pretty simple. You just need a basic idea of electronics. Trust me, I know nothing and I understood this tutorial… The LED sensor …
DIY EarthBag Roundhouse Roundhouses are perhaps the simplest, fastest, easiest earth bag structure to build. The other key advantage of earth bag is cost. Owen Geiger has been designing and building these natural earthbag alternative homes for years. Low cost and economically easy to maintain they could be the ideal off grid and with some small …
DIY Light Bulb From Plastic Soda Bottle Now this is just pure genius… this alternative light bulb would work well in smaller rooms, sheds, cabins places like that. You can’t just fill a bottle with water and expect this to produce 55 watts equivalent of light. You have to mix a solution to put into …
Literally Building a Dirt Cheap House These homes won’t pass muster with most countries building codes and laws. But after a SHTF scenario if it is a long term event your home may be gone, confiscated, or so damaged it’s unlivable. A house structure built with the materials around you literally including dirt is fair game for temporary housing while …
DIY Trial Aquaponics With 5 Gallon Buckets Our eco system has been damaged over the generations as pollution and neglect have taken its toll on our planet. However, we can recreate to a limited extent the timeless system of regeneration of resources developed by mother nature herself with aquaponics. It isn’t an easy system to create …
DIY Emergency Can Heater Even during the summer months the nights can get pretty cold especially should you be stranded somewhere in your car or camping. This can heater is made from a paint can but smaller versions could be carried in your BOB or 72 hour bag. I keep one made with a partial roll of toilet paper …
DIY Oil Lamps You can never be sure when disaster will strike. You may not be with your supplies and that is when your knowledge, ingenuity, creativity and adaptability comes into play. If you take a look at the four DIY oil lamps made here one or more of the elements may stick with you …
DIY Uber Match These DIY matches rock…The are indeed the uber of matches. This project is really easy and really cheap. Stop spending 5 or 6 bucks on store fire starters when you can make these bad boys for a 1/3 of the cost. The Uber Match is simple to make, highly water and wind …
Air Cleaning Houseplants Why invest in expensive electrical air purifiers that require power, filters and costs that add up over time? Same with the pop up, plug in, new smell air fresheners that really just perfume the air does not clean it! Instead go natural. Mother nature has her own ways of freshening the air in …
