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When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency |  | Author: Matthew Stein
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  65 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 493
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1933392452
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781933392455
Publication Date: August 18, 2008
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Theres never been a better time to be prepared. Matthew Steins comprehensive primer on sustainable living skillsfrom food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skillsprepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live green in seemingly stable times, but to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental catastrophe.When Technology Fails covers the gamut. Youll learn how to start a fire and keep warm if youve been left temporarily homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home or business. Youll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. Youll learn alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era of profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity. Each chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials) offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good times and bad.Fully revised and expandedthe first edition was written pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of social disruption seriouslyWhen Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on "Making the Shift to Sustainability," which offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal, community and global levels.
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 What you need to know! March 10, 2010
Raina
From how to rid yourself of parasites, to how to build a shelter ... this book has it all. Lots of good 'how-to' and 'what-if' solutions for surviving without modern technology, medicine, power, etc.
When Technology Fails should be in every home. February 2, 2010
William M. Mohler (Santa Cruz, CA)
Whether it be peak oil or a mid-summer thunderstorm that knocks your power out for a few days, this book gives you the means to deal with it and is a bible of self sufficiency. The other reviews tell the story more eloquently than I can. All I can say is that the book is excellent and I give it as a gift to those I care about.
Clear thinking, practical information--peace of mind February 2, 2010
Carol Venolia (Sonoma County, CA)
It's not exactly comforting to contemplate the devolution of civilization as we know it. But numerous trends are converging to make it likely that the not-too-distant future will look very different than the life of ease to which Americans have become accustomed.
When Technology Fails actually helps me feel better about scary scenarios, because Matthew Stein not only sees clearly some possible futures, he provides detailed, practical instructions on how to survive and thrive in times of climate change, food insecurity, oil depletion, water crises, and more.
Stein's book embodies a rare combination of clear-headed, heartful philosophy with nuts-and-bolts advice. The topics range from mental attitude to first aid, disaster preparedness to long-term skills for creating home, food, clothing, and health.
I wouldn't want to be without this book, and I'm grateful to Matthew Stein for having written it.
 the title is misleading - not what I expected. February 1, 2010
THOMAS
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
"when technology fails" is misleading to the content of the book. It had a few good ideas but is was more about the author's philosophy. To give you a better idea of what I am speaking of before you decide to buy this book;
this is chapter 16 Making the shift to sustainability.
Plan B
1. change the tax structure - cap & trade
2. rebuild our cities
3. rebuild our railways, waterways, and mass transit systems
4. rebuild our homes, office buildings, and factories
5. rebuild our industries
6. fund and support renewable energy development
7. eliminate population growth (I had to write the whole caption under this one)
Reduce global population to the point where the population of our planet levels off, followed by a decline in world population. On a planet where the estimated long-term carrying capacity is on the order of 1 to 2 billion people, if we can't control our own population growth, nature will do it for us. Most people would agree that it is much more humane to provide family-planning eduction and birth control materials for all people on earth than for the population to find its natural level through starvation, plagues, and wars. "when technology fails" page 461.
8. share the wealth
9. reach out to developing countries
10. replace coal-burning power plants
11. global relocalization
12. make decisions based on sustainability
DO YOU NOW UNDERSTAND WHY IT WASN'T EXACTLY WHAT I EXPECTED FROM THE TITLE.
WHY DID I TYPE THIS? IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SURVIVAL OR BACK TO NATURE BOOK FOR CAMPING, THIS IS NOT IT. EVEN THOUGH THE TITLE MAY PUT IT IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS "THE SAS HANDBOOK" OR "HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT" YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED IN THIS BOOK.
IF YOU BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING AND GOING GREEN ALL THE WAY, BY ALL MEANS BUY THIS BOOK. IT IS VERY WELL WRITTEN.
great book January 25, 2010
T. Wells (texas)
I am really enjoying this book. It has alot of really interesting things that could really help you out.
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