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I live without cash – and I manage just fine

16835 Comments2009-10-30+04%3A08%3A55Survival+Spot 29 October 2009

In six years of studying economics, not once did I hear the word “ecology”. So if it hadn’t have been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi in the final term of my degree, I’d probably have ended up earning a fine living in a very respectable job persuading Indian farmers to go [...]

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A History Of Self Reliance

1374No CommentsA+History+Of+Self+Reliance2009-10-05+21%3A22%3A22Survival+Spot 05 October 2009

Though rooftop solar power, 500-mile diets and home-brewed biodiesel may seem like a new trend, humans have been going back to the land for centuries. Here is an abbreviated timeline of the high points in self-reliance, from Henry David Thoreau to the modern-day off-the-gridder. [Via Popular Mechanics]