num_pages: 405
description: When Technology Fails is the first to offer under one cover basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living and achieving mastery of all kinds of emergency conditions.A user-friendly bible in the tradition of the Whole Earth Catalog this book provides information that will help the average person become more self-reliant. In an era of super-storms burgeoning population massive earth-quakes global warming and record-breaking floods and droughts more and more people are seeking to prepare themselves to deal with the difficult times that may lie ahead.When Technology Fails addresses this universal concern in one engaging and concise volume for the general reader. A directory of resources and an instructional guide to sustainable technologies it outlines survival strategies for dealing with changes that affect food water shelter energy health communications and essential goods and services.When Technology Fails provides something for everyone from parents who want to help their families when a disaster strikes to the go-it-alone survivalist to the eco-minded person who wishes to tread more lightly on the earth - whatever the future may hold.
language: English
title: When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance & Planetary Survival
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company