Disaster Preparation: Page 11

Learn to survive in the outdoors or in case of a disaster by watching this how-to video. This disaster prep video shows you how to use the firesteel and petroleum jelly cotton balls to start a fire. All you have to do is pull apart a pj ball, take the firesteel and scrape your knife along the steel to throw sparks into the fire ball. Follow along with these easy steps and start a simple survival fire.

Check out this how-to video to start a fire using an AA battery and a staple. You can do this while listening to the classical guitar piece, "Malaguena" if you feel like it. It could save your life! With your battery: start by cutting the plastic away from the negative terminal. Watch the video survival training tutorial for more tips on starting an emergency fire!

Watch this how-to video showing how to build a log cabin fire, which is an easy to build and easy to light fire that can be built using woods from any environment (especially an environment where you find log cabins!)

Remind yourself how to make an ultralight wick back packing stove with tips from this how-to video. Or, just plain teach yourself how to do it, depending on what level you are at in making ultralight wick backpacking stoves.

Check out this video to learn how to gather basket making materials with tips from a how to tutorial. This is for weaving baskets with willow.

Check out this how to tutorial to learn how to make cordage from plant fibers. Don't forget that the plant, dogvane, is ideal cordage material.

Check out this video to learn how to do flintknapping with flaked stone tools (The stones look like obsidian.)

Make a small stove to burn wood chips using the wood gas method. Get tips from this how to tutorial.

Installing a home security system can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. This how to video shows you some easy practices that keep your home well protected. All you need is a few inexpensive items such as flood lights, signs, and light timers.

Your home security systems may not work for you if you don't turn it on. To top it off some of your bad habits can invite thieves in to your home. This how to video reviews some common sense steps to protect your home from burglars.

Learn how to make a fire piston or fire syringe from a MagLite flashlight.

This video will show you an all-new fire starting idea that deals with steel wool and your flashlight batteries.

This is a short video showing what tinder fungus is, what to look for, and how it is used. Tinder fungus is nice to have because it does not combust quickly, but rather smolder for a long time.

This is a short video to help in identifying a fatwood stump. Fatwood is what happens when a tree dies a sudden death, and the roots continue sending resin to the rest of the tree, which creates resin-rich fire starting fatwood.

This video is a short demonstration of the wind king rope lighter, a small lighter that uses a length of cloth rope and a flint to create an ember for fire making. With this helpful lighter, you can make fire in places where the wind would normally destroy your lighter's flame.

This video is a short demonstration of a self-starting lighter from the New Method Co. in action.

This video will show you how to put on a Norwegian style gas mask.

Check out this video to learn how to make your home burglar-proof. It's fairly easy, he says.

Garlic ginger syrup is an herbal cough remedy. This cough home remedy would make use of cough herbs such as garlic and ginger. Learn how to make this garlic remedy that is garlic ginger syrup.

The how to video contains rose recipes, such as making herbal vinegar and honey. This rose recipe makes use of rosehip. Learn some of these rose recipes by watching this video. Rose hip honey can heal a sore throat.

Learn how to dry herbs, particularly nettle. Yay! This how to video is a great step-by-step tutorial on drying stinging nettle. Nettle is a great spicy herb that can add extra flavor to any dish.

Memorial Day signifies the unofficial kickoff for outdoor activities like camping. Camping can either be a flurry of fun and adventure, or a miserable few days of getting sick in the bushes and being dehydrated. Every summer, thousands of people set out on these camping adventures, and every summer, many become stricken with food borne illnesses or a parasitic infection. Watch this how to video to keep this from happening to you.

Use a stud finder magnet to find nails that attach your wallboard to studs.

Check out this video to learn what kinds of tools to use to secure your furniture during an earthquake. You may want to use straps and stud finders.

This short video shows how to get started with 550 paracord and a 3 peg/nail knitting spool made from a wooden napkin ring and 3 nails. This just show you how to start. Follow these steps: After the initial wrapping of the nails with the paracord at the bottom of the nail, you take the working end to the next nail above the cord that's wrapped around it, use a hook of some type to lift the lower cord up and over the top cord and the nail. Continue from one nail to the next, up and over with...

You'll need two pieces of gutted paracord, one 30 inches the other 25 inches. This will make a finished fob with a 3-inch loop and a 2-inch body. You'll also need scissors and a lighter.

This video tutorial will show you how to tie a lanyard knot with a loop. You can try with an 18 inch length of paracord for the demonstration, but this will work with various lengths and diameters of cord.

See how to make a very cool oil lamp for just under one dollar. This emergency lamp will help you out in emergency power outages, or if you're just getting sick of normal candles.

Check out a few accuracy tips for those who are having a tough time learning to make and throw atlatl darts.

Check out this method of fletching atlatl darts with no glue. Start by trimming feathers.

Learn from Green Deane about duck potatoes, a wide-spread highly-esteemed root vegetable.

Learn from Green Deane about Spurge Nettle, a root that can be eaten all year round.

Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild vegetable and grain.

Learn from Green Deane about edible cactus, far more common than people think..

Learn from Green Deane about Henbit, a spring green you might not have noticed. It has a slightly different taste than other new greens.

Watch this short video on how to make pine-pitch adhesive (a natural hot-melt glue using dry/solidified pine sap as its main ingredient).

Learn from Green Deane how to identify and prepare Rumex (Sorrel) a spring time green around the world.

Learn with Green Deane how to recognize and prepare wild lettuce and sow thistle, lactuca and sonchus.

Check out this video on making a cane atlatl dart, starting by straightening the cane dart blank.

Make a generic North American style atlatl from the American Southwest with advice from this "paleo" survivalist.