• Disaster Safety Kit (suggestions to help you cope with a disaster situation download here, 46KB)
• Be Mentally Prepared (enhance your ability to survive and to help others download here, 15KB)
• Bush Tucker Survival Guide (a guide to some edible Australian native plants download here, 88KB)
• Start a Fire (ways of making fire if you don't have a box of matches or a lighter download here, 246KB)
• Make a Solar Still (how to obtain water even in the most inhospitable climates download here, 72KB)
• Skin & Prepare Rabbit (skin, gut, joint and otherwise prepare a rabbit for eating download here, 589KB)
• Purify Water (perspective one download here, 27KB)
• Purify Water (perspective two download here, 64KB)
• Purify Water (perspective three download here, 290KB)
• Purify Water (perspective four read the ABC news story
• Colloidal Silver - something we may be grateful for if/when more conventional anti-bacterial and anti-viral medicines are unavailable download here, 966KB)

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BOOKS (to source books, you can try online stores Amazon, Book Depository or Fishpond)

• The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes, and why, Amanda Ripley 2008, Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-307-35289-7. A Time Magazine journalist looks into disaster scenarios and comes up with some surprising facts, such as that the evacuation of the twin towers on 9/11 saw consideration for others, not self-centred panic.
• Grow your own food: a straightforward, easy to read manual written for Australian conditions - Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-320340-7
• The Findhorn Garden Story (original volume was The Findhorn Garden) A pictorial history of the once-famous Findhorn community in Northern Scotland that developed starting in the 1960s. The result was a prodigiously bountiful garden of vegetables and flowers, as documented by the BBC and created on virtually beach sand - thanks to the spiritual and physical dedication of founders Peter and Eileen Caddy, Dorothy Maclean and eventually many others who were attracted to the powerhouse of these dedicated pioneers. The story includes their ability to co-operate with the devas and nature spirits and dedicate themselves to the service of a new planetary cycle.
• Walden: Henry David Thoreau's 19th Century classic of living well off the woods near Walden Pond in Massachusets. Persevere with the archaic English to find gems of subsistence. Several editions are available.
• How can I be Prepared with Self-Sufficiency and Survival Foods? By Isabell Shipard, Published by David Stewart and available to buy online at http://www.herbsarespecial.com.au $47.00 - or in person at Nambour $37.00. Contents include: 72-hour kit; food,water and essentials for a 3-month period; 12 months of stored food for extra protection; edible weeds; bush tucker plants; poisonous plants to avoid; edible flowers in your garden; and more. Check availability of the DVD version.

WEBSITES

• We are so dependent upon electronic communications, what happens if there's no internet, TV or mobile services available? To investigate some possible solutions, go to Survival Cache's radio page.