There are many out there who are worried that the current economic crisis will result in a significant retrenchment in available technology, money, etc. I don’t share that view, but it is good to ponder what would I do if the supermarket, gas station, and restaurants were empty. This could happen either due to lack of money to purchase their goods, a significant disruption in the supply chain, significant political unrest, any number of alternatives with increasing probabilities.
check out the 10 skills required in a FreeConomy post by Matt over in England. And There is a good list of the 200 artisan skills required to make a Victorian town functional on the Transition Culture blog
Back home in America there is always the stand-by Mother Earth News. I am personally buying a couple of these resources in physical book form (in case the internet explodes).
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