When
Technology Fails
- Revised and Expanded
A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability,
and Surviving the Long Emergency
by Matthew Stein
There’s
never been a better time to “be prepared.” Matthew
Stein’s comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills—from
food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management
skills—prepares you to embark on the path toward sustainability.
But unlike any other book, Stein not only shows you how to live
“green” in seemingly stable times, but to live in
the face of potential disasters, lasting days or years, coming
in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, or environmental
catastrophe.
When Technology Fails covers the gamut. You’ll learn how
to start a fire and keep warm if you’ve been left temporarily
homeless, as well as the basics of installing a renewable energy
system for your home or business. You’ll learn how to find
and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as
practical information for dealing with water-quality issues even
when the public tap water is still flowing. You’ll learn
alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era of
profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity.
Each chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies
and preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency
measures for survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid,
low-tech medicine, and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking;
utensils and storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines,
and materials) offers the same approach, describing skills for
self-reliance in good times and bad.
Fully revised and expanded—the first edition was written
pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, when few Americans took the risk of
social disruption seriously—When Technology Fails ends on
a positive, proactive note with a new chapter on "Making
the Shift to Sustainability," which offers practical suggestions
for changing our world on personal, community and global levels.
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