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Be Self-reliant – Be Prepared for Calamity

When I began this blog over 1.5 years ago, I wasn’t really sure just what I’d be writing about, but I know I did not contemplate providing a repository for earthquake news and disaster preparedness. By popular demand, here are some resources to bring you to self-reliance.

The “Green Thing”

Read the “Green Thing” email? In many ways, we were more “green” decades ago, before everything was mechanized, automated, made easy. Some things were just better, healthier and more green in the past.

“10 Things to Learn from Japan” A Lesson for the World

The calm, dignity, grace, order, self-sacrifice, ability, tenderness training, consciousness and media restraint so evident these past weeks in Japan as its people survive and rebuilt their society after the massive earthquake and tsunami presents a valuable lesson to the world.

Easily Avoid Cancerous Plastics and Food Containers (Bisphenol A) — Watch

Take a guess… how many toxic chemicals reside in your body, or in your baby’s? You’ll be so startled by the answer that you just may take these simple steps to help get rid of some. Pollution within people is so real, so pernicious, that scientist are now “mapping the human toxome”.

Earthquakes and Tsunamis — Is the Cascadia Subduction Zone Next?

Is the coastal area of North America next? An earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is thought to be long overdue. What to do about it?

Worried About the Potassium Iodide Supply?

The Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Hospital clearly outlines what concerns you should not have about Potassium Iodide supplies – or the lack thereof – right now. Get some for the future when again available, yes, but don’t worry right now.

Monitor Japan’s Radiation Coming to North America

Concerned about radiation from Japan coming to North America? Check out these three real-time monitors and relax for now. But don’t do nothing. Lesson learned: Be prepared for a nuclear meltdown or something else that happens near you.

Youtube Radiation Scares. True or False? NYT’s Radiation Animation

The Net is abuzz with conspiracy theories of every stripe, so naturally this mindset has turned to the radiation fallout from Japan’s nuclear disaster, with the claims that it’s worse than reported and has already jumped the “pond” (Pacific Ocean). The New York Times has a real time animation of the radioactive plume crossing the ocean (watch).

Promising Ways to Fight Radiation Poisoning

Up in arms about not getting a supply of Potassium Iodide or Potassium Iodate? Relax. (Watch Dr. McKone.) They’re not a panacea and there are other natural remedies that can help with radiation poisoning should it come to that. AS I was cruising the Net today, something caught my eye. A doctor said something like, “Enough […]