Sorry, I don’t know how to do links in original posts. Here are the links (I hope):
Part 1 (episode 12): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byiwO8wEXU4
Part 2 (episode 13): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woADkAkJKG0
Also, here is a link to the blog with all the audio podcasts: http://shruggingout.blogspot.com/
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Excellent idea. This is similar to what Dr. Helen Smith (married to Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds) speaks about on PJTV; she calls it “going Galt.”
Re food:
You can get a supply of food (2 weeks, a month, 6 months and a year) at www.efoodsdirect.com. They will send you free samples (you pay shipping) on request. I found the quality excellent. They can also store the food for you if you cannot store it at home. According to recent radio advertising, eFoodsDirect will now also send “non-hybrid” seeds along with certain orders. Check the website www.efoodsdirect.com.
Re energy:
Can’t vouch for the product personally yet, but I’ve found this on WND:
You may already have seen my earlier link to J. J. Luna’s online book from 2000 titled “How to Be Invisible.” The 2004 version is still available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
http://www.canaryislandspress.com/media/HTBI2000.pdf
In a reply to an e-mail I sent him, Luna was adamant: no first name; no last name; absolutely no social security number. Separate the address at which you receive mail from the address where you live. This last is actually the first step to “getting off the grid.”
His book, it seems, is not so much about being a survivalist and living away from modern society; but, rather, how to live more or less “invisibly” within existing modern society.
Anyway, it’s worth checking out, and he does reply to questions if you e-mail him at the address listed on his website (canaryislandspress.com).
I do find intriguing, however, Ferron’s mentioning of a “community of likeminded individuals” with whom one can trade, associate, etc. Galt’s Gulch. But outside of the digital domain — blogs, etc. — where is it?