Survival Scout Tips

Whether you realize it or not, there are volcanoes everywhere.  In fact, the American Geosciences Institute tells us that there are 169 active volcanoes in the U.S. alone.  To put that in perspe...

How Undetected Toxic Pollutants Ailed a Community and What We Can Do to Ensure a Similar Situation Never Happens Again  Water is one of the single most important elements for survival.  Without...

Carolinas Face Flooding After Hurricane Florence Lumbers Through States (Photo by U.S. Air Force via Getty Images) As Hurricane Florence made landfall on the east coast of the United States, we’...

Tom Hanks featured in the movie Castaway Since the time that humans began building and sailing ships, the premise of being stranded on a deserted island has been used in many epic survival stor...

As an adult reader of this blog, you likely have the skills and knowledge to protect yourself and your family in the event of an emergency. That’s great. But would your kids or grandkids be okay...

2 Keys to Summer Fun: How to Prepare Each Memorial Day, we honor our fallen heroes. This national holiday is also the start of the summer travel season. With that in mind, we thought we’d sh...

Imagine your local government telling you that the pipes in your home will no longer deliver water in a few months. That’s the reality for the nearly half a million residents of Cape Town, South A...

HOW TO SURVIVEIN A WORLD GONE MAD Before we dive into today's helpful hints, I wanted to talk about what it truly means to live off the grid (OTG). At its simplest, OTG living means self-suffici...

As the well-known survivalist Rule of Threes states, we can only survive three days without safe water. In comparison, we can survive three weeks without food. As Grant explained last week, water ...

Water everywhere, but not a safe drop to drink. It's something many of us take for granted - that the water we drink is safe and clean. Not safe for me, my family - false security However, many p...

Electricity is something we take for granted. Most of us have even experienced power outages and lived through them (even slept through them). Yet, there lurks a deeper, darker threat that goes ...

When in wait and see mode... Have you ever got that feeling that you might be dreaming, even though you know you are fully awake? Or perhaps it's the world that is sleeping, and we're just waitin...