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If your favorite cookbook doesn’t include instructions on how to dress and cook a squirrel, it’s not going to be much use after the global climate change cataclysm.

You’re going to need older cookbooks, with recipes based on local ingredients.

Listen here for more, or read post #35 Buy an old cookbook.

[El Wala Wala (Hey Dude) by Hakim]

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A thing has only as much value as people believe it has. After the cataclysm, what will you do if people stop believing in cash? Barter! Listen below, or click here to read tip #33: Pack your barterables.

[I’m A-Giving Way by Laura Love]

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After the cataclysm, binder clips will be ever more valuable than they are today, so you’ll want to have plenty in your survival kit. Listen here to learn more, or read the post (and watch the slideshow) at blog52.

[My City Was Gone by the Pretenders]

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I don’t care what anybody said before the cataclysm; afterward, mending will be better than ending. You can learn how to do it under duress, or you can start practicing now, while you still have access to these few pointers. Listen here or read the post at blog52.wordpress.com.

[Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat by Bob Dylan]

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Where will you get your caffeine fix after the global climate change cataclysm? Not just you, what about everyone else in the northern hemisphere? Think of it - grumpy, headachy nations with their finger on nuclear hair-triggers, all in caffeine withdrawal. Listen here and learn how to prepare. Or read tip #24 on blog52.wordpress.com.

[Loveless Couple by GTS]

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After the cataclysm, you’re going to wish you had more trees. They’re useful for so many things. Add them to your future stockpile by planting them now. Listen here for more, or read the post at blog52.wordpress.com.

[N’gotolen by Rokia Traore] 

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If you’ve never had to live without rubber bands then you won’t understand what I mean when I say, you can’t live without them. Listen up to learn about why you should add them to your cataclysm survival kit. Or read the post here.

[Tiny Apocalypse by David Byrne]

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Back in the day, Schoolhouse Rock said that if we didn’t have fuel to burn it would take a superhero to turn the generator real fast in order to make electricity. Technical advances since the 70s mean you can be the superhero today, spinning the handles of wind-up radios and flashlights like the ones in this photo, generating the power to make them go. You’ll want a few of them in your cataclysm kit.

You can read the post here, or just listen below:

[Nietzche by the Dandy Warhols]

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Downsize your life!

Buy less stuff!

Read about it here!

Listen here!

[Music: Dola Dola from the soundtrack to Bride and Prejudice.] 

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Because of the cataclysm, I stock the fishing line. Listen below, or read it here. [If you have to ask who’s that singing….]

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Listen here for the podcast version of the Row, row, row your car post on blog52.wordpress.com.

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Listen here for the podcast of the Precious baggies post on blog52.wordpress.com.

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