This one’s a classic. Robert Heinlein is well known for his science fiction work. This story has quite a bit of wilderness survival in it, even though it’s set in the future.

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Welcome to Week 4 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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We all know the importance of having paracord as part of our Every Day Carry and Bug Out Bag. Paracord is strong (can hold up to 550lb in weight) and versatile. The “real” paracord as used by the military has several strands of thread inside, which can be used for other purposes. So how do you carry a good length of paracord around?
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A good multitool is an essential addition to your Bug Out Bag or Every Day Carry. When we talk about multitools, usually it refers to the big, solid multitools like the classic Victorinox Swisstool or the more “modern” Leatherman Skeletool.
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Once in a while, we show an interesting set of Every Day Carry (EDC) gear. This time around it’s from thejamppa at Bladeforums. Click on the photo for a bigger image.

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Time for some more survival fiction.  This time around, it’s another installment of The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern.  Book 2 is titled The Nightmare Begins.

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Welcome to Week 3 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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Have you seen 2012 : the movie? There are many ways that the world may end, and 2012 is another one in a long line of Hollywood productions showing the apocalypse. Today’s Guest Post is about survival, for everything from the likely (floods and earthquakes) and unlikely (alien invasion).
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Glenn Reynolds from Popular Mechanics magazine has an interesting article about what the US can learn from the earthquake disaster in Haiti. He warns that while the US has greater wealth and better infrastructure than Haiti, it doesn’t mean that disaster relief will necessarily arrive quickly.
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We’ve seen several movies in the cinemas recently that deal with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios. Aside from 2012 (with John Cusack), we’ve seen The Road (with Viggo Mortensen from Lord of The Rings) and now Book of Eli (with Denzel Washington).
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