It’s been a long time since I posted anything related to “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered” on resilience and sustainability. That’s because the book covers everything I wanted to say about the subject. But over the past winter, thanks to my new writing desk, I learned something new about keeping warm during the winter that I’d […]
(In Teresa Peschel’s “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered,” she talks about the best ways to efficiently heat and cool your house. In this essay, she has more advice on the best way to use vents and other openings to make your home comfortable.) When you want to vent out your house, ensuring a complete air exchange […]
I love ceiling fans. They let me move air around quietly with a minimum of dust. They don’t get in the way since they’re attached to the ceiling rather than taking up precious floor or counter-top space. They don’t have to be stored during the off-season, taking up valuable space. They don’t have to be […]
In the long term, you can manipulate the temperature of your home’s interior by adding insulation, weather-stripping, planting trees, reroofing with white shingles, adding glass to let in sun, and installing wood-burning stoves. Doing these things will let you better keep the heat outside or inside (depending on the season) so you and your family […]
A solar tube is an odd thing to see in the wild. A skylight is obvious: it’s a big, glass-dome-topped hole in your roof that lets the sun shine in without letting in the rest of the great outdoors. Skylights tend to be large; several square feet or more. All that glass means a whole […]
I hate being late to my own rodeo, but better late than never. Last week, we released “Suburban Stockade” (now called “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered”) as a Kindle ebook. It’s exclusive to Amazon, so that we could put it into Kindle Unlimited. The trade paperback has been out for a month, and we set up […]
In 2017, we released “Suburban Stockade: Strengthening Your Life Against an Uncertain Future” and in 2020 we rereleased it with a newer, snappier (we hope) title “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered.” Teresa Peschel spent several years writing her “manifesto memoir” about her concerns for the future and how you can best protect your family from the […]