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Wildfires: Are you ready to evacuate? The Hawk Fire burning in the hills near Reno, Nevada, is a hard reminder that a wildfire can turn an ordinary weekend into an emergency in a matter of hours. This fire started on a Saturday, and by Sunday it had grown to more than 15,000 acres, forced roughly 90,000 people to evacuate, and put other neighborhoods on notice to be ready to lea...

A tick tube looks like nothing special: a cardboard tube stuffed with treated cotton, tucked into a garden bed or along a tree line. But the idea behind it is smarter than it looks, and it attacks the tick problem from a direction most yard treatments completely ignore. Instead of spraying your grass and hoping for the best, tick tubes recruit the animal actually responsible for...

A lot of emergencies do not begin with a foreign enemy, a civil collapse, or some dramatic event on the evening news. Sometimes they begin with a bridge that should have been repaired years ago. Sometimes they begin with a dam that has been patched, inspected, warned about, and ignored. Sometimes they begin with an […] from Survivopedia

Somewhere near Washington D.C., a company is spending $300 million to dig a luxury apartment complex 200 feet into the ground. The swimming pool sits 20 stories down but looks like it’s perched on the edge of a cliff. Robots run the medical wing. A single membership costs $20 million, and only 625 people will ever hold one. The project is called Aerie, built by a Virginia firm n...

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Think about how you solve problems nowadays. Your water heater starts leaking, so you pull out your phone and look up how to fix it. Someone in the family has a strange rash, so you type the symptoms into a search bar. You want to can this year's tomato harvest, so you pull up a recipe. We take all of that for granted because the answer i...