OHANA SUSTAINABILITY
This is a copy of a deep readiness
List used by a friend for the people
Who live near him.
1. Water is the first priority during an emergency. Please list on a separate sheet of paper … the possible ways you can think of to catch, save, and share water and use it for all our normal functions.
2. What kinds of power have you got (ie candles, kindling, and firewood) and what kind (gasoline, natural gas, a generator) do you think we need?
3. Name the kinds of food you have discovered on this land or in a nearby gulch? Do you harvest it?
4. Won't you consider choosing to plant a serious garden and doing the necessary planting, weeding, and watering ?
5. Would you include some fruiting trees here to care for, weed, water, and harvest? Bananas are easy and quick and everyone likes them.
6. Do you water your sector of the land with catchment water ? Do you mow your sector of the land/ Does all the grss really need to be cut? Do you catch the grass as mulch?
7. Do you know where to take the recycled trash, the compost, and stash greenwaste?
8. Would be interested in planting your critical medicines or versions of it?
9. What kind of timber can be harvested there to support your needs?
10. We are in the market for 40 large old lichen covered rocks for an outdoor fireplace and grill. Start collecting firewood. And have a spare grill top handy.
11. Imagine how you will bath and wash your clothes. Do you have a clothesline?
12. Everyone around here needs several five gallon paint buckets with a lid for their own fresh water. Other things like tarps and baby pools make great quick water catchment tools. Think about how you would carry water back from the ditch? Small hand pump into plastic tank, or garbage cans, or paint buckets?
13. This is the time to order things like food dryer, freezer, o'o bar, gas mask, electric generator, outdoor tub, solar oven, bicycle or scooter,... that you might need. Prices will go up or items will not be available.
14. Have a meeting with your neighbors to see what can be shared. Some people are hunters, others fish, not everybody has to do everything. Always car pool.
