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Goooooooood Morning SuperForest!

Wow, an exciting week so far! Wikileaks spilling the beans, getting folks riled up, Julian Assange arrested, 4chan hacking Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal. The Federal Reserve printing money by the wheelbarrow-full, unemployment on the rise, and goods and services more expensive than last year, and the value of the dollar melting like ice in a bowl full of hot soup. Americans going homeless in record numbers. College students graduating into a world where their degrees are worth the paper they are printed on, if not a bit less.

Why s**t so crazy?

The reason I mention this is not to bum you out. You’ve got the rest of the news and media to do that for you. No, I’d like to big you up! As SuperForesters, your positivity promotion skills are more important than ever.

So I’d like to stress how important it is to take care of one another. Do that by taking care of yourself, then your friends and family, then your neighbors.

What does “take care of yourself” mean?

Have food and water, at least a two week supply of both, on hand at all times, for each person in your household. You know those big plastic bottles for on top of water coolers? Have at least two of them filled with fresh water just for you. Go to the store, load up on some energy-dense, long lasting foodstuffs. Peanut butter, cookies, canned vegetables and stews. Get a whole cartload of this and take it home and stash it. Get some candles, first aid, kits, matches.

Here’s a great emergency stash supplies list.

Plant a garden. Grow some food. Learn how planting and growing things works. Get your hands dirty. Build a compost heap. Divert all biodegradable household trash into the compost heap. You’ll make less trash and it won’t smell.

Take a moment and really look at your life. Where do you live? Where does your food come from? Where does your water come from? What would happen if those systems stopped tomorrow? Would it mess things up? You bet it would. The idea is to make sure that you’ve got enough food, water, and medicine on hand to survive for two weeks at the very minimum.

I read the news from here on Kauai, and the world seems to get crazier and crazier. Take a few pro-active steps this week to better your chances of making it through some sort of system breakdown.

Good: You’ve got a few weeks worth of food and water and supplies on hand at home.
Better: You’ve got food, water, and supplies, and active systems for replenishing supplies of all three.
Best: You live in a system of abundance where food, water, and supplies are everywhere, constantly replenishing themselves with very little external energy needed.

(image via Patrick Smith)

If you feel up to it, I highly recommend moving to Hawaii. As the most geographically isolated spot on the planet, Hawaii and it’s sister islands are a warm, relatively safe, and highly abundant set of ecosystems where a sudden shut-down of food/water/goods/services could be dealt with without the need for food riots and undue suffering. Here there is enough to go around.

When America has gone bankrupt and the powers that be seem bent on crashing the plane into the mountain, it’s time to disconnect from the madness and start taking responsibility for your life. When the frogs, bees, bats, tuna, and thousands of other species are all up against the ropes of extinction, it’s time to learn how to feed yourself from your own garden. When neighbor turns against neighbor, and people are running out of options, it’s time to learn the lessons of Aloha.

I say this not to alarm you, (I would hope that you’re already alarmed,) but to encourage you to engage with joy in the systems of your own survival. Stop outsourcing your life to others, and start really living.

Come to Hawaii, SuperForesters. It is relatively safer here. Let us learn and grown and teach one another here, and create a new hybrid life, mixing ancient wisdom and new technology. Let us explore in peace the systems of abundance.

With love and compassion,

-Jackson