February 26th, 2013 at 2:01 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, herbology, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, economic collapse, self sustainability, eco building, prepping, intentional community, community, societal collapse, herbal medic, texas herbal medicine)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman is interviewed by Ed Corcoran from Survival and Beyond. Sam and Ed discuss general survival topics such as:
- The concept of “civilization” and how we have lost touch with who we are as humans
- The idea behind The Human Path as a school
- The importance of the topic of community as part of any realistic survival training
- Herbal medicine and its place in a post-disaster or remote setting
- Modern medicine as compared to herbal or natural medicine
- Wilderness vs. Urban survival and cummunity sustainability
- Speculation on what might be most likely looming in our future as a species
- What role does our culture play in forming our perception of reality?
Find out what's going on at The Human Path!Our class calendar
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December 27th, 2012 at 9:21 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, the combat medic, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, primitive hunting, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the entire structure of classes and programs at The Human Path.
He addresses many of the questions that people have about how the program is structured at The Human Path, to include:
- What are the differences between core classes and peripheral or elective classes?
- What are the 4 paths or specialties that a person can follow within the core curriculum?
- What specific things do students learn in each of the specialties?
- What makes The Human Path so different from other survival schools?
- How does learning these skills make a difference in day-to-day life?
- What is the difference between Urban and Primitive tracks of instruction?
- What are the "Four A's" of survival that are a part of the core curriculum?
- How does a student move up from level 1 to level 2 in a specialty?
- How are concepts like teamwork, leadership and community taught as part of the classes?
The next Urban Core Basic class is January 25 - 27th, 2013.
Check out the Winter 2013 schedule for the next 2-3 months!
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March 1st, 2012 at 11:41 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, green homesteading, long-term food storage, readiness, economic collapse, self sustainability, prepping)
Each day, grocery stores throw out thousands of pounds of fresh and useable produce, meat and food staples. These items are not spoiled, they are often times not damaged, and might be tossed just because there is too much overstock. Today, Sam Coffman talks with a Human Path Facebook follower, who watched a video trailer we posted, 'Dive', about 2 months ago and decided to try her hand at dumpster diving to help her family through a rough financial spot. She was shocked at the amount of waste with perfectly good food being thrown away and now her family eats healthier than ever.
Sam and listener Zoe discuss:
- what led her family to try dumpster diving and the negative stigma that they had to overcome in order to try it out
- the movie 'Dive' that changed their attitude about the practice of dumpster diving
- the volume of fresh organic food being thrown away and the great variety of high-end healthy food
- how they share with friends and neighbors when they collect more than they need
- how they were able to stock up for their family of 5 for a full year after 2 months of dumpster diving
- store dumpsters may often be full (and locked) even though stores claim to donate everything to charities and shelters
- the dangers to note and precautions that divers must take before going out
- the best times to go and where
- the idea of a co-op for divers to share and distribute collected food to make sure perfectly good food doesn't just got tossed
- making extra cash by selling cast-off items
- dumpster diving as a growing and thriving sub-culture, sometimes called 'freegans'
- learning about food safety
Waste and over-consumption are a huge problem with our country's landfills being packed with things that can either be consumed, re-used or re-purposed. When thousands of pounds of good food are being thrown out, natural resources continue to be depleted.
Learn how to sharpen your urban awareness and survival skills. See how to be a part of the eco-solution and not part of the problem.
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February 15th, 2012 at 12:38 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, survival gear, weapons, self sustainability, prepping)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman reviews last night’s “Doomsday Preppers” show (National Geographic channel) –
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/
Sam gives his own feedback on the preppers that were featured in this show, as well as some of the concepts involved in their method of prepping. Aside from talking about the details of each individual prepper and some various feedback on their plans, he also talks about:
- The general 2 main types of preppers
- Gear vs. Skills
- Prepping in a huge urban area like NYC, and bugging in
- Security vs. Food
- The “stereotypical” prepper and where that idea will lead us
- The concepts behind “prepping” at The Human Path
There are still a few slots open in the Urban Core Basic, where you can learn, practice and apply preparedness concepts in hands-on and scenario-based environments - Online calendar and registration
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February 9th, 2012 at 11:45 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, survival gear, self sustainability)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman reviews the first episode of the National Geographic channel’s “Doomsday Preppers” 2 hour premiere on 2/7/12. He talks about:
- The idea behind this series and how it can be educational – even if it is also “Hollywood”
- The best and the worst of this series
- The importance of learning to “live like you prep”
- Why you are only as strong as your weakest, figurative “link” when you prep
- How an illusion of what you might think will happen in a disaster situation can leave you unprepared
The National Geographic channel is airing the Doomsday Preppers series weekly:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/
Learn urban and wilderness survival skills at The Human Path Wilderness Survival - online registration
Urban Survival – online calendar of classes
Herbology & Plant Medicine: online calendar of classes
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January 23rd, 2012 at 2:09 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, self sustainability)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman and Mark Kirkwood discuss aquaponics, homesteading and off-grid power.
- What is necessary to set up your own aquaponics system?
- How much does it cost to get started on your own homestead?
- How much are the homestead lots selling for in the off-grid community that Biotechture is teaching and assisting with (south of Tyler on a lake)?
- Should you be concerned with local/county building codes when building off the grid? If so, what’s the best way to deal with them?
- What is a “ferro dome” and why is that an easy, strong and efficient roofing solution when combined with earthships?
- How much does it cost to build an earthship and how much work is it?
- What is the training class opportunity that Biotechture Training is offering – which is almost a free way to experience building an earthship, or have free labor for your own earthship?
- What is a vertical-axis turbine wind generator vs. a horizontal axis turbine? Why is this simper, cheaper and easier?
- How is a washing machine motor superior for DC power?
- How can you start preparing right now to eventually get yourself off the grid and work within a small, localized economy?
Visit Biotechturetraining.com for more information on upcoming homesteading, aquaponics and other classes!
Biotechture Training.
We are a non-profit organization. Our mission is to teach, as many people as are willing to learn, how to live sustainably, because no one should have to pay a cost just for living. To build Earthships which are off-grid, self-sustained homes that provide not only for all the basic human needs of shelter, food, water, and power; but also needs of comfort, safety, technology, and abundance. An Earthship can provide all that using technologies and resources available today. Earthships are radically sustainable buildings made with recycled materials. Earthships can be built in any part of the world, in any climate and still provide solar power, wind power, catchwater, contained sewage treatment and sustainable food production through aquaponics farming.
On Monday, we will continue the second half of this podcast with a discussion between Mark and Sam about Aquaponics as part of the self-sustainability model.
Related Resources
Biotechturetraining.com website
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January 20th, 2012 at 1:46 pm (survival skills, the human path, texas outdoor education, green homesteading, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, economic collapse, self sustainability)
Self-sustainability and eco-architecture are increasingly on the minds of many people looking to provide for themselves in event of societal and environmental changes. Today Sam Coffman speaks with Mark Kirkwood of Biotechture Training, about the earthship construction training program they are offering in East Texas. They discuss the following:
- What is the key to successful sustainability and survival?
- What is the most important aspect of building an earthship?
- How the training and tuition figure into building earthship homes for participating students
- How much it costs to build an earthship
- What is the most untapped resource on the planet now?
- An explanation of the new earthship designs and how they are different and improved
- Brief explanation of how multiple systems: thermo-mass rocket heaters, solar and wind power systems, play in important role in the Biotechture earthship building model
- Upcoming 2- week Aquaponics course
Biotechture Training.
We are a non-profit organization. Our mission is to teach, as many people as are willing to learn, how to live sustainably, because no one should have to pay a cost just for living. To build Earthships which are off-grid, self-sustained homes that provide not only for all the basic human needs of shelter, food, water, and power; but also needs of comfort, safety, technology, and abundance. An Earthship can provide all that using technologies and resources available today. Earthships are radically sustainable buildings made with recycled materials. Earthships can be built in any part of the world, in any climate and still provide solar power, wind power, catchwater, contained sewage treatment and sustainable food production through aquaponics farming.
On Monday, we will continue the second half of this podcast with a discussion between Mark and Sam about Aquaponics as part of the self-sustainability model.
Related Resources
Biotechturetraining.com website
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January 19th, 2012 at 3:02 pm (survival skills, urban survival, fire-building, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, self sustainability)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the Urban Core Basic course. This purpose of this course is to lay the groundwork for urban survival and community re-building. Sam covers the following points and more in his talk today:
- What is the Urban Core Basic and how does it differ from the Primitive Core Basic?
- Is there overlap between the two courses?
- What are the core courses vs. peripheral courses in The Human Path curriculum?
- How do Food, Water, Shelter, Fire and Security fit together in an urban environment?
- What are some of the hands-on exercises that students have to do in the Urban Core Basic?
- What kinds of subjects and scenarios will be run in the part 2 of the Urban Core Basic coming up in about 4 weeks?
- Can a person jump into Part 2 and finish Part 1 later?
- How many hours are the Core Basics, and why are they split up in 2 parts sometimes and in 1 long course other times?
Upcoming Related Courses
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December 13th, 2011 at 3:31 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, self sustainability)
While prompting readers to try a 23-day challenge of self-sustainability, writer and mother of 3, Andrea Muse is preparing her family for their own 90 day test where they will put the self-sustainability model into action. Born from a desire to be independent of consumer-driven 'needs', the author of the website Frugally Sustainable is building a community of like-minded people to support one another in their own journey to become more self-reliant, creative and happy.
Sam Coffman and Andrea discuss:
- What is one item that is almost impossible to find a substitution for?
- How has that one item grown to faciliate interaction between like-minded people who are practicing self-sustainability with discussions, an unlimited knowledge base and place of support?
- How does history play an important role in devising substitutions for items?
- the 23-Day Frugal Living Challenge, what is it, what does it include and how does it work?
- What is THE toughest thing about changing from a consumer-driven lifestyle to one that is more independent?
- Andrea's personal preparedness in event of a life-changing disaster
- The importance of both neighbors and community
- What is the most important core principle of preparedness that so many people have neglected?
- How dependence on society's 'safety net' has rendered the majority of people incapable of basic survival skills like getting food, purifying water and coping with disaster
- re-defining 'wants' and 'needs' is the key to becoming self-sustainable
Andrea is Registered Nurse turned frugally sustainable homemaker. She left her full-time career in order to live out her passions as a wife, a homeschooling Mom to three young children, a homemaker, and a blogger. Together she and her family live in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. They are all about designing a deeply enjoyable and rewarding life that is interdependent on like-minded others, ecologically responsible and centered around the home.
Andrea blogs at Frugally Sustainable. There you can read about her family’s counter-cultural journey away from consumerism. You may also be interested to join the growing community of like-minded individuals on her Facebook page or follower her on twitter @FrugallySustain.
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September 29th, 2011 at 11:41 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, disaster preparedness, readiness, economic collapse, survival scenario)
**This scenario exercise is from a previous Facebook discussion this past summer. However we have many new listeners and fans that we would like to share this sample scenario with.
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Part 1: You are in a southern or southwestern state - let's say central, south or west TX, within a few hundred miles of the Mexican border. There has been a technological and social breakdown to the extent that there is virtually no law and order as far as you know, anywhere in the country. You have had no communication available to you for at least a few days (one-way or two-way) so you're not sure what's going on outside of your region, but there were people looting, killing and dying as you got out of the urban area you were in. |
| You drove your car as far as you dared, but even that was dangerous because of clogged highways and high amounts of violence on and around any high-traffic areas. People moving the opposite way have been talking about heavily armed, Mexican drug lord type convoys moving north to take whatever they need and want as they roll through towns. You're on foot now, with some basic survival gear (no weapon except your survival knife), about 7K calories worth of food and 3 quarts of water and decent hiking clothing that will suffice for the terrain.
You are determined to make it to your sister's house to join up with her & the rest of your family. She lives about 50 miles southwest of where you are now. You know the general area, which is arid, but not completely dry. Sparse desert woodlands, small farms, small, rocky canyons and desert scrub make up the general terrain you will be moving through on foot.
Question 1: What do you consider to be your most critical survival need?
A: Food
B: Water
C: Security
D: Shelter
E: Fire
Question 2: Do you think you should travel during the day or during the night? Why?
You can post your answers here on the podcast comments board. We'll reply with feedback at the end of the day.
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