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Zine Library Index
- Leisure
- Community
- Self-Reliance
- Travel
- Cooking
- Bushcraft
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This guide explains a few interesting ways to make money, ways to invest your money without using banks, ways to save yourself spending money and how to budget, because sometimes money makes the world go round.
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The cascadia subduction zone earthquake has a good chance of knocking out the sewer system in a lot of areas and this could result in a terrible public health crisis as hundreds of thousands of people find themselves with no way to safely dispose of their excreta. This guide has instructions for proven, easily implemented systems for storing and processing human waste. It was created by the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Collaborative Design’s inaugural cohort and MDML and formatted into this zine by me, a nameless anarchist living in the Eugene/Springfield area.
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Subtitled “A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation,” Wild Fermentation is an introduction to fermented foods. Includes directions on making saurkraut, tempeh, miso, kim chi, brine pickles, sourdough bread, and more.
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The Profligacy of Others: Mini Dumpster Diving Handbook
This zine comic covers why most people get into diving and why is helps defer the wasteful societies that we live in. It also “dives” into the legalities of diving in America, where you should look, what you should look for, what can be salvaged and what can be thrown away, cooking the shit, and so on.
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Thoughts and feelings on the reasons for dumpster diving as well as tips on do’s and don’ts. Eat well and consider the system of privilege that sustains your lifestyle.
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Shoplifting: The Art and Science
This book is intended to raise consciousness of what shoplifting entails and what issues are linked to it. It is also intended to warn against traps for shoplifters. None of the suggestions are fool-proof. Shoplifting is also not completely sustainable.
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Cordage (rope and string) can be made from many different fibers including (Bast) Dogbane, Milkweed, Nettles, Hemp, Flax; (Leaves) Cattail, Yucca, Agave, Douglas Iris; (Bark) Willow, Maple, Basswood, Cedar; (Root) Leather Root, Beach Lupine; (Whole stem) Tule, straw, Juncus. Each material has specific requirements for extracting and preparing the fibers, but there are only two basic ways for using the fibers to make a cord: braiding (or plaiting) and twining. Braiding was usually done with flat, split materials such as cattail or flattened straw. The instructions in this article will deal only with twining, specifically with two ply (S-twist, Z ply, also called right handed) cordage.
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This guide covers many aspects of self sufficiency including planting schemes for growing food, shelter, foraging and water collection.
Table of Contents:
Housing
Squatting – 3
Shelters – 3
House Building -4
Straw Bale Junk – 5
Figuring out Clay Content – 5
Plastering Junk – 7
Building Material Info – 8
Comparison of House Structure to Plastering Walls – 10
Wattle and Daub – 10
Earthship Junk – 11
Earth Cover Weights – 12
Cave Dwelling – 13
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Water
Collection – 13
Well Construction – 13
Filtration and Storage – 14
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Food
Planting – 15
Compost – 16
Mulching – 16
Companion Planting – 17
Permaculture – 18
Watering – 18
Sprouting – 19
Sprout Chart – 20
Food Not Bombs – 21
Dumpstering – 21
Nutrition – 21 and 22
Eating Habits – 22
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Health
Plant Identificaiton – 22
Illness Prevention – 22
Medicinal Plants – 23
Health Guide – 24
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Random Awesome Stuff – 25 to End
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Skinning, Tanning & Working Hides
This zine is an exploration of the ancient skill of working hides. Includes all the information beginners need to know to skin animals, and stretch, scrape, tan, and soften their hides, all without the use of industrial chemicals. DIY the old way!
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Super efficient wood stoves you can build! Covers the science and design of rocket stoves.
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A Boy Scouts published booklet, kinda Zine style, with a huge array of knots and lashings.
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Seven Primitive Survival Shelters That Could Save Your Life
Short pamphlet with basic instructions for how to make seven simple shelter types. It assumes you have some basic knowledge and isn’t completely step by step, but the illustrations and listed steps are comprehensive enough that you should be able to figure it out.
Shelter Types Included:
Quintze Hut
Pole and Bough Lean-to
A-frame
Wickiup
Wigwam
Salish Subterranean Shelter
Bonus! How to make:
Two-strand Cord
Grass Thatching
Bark Shingles
Fire Bed
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A guide to living off of nature’s bounty in urban, rural and wilderness areas. Great illustrations and information. One of my all time favorite zines. A must have for anyone interested learning basic primitive skills. Includes information on, wild plant foraging, edible mushrooms, skinning and tanning animal hides, preparing edible insects, and much more. Please download, print, and redistribute these freely in any way.
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