The Northern New Jersey Preparedness Group is seeking members who wish to organize with us and prepare for possible major disasters that lay ahead. Optimally, we would like to organize a meet monthly to discus how our group could survive and live beyond a major disaster. Feel free to join our group if you know this group would suit your interest, and have the skills or are willing to learn new skills and the time necessary to plan for a possibility of new future on the horizon. The Northern New …
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This group is for learning, teaching and sharing ideas about disaster preparedness, be it natural or man made. With an extremely shaky economy, depletion of our natural resources and a myriad of other exposures that may interfere with our current way of life, skills such as food & water storage, sanitation, security, self defense, shelter, etc. will have tremendous value. To this end, we hold informational seminars, coordinate group buys, a book club, attend and sponsor workshops. The group is …
Fathers, mothers, accountants, doctors, investment advisors, brokers, attorneys, teachers, business executives, business owners, machinist, mechanics, artist and………… There is a movement of self-sufficiency, preparedness, self-reliance and survival. These people have many names ranging from self-reliant, preppers, homesteaders, and survivalist. All share a need for quality of life, economic adaptation, and if necessary survive a catastrophic local or global event. New and wanting to learn how to …
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We are a group of Concerned Citizens meeting weekly at a dojo on 14th Street in Manhattan. We are learning and teachings many aspects of Urban Survival and Wilderness survival. Classes are taught classroom style and in the fields on site. We deal with Emergencies, Disasters and Self Suffiencies in general. Skills we are learning are: Gardening; food prep, canning and storage;alternate energy; fishing, hunting, tracking, orienteering; using hand tools; archery; stick fighting, self defense; first …
When the unthinkable happens in your city, are you prepared to survive? Disaster is a subject like taxes or death, no one wants to talk or think about it. This group is NOT about and totally DIFFERENT from alarmism or paranoia. Western cultural is biased against advance preparation outside times of active warfare. "It's preferred and viewed normal for people to avoid disaster safety." But, Megadisasters have become part of our modern reality. Too many people mistakenly believe there is no pre …
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What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sa …
This is for SEWA (social service) minded young adults. We do lotsa cool volunteering projects in/around Manhattan!
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