Community preps?
Community preps?
If you were responsible for prepping for your whole community what would be your priorities?
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First up would be planting of food and storage of water, then finding out who has any skills. I'm assuming that shelter isn't a problem.
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
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Depends on what you have in mind and area etc, however I'd add education to the above list. If people don't know, teaching them or finding someone to teach what you don't know would be a huge help. First Aid and treatment etc
If possible, introducing some livestock or poultry for eggs and milk.
Keeping a few of those kid's pools you can inflate or the ones with metal poles are a quick way to be able to store a large volume of water, assuming you have a supply to fill it/them from
A generator or solar panels and batteries might be useful too. If there was no budget haha
If possible, introducing some livestock or poultry for eggs and milk.
Keeping a few of those kid's pools you can inflate or the ones with metal poles are a quick way to be able to store a large volume of water, assuming you have a supply to fill it/them from
A generator or solar panels and batteries might be useful too. If there was no budget haha
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Great question, I've been thinking a lot about this recently. Who *is* my community? The estate I live on, this side of the railway that splits my town in two, my whole town?
And then, who's interested, who's a problem?
What issues do we face?
Conventional food and water supplies: couple of weeks minimum food supplies, water butts in the gardens. Emergency heating and lighting (camping stove, LED lanterns and the like).
Then more food stocks, storing water in the house. Skills analysis, as Decaff mentions.
Growing food in our own gardens. Negotiating to grow food plants on public land, including schools, railway platforms (my mother's town already does this, and invites locals to use the produce, its very successful), landscaping grass eg outside police stations and hospitals.
Campaigning on restrictive bylaws and covenants that might prevent people keeping chickens etc.
And then, who's interested, who's a problem?
What issues do we face?
Conventional food and water supplies: couple of weeks minimum food supplies, water butts in the gardens. Emergency heating and lighting (camping stove, LED lanterns and the like).
Then more food stocks, storing water in the house. Skills analysis, as Decaff mentions.
Growing food in our own gardens. Negotiating to grow food plants on public land, including schools, railway platforms (my mother's town already does this, and invites locals to use the produce, its very successful), landscaping grass eg outside police stations and hospitals.
Campaigning on restrictive bylaws and covenants that might prevent people keeping chickens etc.
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metatron
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Power, most likely a mix of hydro, solar and wind with a few gasturbine generators as back up, maybe even a molten salt reactor.
Waste and water processing.
Hydroponic vertical greenhouse gardens.
Low energy housing.
Medical centre.
Fabrication facility.
School.
Multi layer fence, and defence network (mines in an ideal world)
Communication network including comms satellites.
Research laboratory.
Prison and rehabilitation centre.
List could go on, but I guess it depends on the size and type of community.
Waste and water processing.
Hydroponic vertical greenhouse gardens.
Low energy housing.
Medical centre.
Fabrication facility.
School.
Multi layer fence, and defence network (mines in an ideal world)
Communication network including comms satellites.
Research laboratory.
Prison and rehabilitation centre.
List could go on, but I guess it depends on the size and type of community.
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Some interesting points, thank so far - keep em coming 
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I'm very interested in learning about sustainable intentional communities,and finding out what has worked for them and what hasn't.
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If preparedness were to be integral to a community then, my priorities would be self sufficiency, just as an individual, family, or small group would, the object is to be able to stand alone and get by for a while.
I am talking of basics for everyone, food, water, sanitation, alternative shelter and temporary beds etc for displaced people, and I would insist that shops in the community carried stock of non perishables to last a severe weather spell.
I am talking of basics for everyone, food, water, sanitation, alternative shelter and temporary beds etc for displaced people, and I would insist that shops in the community carried stock of non perishables to last a severe weather spell.
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
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bikerjoe83
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Re: Community preps?
Security!
If you're lucky to live in a good neighbourhood then it won't be so much a problem but if you live in one like mine then I'd like to think arranging security would be the first priority. There are a lot of good people around here who would naturally get together to look after each other. There are no doubt, in this day and age, a large amount of people who wouldn't have the first clue what to do and would follow whoever would provide the most without much work in return. Then there's the well-known groups who would immediately jump at the chance to become notorious 'bad-mans innit', risking everyone else's safety for their own reputation.
I'd personally hope I could be part of the good neighbours, group together in a central point i.e. share houses close together instead of spread sporadically down the road or over the next street etc. Then arrange a 'watch', making sure the undesirables aren't hanging around looking for opportunites to steal or worse. A 'weapon' run would be a priority over the first food-run.
Like I said, some areas will be absolutely fine without this, but in my area, I wouldn't leave my house at all (not just after dark) if my good neighbours didn't group together for security.
If you're lucky to live in a good neighbourhood then it won't be so much a problem but if you live in one like mine then I'd like to think arranging security would be the first priority. There are a lot of good people around here who would naturally get together to look after each other. There are no doubt, in this day and age, a large amount of people who wouldn't have the first clue what to do and would follow whoever would provide the most without much work in return. Then there's the well-known groups who would immediately jump at the chance to become notorious 'bad-mans innit', risking everyone else's safety for their own reputation.
I'd personally hope I could be part of the good neighbours, group together in a central point i.e. share houses close together instead of spread sporadically down the road or over the next street etc. Then arrange a 'watch', making sure the undesirables aren't hanging around looking for opportunites to steal or worse. A 'weapon' run would be a priority over the first food-run.
Like I said, some areas will be absolutely fine without this, but in my area, I wouldn't leave my house at all (not just after dark) if my good neighbours didn't group together for security.