The One-Week Resilient Home Challenge: What Would You Discover?
The One-Week Resilient Home Challenge: What Would You Discover? Resilience isn't about preparing for the end of the world. It's about discovering how dependent your ordinary world has become. Imagine that, for the next seven days, you deliberately tried to reduce your dependence on everything coming into your home. Not completely. This isn't a suggestion that you switch off the mains electricity, turn off the water supply or put yourself in danger. Instead, imagine a controlled experiment. For one week, you behave as though electricity, water, food deliveries, internet access and other services might become unreliable. You find out what you already have, what you actually need and what would become a problem surprisingly quickly. Could you feed everyone? Could you cook? Could you keep warm? How much water would you need? Could you keep the fridge and freezer running? Could you charge your phones? Could you receive news and emergency information? And if you have solar panels...