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Next Steps - October 2025

How are we going to proceed?

David B.

David B.

— 4 min read
Next Steps - October 2025
Photo by Mandy Bourke / Unsplash

I'm throwing a lot of spaghetti on the wall, to see what will stick. And I've got more water boiling on the stove! Thanks for your continued patience and attention as things get sorted out.

In this post:

Zoom Meeting - Saturday 1 November

Let's go ahead and meet on Zoom, Saturday 1 November, at 11:00am Pacific time. I know Saturday is not good for everyone, and we'll have to meet other days, too. The Zoom link will be distributed closer to the meeting.

You can visit calendar.collapseclub.com to verify the meeting time in your time zone.

Europeans please note! Your time will have changed, but U.S. time will not have changed, yet. So for Europeans the meeting will be one hour earlier than you might think. Please check the calendar to verify the meeting time in your zone.

Resources Posted

I posted a bunch of Emergency Preparedness Advice, as a baseline information resource. There's no way to read it all (unless you're an obsessive emergency geek like me), but you may find something interesting to browse. I especially enjoy:

  • The 100-question survey from Deep Adaptation - Hungary. It's an intimidatingly complete inventory of the supplies, skillsets, and planning that go into preparedness. I haven't actually scored myself, but I appreciate the thorough scope of the exercise.
  • The 'Disaster Preparedness Guide' from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. This is the real deal. You really get the feeling for what it's like to live in a disaster zone. Some of the survival tips — like making clothing out of newspaper and shoes out of plastic bags — are especially fun! (That is, "fun" in an ironic, gut-wrenching way.)
  • The article 'Who do I want to be if something happens?' addresses the fundamental rationale for preparedness. In a crisis, do I want to be paranoid and alone in a bunker with a gun, or do I want to be out in the world with my community, helping whomever I can? [The article is in German, so you'll need to translate in your browser. I use Chrome.]

I hope this collection of information portrays the landscape in which we're working. We need to find our personal routes through the thicket of possibilities!

Communications

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  • The Preparedness Support Group Signal Group will continue, for chatty business day by day. Join here.
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What to Think About

We don't want the Zoom meetings for the Preparedness Support Group to be yet another venue for endless talking, so we need to figure out how to make the leap to action. Not an easy problem!

I suggest we focus of a couple of relevant time-scales, which are often cited in the literature:

  1. Three days: You must leave your home for three days and live with a bunch of strangers in a school gymnasium. Or, you are stranded away from home in your car, and it takes you three days to get back.
  2. Two weeks: You must stay in your home for two weeks, without any services. The electricity and gas are out. The water is out. The phones don't work. The stores are closed. The gas stations are closed. The banks are closed. You are basically in the skeleton of your house, but it's a dead shell.

Give some thought to these scenarios, and consider the supplies, skillsets, and communications that you would need to use.

I'll keep thinking about how we can focus the group on action. If you have ideas, please feel free to enter them in the comments. (That's one of the benefits of this platform! When you sign up, you can make comments!)

Also, if you have been through an actual disaster and you have experienced conditions like these scenarios, we want to hear from you!

Until Next Time

This is exciting! There is a lot of energy around the concept of 'Solidarity Prepping' as a way to take action in response to collapse. I'm trying to figure out the tools to gather that energy and unleash the power of self-organization. This blog is a step in that direction.

Please feel free to:

See you soon!

❤️ David B.

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