Urban Survival Newsletter

Everyday Carry Gear (EDC) for Survival

by David Morris on March 3, 2011

Survival lessons from Middle East and Northern Africa Violence

by David Morris on February 24, 2011

Preparing for the Coming Real Estate Collapse

by David Morris on February 18, 2011

Talking to Loved Ones About Preparedness Using “Baby Step 1″

by David Morris on February 11, 2011

Small Town Roadblocks After Disasters & Preparedness vs Faith

by David Morris on February 3, 2011

Survival Lessons From Tunisia’s Coup, Egypt’s Riots, and Moscow

by David Morris on January 27, 2011

Natural Medicine As An Urban Survival Tool

by David Morris on January 20, 2011

Preparing for a Pandemic Flu Worst Case Scenario

by David Morris on December 16, 2010

Food Shortage Riots-Video Preview

by David Morris on December 9, 2010

How To Power Appliances After A Disaster

by David Morris on November 18, 2010

Paranoid, Paralyzed, or Prepared?

by David Morris on November 11, 2010

What Quantitative Easing Means For You

by David Morris on November 4, 2010

Upcoming Election and Preparedness

by David Morris on October 21, 2010

Situational Awareness and the Cooper Color Codes

by on October 14, 2010

How Wilderness Survival and Urban Survival Skills Fit Together

by David Morris on October 7, 2010

The Colony On Discovery Season 2 Finale

by David Morris on September 29, 2010

Urban Survival Skills You Can Practice Today

by David Morris on September 23, 2010

Colony Episode 9 – The Virus – Psychology, Scouting, and Revenge

by David Morris on September 22, 2010

Survival kits, 72 hour kits, GOOD bags. A Layered Approach

by David Morris on September 16, 2010

Colony Episode 8 – Useful Idiots & Survival Psychology

by David Morris on September 14, 2010

Ka-Bar USMC Survival Knife Modifications

by David Morris on September 13, 2010

Urban Survival Gear – Survival Knife, GPS Transponder, First Aid

by David Morris on September 9, 2010

Episode 7 of The Colony on Discovery – Tick

by David Morris on September 7, 2010

Episode 6 of The Colony on Discovery, “Skout”

by David Morris on August 31, 2010

Urban Survival Newsletter-Movement and Communication After A Disaster

by David Morris on August 26, 2010

Episode 5 of The Colony on Discovery “The Abduction”

by David Morris on August 24, 2010

Reality Based Fighting, Self Defense, And Martial Arts For Survival [Video]

by David Morris on August 19, 2010

You Don’t Still Plan On Punching Attackers, Do You?

by David Morris on August 17, 2010

Solar Flare To Hit Earth On 3-Aug-2010

by David Morris on August 3, 2010

Urban Survival Lessons From TV???

by David Morris on July 22, 2010

Oil Spill Survival Lessons-Cheap Silencer-Free Urban Survival Cards

by David Morris on July 15, 2010

BP Oil Spill Disaster Survival Myths and Hoaxes

by David Morris on July 1, 2010

Past Articles

Urban Survival Newsletter

Balancing OPSEC and Resilient Communities
Welcome to this week’s Urban Survival Newsletter, brought to you by the SurviveInPlace.com Preparedness Course…designed to help you create a plan to survive wherever you spend the majority of your time, even if that happens to be a non-ideal location. Many people who have been watching “Doomsday Preppers” on National Geographic are wondering why in the heck […]
Review of Episode 3 of Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo
Episode 3 of Doomsday Preppers had an interesting twist to it…NGC said that they’d examined cultures from around the globe and that Doomsday Preppers was a part of their “ongoing look at American outliers.” Outliers? Really? I guess it’s crazy, in hurricane country to prepare for hurricanes, in blizzard country to prepare for blizzards, in […]
Preparing for Hand Sanitizer Resistant Viruses
This week, I was reminded about the importance of being able to self-support after a breakdown in the supply chain from a completely unexpected source…the cruise lines. You see, hundreds of passengers on two cruise ships (one had outbreaks on 2 cruises in a row) contracted a norovirus that caused extreme “digestive system distress”. This […]
Review of Episode 2 of Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo
Episode 2 of Doomsday Preppers featured 4 more preppers, starting with David Sarti from Nashville, TN. David’s main concern is electromagnetic pulses. David does a regular preparedness video at http://www.youtube.com/user/dsarti1?feature=watch David has enough grain for 1 year for 7 people and, interestingly enough, he uses hand warmers as oxygen absorbers. […]
Review of Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo Channel Episode 1
In the first episode, Doomsday Preppers interviews 3 preppers. First up, Paul and Gloria Range from Floresville, TX. They’re retired and are full-time preppers, spending up to 50 hours per week. Some notables: -They’ve got 50,000 pounds of food -Their house is made out of 9 40 foot long steel shipping containers -In the show, […]