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and with everyone who uses this site. I do hope y'all are backing this stuff up "in triplicate", and then some. And not just digital. Regardless of what you intend to do with the knowledge. I believe "bad times" are coming, and we are going to need ALL the knowledge of how to navigate the strangeness and confusion that will no doubt come with this, and how to survive well into the future.

That is all. Carry on.

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What does your backup of Permies knowledge look like? I admit, I've never thought about doing that.

I guess I think that a forum like this is a place where ideas get shared and bounced around and I'm *sure* that some of our members who are also authors have done research here that made it into books. So when those books get written and are of a subject I'm into, I tend to buy them. I guess that's sort of my backup plan -- wait for someone to refine the knowledge and distill it down into book form and then get that in paper.
 
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I agree, the forum is a wealth of knowledge.

I backed up all that knowledge in my mind so to speak.

I am not the person I was before finding the forum.

What ever happens, I like to take it a day at a time.

By sharing the knowledge with other this enables me to retain it in my mind.

Like Christopher, I would like to know what kind of stuff you backup and what you share with others on the forum?

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Buying books is great. I have also been thinking about putting together a collection of obscure information that I'd like to have available, but that I don't have the time to reliably cram into my head just now, and print it.
 
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Paul's building a better world in your backyard book is great, but you're right - it would be nice to have a 'best of permies' collection in hardcopy. I wonder how to collect and collate it? The trouble is you never know what titbit you're going to need. The 'best of' threads are interesting, but not always that useful in the scenario you're talking of.
I'm always searching here for some information...It's a good question: What would we do without permies!?

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Is there a relatively easy way to download this site to a HD?

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One option is to support those providing downloads in the digital market.  https://permies.com/c/29

The knowledge they provide is distilled and easy to access.

When an emergency comes, searching for how to do the specific thing takes vital time away from doing the thing.  Permies is almost too big.  But the books like https://permies.com/t/238910/ebooks/Natural-Small-Batch-Cheesemaking-eBook for example, are fast to reference.

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Thank you all...

I was indeed thinking of printed literature, as well as personally held knowledge, where the crux of my "plea" is that of something we must be, at the very least, thinking about. Good to know there are folks actually there already. That, and establishing MORE projects, to be there to teach those who are receptive to it, through hands on education.

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All the permies members who take ideas and concepts from this site and actually incorporate them into their homesteads are producing a "living museum" of sorts and kudos to them!

But I too, am glad so many people are thinking of this sort of thing.

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I've been prototyping radically efficient, benign technology for most of my 75 years.  I'm very frustrated by not having a single student.  
 
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I have always said, "No one person here is smarter than all of us put together", and that is so true. So many great ideas come from a collaborative effort.

The one thing I love about permaculture is that it aligns with the pyramid that Eistein put out in his day. He had various levels of intellect, but at the very top of his pyramid he placed "Simple".

Permaculture is simple, and therefore above genius.
 
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A quick notation here; as a novelist I am writing my 14th novel now and it is about permaculture. I realize it is a fictional book, but it has a lot of the things we hold near and dear like Rocket Mass Heaters, Micro-Hydro, and WOFATI's.

While fictional, words have immense power, and I hope by being an entertaining story, it will help promote the simple culture.

So now the pressure is on for me to not fail a great community!
 
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