This is just a quick list of the things I’ve thought of to learn. I really don’t know much about any of these things, as I haven’t learned them yet. Any additions, as always, would be very welcome, as I’m sure that I’ve missed at least several obvious things and many more that are less so.
- Environmental science
- Climate change
- Alternative energy
- Shaping environment (win-win situation)
- Agriculture
- Sustainable farming
- Nutritional values of crops/ highest caloric values
- Growing seasons and tolerances of crops
- Health
- Herbology
- Composting
- Water sanitation (sanitation- right word?)
- Naturopathy
- Leadership
- Psychology/ sociology
- Public speaking
- Great leaders
- Gandhi
- Nelson Mandela
- History
- what works, what doesn’t, why
- Athenian democracy
- Most successful societies
- Law
- different countries’ laws (and effects)
- prison systems
- Fighting
- Self-defense
- Traditional weapons
- bow and arrow
- bo staff
- knives
- sticks
- Weapons
- making
- maintaining
- using
Some books I’ve seen recommended (haven’t read; not recommending, myself)
- Edward Abbey
- Player One: What is to Become of Us
- Ben Franklin autobiography
- Robert Quinn
- Breaking the Rules- Kurt Wright
- Parable of the Sower– have read this one, actually. I highly recommend it.
- Huxley’s Brave New World
Zosime Apollo 
me too!!
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i only read “brave new world”but there are so many wonderful books.
I recommend Thomas Hardy
“Far from the maddening crowd”
Charles Dickens
poetry-so many great poets
plath,Dickens,Frost,e.e. cummings,lorca,shakespeare,Rilke,Goette,Heine,Lao tsau,Patanjali,the Tibetian book of the living and dying.
The list goes on and on and then there are nonfiction-science !Life is too short to contain all the wisdom.lets try..
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Thanks for the recommendations 🙂
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I make similar lists in my head all the time and instead of ever finishing them, they just keep on growing. You might be interested in the CD3WD project http://lifehacker.com/5765617/cd3wd-archives-the-information-necessary-to-rebuild-society
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