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-# openprepper_library
+# Openprepper Library
+
+Openprepper Library and References List.  This is an evolving list of
+documents, references and reseources that may be useful in the face of
+the coming societal collapse. It may be appropriate to aquire these in
+paper or electronic form as part of a prepper library.
+
+
+## Collapse
+
+* How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times by Pablo
+  Servigne and Raphael Stevens (2015)
+
+* Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William
+  R. Catton Jr. (1980)
+* Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella Meadows, Dennis
+  Meadows, and Jørgen Randers (2004)
+* The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter (1988)
+* The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by
+  John Michael Greer (2008)
+
+
+## Gardening
+
+## Food Storage
+
+## Healthcare
+
+## Electricity
+
+## Welding
+
+
+## Woodwork
+
+
 
-Openprepper Library and References List
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