With contributions from Douglas Rushkoff, Claire Wolfe and Charles Hugh Smith

We have grown accustomed to life in a stable and prosperous society, and many of us are not prepared for financial uncertainty.

Depression 2.0 is a practical, empowering, hands-on guide to persevering and even thriving in the event of an economic crisis. Placing particular emphasis on self-sufficiency, community-building, and personal resilience, this timely, informative book offers a hopeful way forward in a time of great uncertainty. Bankruptcy, barter, and survival investing are just a few of the important topics explored.

Chapters include:

• Worst Case Scenario: Contemplating Unemployment
• Down but Not Out: Economics for Leaner Times
• Walking Away: Thinking about Bankruptcy
• In Case of Emergency: The Resilient Home
• Return to Simplicity: Retreat Options
• Keeping the Lights on: Home Energy Solutions
• Between the Cracks: When You Have No Shelter
• Beyond Currency: When Greenbacks Go Bad
• Survival Finances: Crisis Investing
• Future Shift: The Road Ahead

Depression 2.0 is the fourth title in Process’ celebrated Self-Reliance Series, created to help urbanites make smart choices to live sustainably in the twenty-first century.

For hard-working urban professionals Kristy Athens and husband Michael, living in the country was a romantic dream. After purchasing seven acres in Washington’s beautiful Columbia River Gorge, Athens and her husband were surprised to learn just how challenging rural life could be.

Get Your Pitchfork On! provides the hard-learned nuts-and-bolts of rural living from city folk who were in over their heads. Practical and often hilarious, Get Your Pitchfork On! reads like a twenty-first century The Egg and I. (more…)

One of the most popular titles in Process’ Self-Reliance series, Getting Out is a smartly designed and easy-to-navigate compendium about your best options for a new homeland, and how to navigate a myriad of hurdles before and after you get there.

Here are the rules, resources, and experiences of dozens of expat Americans on every continent, including author Mark Ehrman, who moved from Los Angeles to Berlin after publishing Getting Out. The updated and expanded edition contains new information on taxes, healthcare, food, drink, drugs, security, and suggestions about how to start a business or make a living in foreign lands.

This new edition has new information in response to the country’s current economic crisis, including additional, extensive information on food storage and foraging and a new chapter on preparedness and self-protection in times of civil unrest.

PREPAREDNESS NOW! is the first comprehensive planning and action guide for urbanites and suburbanites who want to live more self-sufficiently and learn how to wisely provide for themselves and their loved ones in the face of any emergency or disaster.

This book empowers individuals and communities to take care of themselves and each other in the face of any emergency and build more sustainable lifestyles along the way. Packed with checklists, resources, and step-by-step instructions, PREPAREDNESS NOW! has everything from home, office and car preparedness to information on Buckminster Fuller and building disaster-resistant geodesic domes.

PREPAREDNESS NOW! is written by one of the most experienced experts in the field. Author Aton Edwards is Executive Director of the NYC-based non-profit organization, International Preparedness Network (IPN). IPN has worked with the Red Cross, Center for Disease Control, New York City Police Department, and other organizations to train thousands domestically and overseas to prevent and respond to emergencies and disasters.

PREPAREDNESS NOW! provides years of wisdom gained from Edwards’ first-hand experience and the experience of his extensive network of colleagues. You will learn basic and advanced techniques that will help you make the most informed choices for your own disaster plan–wherever you may live, and whatever your physical abilities and financial means.

This manual delivers practical advice on:

• Building your emergency kits for home, car and office
• Water Quality Control and Storage
• Emergency Shelter, Power, Lighting and Heating
• Emergency Transportation, Communications and Evacuation
• Extreme weather preparedness
• Chemical, Biowarfare and Nuclear Preparedness
• Defense against Infectious Diseases
• Personal Defense and Crime Prevention for the 21st Century Home

Process’ Self-Reliance Series is created to help urbanites make smart choices to live sustainably and self-sufficiently in the 21st century.

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“It’s a great thing that we have Aton Edwards to help inform and prepare the public.” — Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone

“Aton’s work is tremendously important. What we need to do for the next round is to get ourselves prepared. This can help us get it done. How can we afford to have so many adults that aren’t prepared to face anything?” — Chuck D., author, musician, and host of “On the Real”

“As good or better than any operator I’ve worked with in my years with the special forces in Viet Nam. If he can’t make us safer, no one can.” — Richard Muldrow, US Army and Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM-Ret.)

Brings sustainable ancient, indigenous, and traditional gardening techniques, history, and mythology to modern permaculture.

Shamanic Gardening contains a cultural history of sustainable gardening, including techniques used by  Cleopatra, the Japanese, The Pueblo Indians, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and many others.

Learn to design an elegant, edible, sustainable landscape, grow healing herbs, extract flower essences, grow aphrodisiacs, and plant for nutrition and beauty. Includes shamanic principles to garden with more awareness and effectiveness, using your inner senses, working with earth energies, color, flower essences, etc. (more…)

*A Living Now Book of the Year award winner!*

This celebrated, essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. The Urban Homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.

Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. By growing our own food and harnessing natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities.

New projects include:

• How to sterilize jars and bottles
• How to make infused oil
• Six ways to preserve a tomato
• How to make soda bread
• How to store grain with dry ice
• How to make a tomato can stove
• How to make a Viet Nam light
• How to make a Euell Gibbon’s crock
• How to make L’hamd markad, or preserved, salted lemons
• How to make a bike light

“The Urban Homestead…touches on vegetable gardening, poultry, DIY cleaning products and beer making all outlined with a sense of play and fun.” — Whole Life Times

“…a delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat.” — Boingboing.net

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are creators of the blog Root Simple, a green living and self-sufficiency resource for urbanites. They live in Los Angeles.

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The fifth title in Process’ Self-Reliance series demystifies medical practices with a practical approach to 21st Century health and home medicine, particularly helpful for stressful moments in a financial downturn.

When There Is No Doctor is smartly designed and full of medical tips and emergency suggestions. It should be no further than an arm’s reach in your household at a time when our health system has become particularly susceptible to strain.

“This is a book about sustainable health, primarily having to do with your health and what you can do to protect it in bad times certainly, but also in good. I will help you ensure the health of those you love, yourself and, should you so choose, your community, if and when the world changes. World may come to mean your little town or the whole globe. It could change for a few days or weeks, or for a few years. It could change because of a flood, financial crisis, flu pandemic, or failure of our energy procurement, production or distribution systems.”

“I will not teach you to be a lone survivalist who anticipates doing an appendectomy on himself or a loved one on the kitchen table with a steak knife and a few spoons, although I will discuss techniques of austere and improvised medicine for really hard times.” from When There Is No Doctor

Author Dr. Gerard Doyle teaches and practices Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he also plans the hospital’s response to disasters. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and children.