Mr. Matthew Stein is a mechanical engineer and graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. As the owner of Stein Design & Construction and a designer, he has built hurricane resistant and eco-friendly homes, and designed everything from water and bacterial filters to portable fiberglass buildings.

In a meditation session, Mr. Stein had received a message urging him to write a comprehensive manual for survival skills, as many people would benefit from it in the future. People he spoke with also encouraged him on the idea. Using his excellent engineering skills and talent, Mr. Stein spent several years researching, consulting, and writing.

The result is book, “When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency.” Mr. Stein would share his developed expertise on numerous radio and television programs such as on Fox News, as well as through published articles and as a guest columnist for the “Huffington Post.”

Nobody drives down the road and says, “Gee, I want to get in a head on collision today.” No, you buy insurance and you pray to God that you're never going to need it, and if that day should come, anything happens, then you thank God you have that insurance. And disaster prep is like that. You hope you never need any of this stuff.

How many of us are prepared for a major cyclone or earthquake? How would we cope if the water stops flowing out of the tap, or if gasoline and electricity were unavailable, or if the doctors and hospitals are overloaded and there was a medical emergency?

As we are about to find out, Mr. Stein’s short-term 72-hour “Grab-and-Run Kit” could help tremendously, especially during the period before government help may be able to reach emergency victims. He freely shares some of the essential items and survival know-how today.

The 72-hour “Grab-and-Run kit is everything that you and your family need to stay safe and to provide the food, shelter, clothing, water and medicine for the critical first three days after a disaster. So, when you think about it, the absolute most important is water. You may not believe it but most of us could live a month without food, you may not like it, you may not feel good but you could survive. But in hot weather a single day without water and we would be in trouble.

If an earthquake hits, then the water lines will break, the gas lines will break, the electricity will go down, so suddenly all the things that you take for granted, being able to go to the tap and turn on the faucet and get clean pure drinkable water, all those things stop. So, what you’ll be doing when you’re thirsty is drinking out of the nearest duck pond or ditch if that’s all you have to go with.

That doesn’t sound very appetizing!

The most important thing in my Grab & Run Kit is this. And this is a water filter. So what you do, is, this sits onto of a bottle and you take the tip of the filter and you put it down into your local scummy ditch water or stream or whatever. Now hopefully you find a nice clean looking stream, but if you don’t this will work with really yucky water. It will take the water in here and you pump it into your bottle and it goes through a combination carbon and ceramic filter cartridge that takes out all the bacteria and in the carbon core it takes out bad tastes, bad odors, noxious chemicals.

So it takes some effort and some time, but you can see I’m pumping out of kind of a scummy stream here, sort of swamp water, and I get perfectly good, drinkable water. So, this is a wonderful gadget. Now, you won’t always necessarily have a water filter like this on hand, but there are some other options here.

Now most of us, most households might have some bleach, Clorox bleach. This is just standard household regular bleach. Don’t get the bleach that’s scented, you don’t want lavender bleach or you know, bleach with special whiteners in it, you just want plain, standard, straight bleach.

So I’ll take a little bit of bleach here, put some in my medicine dropper, and, get my water bottle. Now, here is a trick with this stuff. Try and get fairly clean water if you can, I’d rather use my water filter, any day, and you got a bottle and it’s a little bit scummy, not too bad, and you take your dropper, now, if you want to wait quite a long time, you can just put 2 drops in, and it won’t taste as bad, but you got to wait, you got to stir it up and wait about an hour.

Now if you want it to go a little faster, you put 4 drops in, 2 more, and if it’s really warm water, like 80 degree water, it will be ready about 15 minutes. If it’s cool water, it will be ready in about half an hour. And if it’s really cold water, it’s more like 1 to 2 hours. So you give it a good shake, and then you let it sit. Now, with my water filter, I could pump the water in there and instantly drink it. With a chemical, it takes time to do its magic.

After making sure you have access to water, what is the next most important thing to put in an emergency Grab-and-Run Kit? We’ll find out when we return. Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television.

Welcome back to Enlightening Entertainment on Supreme Master Television. Author and engineer Mr. Matthew Stein from the United States continues to show us what items to put in a 72-hour Grab-and-Run Kit that could help us be prepared for an emergency.

I’d say the next most important thing is first aid. Anytime there’s an earthquake, multiple trauma wounds, people are cut, people are wounded, so having first aid is so important. And also having first aid training.

When there’s a huge disaster, the doctors and nurses, well they are injured too, they are in trouble too, and the ones that aren’t injured are hopelessly overloaded.

I always supplement the little first aid kit and the big one with a couple of other key items. This is called an ace bandage and it’s a stretchy bandage. And it’s really good for sprains. You can bind wounds with it; it’s a very handy-all-around thing. So I like to have a couple of these around.

And this is probably one of the most important items you could have in your Grab-and-Run Kit, and you will say “What? It’s just some tape.” Well this is cloth adhesive first aid tape, and this is such an important item, because it’s got multiple uses. So if you’ve got wounds you can seal them like stitches with the tape.

Protection from blisters is very important for mobility.

Most people, unless they’re active athletes – they are always outside, after a mile down the road they’re going to start blistering up. Before you blister up, when you feel yourself getting sore, what you do is you take your shoes and socks off and you take this tape and you take a little bit of it off like this, and you use the sticky side to scrub your ankles, to get the oils off the skin and the dirt off the skin.

Because if you take the tape and just stick it on your normal ankle, the tape will just come right off as soon as you walk down the road, and it does you no good. So you scrub it a little bit like that. Then you take fresh tape out and you tape all your sore spots, and you put your shoes and socks back on and you’re off and running.

Next, this is one of the next most important items. Disaster happens, the lights go out, there’s no power, there’s no lights, and when you have a head lamp and you turn it on and wherever your head points the light beam goes. Now the other item that I use daily also is this. This is called a colloidal silver generator. Now it turns out that silver has magic, almost magical anti-bacterial and anti-viral, and to a lesser degree, anti-fungal properties. So in this modern day of antibiotic resistant bacteria, colloidal silver is something every family should have.

Mr. Stein also points out that it is good to store cash in small bills with your emergency kit, just in case it’s needed. The next item is food. Some food items include energy bars, freeze dried meals, which are light but do require water, protein-rich nuts and seeds, and dried fruit.

Now, this is called "A meal ready to eat."

Vegetarian?

Yes, and it's a survival kind of food, to be honest with you.

Veggie burger with barbeque sauce.

In some emergencies, long-term food security may be affected. Now, here’s something. These are edible plants books.

In a long term disaster, what will probably make the difference between life and death for you and your family, is the ability to forage. If you know what you’re doing, go to the nearest local swamp, you can pull up the cat-tails, you can eat the tubers, you can go to the yard, you can eat dandelion greens, you can pull up roots. If it’s winter time, you can go to the nearest tree, and you can peel the bark and take the green layer, and make a meal out of it that you can make kind of a pancake-like thing out of it.

So, to give you an idea how important foraging is for edible fruits and berries, I had a conversation with a gentleman that teaches survival classes in Arizona, and he said at the end of the survival class, they would split into groups, and they would go out, and they would live for three days off of what they could get off the land.

Now the women would go out and forage for edible fruits, nuts, berries, things like that. The men would go out and focus on hunting and fishing. He said, come day three, pretty much invariably the starving men would go over and hungrily and sheepishly join the women, who would share the bountiful, edible fruits, nuts, berries, and tubers that they had foraged for.

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We thank you for your company today on Enlightening Entertainment. Please join us next Friday, August 13 for more tips on the “Grab-and-Run Kit” for Emergency Preparedness – with Survival Expert Matthew Stein. He will also share his views on the six major trends facing humanity, which separately are each disastrous, and combined could lead to a global collapse – unless change is made.

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In 1997, one day during his daily meditation, Mr. Matthew Stein heard his inner voice that encouraged him to write a book on disaster preparedness titled “When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, Surviving the Long Emergency.” It would explain how people can prepare for emergencies when basic services and goods such as fuel, shelter, food and water are not available. But at the time, Mr. Stein was neither a survival expert nor one particularly concerned about disasters facing humankind. But today, he is both.

There’s been many civilizations in the past that have failed on the planet, so different things have busted civilizations. But now, we have six global trends and each one of them is a potential civilization buster. The first one is climate change.

According to Mr. Stein, the other civilization busters are: reaching maximum petroleum production; deforestation beyond recovery; fish and ocean collapse; the global food crisis; and population growth.

Right now, 11 out of 14 of the world’s major fisheries in the oceans are either in collapse or in danger of collapsing. The combination of the oceans heating up from global climate change, and the acidification, is killing not just the planktons and the fish, but the coral reefs. The coral reefs stabilize carbon, they take the CO2 out of the atmosphere and they combine it with nutrients in the ocean to make coral. When the coral reefs die, that’s another big leg of stabilizing our atmosphere, our breathability, our weather, all of that.

So we’re messing with things, huge systems that keep our world livable, are in danger of collapse. The next one is the forest of the world. Half of the forests in the world are gone, from what there was in ancient times. Not only do they part of the carbon-oxygen cycle that keeps our weather stable, and keeps our atmosphere breathable on the planet, they also are giant water pumps. So a single huge tree, like a giant redwood or a giant rainforest tree, supposedly has the evaporative surface area equal to a 40 acre lake.

So what happens when you cut the trees down, is you have giant weather changes down wind from the trees. Now #5 is really scary, like I haven’t scared you not yet. (Yes, I know!) Number 5 is the global food crisis. (Right.) There’s something like six major rivers in the world that no longer flow into the ocean.

As we’re running short on fresh water, that also means we’re running short on irrigable land. And more and more people are hungry every year. We’re also unsustainably farming the soils. Modern factory farming methods are actually mining soils. Problem is that the soils in America are being depleted at 30 times faster than they’re being replenished. If you continue that trend, then the trend in world food production is towards collapse.

So the oceans are headed for collapse, the forests are headed for collapse, the world climate is changing to the point where it’s been predicted we might have as much as 6-degree temperature change in the next century, and that will make most of the food baskets of the world un-farmable.

So you’ve got all of these trends, they’re building up, and are each of them individually headed for collapse, and they’re making a perfect storm. Now the last trend is population. What that means is that we’re consuming the natural resources of the planet faster than they can regenerate.

If we do not reverse these trends as an engineer and scientist, there is a 100% guarantee that each of these trends individually will cause collapse, and collectively, there’s no chance. The chance is in making change. We must change the way we do business on our planet.

Mr. Stein believes that without immediate change, human survival will be jeopardized around the globe. To help families and individuals who wish to be better insured, hoping, of course, that a crisis would never happen, Mr. Stein created the “Grab-and-Run Kit.” When we return, we’ll find out about some of the essential items for the kit with disaster preparedness expert Matthew Stein. Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television.

Welcome back to Supreme Master Television’s Enlightening Entertainment. Previously, Mr. Stein showed us different materials we can use to purify water, give first aid, and learn to forage for wild plant foods – all useful skills for anyone caught in an emergency. Today, he shares about more potentially life-saving items and survival tips.

Here’s some dental floss. Now dental floss is good for more than just dental flossing. It’s good for tying things together, it’s good for strong thread to sew stuff up.

This is very important – sun screen. You know, people forget about that, disaster happens, you’re living outside, earthquakes are shaking, nobody’s going in a building. Because when’s the next shock is going to hit? You’re outside 24/7.

Now, a compass. Some people say, “Well, I don’t know, why do I need a compass?” Well, if there’s a fire, or something’s happened, and you can’t see the sun, it’s cloudy, and you’re disoriented, and there is smoke, you might have no idea what way north is. I always thought I had a tremendous sense of direction. I was skiing and it’s pitch black, and there is a snow storm, blinding snowstorm.

So you can’t see stars to navigate by, there is no trees, there is no mountains on your side, it’s dark to navigate by. I looked at my compass, and it’s like, “Oh my God! I’m supposed to go that way!” Because of the shifting winds, I had turned around 180 degrees the wrong direction. So it could be a life saver in certain situations.

This is called a space blanket or an emergency sleeping bag. It’s aluminized cover, it’s waterproof, it will reflect heat, it will keep the wind and water off of you, it might make a huge difference between comfort or just horrible torture, or between living or not living.

A mask can be important for escaping a fire, volcanic ash, or even for those living near an oil spill.

It’s not a full gas mask, but it’s called “a painter’s respirator.” And you can get them in any kind of hardware supply (store). And what this will do, is it filters the air coming into your body.

So, say you’ve got a fire, then 99.9% of the particulate and the toxic chemicals you’re breathing in will get taken out by these filters and carbon canisters. So this could make the difference between choking and not being able to do anything or getting terribly ill, and being fine.

Tea tree oil I find is more effective to me than the Neosporin, and it’s anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and the amazing property of tea tree oil is it’s a tiny molecule. It’ll soak right through the skin into the infection and zap it.

If you’ve got an infected tooth, you can dry it off and dab the tea tree on there, and people have said that it’s highly effective.

A solar or hand-powered radio, multi-tool pocket knife, compact stove, something to cook and eat out of, toilet paper, a flashlight are also important. Mr. Stein also suggests obtaining waterproof matches and a windproof lighter to build fires and to sterilize needles.

This is probably one of the most important items for your Grab-and-Run Kit. This is a sewing kit. Right here. So I’ve got needles, some very large heavy duty needles in here as well as smaller ones. Might have to stitch wounds up as well as your pack.

You talk about something that your book mentions as something very important is a “pit of the stomach” exercise.

Yes.

The “pit of the stomach” could really be the most important thing that you take away from our conversation. In a crisis, you will rarely have all the information at your finger tips. You don’t really know what to do and you know you can’t trust the rational mind when it’s changing it’s mind every minute. There is an inner compass, an inner guidance system bred into each and every one of us, and if you can get in touch with that, it simply knows what to do and will guide you.

A few years ago, there was a high-tech gentleman from the San Francisco Bay area who was traveling with his wife and infant in their car and they got lost and disoriented, and they ran out of gas, they were out of cell phone range. So this guy stayed with his wife and infant for I think two days. Well he thought in his head, he thought the rule of thumb for survive is you follow the river and it will take you to civilization. So that’s what he did.

So what you do for the pit of the stomach, the first thing you do is you say, okay, if you’re spiritual, you pray and you ask for help from Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, or Holy Spirit. You ask for help or you just say please help me, and you don’t have to ask anything specific if you’re not spiritual. Then you start breathing deeply and you focus your attention on the area between your rib cage and your belly button, on the pit of the stomach right here, some call it Dan Tien right there, and you keep breathing deeply until you feel your thoughts quiet down and you feel a relaxed sense in that pit of the stomach, that the muscles are relaxed.

Then what you do is you’re going to do this in pictures, you’re going to avoid the thinking mind. So what he would do in his situation is picture himself in his mind’s eye walking down the river towards civilization, and then you feel the pit of the stomach. Now if you feel the muscles tense up into a knot, then you know it’s a bad idea. So then it’s like “Well maybe I should stay in the car.” Now the mind was telling him, “You can’t stay in the car! That’s the sissy thing to do, that’s the chicken thing to do, that’s like waiting for death to come on you.”

You do the pit of the stomach, you picture, and if you get that “Ahh…” feeling, like a relaxed expansive feeling, then it’s like “Oh wow, I’m staying in the car.” Well what happened? He went down the river, he got stuck in a steep river canyon, cold hard rain, died of exposure and exhaustion.

They found the car and the wife and the child. People say does this really work? And can you really trust it? And I’ll say yes. And you’ve had that experience in your life of listening to that intuitive feeling and think afterwards, “Oh thank God I listened, now I understand. I am so glad I listened.”

Our sincere appreciation, Mr. Matthew Stein for sharing this valuable information. Wishing you all the best in your efforts to raise awareness of the need for humanity to halt its dangerously unsustainable trends and turn to planet- and life-saving directions. For more information about the Grab-and-Run Kit and other helpful resources, please visit

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