Our Footprint

March 14, 2009

...a small house and don’t drive much. That’s just about it. We can’t afford solar panels, and everything else we’ve done, such as the washing machine greywater system, is DIY and un-permitted. We’re sure that many people in our 1920s era neighborhood would have also won this contest. Folks in apartments would have done even better. The average African would do a thousand times better. But anyways, many thanks to the nice folks at Low Impact Living...

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Simple Tech

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2007

Thoughtstylings

...PPRTECH” section which consists of detailed information on everything from solar stills to pedal powered devices. Much of the tech info for third world counties is a strict one-way proposition. The university educated experts parachute in to offer advice to the locals but don’t bother to take any lessons back. Sometimes this arrangement goes bad when the technology developed by the “experts” breaks down when the parts can’t be sourced locally. The...

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Dome Building

Mr. Homegrown

May 6, 2007

Design

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...uitous 4 x 8′ sheet of plywood. The Zome dome is a geometrical form that also works better with standard building materials. It’s most popular in rural France, but there are numerous examples in North America, as well as a children’s toy that looks like fun. Passive solar guru Steve Baer is responsible both for the Zome as architecture and toy. For those who want to get busy in the backyard and construct a simple dome out of scavenged materials, h...

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Post Petroleum Lecture

Mr. Homegrown

March 11, 2007

Miscellaneous

...raining Center at The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee, inventor of solar cars, pedal flour sifters and cylindrical tofu presses, and author of eleven books, including Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990). His Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times (New Society 2006) envisions the world as it will be transformed by peak oil and climate...

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