Like almost everyone else in the southeastern US, I am staying glued to weather updates today. I won’t say much about Hurricane Gustav, because, really, what is there to say except…
well, there isn’t anything to say. Just light a candle for New Orleans and hope the people I know there are [...]
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Note: Stocking Up 101 will return next weekend.
And, boy oh boy, is there ever a wealth of information on passive solar heaters.
In my less busy days, I bought the plans for this: Mother’s Heat Grabber. Unfortunately, though, I never got around to making it, in part because my neighbors had made me so self-conscious [...]
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Note: Stocking Up 101 will return next weekend. Blame the mowing!
I love my solar oven. I’ve had it since 2003 and have cooked countless meals in it. True, it’s a bit glitchy — I planned to use it today to to roast a nice buffalo chuck roast, but storms moved in last night and it’s [...]
The Urban Homestead: your guide to self-sufficient living in the heart of the cityby Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen$11.53 from Amazon
I can’t recall where I first saw mention of this book, but the subtitle convinced me to check it out. Then I saw that they included a chapter on stealth backyard chickens, so how [...]
Mother Earth News tells you how.
What do you plan to eat the rest of the year? Will you rely on industrial foods grown by strangers from all over the world and shipped thousands of miles? With increasing interest in healthy eating, sustainable local food supplies and self-reliance, many people are discovering the benefits of a [...]
Obviously, it is not possible to touch every item that this vast subject holds, and I depend on readers to open up more frontiers. We barely scratched the surface about microwaves, but have to move to more energetic bands.
The infrared band lies just above the microwave, and just below the visible. Issac Newton [...]
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People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or [...]
Who would have thought Prince Charles coming to the world’s rescue? Pic below is of a chameleon from Madagascar.
In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual program (roughly $25 billion) was required to halt deforestation or the world [...]