As you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting here much lately. I just haven’t had the spare cycles to devote to this. Many of the posts I envisioned making here take time, either to write or to research. I was hoping to evaluate different products and techniques, attempt different approaches to problems, and share […]
Behold, the solar-powered, hydrogen-burning car, with fuel that costs 1/2 to 1/3 of gasoline…
Throw in Jack Nicholson, and really, how can it possibly fail?
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Regular readers probably know that I think the rocket stove is a pretty interesting concept. With minimal materials, you can basically create a stove-type burner that burns small sticks and scrap wood at pretty high temperatures. Almost all of the heat from combustion goes straight to the cooking area, which means very little fuel is […]
If you’re interested in storing large quantities of rainwater for household use, have a look at this post from Albert Bates. He dives into the whys and wherefores of serious rainwater collection: Cisterns and other storage tanks, cleaning and filtration, useful product, logistics, and general tips. An interesting read, even if you have no plans […]
I just wanted to take a second to highlight this chart, recently posted over at The Oil Drum:
Here are two short videos from Midwest Permaculture. One is a brief tour of a rain garden, and the other is about sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes). If you’d heard but never seen, or you’d like to see either in action, click below…
Rain Garden:
Sunchokes:
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I keep seeing economists and politicians saying that the worst is past, the economy is stabilized, and best of all, we’re not even in a recession!
Then I run across something like this comment from the FDIC:
Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said it was likely loan-loss provisions and bank failures would rise […]
Photo courtesy of Larry Halpern
How Larry preheats his water before boiling it on his rocket stove…
Photo courtesy of rocketstoves.org
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[ This is a guest post from Chile at Chile Chews. She reviews the book Last Light by Alex Scarrow mentioned here previously. ]
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It is impossible to tell you much at all about this book without spoilers. If you don’t wish to learn the whole story, stop reading now. Go read some of the brief […]
During a recent online discussion, I thought of an analogy that seems to fit our current situation. This is based on something that actually happened to me…
Once on a canoe trip in northern Minnesota, my group got lost among those ten thousand lakes. We kept looking at the map and looking at our surroundings, and […]
