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Continue reading →: How to Make Bio-Plastic
Brandon Sweeney shows us how to make a bio-plastic, using cornstarch as a base.
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Continue reading →: How to Make Your Own LED Light Fixture
I personally draw the line at fiddling with electricity (I’d have to gain some experience and confidence there first), but if that’s a skill that’s part of your toolkit building your own LED light fixture seems fairly straight forward. The benefits of LEDs: 1. Long lifespan 2. Use less electricity…
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Continue reading →: How to Build A Hay Box
A hay box (or hay cooker, insulated box, straw box or fireless cooker) is a method of cooking that saves energy. From Wikipedia: “Food items to be cooked are heated to boiling point, and then insulated. Over a period of time, the food items cook by the heat captured in…
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Continue reading →: Power Tools and Compost
Yorkshire’s Allotment Diary guy shows us his jigsaw-powered compost sifter in action. Interesting idea.
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Continue reading →: Build A $30 Bike Trailer
Alan Languirand who lives in Detroit, demonstrates his $30 bike trailer. He made it with steel electrical conduit, hose couplers and bicycle wheels. This is a big achievement because commercial bike trailers similar to this one can cost upwards of $100 in a store. Where I live, the starting price…
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Continue reading →: Converting Your Car to Electric – Step by Step
Tom Graulowitz, with Ben Nelson behind the camera, in Wisconsin, shows us how to convert a Dodge Neon to electric. He uses it to commute to work via the highway and demonstrates in the videos at the end how it gets up to good freeway speeds.
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Continue reading →: Electric Car Conversion in Illinois
This video looks at how Bud Wren, a mechanic in Illinois converted his pickup truck to electric for about $1,000. He gets about 25 miles on a charge for about 50 cents worth of electricity (so less than 2 cents a mile). Bud’s conversion gets a top speed of 48…
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Continue reading →: Plastic Containers for Water Storage
Aaron Mackley walks us through the different options in plastic containers for long-term water storage, highlighting safer plastics. He notes that glass (I’d add stainless steel and ceramic to his list) is one of the healthiest choices for storing water but that since it is breakable it isn’t really a…
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Continue reading →: Beet, Carrot, Ginger Kraut
In this video, Diana Lehua shows us how to make a beet, carrot, ginger kraut. The kraut is a lacto-fermented food — so it’s made with salt and left to sit for a day or more to develop. Diana uses a plastic pickle press that forces the the grated vegetables…
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Continue reading →: Why Everyone Should Own Chickens
Danny at Soulsby Farm writes on why chickens are good livestock to raise as well as giving lots of information on how to get started (selecting your breed, finding chicks a good reference book on chickens and how to feed and water them). He’s also posted neat pics of the…