Energy Systems
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Update on Permaculture Pygmies – Introducing Solar Ovens, Water Filter and SODIS
We built a solar oven made out of cardboard, and showed the pygmies how to purify water through a solar…
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Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico
A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico — the remnants of a now defunct railway. Alternately barren and spectacular,…
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John Hardy: My Green School Dream
Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to…
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The Rise of Tricycle Pushcarts
Wandering tortillas Even in backward mining communities, as late as the sixteenth century more than half the recorded days were…
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The Jean Pain Way
In the book Another Kind of Garden, the methods of Jean Pain are revealed. He spent his entire short-lived life…
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Harnessing the Sun’s Energy for Water and Space Heating
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The pace of solar energy development is accelerating as the installation of rooftop…
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A Litre of Light
This is perhaps the most resourceful use of plastic crap I’ve ever seen.
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The Hunt for Low Energy Houses
by Jessica Ryall You don’t need a super-fantastic-amazing funny-looking low energy house to cut down your home energy use if…
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U.S. Carbon Emissions Down 7 Percent in Four Years: Even Bigger Drops Coming
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Between 2007 and 2011, carbon emissions from coal use in the United States…
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Rocket Stove Water Heater Redux
Rocket stoves are awesome, experimental, and a knowledge stream in flux. Or ours is, at any rate. Our rocket stove…
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Solar Power 2011 – Solar PV Breaks Records in 2010
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Solar photovoltaic (PV) companies manufactured a record 24,000 megawatts of PV cells worldwide…
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A Solar Powered Life, Part IX: The Conclusion
This is the concluding article in the series A Solar Powered Life which looks at the various issues, compromises and…
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