Energy Systems
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Hybrid Solar-Compost Powered Water Heating System (Ethiopia)
As an Eco-Lodge, showers are obviously an important facility which guests have certain expectations about. Our lodging facilities are comprised…
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From Traffic Jams to Ecocities – Interview with Richard Register, President of Ecocity Builders
Marcin Gerwin: In many cities there are problems with traffic jams. The streets are clogged with cars and as a…
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Donate Towards Rocket Stove How-To DVD
Watching the above video, and others I’ve seen like it, gives me rocket-stove envy. Rocket-stove envy can be a serious…
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MittiCool – Clay Refrigerator
Most of you will be familiar with the pot-in-pot refrigerator by now. Well, today we’ll revisit this concept by taking…
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Gravity Powered Lights
Lighting in much of the ‘developing’ world is provided via expensive and polluting kerosene. Kerosene lamps are dangerous, require constant…
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Rocket Stove – Hot Water!
by Tim Barker The basic unit, minus the rocket stove and piping In my last post, I showed a picture…
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So Where Does the ‘Appropriate’ in ‘Appropriate Technology’ Come From?
by Bob Corker and Tim Barker, PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute) So where does the ‘appropriate’ in ‘Appropriate Technology’ come…
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The Great Transition, Part II: Building a Wind-Centered Economy
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In the race to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy…
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The Great Transition, Part I: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is…
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Rocket Oven Nitty Gritty
by Tim Barker, Koanga Institute The first post on the rocket oven left many with more questions than they started…
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The MEGGA-Watt Project Moves Forward
by Rene Michalak The "MEGGA-watt" Project (Micro-Energy Generating Garage Assembly) is a demonstration / prototype to turn everyday detached garages…
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My Solar Oven: Renewable Energy the Simpler Way
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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