Garbage Warrior [Full Length Documentary]

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Wrong – Right

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2011 Dyson Award Winner Edward Linacre

Engineering, not magic: the 2011 winner of the James Dyson Award extracts water from thin air. Airdrop is a low cost, self powered, and easy to install solution to the problems of growing crops in arid regions. Inspired by Australia’s worst drought in a century, Edward Linacre from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, turned [...]

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How to make a rocket stove water heater

source: permaculture.co.uk

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The Urban Farming Guys

Neat!

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30 things you should never compost or recycle

mnn.com writes… “Though recycling and composting are two of the most important green practices, there are some items that are bad for the environment. Follow these guidelines for best practices…” Complete list

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HOMER Energy

HOMER is a computer model that simplifies the task of evaluating design options for both off-grid and grid-connected power systems for remote, stand-alone, and distributed generation (DG) applications. HOMER’s optimization and sensitivity analysis algorithms allow you to evaluate the economic and technical feasibility of a large number of technology options and to account for variation [...]

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How to Get Started with Solar Power

The DailyGreen writes… “Learn the basics of solar panels, inverters, installers, siting, financing and more. Harvest your own clean energy from the Sun. The following guide will help you start exploring the possibility of going solar at your house. Let’s first get up to speed on solar electricity basics with a few key definitions: PV [...]

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How to Build an Earthbag Roundhouse

Owen Geiger from instructables.com writes…     “We built this earthbag roundhouse in 2010 as part of an earthbag workshop in Thailand, and finished it later that summer. Roundhouses are perhaps the simplest, fastest, easiest earthbag structure to build. We’re extremely pleased with the results, especially in terms of strength and cost. This is one [...]

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Buid it solar – Plans, tools and information to do renewable energy and conservation projects

Plans, tools and information  to do  renewable energy and conservation projects. Hundreds of projects — from changing a light bulb to building a solar home. Design information and tools for building renewable energy projects. An Experimental section for backyard inventors. Nothing For Sale here — just free ideas, plans, and information. [Build-It-Solar]

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