Autonomous home on Australian Grand Designs
Ozzie architect Sam Zaher has clients flocking. He makes the most of the best spots in the country! His latest…
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Affordable Green Homes
China’s government just announced it will allow financial institutions to provide lower mortgage rates for buyers of environmentally friendly housing…
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Auto dweller denies he
An eccentric Brit living in a Land Rover in New Zealand has denied wild speculation that he is Lord Lucan,…
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Solar powered hydrogen production
PV to Hydrogen Apart from saving resources, using solar energy instead of power from portable generators like diesel generators. Yamaha…
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How to build a Water Motor
The Water Motor We all know how an industrial electric motor operates. You have a power switch. It turns electric…
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Mobile Homesteading
Documented mobile, school bus conversion so others can learn and duplicate thework. A 1991 GMC/Ward 66 Passenger School Bus is…
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Make your own Biodiesel Processor
Biodiesel while you sleep This unit will take lye and methanol, react it with vegetable oil, and produce a direct…
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WC=Waterless Closet
On our homestead, we have greatly reduced our water usage by eliminating the flush toilet. The idea of polluting fresh…
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Making fuel from manure
Al Rutan & tabletop digester The production of natural gas (CH4) occurs everywhere in nature in swamps, bogs, coal mines,…
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Remote Scottish eco-project
Utterly remote Wildlife millionaire Paul Lister bought the Alladale Highland Wilderness Reserve after a 10 year search. He was looking…
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A Reader wrote to us: Hi! I intend to use a solar system, but don’t seem to get proper advice…
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