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Europe’s Burning Man
Europe’s answer to Burning Man kicks off in July. Plan your trip now…
May 20, 2009
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Europe’s answer to Burning Man kicks off in July. Plan your trip now…
Al Gore allegedly lied and covered up to help create the Climate scare…
Rocket stoves, have you heard about them? If you have then I’m preaching to the choir, if you haven’t, then it’s high time you learned about how great these little (and sometimes big) stoves can be.
Basically a rocket stove is a very efficient heater that can be used to cook/heat food, heat water, heat spaces… It typically uses much less fuel (wood) to create heat, and it’s often made from recycled materials.…
British economy now most likely to collapse – prepare for food and power shortages…
A new Festival is added to this summer’s line-up – the Off-Grid Festival on 20th August…
We do live in extreme times and it seems to be getting worse. Today I received an email contained a link to a Fort Worth (Texas) newspaper, they wrote an article about modern day survivalists, it included a blurb about Bruce Hopkins, the owner of https://www.internet-grocer.net/. Of course the article contained more, and I am conflicted about its contents. https://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1299768.html…
It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on what we are doing on the cabin, so this time I’ll write about concrete, or more accurately soilcrete. What is soilcrete? It’s nearly the same thing as concrete but using local materials instead of using purchased materials. We use local dirt, gravel from the creek, portland cement and of course water. This makes a strong and inexpensive concrete/soilcrete to make walls and such.…
Getting the trailer up the hill and past the boulders and trees was more challenging than we thought it would be, but when you have to do something, then you figure out a way to do it.…
This week, the X Prize Foundation announced a pair of California students won the $25,000 prize for their crazy green idea, an …
It seems that "someone" is trying to prove that free range chickens are no better or possibly worse than caged chickens. …
It took 3 days, lots of sweat, nerves of steel, and a lot of that Archimedes factor to get a small travel trailer from one side of the creek to the other. Should be easy… that’s what I thought!…