Dismantle Civilisation

The Solar Cooking Archive has collected a large array of various solar cooker designs. They’re low-tech, can be built easily out of fairly common waste from industrial civilisation, and can cook food and pasteurise water without any fossil fuels involved.
Although they do take longer to heat up than a conventional oven (a matter of hours rather … Read more »

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Ceramic Stoves (example of a Ceramic Stove), or Kakkelovn, were first designed in Scandinavia in 1767, and have been a feature of homes and palaces ever since. Using some ingenious designing, a fairly small amount of wood can heat a room (or several) for 24 hours.
What makes it so efficient is that the wood … Read more »

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Very informative article from Sharon Astyk about wood-fired cook stoves.
Why choose a cookstove? We have both a cookstove and a heating stove, although they only run simultaneously on unusually cold days or when we have guests enough to need to heat the whole house. During much of the year, the cookstove is … Read more »

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Having just spent a slow-paced week in the woods learning the basics of the art of bushcraft, the return to civilisation has been somewhat disorientating.  Many things bothered my mind on my return, from the urban noises to the claustrophobia of the buildings and the density of people.  But the main underlying cause of this … Read more »

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Videos from the Urban Homesteaders.
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Inspiration from the urban homesteaders.
With headlines about rising food costs, soaring gas prices, and skyrocketing foreclosure rates that reach directly into everyone’s wallets, as well as sobering reports about the state of the earth’s environment, there is mounting pressure for some relief. The question arises: How can an individual or one family cope in such […] Read more »

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Sharon Astyk has inspired many people to think about and work towards food and energy independence. Most of us have so much to learn, having been raised from supermarkets and the global economy. Sharon’s weekly updates is a very useful idea, breaking up the mammoth task of learning how to support ourselves into a series […] Read more »

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Green Dean has a whole series on YouTUBE, and his own blog website. Very interesting.

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