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By Dave, March 16, 2006 12:48 pm

Treehugger: Philips Smokeless Stove

Cool tool! Wish there was more info on it.

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By Dave, February 22, 2006 5:30 pm

and the Winners are

Neat stuff! There is a lot of 3rd world can do here! This is from the 2000 project. There are more available from the Home page.

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 1:43 pm

Cardboard Domes – Homepage: Constructing Cardboard Geodesic Domes That Will Survive Burning Man and the Black Rock Desert

Cool! Cardboard domes with detailed (really detailed) instructions on how to build them.

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By Dave, February 10, 2006 1:18 pm

Backstrap weaving

Cool! Different from any other weaving that I have seen but still the same too. Interesting site.

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By Dave, February 10, 2006 10:44 am

Stone Barns Center For Food and Agriculture

Interesting concept. Bit rich for my blood but looks interesting none-the-less.

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By Dave, February 2, 2006 5:54 pm

HANDLOOM CONSTRUCTION

All kind of weaving information. This is a HUGE page that seems to be the entire book, complete with illustrations. Takes a while to download even with cable.

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By Dave, January 18, 2006 9:58 am

D.I.Y. Moustache Wax

That about says it all…

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By Dave, November 14, 2005 9:49 pm

not the origional title but as safari did a tits up on me after several pages of typing that is the best I can come up with.

spent the day working harder than I had to.

or according to some of the folks that I know. They just don’t understand the freedom that not having to use electricity gives.

Got a new auger yesterday. this one is about 2 feet long and an inch and three quarters in diameter. I now have 3 true augers. One is an inch and a quarter and about 20 inches long. Another is an inch and a half and is about 14 inches long. And now the new one.

Spent part of the day making a chair makers aze. Started out with a piece of lawnmower blade. This is a thick blade that is super hard that came off of Mark H’s folks riding mower.

Used the torch to cut the basic shape out. Then took the torch and put it in a vice and using vice grips to hold the metal aze blade blank heated it to a nice yellow heat. Then beat the hell out of it with a ball peen hammer on the ASO (anvil shaped object) that I use as a poor excuse for an anvil. Soon I hope…

More heating and beating.

Rinse and repeat. Several times.

And then after cooling a bit I used the hand grinder to shape the cutting edge a bit more and clean the torch splatter off. Back into the vice grips and to the bench grinder for some more clean up and shaping. Then a session with several files.

Cut an inch and a half piece of 1 inch black pipe and welded it to the blade to hold the handle. Then the final pre temper sharpening with files.

Lit the torch again and after heating the front half of the blade to a low red heat quinched it in 30 weight motor oil. A bit more clean up with the files and then heated just the edge to a blue tint and quinched. Super hard and sharp!

Used the shaving horse and cut a piece of privit to length and then peeled it for use as a handle. Drove it into place and then tried it out by making a bowl out of a cedar board that I split out of a round I cut out of a 8 to 10 year dead standing stump last week. Did a fine job. Will take me a while to figure the best way to use it but from what I have used so far it works great!

Will try to get some pix up soon on the shaving horse and some stools that I have made (and NO not that kind, Steve).

Later

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By Dave, November 11, 2005 8:41 am

Shaving mule

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By Dave, November 6, 2005 9:36 pm

Generator Heads, Generator Ends, Homemade generator, DIY Generator, Small Diesel,
Generator, Lister, Listeriod, one cylinder diesel, Asian Diesels, off grid power, custom pulleys, custom sheaves,

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Some really cool stuff!

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By Dave, November 1, 2005 12:06 am

World Toilet Organization – Design Advisory: Designing toilets for persons with vision impairment

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By Dave, September 28, 2005 8:16 pm

National Downshifting Week

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Cool!

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 8:17 pm

Organic farming success
Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds

“Organic farming approaches for these crops not only use an average of 30 percent less fossil energy but also conserve more water in the soil, induce less erosion, maintain soil quality and conserve more biological resources than conventional farming does,”

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30% less energy is a huge saving when profits on farms today are pennies on the dollar.

Bet this study didn’t come from a government agency. Not a lot of profit in organic supplies. 😉

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 7:21 pm

BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It Yourselfers to save money
and reduce pollution

Just found this site. Looks interesting to say the least!

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By Dave, July 9, 2005 3:41 pm

Wired 7.01: Look Who’s Talking
The Amish are famous for shunning technology. But their secret love affair with the cell phone is causing an uproar.

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I think I have pointed to this article before. Just found it from a link and reread it and felt it needed to be pointed to again. Well written and informative.

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By Dave, July 8, 2005 9:13 am

Treehugger: Harry Potter Recycled, eh?

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Seems to be a ground swell of this kind of thing lately. Interesting how it seems to be in counterpoint to Bushinator camps rape and plunder the enviroment for the quick buck. Glad to see it.

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By Dave, July 2, 2005 11:49 pm

Treehugger: Newman’s Own Organics

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By Dave, June 24, 2005 4:53 am

LED Grow Lights.com Home Page

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Not impressed with the site but the products look interesting. Low power per square foot and a long lifespan cuts the cost down to pennys per day or less. Need to run the figures on this. The initial cost is a bit much but with the long life I guess it’s not that bad. Hope they figure out soon that the red and blue can be intergraded into a single unit with switching to select between them as needed.

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By Dave, June 21, 2005 2:47 am

Underground Urban Farm | Lifestyle | Trends in Japan | Web Japan
UNDERGROUND URBAN FARM
Fruit and Vegetables Grown Under Office Building

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By Dave, June 7, 2005 5:49 am

How to Save the World
Finding a Job with a Socially and Environmentally Responsible Organization
Ten ideas that can help you find a meaningful job and make the world a better place at the same time.