2010
Lost knowledge: ropes and knots
How to tie the world together: online knotting reference books
The status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range
The sky is the limit: human powered cranes and lifting devices
How to make your own low-tech vertical farm
Packing / mixed links & updates 4
Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank
Trolley canal boats
How (not) to resolve the energy crisis
Cars: out of the way
Rings of fire: Hoffmann kilns
How to make everything yourself - online low-tech resources
Wind powered factories: history (and future) of industrial windmills
Water powered cable trains
Shoveling / mixed links & updates 3
Get wired (again): Trolleybuses and Trolleytrucks
Electric road trains in Germany, 1901 - 1950
The monster footprint of digital technology
Fighting marine debris: the dustcarts of the sea
Ball de bastons
Small windmills put to the test
Sailing at the touch of a button
Cargo ships, then and now
Who killed the electric grid? Fast-charging electric cars
The Museum of Old Techniques
Truckloads of hard disks
Camping in the clouds: the Aeromodeller II
Moonlight towers: light pollution in the 1800s
Only idiots travel by train
Hunting / mixed links 2
Sunbathing in the living room: oven stoves and heat walls
A do-it-ourselves guide
Building backwards / mixed links & updates 1
Tiles as a substitute for steel: the art of the timbrel vault
Los Grumildos: low-tech mechanical puppets on the fringes of society
When rich women built houses
Viva Las Vegas: LEDs and the energy efficiency paradox
The age of speed: how to reduce global fuel consumption by 75 percent
Urban windmills harm the environment
A steam powered submarine: the Ictíneo
Invention & Technology Magazine
Carbon sequestration: bury the idea, not the CO2
The Citroen 2CV: cleantech from the 1940s
Life without airplanes: from London to New York in 3 days and 12 hours
Is ecotech the new asbestos?
Mechanical calculators: computing without electricity
The pinhole camera: low-tech photography
Bring back the horses
Leave the algae alone
Photoshop in the early 20th century
Why bottled water is good for the environment
Life before television
The ugly side of solar panels
A world without trucks: underground freight networks
Reinventing the wheel
Download, print, fold, paste
The right to 35 mobiles
Faster internet is impossible
The digital oubliette
Why the electric car has no (wireless) future
Satellite navigation in the 18th century
The world's factory hall
Gaming unplugged
Cars on hot air
Information damages the environment
Heat your house with car tyres and earth
Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph
Wind up your laptop
Floating windmills: energy from the clouds
Water eats energy: desalination
Solar powered cars
Supercomputers reach their limits
Build your own windmill
The revival of the sailing ship
Nuclear reactors, but no fuel
Airships: green, slow air cargo
Second hand bits and bytes
High speed trains: planes on wheels
Lego for Big Boys: habitable shipping containers
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