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2022
2021
2020
- How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again
- Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?
- Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
- How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
- Low-tech Magazine in Spanish, French and Other Languages
2019
- Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire
- The Printed Website: Second Volume Out Now
- Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?
- How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
- Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
- Low-tech Magazine: The Printed Website
- Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill
2018
- Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
- How Circular is the Circular Economy?
- How to Build a Low-tech Website?
- Could we Dredge the Netherlands without Fossil Fuels?
- We Can't Do It Ourselves
- Ditch the Batteries: Off-grid Compressed Air Energy Storage
- History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy
- How Much Energy Do We Need?
- Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency
2017
- How to Run the Economy on the Weather
- How (Not) to Run a Modern Society on Solar and Wind Power Alone
- Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?
- Heat Storage Hypocausts: Air Heating in the Middle Ages
- Vietnam's Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay
2016
- Why the Office Needs a Typewriter Revolution
- The Curse of the Modern Office
- How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid
- Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power?
- Power Water Networks
2015
- Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
- Reinventing the Greenhouse
- How to Build a Low-tech Internet
- The 4G Mobile Internet that's Already There
- Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet
- How Sustainable is Stored Sunlight?
- How Sustainable is PV Solar Power?
- How to Keep Warm in a Cool House
- Radiant & Conductive Heating Systems
- Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places
2014
- The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
- If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots?
- Well-Tended Fires Outperform Modern Cooking Stoves
- Modular Cargo Cycles
- How Sustainable is Digital Fabrication?
2013
- High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network
- Heat Your Clothes, Not Your House
- Burning the Bones of the Earth: Lime Kilns
- Power from the Tap: Water Motors
- Back to Basics: Direct Hydropower
- Scale Models of Bicycles
- The Mechanical Transmission of Power (3): Endless Rope Drives
- The Mechanical Transmission of Power (2): Jerker Line Systems
- The Mechanical Transmission of Power (1): Stangenkunst
2012
- How to make everything ourselves: open modular hardware
- Electric velomobiles: as fast and comfortable as automobiles, but 80 times more efficient
- Cargo cyclists replace truck drivers on European city streets
- The solar envelope: how to heat and cool cities without fossil fuels
- The art of producing sustainable consumer goods: basketry
2011
- How to downsize a transport network: the Chinese wheelbarrow
- Gas bag vehicles
- Medieval smokestacks: fossil fuels in pre-industrial times
- The bright future of solar powered factories
- Pedal powered farms and factories: the forgotten future of the stationary bicycle
- Bike powered electricity generators are not sustainable
- The short history of early pedal powered machines
- Floating / mixed links and updates (5)
- Insulation: first the body, then the home
- Aerial ropeways: automatic cargo transport for a bargain
2010
- Hand powered drilling tools and machines
- Automata: engineering for a post-oil world?
- Boat mills: water powered, floating factories
- The velomobile: high-tech bike or low-tech car?
- Recycling animal and human dung is the key to sustainable farming
- Piston-powered aircraft from the 1950s were as fuel-efficient as the current average jet
- UNESCO sets up online Traditional Knowledge Database
- 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
2009
- 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
2008
- 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
2007
- 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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