These are a few stories we found this week that may be of interest to institute regulars. If you have a news tip, please send it to lowtechinstitute@gmail.com.
Low Tech News
Grafting Eggplant onto Devil Plant – Deep Green Permaculture
How We’re Living In Our Tiny Home Legally – Natural Building Blog
Society Exists Because of Beer – Mother Jones
DIY wood mold for BioSand water filter system is a low-tech clean water solution – TreeHugger
The Permaculture Food Forest – Plant Once- Harvest for a Lifetime. How It Works – Natural Building Blog
Food access is a big problem for many Native nations. Here’s how one community is fighting back – Grist
A Little Green Goes a Long Way: Plants Perfect for Your Office – Deep Green Permaculture
Primitive Pole Barn for $93 – Natural Building Blog
Tallest wood-framed building in the Netherlands wins a WAN award – TreeHugger
How do you teach kids to like vegetables? – TreeHugger
Walkable communities are making a comeback – TreeHugger
Desert Rain House gets Living Building Challenge Certification – TreeHugger
1704 – Place Based Education and IPEC – The Permaculture Podcast
The Three Best Decisions We’ve Made Homesteading – Natural Building Blog
The ‘Right to Repair’ Movement Is Being Led by Farmers – Motherboard
Create a cozy escape (and save on heating) with a grown-up blanket fort – TreeHugger
Don’t hunker in the bunker; learn how to do stuff that’s useful – TreeHugger
From Grasslands to Permaculture Food Forest Paradise in Noosa Australia – Natural Building Blog
Environmental News
‘A Nightmare Without An End’: Wildfires Burn Out Of Control In Chile – NPR
Sabotage in oil country – Vice News
Who installs more solar power? Republicans and Democrats are pretty much tied – Grist
The country’s biggest offshore wind farm is coming to Long Island – Grist
Giant wind turbine sets record for wind energy generated in 24 hours – TreeHugger
What to Make of Those Animal-Welfare Labels on Meat and Eggs – New York Times
Arrests and Anxiety at Standing Rock As Trump Pushes DAPL Ahead – Mother Jones
Sinking waterline: The water level at America’s largest reservoir is dangerously low – Vice
Research News
Ancient Indus civilization’s adaptation to climate change – Science Daily
Phasing out cookstoves a ‘win-win’ for climate and health, study shows – Carbon Brief
Sweating in a sauna may delay dementia – TreeHugger
Most people don’t care about ethical fashion – TreeHugger
Two charts show how fossil fuels could peak by 2020 – Carbon Brief
VIDEO: When Humans Got Cozy, Germs Got Deadly – NPR
Op-Ed¹
End of the “Oilocene”: The Demise of the Global Oil Industry and of the Global Economic System as we know it – Festa
Why we need to pay more for chocolate – TreeHugger
What I Learned After Banning Screens From My Home for a Month – Vice: Motherboard
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