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
Battery Technologies for Off-Grid Living – The Permaculture Research Institute
Restoring Mayberry: Wild food in spring
No sweat: How to bike commute in summer | TreeHugger
4 ways to rewild your garden | TreeHugger
A beginner’s guide to plastic-free living | TreeHugger
Building with Earth and Straw workshop in Michigan | Natural Building Blog
Protecting crops with predators instead of poisons | Ensia
In praise of doing nothing
[Episode #70] – Who Should Control Wholesale Markets? | The Energy Transition Show
1816 – The Legality of Craft Distilling with Victoria Redhed Miller | The Permaculture Podcast
1815 – ReGen18 – Stuart Cowan, Director of Regenerative Development for The Capital Institute | The Permaculture Podcast
Moving Caught Swarms – Vignette 3 – Treatment-Free Beekeeping Podcast
Environmental News
The Best Parts About Summer Are Also the Worst for the Planet – Mother Jones
At the edge of the Arctic Circle, oil drilling threatens the indigenous Gwich’in | Grist
EU publishes single-use plastics ban law and the straw wars heat up | TreeHugger
Flip This Well: How Fracking Company CEOs Get Rich While Losing Billions – Resilience
Millions set to #PassOnPlastic for world’s first One Plastic Free Day
Last Straw For Plastic Straws? Cities, Restaurants Move To Toss These Sippers : The Salt : NPR
Solar plus storage is giving conventional fuels a run for their money | Ensia
New York: Three Arrested Outside Morgan Stanley Shareholder Meeting | Earth First! Newswire
Canada: Indigenous Activists Eye Oil Spill at Kinder Morgan Pumping Station | Earth First! Newswire
Many Republican mayors are advancing climate-friendly policies without saying so
The Coal Industry Is Dying, and It’s Leaving Communities Like This One to Pick Up the Pieces – Mother Jones
The sage grouse isn’t just a bird – it’s a proxy for control of Western lands
Airport earthquakes continued after injection ended | EARTH Magazine
Research News
Which warm waters boosted Hurricane Harvey? | EARTH Magazine
Mold, asthma, PTSD: A hotter climate is terrible for kids | Grist
Time and Temporal Inequality | Credo: Economic beliefs in a world in crisis
Op-Ed¹
Cassandra’s Legacy: New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire
Resource Insights: The toxic price of convenience
Organic Sustainable Farming is the Future of Agriculture | Natural Building Blog
The Great Change: Crow Fritters
Guest post: Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will hit poorest the hardest | Carbon Brief
Will Silicon Valley’s new company towns end up as failed utopias?
What does it mean to ‘live well’? | TreeHugger
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