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
How to Design and Build A Forest Garden – Part 1. Surveying – The Permaculture Research Institute
Reflections on fire – February 2019 – Holmgren Permaculture Design
The Lightning Field – Dark Mountain
Heat your House with a Water Brake Windmill – LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
Horticultural Glues and Tree Banding Trees to Controls Ants and Other Pests | Deep Green Permaculture
The Future is Rural: The Unexpected Consequence of Energy Descent – Resilience
Restoring Mayberry: The world-changing potential of hot composting
15 practices of a waste-conscious home cook | TreeHugger
Memo to bicycle industry: Bikes ARE climate action | TreeHugger
This teacher wore the same dress for 100 days | TreeHugger
Beacon Food Forest after a Decade | Natural Building Blog
Places to Find Recycled Tools, Appliances and Building Materials | Natural Building Blog
[Episode #89] – Energy Access and Health | The Energy Transition Show
1905 – So You Want To Be A Modern Homesteader with Kirsten Lie-Nielsen | The Permaculture Podcast
68: A Migratory Queen Rearer with Angela Röell
69: Beekeeping Using All Your Senses with Aerial and Christine
Environmental News
Hundreds of young protesters confront Mitch McConnell over Green New Deal | Grist
A bunch of kids confronted Senator Dianne Feinstein over the Green New Deal | Grist
When environmentalists busted up dams, coal moved in | Grist
Can hamburgers survive the Green New Deal? The facts behind Trump and Ocasio-Cortez’s latest beef | Grist
You can’t take on climate change without tackling sprawl | Grist
America can afford a Green New Deal – here’s how
How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries
Nine Key Questions About the Green New Deal – The New York Times
Legal Rights for Lake Erie? Voters in Ohio City Will Decide – The New York Times
Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada – Motherboard
London: Extinction Rebellion Activists Arrested Outside Oil Conference | Earth First! Newswire
German Energy Giant RWE Agrees to Halt Logging in Hambach Forest | Earth First! Newswire
Utilities Are Starting to Invest in Big Batteries Instead of Building New Power Plants | DeSmogBlog
Another Oil Train Crashes as Alberta Government Gets Into Oil-by-Rail Business | DeSmogBlog
Guest post: Energy efficiency contributed 25% of UK economic growth since 1971
This Is How One Family Tries to Makes Sense of Losing Its Colorado River Water – Mother Jones
Research News
- If climate change makes the clouds disappear, we’re screwed | Grist
Extreme CO2 levels could trigger clouds ‘tipping point’ and 8C of global warming - An organic diet rapidly reduces pesticide exposure | TreeHugger
- Could wool fibers replace glass fibers in FRP? | TreeHugger
- Access To Parks In Childhood Associated With Better Adult Mental Health : Shots – Health News : NPR
Op-Ed¹
- Anticipating the coming of troubles – envisaging a lifeboat economy – Feasta
- Can better photosynthesis help feed the world? | Ensia
- Cassandra’s Legacy: The Seneca Cliff According to H.P. Lovecraft
- Cassandra’s Legacy: Winning the War of Climate Communication. Is Greta Thunberg the Memetic Weapon we Needed?
- The Inevitable Death of Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’ | DeSmogBlog
- Beware Republicans Bearing Environmental Gifts – CIVIL NOTION
- How electric cars could make America’s crumbling roads even worse
- The Great Change: Seizing Defeat
- The Great Change: Non-stick Pans and Sticky Memes
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¹Opinion pieces represent the independent thought of their authors and may or may not represent the position of the Low Technology Institute.