I do not like to simply talk about another article and provide a link to it, but this is critical for anyone who bends over (so that’s pretty much all of us). This goes double for anyone who weeds, shingles, chops, uses shovels, or otherwise engages in physical work with anything on the ground. A … More Save Your Back, Bend at the Hips
Google has a fun tool called Ngram Viewer, which counts and compares the relative frequency of words in books they have digitized. This can be a fun way to look at how language changes over time. For example, when did “United States” change from being treated as a plural noun to a singular one? If … More Fun with Google’s Ngram Viewer
The Low Technology Institute is located in the historic village of Cooksville, Wisconsin. Our village was recently the topic of the Wisconsin Life radio series on our local NPR station. You can read the article, by Norman Gilliland, on the website, or click the link below to hear the produced audio segment. https://wpr-podcast.streamguys1.com/wlf/wlf180207_Cooksville_Glliland.mp3 The Low-Tech … More The Village of Cooksville: “A Little Slice of New England” — Wisconsin Life
If you are at all interested in solar power, be it home heating, electrical generation, cooking food, or roasting coffee beans, Build It Solar has something for you. The site was started by Gary from Bozeman, MT, who began tinkering to improve his home and found a lack of organized information about solar heating on … More Link Worth Following — Build It Solar
The radio show Freakonomics recently spent a half hour discussing the pros and cons of lawns. They delve into the history of this now-too-common landscaping trend. I particularly liked that they pointed out the lack of natural parallel for lawns: the only thing that looks remotely like a lawn is a pasture after sheep have … More Link Worth Following — The Freakonomics of Lawns
The New York Times recently published one of the most comprehensive short guides on bike commuting I’ve seen in a while. It is worth checking out. I’ll keep this short so you have time to get through the article below:
Knowing your solar resources are one of the first steps to considering what you can do with all that great free energy. I’ve talked about this in relation to a solar water heater in a previous post on regional and local solar resources, but Google has used their extensive mapping data to estimate the solar … More Links Worth Following — Google’s Project Sunroof
Institute contributor Andrew Flachs has recently been featured on Voices for Biodiversity. In this article, he recounts his observations on the use of organic and GM cotton adoption in India. … More Link Worth Following — Biodiversity Note from Contributor Andrew Flachs
This week is Open Source Week here at the institute. We’re celebrating all things open source. We’re taking a broad view of this term, which generally includes peer production, open collaboration, and free licensing. Part of our guiding ethos here at the institute is to create and share tools to house, clothe, and feed ourselves … More Open Source Tools — Farm Hack
This week is Open Source Week here at the institute. We’re celebrating all things open source. We’re taking a broad view of this term, which generally includes peer production, open collaboration, and free licensing. Woah. Take it easy. I can hear the howls from the academy and well-educated among you: “Wikipedia is a pox on … More Open Source Research — Wikipedia
