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
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. The lovable Tux, the penguin and mascot, represents the open-source computing world of Linux (source for cover image), which might more … More Open Source Computing — Linux
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. Has the breathless pace of news got you needing a break? Are you tired of paying for audio books? Looking for … More Open Source Audio Books – LibriVox
The Story of Stuff started with an observation:
We have a problem with Stuff: we have too much of it, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be. … More Link Worth Following — The Story of Stuff
