The Low Technology Institute currently offers two podcasts.
The Low Tech Podcast

Our occasional podcast covers topics related to low technology, research, sustainability, and the environment.
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The Podcast Archive
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 70 — More Low-Tech News
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 69 — Tartarian Buildings?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 68 — Felling Trees
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 67 — Low-Carbon Gardening
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 66 — Subsistence Wheat
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 65 — Luddites and Artificial Intelligence
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 64 — Ten-Mile Building Challenge
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 63 — The Future of Composting
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 62 — Low-Tech Perspective on the News of 2022
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 61 — Future-fitting a Florida Subdivision
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 60 — EcoGuerrillas Audiobook Excerpt
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 59 — Wake Up to Reality
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 58 — Thatch as Sustainable Roofing?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 57 — A Day at the Institute
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 56 — Snake River Seed Co-Op
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 55 — Institute Bee Research
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 55 — Gardening: The Original Social Safety Net
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 53 — When Should you Transition from Fossil Fuels?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 52 — Could You Be Food Self-Sufficient?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 51 — What to Do About Lawns?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 50 — Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 49 — Doomer Optimist Interview
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 48 — Growing Global Wheat Crisis?
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 47 — Low-Tech Innovations Panel Discussion – Part 2
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 46 — Low-Tech Innovations Panel Discussion – Part 1
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 45 — Keep Calm and Grow Potatoes
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 44 — Potatoes Will Save Humanity — Part I: History
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 43 — Don’t Look Up or Worry About Climate Change
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 42 — It Doesn’t Pay to Think About the Future
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 41 — Just-in-Time Supply Chain Problems
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 40 — Introducing Foodmageddon
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 39 — Sustainability Skill Share Instructor Interviews
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 38 — Low Tech New Deal
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 37 — Wood Floors with Dan Cooper
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 36 — 2018 Year in Review
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 35 — Examining How We Live
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 34 — Energy Slaves
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 33 — “Is It Low Tech?”
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 32 — Tidying Up
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 31 — 2017 in Review
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 30 — Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival 2017
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 29 — Bicycling Around Minnesota (BAM) 2017
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 28 — A Visit to One Scythe Revolution
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 27 — Installing the Institute’s Cedar Roof
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 26 — A Visit to Brix Cidery
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 25 — Borsodi’s Flight From the City
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 24 — Interview: Foodways of the Apocalypse — Part II
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 23 — Interview: Foodways of the Apocalypse — Part I
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 22 — Tour of the Low Technology Institute Grounds
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 21 — Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? Lecture
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 20 — Fossil Fuel Audit
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 19 — Clothes
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 18 — EROI and Fuels
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 17 — The World Without Us
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 16 — Open Source Movement
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 15 — Major Research Project No. 1: Heating Water
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 14 — Open Source Seed Initiative
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 13 — Dark Mountain
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 12 — Alcohol
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 11 — Aldo Leopold Nature Center
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 10 — Year-End Roundup
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 9 — Food Distribution
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 8 — Meat
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 7 — Collective Hubris
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 6 — Natural Disasters
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 5 — Social Organization
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 4 — Trade
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 3 — Agriculture
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 2 — The Environment
- Low Tech Podcast, No. 1 — Introducing the Low Tech Podcast
Low Tech Lecture Series

This podcast is an occasional series that provides access to academic lectures of topics tangential to the the mission of the Low Technology Institute. Click on a link below to be taken to a list of the episodes from each series.
No. 001 – Archaeology and the Prehistoric World – Spring 2017 – Scott Johnson
A semester-long college course on archaeology and the prehistoric world including discussions of the nuts and bolts of archaeology as well as the ancient Maya Romans, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Aztecs, and Incas.
No. 002 – Occasional Lectures – Ongoing – Scott Johnson and Institute Staff
Recordings of lectures delivered by institute staff in public and academic venues.
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 02-005 — Occasional Lectures: The Best Plants to Grow to Combat Carbon Emissions
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 02-004 — Occasional Lectures: History of Gardening, Society’s Original Social Safety Net
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 02-003 — Occasional Lectures: Beginning Beekeeping for Gardeners
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-041 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-040 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-039 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-038 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-037 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-036 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-035 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-034 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-033 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-032 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-031 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-030 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-029 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 02-001 — Occasional Lectures: Failure of Ancient Civilizations at the Missouri History Museum
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-028 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-027 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-026 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-025 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-024 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-023 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-022 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-021 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-020 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-019 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-018 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-017 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-016 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-015 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-014 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-013 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-012 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-011 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-010 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-009 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-008 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-007 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-006 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-005 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-004 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-003 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-002 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World
- Low Tech Lecture Series, 01-001 — Archaeology & the Prehistoric World