Low Tech Podcast, No. 49 – 10 Jun 2022 – LTI on Doomer Optimism
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Low Tech Podcast, No. 48 – 27 May 2022 – Is a Growing Global Wheat Crisis Brewing?
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Low Tech Podcast, No. 47 — Low-Tech Innovations Panel Discussion – Part 2
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Low Tech Podcast, No. 46 — Low-Tech Innovations Panel Discussion – Part 1
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I’ve built a simple worm bin out of wood and wanted to post the designs. You can find them below as images or here as a pdf. I used wood because so many people have already published good tutorials on plastic worm bins. Furthermore, I didn’t want to use a fossil-fuel-derived product. This is a … More Low Tech Designs – Wooden Worm Bin 1.0
Low tech, at least around here, is a technology well suited to the post-fossil-fuel world. It doesn’t mean we reject everything that has come out of industrialization. This can lead to a bit of confusion, though, as to whether or not something is truly low tech. Bicycles are a perfect example. On the one hand, … More The “Is it Low Tech?” Test
Canadians (and a few lucky others) will know Rick Mercer as a fixture on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Made in Canada, This Hour Has 22 Minutes). His current show, the Rick Mercer Report, sends him exploring across the country. This last week, he was in Haida Gwaii on the Pacific Coast, showcasing a little Haida … More Bent Box and War Canoe from Rick Mercer Report
Part of what we do here is reviving technology that was common in the past but rare today. If you look for how-to guides on mushroom cultivation online, you find plenty of sites that show you how to make a HEPA-filtered clean room and intricate inoculation instructions, but people have been growing mushrooms well before … More Low-Tech Mushroom Guide from 1901
Low Tech News One Man’s Fight Against Poverty, by Making a Mansion Out of Mud – Natural Building Blog Peruvian Farmers, Chefs Cash in on Guinea Pig Craze – NPR This YouTube Survivalist Can Teach You to Skin Deer and Cook Rats – Grist Homemade rhubarb varroa strips for bees – Walden Effect Do solar … More News Roundup — 21 Oct. 2016
We articulated three central tenets of the Low Technology Institute. These are simple concepts but they have profound implications for our everyday lives. Naessi articulated a list of character traits (adapted below) that we hope to cultivate in our society. These are not meant to be rules, but examples of how one might live. The … More Basic Stances — A Meaningful Life of Simplicity