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Winter is Coming: Build a Solar Powered Foot Stove This guide explains how to construct an electric heating device powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the heat cube retains its warmth for hours after sunset.

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How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient coffee maker powered by a small solar panel.

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Cleaner, Faster, Greener: Rethinking How We Build Websites Every website we visit carries a carbon footprint, but visionary designers have been rethinking how they can be built and optimized for greater sustainability.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) features Low-tech Magazine's solar powered website in "Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film". On view through July 13, 2025. Read more in LACMA's blogpost: unframed.lacma.org/2025/04/21/c...

Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging From “Smart Homes” With wifi-enabled, voice-activated appliances too clever by half, analog, app-free abodes are suddenly tempting A-list L.A. buyers. Welcome to the new “Dumb House.”

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We invite you for another book launch event, this time in Brussels, Belgium. → Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book.

The Compressed Book Edition is now available for sale in our online store. We squeezed our entire article archive in just one book of 622 pages.

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How to make books more sustainable?, Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup **How to make books more sustainable?** How to make books more sustainable? Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the a

Inspired by the image compression on our solar-powered website, we squeezed the article catalog of our three-volume book series into just one book. Come to our book launch event in Barcelona. Register via this link: www.meetup.com/akashabarcel...

How to fit FIVE people in a ONE MAN KAYAK [Inuit Style] YouTube video by Marco Andre

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How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator We built a pedal-powered generator and controller, which is practical to use as an energy source and exercise machine in a household – and which you can integrate into a solar PV system. We provide de...

If you'd like to build your own bike generator, we have a tutorial available on our solar-powered website → solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-...

A few weeks ago, Low-tech Magazine organized a three-day workshop in Valencia, Spain, organised by València Clima i Energia. Together with participants we built two bike generators to power electric devices. It attracted much attention and was featured on local TV: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTj...

Low-tech Magazine's new manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space. solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/12/how-...

Field Notes: Repair Scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

“Building” is a powerful metaphor that structures how we think about progress and accomplishment. What might be the new metaphors, the new rubrics, for an epoch of repair?"