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Archive for the ‘Appropriate Technology’ Category


Composting Toilets

Composting toilets are dry toilets – that is, they aren’t hooked up to traditional plumbing. The advantages are obvious. You don’t need a sewer or a septic system. You don’t need a water supply. In fact, if you’re living alone you don’t even need a separate room. Cabin, garage, treehouse. Put them anywhere you want. [...]

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Appropriate Technology

In a recent Ted Talk Marcin Jakubowski spoke about what I would call “appropriate technology re-visited”. For me, going off grid takes me back to my exposure to the appropriate technology discussions and experiences that I enjoyed in the late 1970s in Costa Rica. Wind power, solar power, hydro power, conversions of gas engines to [...]

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