This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient cooking appliance powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the cooker remains ready to use even after sunset.
This manual guides you through the process of building a 12V DC electric resistance heating element for a self-made heating or cooking device.
A balcony awning provides shading and cooling with minimal time, effort, and expense.
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.
How to make books more sustainable? 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.
This manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space.
Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?
Low-tech Magazine now offers its complete book collection in epub format.
The fourth volume in a series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want.
We have launched the third volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
Low-tech Magazine built a bicycle generator for an exhibition on energy at the Pavillon d’Arsenal in Paris, now open to the public. Our two other bikes can be seen and experimented with in Rotterdam and Barcelona.