Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.
A balcony awning provides shading and cooling with minimal time, effort, and expense.
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.
Consumer societies produce enough plastic waste to power at least 10% of motorized road traffic. Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx grabbed the opportunity and now drives his car on the waste he collects.
We have launched the second volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.