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 plastic waste he collects.
We have launched the second volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
From 10 to 14 October, Low-tech Magazine holds a free workshop where we will build a bicycle generator together.
Using solar panels without backup infrastructure makes renewable energy production much more affordable, efficient and sustainable.
We have launched the first volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
Andy Lagzdins built and documented a pedal-powered air compressor to run the power tools in his motorcycle workshop.
You’re looking at a completely rebuilt version of the solar powered website, which now allows you to turn off the dithering compression and see the original images.
Filmmaker Guillaume Lion visited Low-tech Magazine in Barcelona and turned his experience into a comic for the Belgian magazine Médor.
Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases.
The bicycle and the bow are both highly efficient, human-powered technologies that could substitute for two very harmful alternatives: the car and the firearm. Why do we promote one but not the other?
While manufacturing modern firearms and bullets depends on a global supply chain and fossil fuels, bows and arrows can be made anywhere out of anything, using only human power and simple hand tools.