Interesting possibilities arise when you combine old technology with new knowledge and new materials, or when you apply old concepts and traditional knowledge to modern technology.
Technology has become the idol of our society, but technological progress is—more often than not—aimed at solving problems caused by earlier technical inventions.
There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society.
We present our website’s energy and uptime data, calculate the embodied energy of our configuration, consider the optimal balance between sustainability and server uptime, and outline possible improvements.
During the last months we have been working on transforming Low-tech Magazine into a multilingual publication.
The second volume features a third of the web articles published in the earlier years, carefully selected for their continued relevance and interest today.
Read Low-tech Magazine with no access to a computer, a power supply, or the internet.
Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.