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?
We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
We have launched the third volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
How energy-efficient a home is depends not only on the energy label but also on the lifestyle.
The information society promises to dematerialise society and make it more sustainable, but modern office and knowledge work has itself become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy and other resources
Solar panels on window sills and balconies can supply more power than you would think.
Directly coupling DC power sources with DC loads can result in a significantly cheaper and more sustainable solar system.
If we are looking for quick and substantial energy savings for existing buildings, then local heating systems deserve our closest attention