When modernity meets its end-point and creates a world where everything is sterile, controlled, and known, there will be little space for fermentation.
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 want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies.
Modular cargo cycles are cheap to build and easy to customize.
Automation is more energy-intensive than mechanisation.
A modular system unites the advantages of standardisation (parts can be produced cheaply in large amounts) with the advantages of customisation (a large diversity of unique objects can be made with relatively few parts).
Virtually all human cultures have made baskets, and have apparently done so since we co-existed with ground sloths and sabre-toothed cats.
During the last quarter of the 19th century, a radically improved generation of tools appeared.
Not so long ago, each profession or trade had adopted the knots best suited to its requirements, and knotting was part of their daily lives.
Ropewalk factories are some of the most remarkable industrial workshops and buildings in history.
During the Second World War, almost every motorised vehicle in continental Europe was converted to use firewood.