We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
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.
Andy Lagzdins built and documented a pedal-powered air compressor to run the power tools in his motorcycle workshop.
From the Neolithic to the beginning of the twentieth century, coppiced woodlands, pollarded trees, and hedgerows provided people with a sustainable supply of energy, materials, and food.
Adjusting energy demand to supply would make switching to renewable energy much more realistic than it is today.
Almost all of the leading economies in Western Europe during the last millenium relied on a large-scale use of fossil fuels such as peat and coal.
To power industrial processes like the making of chemicals, the smelting of metals or the production of microchips, we need a renewable source of thermal energy.
The possibilities of pedal power largely exceed the use of the bicycle.
Cargo tramways can be fully or partly powered by gravity, and some deliver excess power that can be utilized to generate electricity or to drive cranes or machinery in nearby factories
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.