Rediscovering the Handcart
A pleasure to drive, Low-tech Magazine’s handcart demonstrates the advantages of slow, human-powered transportation.
Low-tech Magazine: The Uncompressed Book Series
Low-tech Magazine’s original book series is available again, redesigned and based on the edits made for the compressed edition.
Winter is Coming: Build a Solar Powered Foot Stove
This guide explains how to construct an electric heating device powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the heat cube retains its warmth for hours after sunset.
How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee
This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient coffee maker powered by a small solar panel.
Thematic Book Series: Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire
The fifth volume in a series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven
This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient cooking appliance powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the cooker remains ready to use even after sunset.
How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch
This manual guides you through the process of building a 12V DC electric resistance heating element for a self-made heating or cooking device.
How to Mount a Balcony Awning
A balcony awning provides shading and cooling with minimal time, effort, and expense.
How to Dress and Undress your Home
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.
The Compressed Book Edition
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.
How to Build an Electrically Heated Table?
This manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space.
Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse
Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?
Low-tech Magazine: The Ebooks
Low-tech Magazine now offers its complete book collection in epub format.
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