Energy Systems
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Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 2
Facing the encroaching winter and water-damage to all of the 100-year-old lumber we’d painstakingly repurposed, we had to improvise. We…
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Living the Homesteader Dream – Part 1
I’ve just switched the overdrive off so the truck can more easily handle the trip up the mountain, and beside…
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Biogas and Carbon Farming – Part 3
In our three part series we have examined the use of biogas to reduce emissions and drawdown carbon as a…
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Biogas & Carbon Farming – Part 2
In the first article in this three part series, we discussed our decision making process to use biogas. In this…
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Biogas and Carbon Farming – Part 1
Maya Mountain Research Farm is a permaculture project in the foothills of the Maya Mountains in southern Belize. It was…
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Off-Grid solar 101
Going Off-Grid for electricity can be one of the biggest challenges you can face and also one of the most…
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Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge
Something that long hasn’t set well with me in the green movement is that so much of it is based…
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Turning Waste Into Energy
The EPA’s most recent report on waste found that the U.S. generation of municipal solid waste was 267.8 million tons…
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Cutting Back on Consumption
Perhaps the more exciting, flashier side of permaculture is making stuff. Designing a build is full of hopes and dreams.…
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Biodigesters in Reality
Emma and I have been in the process of becoming homesteaders for several years now. Most of that time was…
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Nickel Iron Batteries
As my wife Emma and I are finally piecing together a homestead of our own, we are doing our best…
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Home Battery Storage for Solar Power
There are so many battery technologies out in the marketplace it’s highly likely that between me writing this and you…
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