Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices. Sometimes, past technologies can be copied without any changes. More often, interesting possibilities arise when older technology is combined with new knowledge and new materials, or when past concepts and traditional knowledge are applied to modern technology. Inspiration is also to be found in the so-called “developing” world, where resource constraints often lead to inventive, low-tech solutions.

Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of its three-volume book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do. For this book, Low-tech Magazine switched to a smaller font size, downsized most images, and opted for a two-column layout. Some articles, especially older ones, were rewritten resulting not only in fewer pages but also in better articles.

Contains more than 700 images in black and white.

Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows

What will your city’s climate be like in 60 years?

WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.

Track the progress on Project 2025

CadQuery is an intuitive, easy-to-use Python library for building parametric 3D CAD models.

A collection of letters that have something interesting about them.

Video Streaming Portal des Chaos Computer Clubs

The fastest way to make and track predictions.

An RPG style game about surviving authoritarianism.

Write it. Show it. Rock it. A fresh, fast and fun way to create and hold presentations.

Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting - babashka/babashka

Reformat PDF files for e-readers.

Making it easy to keep an eye on the UK’s parliaments. Discover who represents you, how they’ve voted and what they’ve said in debates.

The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.

A systematic literature review on research into civilization collapse.

Find out how to turn your house into a cosy, efficient home with grants and/or an interest-free loan funded by the Scottish Government.

Official risk assessments for Scotland produced by emergency management agencies.

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

A project to provide rural connectivity and information architecture which is accessible to low-literacy communities in India.

Barlow, a grotesk variable font superfamily by Jeremy Tribby

Discover a sustainable way to create wax-free coffee logs. Reduce waste and embrace eco-friendly living by repurposing used coffee grounds and cardboard egg cartons. Learn how to make each cup of coffee a part of your commitment to a greener future.

Infrared heaters and controls from Herschel Infrared. We have the broadest range of Infrared heaters covering every conceivable application.

A personal comic by @skullbird about existentialism, perspective, and how cool animal skulls look 💀

Next Gen Compost Tech

An IOT system aimed at monitoring and optimizing compost decomposition conditions.

Welcome to Appropedia, the sustainability wiki! We help build rich and sustainable lives by sharing knowledge, experiences, ideas and more.

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

A curated list of useful Elm tutorials, libraries and software.

What are you doing today towards your goals?

A nonprofit providing privacy-focused phones and unlimited data plans.

Remind. Revisit. Rest. Simple bookmarks with a rhythm.

Compute summits visible from any location worldwide

Useful tool for doing quick viewshed analysis.

KORUZA is a low cost, open source and open hardware, wireless optical communication system. By Musti.

incubating a humane dynamic medium

An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust. Contribute to mattwparas/steel development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries.

A multimedia sketchbook

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies card set reimplemented as a dynamic web page.

Working with nature; schools designed for health, well-being & the environment.

This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want.

Interactive essay that explains theory of coeffects and lets you type-check and run sample programs.

Interesting site that can adapt its presentation of a dense subject depending on the audience.

A proposal for the next generation of portable documents.

A striking Scottish architectural gem hidden in rural Stirlingshire creates an idyllic home & office.

Our mission is to accelerate the built environment’s transition to zero carbon emissions.

The Local Digital Declaration is a shared commitment to improving local public services, signed by over 300 organisations.

An open map of property rights and obligations across time and space

Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work.

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

Principles of UI, A Thread:
1. natural mapping
2. visibility of system state
3. discoverability
4. constraints and affordances
5. habits and spatial memory
6. locus of attention
7. no modes
8. fast feedback
9. do not cause harm to a user's data or through inaction allow user data to come to harm
10. prefer undo to confirmation boxes. For actions that can't be undone, force a "cooling off" period of at least 30 seconds.
11. measure using Fitt's, Hick's, GOMS, etc. but always test with real users.

I absolutely adore this idea. It's a great way to visualize where your time is going to go during the year, and when you'll move through different "seasons" in life.