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EXTREME Do-it-Yourself Resilience: A Home Scale Waste Water Treatment Plant
Today’s extreme DiY example is a home scale water water processing plant designed and prototyped by Bob Crosby. Bob is originally from Alaska, but …
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Weekend Edition: Is your Home a Box or a Dynamo?
I have to admit. I sometimes fall into the trap of thinking about my home in the traditional way. What’s the traditional way of …
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Add A Chicken Coop… Increase the Value of Your Home?
Over the past couple of weeks, my lovely wife and I have been talking about adding a chicken coop to our home. For a …
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Scratch the Golf Course. Add Food, Energy, Water, and 3D Fabs
It’s another sunny spring day in New England, which means that I’m headed outside to add more compost to my garden. However, before I …
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Use Air Conditioning? Then Read This
Here’s a picture of needless dependence and vulnerability. It’s a satellite picture of a residential neighborhood in Atlanta (also known as Hotlanta). What should …
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Designing the Future of Resilience
Design fiction is a way for designers and artists to visually depict the future in inspiring ways. Typically, design fiction is associated with how …
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Maker Monday: A Resilient Manorial Estate?
Hey folks, I have an interesting and unusual approach to building a resilient community today. I’d like to introduce you to the Tempelhof community. …
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Heavy weather and the new normal
I often tell people that the mid-century will be about “old people in big cities who are afraid of the sky.” Bruce Sterling, the …
