Saturday Linkages: Dig that Passive Solar Birdbath!

Passive solar birdbath. Image: Builditsolar.com Passive solar birdbath: http://tinyurl.com/kbalf7x A Veteran Gets Criminal Treatment and Censored over Chickens http://tinyurl.com/lenrx9m Termite Ventilation – Natural Airconditioning http://feedly.com/e/2Zrz8bkc Rhone Street Gardens: 2013…Looking Back http://www.rhonestreetgardens.com/2013/12/2013looking-back.html One-minute doc on a man’s love for thrifted sweaters – http://boingboing.net/2013/12...

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Street Signs and Solar Ovens

...ibit currently at the Craft and Folk Art Museum entitled “Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles” which is on view until December 31st. Curated by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, this timely show focuses on objects that demonstrate creative, low-tech solutions to the environmental and political mess we find ourselves in. We were particularly struck by the display case full of soda cans transformed by LA survivalist Christo...

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Made in the shade- Passive cooling

...s in the Winter can allow sunlight to enter your house in the cool season, making them ideally suited to passive heating and cooling. You can also shade your windows. Solar shades project out over a window, thus blocking the highest angle of the sun. When the angle of the sun is lower and the heat and sun less extreme, in Winter and during sunset and sunrise in summer, sunlight can still get in the windows. A roof that projects past the walls of t...

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Saturday Tweets: Toilets, Energy and Deep Old Age

How much energy do we need? https://t.co/T8YSsPY1s0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 A Lesson in Sharpening https://t.co/ZfP9sLMW40 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 Toilet History Museum @atlasobscura https://t.co/EjpAxKshLf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 A Lesson in Sharpening https://t.co/ZfP9sLMW40 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 The elite belief in Uberized...

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