Recycling for Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency
By Darcy | Nov 13, 2010
I’m a natural born scrounger. I’ve always seen opportunity and possibilities in a pile of junk. It’s almost an obsession – my only vice Even before recycling became fashionable I was out there sifting through piles of junk while friends tried desperately to merge with the landscape and become invisible in order to not be [...]
Patents for DIY Self-Sufficiency Projects
As a fabricator, I’m constantly looking online for input, ideas or even working plans for my self-sufficient living projects. One of the best sources of information I’ve found are the various patent sites. The other day I downloaded a patent for an efficient wood heater. The drawings were detailed enough to actually build a unit [...]