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Greg Lesher sent us his ebook on how to make tire based solar distillers, which work great with seawater or grey water. We recommend it. Here it is in his words:
I have figured out a way to use sea water or worse in the garden. One
could recycle 100% of the grey water from the home [...]
FRESH MEADOWS, NY — Saint Francis Preparatory School will be closed today and tomorrow as eight students are confirmed and more than 100 more are suspected of being infected with the potentially lethal swine flu, according to Newsday.
Last week, the nurses office at Saint Francis was overwhelmed with students complaining of fever, nausea, sore throats [...]
We had a great time at the North Country Energy Fair. We had about 20 people attend our “DIY Solar class”, 10 at our “Make your own biodiesel” class, and about 50 attend the off-grid water pumping and filtration class we presented with a panel of 4 others, including Jim Juczak of Woodhenge and Rob [...]
We are teaching two classes this weekend, one on making and using biodiesel for home heating and transportation, and the other on designing and installing your own off grid power system.
The 14th annual Community Energy Services North Country Sustainable Energy Fair, upstate New York’s largest community energy education event, will be April 25-26, 2009 at [...]
Employment opportunities in the U.S. wind power industry increased 70 percent in 2008, and a record 8,545 megawatts of wind power were installed. With new manufacturing facilities in 24 states, the economic benefits of jobs in the wind power industry are being distributed around most of the country.