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Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! (Back to Basics Guides) Abigail puts it best in her introduction: “Self Sufficiency” as a term is somewhat misleading. “The Good Life” that most of us are seeking in our varied ways does not involve cutting off ties [...]
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A shake light creates a small charge as a magnet slides up and down in a coil as you shake the light. This charges up a capacitor or rechargeable battery (I like the super caps, they last “forever”). A high power LED provides the light. It’s simple, and reliable. No more dead batteries, nothing to [...]
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LED lights have been a very efficient way of producing light for the last 4 years and each year the technology gets better. The LED manufacturing companies themselves have really increased the Lumen per watt ratios and are now increases the available applications of LED lights with the advent of globes, tubes and LED grow [...]
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Alex Klein sent us the following: I found this amazing gardening tool. It’s called a Soil Cube Tool, and it turns potting soil mixtures into self-contained soil blocks to increase germination and eliminate a lot of the handling problems that gardening from seed is filled with. I talked the guy who makes them into giving [...]
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Environmental journalist and author Amanda Little gives a keynote speech about America’s dependence on fossil fuels at the 2010 MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR in Seven Springs, Pa.