Water

These days, with so many builders touting themselves as green, the whole idea of a green home can seem like a marketing ploy.  Instead of stepping into someone ...

It’s the middle of winter, cold, dreary, but something I start receiving in my mailbox makes me long for the warm days of spring, the seed catalogs. Those...

We name the bogus and the best of DIY microhydro setups...

Incentive program develops, while in Texas, techniques for for sharing scarce water...

This December will be 4 years for us living 100% off-grid, I can tell you it’s been quite the adventure, my only regret is that we didn’t do this ea...

Siphons are a low-tech, low-cost way to more than double the flow rates of water filters...

Homesteading, it’s a buzzword that means different things to different people, back in the day, it meant getting land for free as long as you lived on it ...

2010 was the wettest year since records began. And it was not just the amount of rain and snow, but the intensity which increased...

It’s funny how your perspectives change as you grow. When I was a kid, I used to be embarrassed because my mom hung our laundry out on the line to dry. I ...

Water for about $1 per gallon, and electricity for about 35 cents per kilowatt hour...

Film describes exactly how to build one...

Pumps up to 100 gallons on a single charge and runs off of a solar rechargeable NiMH battery. Adaptable to most style rain barrels...