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2025 4

  1. Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices
  2. Welcome to the new Dumb House
  3. The West is Bored to Death
  4. The Collier Problem: Toward a Definition and Application

2024 27

  1. Field Notes: Repair
  2. Longer Crossings Kill More Pedestrians
  3. Unequal Exchange of Labour in the World Economy
  4. Interview for “Planet: Critical”
  5. Low-tech Magazine: Article Readings
  6. Wild Craft: Wooden cargo ships of South India
  7. The Ivan L. Collins Collection of Historic Vehicles in Miniature
  8. Back to the Future of the Internet
  9. The SmolPhone
  10. After Comfort: A User’s Guide
  11. The Shrinking City
  12. Hailing the Ferry
  13. How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts
  14. No Tech Reader #48: Digital Technology
  15. Ironwood Bicycles
  16. Talk in Brussels 21 May
  17. Wind Energy Development as a Capitalist Trojan Horse
  18. Low-tech Magazine Ebook Editions
  19. No Tech Reader #47: Digital Technology
  20. Electrical System Guide for DIY Van Conversion
  21. No Tech Reader #46: Transportation
  22. Fruit Trenches in Hungary
  23. Repair Manual for Architects
  24. No Tech Reader #45: Housing
  25. Pedal-Powered Grain Mill
  26. No Tech Reader #44: Tech & Politics
  27. No Tech Reader #43

2023 23

  1. Life Cycle Assessment of 2022 Laptop
  2. Untangling the Mystery of the World’s First Rooftop Solar Panel
  3. Heating Babies, not Spaces
  4. No Tech Reader #42: Transportation
  5. Extensive Landscape with Travellers and Windmills, a Town Beyond
  6. No Tech Reader #41
  7. How to heat your cabin with steam?
  8. Human Powered Fire Making
  9. No Tech Reader #40
  10. Human Powered Record Player
  11. Human Powered Dot Matrix Printer
  12. No Tech Reader #39
  13. Human Powered Electric Guitar
  14. No Tech Reader #38
  15. The poor woman’s energy: Low-modernist solar technologies and international development
  16. No Tech Reader #37
  17. Artifical Intelligence and Climate Change
  18. Hand-Cranked Canal Bridge in London
  19. No Tech Reader #36
  20. Solar Desalination Skylight
  21. Praising Collapse
  22. The Lamp of the Eskimo (1898)
  23. No Tech Reader #35

2022 30

  1. Machine Environmentalism
  2. Everyday counter-narratives of the so-called fourth agricultural revolution
  3. Forgotten Clothing: Hip Scarves
  4. The World’s Largest Flutes
  5. Low Energy Chest Fridge
  6. Restored Fruit Wall in the Netherlands
  7. The Ondioline
  8. Podcasts
  9. Off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South
  10. Electrification, digitalization, webification, datafication, personalization, actuation, and marketization
  11. How to Build a Persian Windmill
  12. Solar Metal Smelter
  13. No Tech Reader #34
  14. DIY Wooden Bike Trolley
  15. Solar Concentration for Craft Practice
  16. The Contradictory Bind
  17. Low-tech Zine
  18. Damaged Earth Catalog
  19. The Future is Degrowth
  20. Does the circular economy fuel the throwaway society?
  21. No Tech Reader #33
  22. Trail Marker Trees
  23. No Tech Reader #32: Sustainable Computing
  24. State of the Art of Windthermal Turbines
  25. Bike Powered Water Pumps
  26. Small Scale Hemp Processing
  27. Reconstrained Design & Locally Produced Gravity Batteries
  28. No Tech Reader #31
  29. Carbolytics: The Environmental Impact of Data Collection Practices
  30. Fireless Cooker Made from Chair

2021 33

  1. Solar Powered Website in Design Museum London
  2. New Alchemy Institute
  3. No Tech Reader #30
  4. Waffle Gardens
  5. Serpentine Fruit Wall in Scotland
  6. Off-line Portal to Solar Powered Website
  7. No Tech Reader #29
  8. Misinformation Control
  9. No Tech Reader #28
  10. This clothesline goes around the corner
  11. Technologically utopian solutions rest on narrowly defined system boundaries
  12. Does covid cause brain damage?
  13. Flying Only with the Heat of the Sun
  14. Remaking Suburbia
  15. The Chukudu is a cargo scooter built entirely from wood
  16. The Sailboat as a Research Lab for Resilience and Self-Reliance
  17. Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped
  18. Low Tech Webring Directory
  19. We believe in Science
  20. Drying clothes near the ceiling
  21. How to Build a Small Town in Texas
  22. The bicycle friendliness of European railway operators
  23. How Sustainable is the Smart Farm?
  24. A Design Inquiry into Degrowth and ICT
  25. What to limit, and how and why
  26. No Tech Reader #27
  27. The forgotten era of Light Reflectors in London’s alleys
  28. Reversing the Glow-Worm’s Decline
  29. Number of Hospital Beds per 1,000 Inhabitants (1960-2018)
  30. Solar Powered Website: Uptime for 2020
  31. The “Lavet”: A Sink, Bathtub, Shower, and Washing Machine on 1m2 of Space
  32. Follow the Science?
  33. Nettles are the fibre of the landless

2020 26

  1. No Tech Reader #26
  2. This Website is Designed to Last
  3. The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
  4. Post Growth Toolkit
  5. Frugal Innovation for Global Surgery
  6. The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
  7. Landlord Tech Watch
  8. The Development Hoax
  9. The Galaksija: Socialism’s DIY Computer
  10. Simplifier: Creating a Stable Foundation of Technology
  11. Does Health Promotion Harm the Environment?
  12. Human Powered Neighbourhood: The Community Kitchen
  13. Scientists’ Warning on Affluence
  14. Notes from a Tech-Free Life
  15. Constant Pressure Compressed Air Storage
  16. The Future is Public: Remunicipalisation
  17. Mental Resilience: The Art of Survival
  18. Quarantine is the future big tech wanted us to want
  19. Generating Light from Darkness
  20. Self-Sufficiency Defies Common Sense
  21. A “Dacha” for Everyone? Community Gardens and Food Security in Russia
  22. How much of life do we want to sacrifice at the altar of security?
  23. Copper Kills Superbugs
  24. Low-Cost Breathing Ventilators
  25. Programmers Against Internet Voting
  26. Scaling of Greenhouse Crop Production During Nuclear Winter

2019 34

  1. A Longing for the Lost Landline
  2. Telecommunications Reclaimed: Hands-On Guide on Community Networks
  3. Can the Internet Survive Climate Change?
  4. Shifting Baseline Syndrome
  5. Self-surveillance
  6. To Decarbonize We Must Decomputerize: Why We Need a Luddite Revolution
  7. Food Security in the West
  8. The Art of Indexing Your Paper Notes
  9. There is No Such Thing as Absolute Progress
  10. Reveal the Infrastructure
  11. Web Bloat Score Calculator
  12. EcoSanitation: Trading “Flush and Forget” for “Cycle and Sow”
  13. Scientific Authority and Media Visibility of Climate Change Scientists and Contrarians
  14. Making a Cooling Chamber for Tomatoes
  15. Tech Talks
  16. Off-Grid, Solar-Powered, Zero-Battery Refrigerator
  17. Foaming of Recyclable Clays into Low-Cost Thermal Insulators
  18. Amish Hand-Demolish Building in Tennessee
  19. “Daylight Drive” DC Solar Power at the Living Energy Farm
  20. “Diseconomies of Scale”: High-tech Versus Low-tech Supply of Eggs
  21. No Tech Reader #25
  22. The Morrison Shelter
  23. No Tech Reader #24
  24. Evaporative Air Conditioning
  25. Sustainability Gains from Meat Alternatives
  26. I’m not optimistic, but that doesn’t make me a pessimist
  27. No Tech Reader #23
  28. Another Day, Another Low-tech Website
  29. Carbon Farming: The Tree Solution
  30. Low-tech Links #1
  31. The Complication of Leisure
  32. Dreaming of Electric Airplanes
  33. Map of Night Trains in Europe, 2019
  34. No Tech Reader #22

2018 26

  1. Klopotec: a Bird-Scaring Wind-Rattle
  2. Helium Powered Drones
  3. The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
  4. Hardware & Software Info for Solar Powered Website
  5. No Tech Reader #21
  6. Technological Sovereignty
  7. No Tech Reader #20
  8. No Tech Reader #19
  9. Fermentation and Daily Life
  10. Historical Storage Cellars in Budapest
  11. How to Dredge Out the Netherlands without Fossil Fuels
  12. Lighthouse Lamps Through Time
  13. Roman Refrigerators
  14. Windmill on Ice or Water Bearings Has Low Friction at Low Cost
  15. No Tech Reader #18
  16. Think Outside the Sewer
  17. The Internet Unplugged
  18. Anti-Tech Riots
  19. Wedge Axes
  20. No Tech Reader #17
  21. No Tech Reader #16
  22. Thermal Insulation of Solid-Walls is Underestimated
  23. Biological Pest Control: Bat Towers
  24. Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics
  25. Mobile Clothes Washer
  26. A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries

2017 34

  1. No Tech Reader #15
  2. Slow Travel: Crossing Europe with a Giant Land Ship
  3. Low tech? Wild tech!
  4. No Tech Reader #14
  5. Prototype of a Hydro-Pneumatic Human Power Plant
  6. Restore the Night Trains in Europe
  7. Non-Electric Hearing Aids Outperform Modern Devices
  8. Digital Colonialism
  9. No Tech Reader #13
  10. Bike Powered Catamaran Control
  11. Dealing with Human Wastes in Uncertain Urban Environments
  12. The Energy Performance Gap
  13. The Most Sustainable Power Source on Earth
  14. The Screenless Office
  15. Gin Poles
  16. No Tech Reader #12
  17. No Tech Reader #11
  18. Craftsmanship in Greece Today
  19. Bicycle Powered Thresher
  20. The Sustainability Problem of Digital Currencies
  21. Hacking Consumer Electronics: The Low-tech Way
  22. In Defense of Degrowth
  23. Rebooting Energy Demand: Automatic Software Upgrades
  24. Medieval Heating System Lives on in Spain
  25. Low-tech Baby Care
  26. Military Complexity: Lasers or Longbows?
  27. The Slingshot Channel
  28. Rebuilding, Testing and Documenting Self-Made Wi-Fi Antennas
  29. Solar Concentrator with Inflatable Mirrors
  30. The Pirate Book
  31. The Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy Is More Tech-Forward Than You Think
  32. Spinning Toy Reinvented as Low-tech Centrifuge
  33. Silbo Gomero: The Dying Language of Whistling
  34. Anti-Surveillance Clothing

2016 40

  1. No Tech Reader #10
  2. The Office on the Move: Portable & Pocket Typewriters
  3. Human Powered 3D Printer
  4. No Tech Reader #9
  5. Vertical Walking
  6. Pigeon Towers: A Low-tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers
  7. Smart lamps can use more energy than incandescent lights
  8. Communal Bathing
  9. No Tech Reader #8
  10. Equestrian Travel
  11. Rethink, Retool, Reboot: Technology Justice
  12. No Tech Reader #7
  13. Wind Power System Made from Plastic Buckets
  14. Adapted Tools for Organic Farming
  15. Lamella Roofs
  16. Radical Technology Revisited
  17. Battery Powered Rail Vehicle Claims New Efficiency Record
  18. The Wave of the Future
  19. Zero Electricity Air Cooler
  20. No Tech Reader #6
  21. Smart Technology is a Solution Looking for a Problem
  22. Roads and Electricity? No, Thanks
  23. Electrically Powered Bicycle Trailer & Hand Cart (DIY)
  24. Capturing Indigenous Knowledge
  25. Chinese Wheelbarrow, Meet the Honey Badger Wheel
  26. Human Powered Level Luffing Crane
  27. How to Build a Biosand Water Filter Using a Wood Mold
  28. DIY Tools that Serve Disabled People’s Unique Needs
  29. Hand Crank Marble Machine
  30. Transcontinental Old School Cycle Race
  31. The Internet in a Box
  32. Driverless Cars Could Increase Reliance on Roads
  33. Renewables: The Next Fracking?
  34. No Tech Reader #5
  35. Enough with the Vertical Farming
  36. Building With Salt
  37. No Tech Reader #4
  38. Critical Making
  39. Trash Collecting Water Wheel
  40. Deschooling Society

2015 56

  1. Sail the World’s Largest Viking Ship from Europe to America
  2. Self-Driving Cars: a Coming Congestion Disaster?
  3. Solarpunk
  4. Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop
  5. No Tech Reader #3
  6. Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce for the Ancient Roman Masses
  7. So you want us all to go back to the Stone Age?
  8. A Trunk on Wheels
  9. Technology Ages in Reverse
  10. Gravity-Powered Solar Tracker
  11. Knapp Double Wheel Generator
  12. African Vernacular Architecture Database
  13. Why Trains Are the Best Aid to Thought
  14. No Tech Reader #2
  15. How to Work in Engineering for Global Development
  16. Recharging Groundwater with Water-Harvesting Ditches
  17. Slow Farming Tools
  18. Cutting Back on Glass
  19. DIY Urban Root Cellar
  20. 21st Century Craftsmen: Winne Clement, Flutemaker
  21. No Tech Reader #1
  22. Mobile Foundries for Aluminum Can Recycling
  23. Preserving Food by Fermentation
  24. Canoe and Kayak Sailing
  25. The Inactivity Pandemic
  26. Water Johads: A Low-Tech Alternative to Mega-Dams in India
  27. A Ladder to Heaven
  28. A Dining Table for the Neighbourhood
  29. Micro Break: The Fast, Efficient Holiday
  30. What Can Be Learnt From a 17th Century Town
  31. Meccano Food Mixer
  32. Human Alarm Clocks
  33. High Speed Archery
  34. African Action Movies
  35. Battery Killers: Grid-Interactive Water Heaters
  36. What Digital Does to Our Brains
  37. The Groundfridge
  38. Mechanical 3D Printer
  39. Can We Reboot Civilisation Without Fossil Fuels?
  40. Let’s Grow Some Furniture: Botanical Manufacturing
  41. Turning the Soil with a Bicycle Handlebar
  42. The Case For Dangerous Roads and Low-tech Cars
  43. Metals Used in High-Tech Products Face Future Supply Risks
  44. Cargo Cults
  45. A Washing Machine for Life
  46. The Kume Shade: DIY Insulating Curtain
  47. How To Buy a Low-Tech Car
  48. A Market for Simpler Trucks
  49. Human Powered Ferris Wheel
  50. A World Made of Rotor Blades
  51. Japanese Joinery
  52. The Hay Pusher
  53. A Scooter for Everyone
  54. The Merits of Obsolete Technology
  55. Biogas Backpacks
  56. Photographs of American Indians

2014 42

  1. The Big Velomobiles Graphic
  2. Don’t Heat your Room with Tea Candles
  3. Pedal Powered Farming
  4. The Fuel Multinationals Run On
  5. Different Types of Windmill Sails
  6. Building Dry Stack Stone Walls
  7. Change Ringing
  8. Chimneyless Houses
  9. How Beneficial is the Sharing Economy?
  10. Hydraulic Tiles
  11. The Beauty of Organic Farming
  12. Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges
  13. Games on Disc More Energy Efficient than Downloads
  14. Trolleytrucks in Los Angeles
  15. Pallets On Rails
  16. Animals as the Answer to Recycling Food waste
  17. Why Solar Roadways are a Silly Idea
  18. Lost Crops of Africa
  19. Older Buildings Increase Urban Vitality
  20. Precolumbian Causeways and Canals
  21. Automated Ethics & Driverless Cars
  22. Agricultural Heritage Systems
  23. Sharing Stuff without Apps
  24. Eight-Wheeler Cargo Cycle
  25. Discussing the Politics of Technology
  26. We’re Back Online
  27. The Axe Has Been Reinvented
  28. How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal
  29. Walking Made Us Fly
  30. A Tourist Monoculture
  31. Clothing Insulation with Different Drapes of Sari Ensembles
  32. The Dobsonian Telescope
  33. Furoshiki: Zero-Waste Shopping in Japan
  34. Solar Powered Grain Mill
  35. The Atlas of Environmental Justice
  36. Adapting to Climate by Being a Nomad within your own House
  37. Crimean Ovens
  38. Buses instead of Trains
  39. Low-Tech Kite-Fishing in the Indo-Pacific
  40. Frugal Digital: Repairing, Hacking, and Repurposing Electronics
  41. A Logographic Script for Europe
  42. Why Facebook Subscribers Stopped Seeing Updates

2013 80

  1. The Elderly in Modern Society
  2. Appropriate Technology Publications Online
  3. The Passive Solar Bird Bath
  4. The Motorized “Solution” to Harvesting Wheat in Nepal
  5. The Complete Guide to European Rail Maps & Atlasses
  6. Stone Arch Bridges
  7. Low-Tech Music: One String Guitar
  8. Lost Crops of the Incas
  9. 21st Century Toy Farm
  10. The Making of an Indigenous Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  11. Bog Butter: Storing Food in Soil
  12. Heat Your Desk, Not Your Office
  13. Can I See Your Meat License?
  14. Low-tech Bike Shift Lever
  15. Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
  16. Africa Teaches the West How to Build a Car
  17. Make Your Own $35 Straw Mattress
  18. The Venetian Handcart
  19. Carbon-Negative Energy Machines
  20. Rocket Stove Heating
  21. Foot Powered Sieve and Bandsaw
  22. Decorated Mud Houses in Burkina Faso
  23. Decoupling of Economic Growth and Material Consumption is an Illusion, Researchers Say
  24. Is Cuba the First Large-Scale Maker Society?
  25. The Oil Drum (2005-2013)
  26. The Illusion-of-Control Tower
  27. The Energetic Implications of Energy Storage
  28. Our Right to be Outside: Three Mules
  29. Reporting the Future
  30. Smoke House for Fish
  31. A Passively Cooled House in the Tropics
  32. Handcarts on Rails
  33. Modular Smartphones
  34. Bike-Powered Treehouse Elevator
  35. High-tech Solar Cooker
  36. Water-Powered Fire Alarm
  37. Water-Powered Washing Machine
  38. Seaweed Houses
  39. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
  40. Rail Energy Storage
  41. Why so Fast?
  42. Fully Enclosed Showers
  43. Kremlin Replaces Computers by Typewriters
  44. Floating Grain Mill in Old China
  45. From Europe to America by Sail
  46. Ask No Tech Magazine: Self-Replicating Solar Kilns?
  47. Human Powered Pile Hammer
  48. The Elegant Simplicity of Wood Repair
  49. Hand Powered Sawing Machine (1886)
  50. Avoid News
  51. The Making of a Foot Powered Treadle Lathe
  52. Victorian Nanotech
  53. Solar Wood Drying Kiln
  54. The Limits of Animal Powered Transportation: Table Top Wool Wagons
  55. Ride Your Bike Faster or With Less Effort Using a Partial Fairing
  56. Archimedean Energy Storage
  57. Fences, Gates and Bridges
  58. Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties
  59. The Full Moon Theatre
  60. A Mattress that Lasts a Lifetime
  61. The Religion of Complexity
  62. Nubian Vaults
  63. The Culticycle: a Pedal-Powered Tractor
  64. How to Plant an Iroquois Garden
  65. Self-Trimming Wingsails
  66. Classic Italian Racing Bicycles
  67. Sand-Powered Water Wheel
  68. Micromachines: Decentralized Urban Services in South-Asia
  69. Gas Bag Buses in Shawan, China
  70. Poop by the Bucket: A Sewer Catastrophe Companion
  71. Think Outside the Bowl
  72. Caribou Skin Clothing Beats High-Tech Expedition Clothing
  73. Directory of Open Access Journals
  74. Earthen Solar Cooker
  75. “Gravity Powered” Lights (and How to Make Them More Powerful)
  76. Abandoned Flour Mill in Spain
  77. Cargo Cycle for Egg Deliveries
  78. The Art of Inventive Repair
  79. DIY Glaciers: a Low-Cost Alternative to Dams
  80. Rivet Spacers

2012 70

  1. Repair is Beautiful
  2. The Fastest Sailboat in the World
  3. DIY Trashion Furniture Kit
  4. Straw Bale Gardening
  5. Light Your Organic Tobacco in a Sustainable Way
  6. Designing for Velomobile Diversity
  7. Bubble Wrap Window Insulation
  8. Last Child in the Woods
  9. Pedal Powered Un-Knitting Machine
  10. Brazilian Slow Shoes
  11. Retrofit Measures Can Achieve Energy Savings Comparable to New Replacement Windows
  12. Calculating with an Imaginary Abacus
  13. An Engineering Exploration of Stonehenge
  14. Rocking Chair Knits Winter Hats
  15. The Most Effective Solar Cell
  16. Build a Solar Thermal Direct-Air Heater for $200
  17. Wooden Bicycle Rims
  18. Making Bellows
  19. Open Source Water Boiler
  20. Robin Wood, Bowlturner
  21. Insects as a Sustainable Feed Ingredient in Pig and Poultry Diets
  22. Wire Hanger Rocket Stove
  23. International Appropriate Tech Competition
  24. Modern Stone and Flint Tools
  25. Bicycle Trailer with Solar Panel Charges Electric Bicycle
  26. Historic Bottle Website
  27. Resawing By Hand
  28. Building Plans for Dutch Industrial Windmills (1850)
  29. How to Carry a Foldable Workshop on The Rear Rack of Your Bicycle
  30. Finally: A Life Cycle Analysis of Electric Cars
  31. Cargo Cycles Database
  32. Make Your Own Treadle Lathe
  33. Climbing Tall Stacks with the Aid of Kites
  34. Pedal Powered Electronic Waste Recycling Machine
  35. Human Powered Washer & Spin Dryer
  36. Sailing 10,000 Nautical Miles Using the Stars, Moon and Sun
  37. Self-Watering Planter From Porous Earthenware
  38. The European Railways Network 1870 – 2000
  39. The Poor Man’s Refrigerator
  40. Siemens Rediscovers The Trolleytruck
  41. How to Keep Beverages Cool Outside the Refrigerator
  42. The Future Will Not Be Like The Past (2)
  43. Ceramic Food Steamer With Central Chimney
  44. The Future Will Not Be Like The Past (1)
  45. The Concrete Lathe Project
  46. Velomobiling
  47. Open Source Energy Production: The Solar Fire P90
  48. Dog Sulkies: Pet Powered Mobility
  49. Pottery Refrigerators
  50. India’s Ancient Stepwell Architecture Cools Modern Building
  51. Traditional Repair Techniques: The Japanese Art of Kintsugi
  52. Solar Cookers That Work At Night
  53. More Waste = More Money
  54. Japanese Tub Boats
  55. Carrier Pigeons in Syria
  56. Chinese Wheelbarrow Lives on in Angola, Africa
  57. Mumbai Rickshaws
  58. Pedal Powered Wool Carding Machine
  59. California Coolers
  60. Energy Cannibalism
  61. Where Are The Adults?
  62. Locally Farmed Clothing: The Fibershed Project
  63. The Greenest Building Is The One Already Standing
  64. Saving Food From The Fridge
  65. People Are Knowledge: The Oral Citations Project
  66. The Wooden Work Boats of Indochina
  67. Micro Heaters
  68. Parabolic Basket and Tin Can Solar Cooker
  69. The Best Invention Since The Wheel
  70. Solar Powered Garden Helper Machine

2011 117

  1. The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU)
  2. Timbrel Vaulting Using Cardboard Formwork
  3. Why Preserve Books?
  4. Castration Might Bring Us Better Politicians
  5. Harvesting Steel Wire
  6. Pack Goats
  7. Jet Stream Wind Power as a Renewable Energy Resource
  8. The Lost Art of Lashing
  9. Solar Powered Sun Tracker
  10. Celebrating the Luddite Uprisings
  11. Lifting Tool for Carrying Plant Containers
  12. When Low-Tech Goes IKEA
  13. Edible Insects and Insecticides
  14. Computers in Education
  15. Medieval Fairs and Market Towns
  16. Sub-irrigated Planters
  17. Featherbeds, Rushlights, Brooms: The History of Household Objects
  18. Building with Mud and Steel Frames
  19. Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870-1873)
  20. The Private Bus System that Works
  21. The Farming Systems Trial (1981-2011)
  22. Human Microphones
  23. How to Build a Medieval City
  24. Jua Kali: Innovation in Kenya’s Informal Economy
  25. Makeshift: A Journal of Hidden Creativity
  26. What Technology Wants
  27. Low-tech Bulbs for Dark Slums
  28. Making a Dugout Canoe Using Stone Tools and Fire
  29. Home Energy Storage
  30. Trees as Indicators of Prevailing Wind Direction
  31. Making a Blade out of Homemade Steel
  32. Continuously Variable Bicycle Gear Hub
  33. Flywheel Bicycle
  34. Medieval Lives Documentary Series
  35. Camel Trains in Asia, Russia and Australia
  36. Building with Pumice
  37. There is Life in Strangers, Giants and Machines
  38. A Nation-Sized Battery
  39. Build a Solar Powered (Interior) Kitchen
  40. Community-Based Health Care
  41. The Natural Limits of Science
  42. The Agricultural Building and Equipment Plan List: over 300 Free Plans
  43. The Junk Blue Book: Indigenous Fishing and Cargo Craft
  44. Movable Shading Structures
  45. Censors of Knowledge
  46. Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics: a Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering and the Mechanical Arts
  47. Wind Farms Can Be Made 10 Times Smaller
  48. Illustrated Inventory of Antique Farm Tools (1600 – 1940)
  49. The Flying Men of Yungas Valley
  50. Covered Bridges: How to Build and Rebuild Them
  51. Social Conflict and the Age of Scarcity
  52. Portraits of Farm Animals
  53. Talk at LIFT Conference: Be Radical
  54. Fences of Fruit Trees
  55. Window Orientation and Shading
  56. How to Build a Spiral Pump
  57. What’s the Amish community’s stance on cars?
  58. DIY Heirloom Technology
  59. Barbers are Back
  60. Home Made Air Conditioner
  61. European Urbanization 1500 – 1800
  62. Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
  63. Low-tech Vertical Garden in Ibiza, Spain
  64. Solar Heating System with Water Battery
  65. Human Power Empirically Explored
  66. Pedal Powered Machines
  67. Low-tech Nuclear Waste Storage
  68. Greens and Numbers
  69. Innovation & Tradition: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy Online
  70. Public versus Private Energy Resources
  71. How To Build Your Own Industrial Civilization
  72. Sustainable Decadence
  73. The Homemade Windmills of Nebraska
  74. Can Renewables Power Consumer Societies? The Negative Case
  75. Hand Powered Apple Peelers
  76. Solar Powered Laser Cutter
  77. Micro-Livestock: Little Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future
  78. The Revival of the Craftsman
  79. Handy Farm Devices & How to Make Them (1912 Book)
  80. Oil Dependency & Alternative Fuels in 1909
  81. Mass Insect Farming
  82. Portable Low-tech Scale Accurately Weighs Small Items
  83. Early 20th Century Wave Power
  84. Homemade Musical Instruments
  85. Irish Hedgerows
  86. This Hiding Place Should Never be Disturbed
  87. Downloadable Hasselblad Pinhole Camera
  88. Dealing With Holes
  89. How to Ship an Obelisk
  90. Hardcore Book Scanning
  91. How to Build a Reciprocal Roof Frame (aka Mandala Roof)
  92. Geeks and Nuclear Power
  93. Developed nations dangerously over-reliant on GPS
  94. Pay-per-swing Hammers
  95. How to Make an Adult Soapbox Kart
  96. Environmental Impacts of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
  97. DIY Book Scanning
  98. You Can’t Live With or Without Them: Clothes
  99. A Second Skin for Bananas
  100. The Receding Horizons of Renewable Energy
  101. Modernising the Royal Mail
  102. Hand Operated Vacuum Cleaners
  103. Medieval Warfare in Egypt
  104. The World’s First Post-Growth Economy
  105. How to Build an Earthbag Dome
  106. Drug Catapult Found at US-Mexico Border
  107. Judging Technology
  108. Ten Reasons Why Jatropha is Neither a Profitable nor a Sustainable Investment
  109. Shoemakers of the World
  110. Cash Ropeway in South Africa
  111. Know Your Bolts
  112. UK Lawmakers Call for Energy Rationing with Personal Fuel Quotas
  113. Cameroon Blacksmiths
  114. Low-Tech Whale Hunting in Japan, pre-1900s
  115. Solar Box Cookers Only Work When the Sun is Shining – So What?
  116. How to Rig a Windmill Sail
  117. Medieval England twice as well off as today’s poorest nations

2010 101

  1. Digital Billboards
  2. The Blackfoot Indians
  3. The Conquering Factory System
  4. Disneyland’s Magic Highway USA (1958)
  5. Hand-crafted Maps
  6. Peak Health
  7. Tree Windmill (1901)
  8. Primitive Kitchen Timer by Ludvik Cjep
  9. Metropolis II by Chris Burden
  10. Horse-Drawn Public Transportation
  11. The Changing Rural Habitat
  12. Ship mills
  13. Designed For The Dump
  14. Practical Conservation Handbooks: More Excellent DIY Resources
  15. Leaf Blowers Must Die
  16. Fertilizer Trees
  17. Pedal Powered FlatBed Truck
  18. Tax Resources, Not Labour
  19. Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and the Transmission of Power (1892)
  20. Old Watermills Turning Again
  21. Lasers or Longbows? A Paradox of Military Technology
  22. Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History
  23. Bicycles & tricycles; an elementary treatise on their design and construction
  24. French Towns Swap Rubbish Trucks for Horse-Drawn Carts
  25. Phillips, Decker and Canadian Pack Saddles
  26. Water Powered Rope Making Machine
  27. Workers of the World Relax !
  28. Sewage, Toilets, and Nutrient Cycles for Dummies
  29. Tom Wilson’s Monster Bikes
  30. Flint Knapping
  31. Small wind turbines put to the test (2)
  32. Compendium of Useful Information
  33. Waste to Meat Recycling
  34. Parts of 1909 Automobiles
  35. Green Wizards
  36. Tricycle with Foldable Fairing
  37. Guerilla Farming
  38. Wooden Stave Pipes
  39. Where no one would believe someone could live
  40. Ferraris of Ancient Egypt
  41. Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media
  42. Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans
  43. Wind Powered Trikes
  44. Can Traditional Knowledge be Categorized?
  45. Obsolete Technology Prints and Photograph Collections
  46. Characteristics of Modern Technique (3)
  47. Tribal People vs. Progress
  48. Hoisting Coal from Canal Boats with Dederick Machines
  49. Birch Bark Sauna
  50. Water Batteries for Trees
  51. Tandem Cargo Tricycle (1940) & More Vintage Dutch Carrier Bikes
  52. The Wonders of Industry (1873-1877)
  53. Grasses Can’t Graze Themselves: Combating Desertification Using Herd Animals
  54. Maximizing Growing Space
  55. Why Older Buildings are More Sustainable
  56. Domestic Terraforming: Gardening for Geeks
  57. Los Angeles Without Cars
  58. Crane Locomotives
  59. Should we try to reform industrial civilisation, or watch it go down?
  60. Belgian Recumbent Tricycles
  61. The Origins Of Invention: Industry Among Primitive Peoples
  62. Historical Fish Landing Statistics
  63. Overview of Early Electric Trucks (1907 Catalog)
  64. Why Bicycles are Faster than Cars
  65. Characteristics of Modern Technique (2)
  66. Airplanes & Volcanoes
  67. The Rest Saving the West
  68. DIY Replicas of 1930s Race Cars
  69. Has There Been Progress Since 1250?
  70. Automatic Line Fishing in River Volga, Russia (1861)
  71. Peak Asphalt: the Return of Gravel Roads
  72. Has There Been Progress Since 1250?
  73. High-tech Bike or Low-tech Car? The Sinner Mango Sport
  74. No Tech Day
  75. Grinding the Wind: the Treadwheel Fan
  76. Mad Max Wars
  77. Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts
  78. Obsolete Occupations: the Jobs of Yesteryear
  79. Engines of Our Ingenuity
  80. High-Tech Knotting: the Diamond Hitch
  81. The State of Humanity
  82. Harnessing the Sun: the History of Solar Energy
  83. A Manual for the Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack Animals
  84. Cardboard Box Bass
  85. Libraries
  86. Best Curta Pictures Ever
  87. Dutch Book Bindings (12th – 21st Century)
  88. Primitive Technology Handbook
  89. Digital Books and Your Rights
  90. Pen Shaking Centrifuge
  91. Modern Day Flintstones
  92. Low-tech Snow Scooters: Kick Sleds
  93. The Misanthrope’s Guide to the End of the World
  94. London Traffic Improvements (the Bressey Report, 1938)
  95. Characteristics of Modern Technique (1)
  96. Three Thousand Pages of 19th Century Technology
  97. Jailhouse Tech
  98. Copenhagen is not the Bicycle Capital of the World
  99. Sailing Directly into the Wind
  100. Wovel Wheeled Snow Shovel
  101. Post-Oil Automobile Drives on Wood

2009 132

  1. Timbrel Vaulting in South Africa by Peter Rich Architects
  2. Art Can Save The World – But Then We Need More Artists
  3. Windmills and Wind Motors – How to Build and Run Them (1910)
  4. The declining marginal return of research and development
  5. Time Flies
  6. Hand Powered Tree Sawing Machine (1822)
  7. Window Farms
  8. Roadtown – a Railway in the Basement, a Promenade upon the Roof
  9. How to Set Up and Run a Bicycle Repair Company
  10. Building With Whole Trees
  11. How To Transport Oil in a Post-Oil World
  12. Online Multimedia Museum of Machine Motion
  13. Floating Citadels, Powered by Wind and Water Mills
  14. Ran Prieur
  15. 507 Mechanical Movements (1908)
  16. It’s Easy Being Green
  17. TimberTower: a High-Tech Wind Turbine, Made from Trees
  18. City Life – Lessons in Vanity
  19. Hand Powered Table Saw
  20. Electric Wooden Car
  21. Plastics in the World of Tomorrow – Plastics in the World of Today
  22. Kite Power
  23. Low-tech Indoor Truck
  24. Streetcar Scooter
  25. Construction in Reverse
  26. The Panorama of Professions and Trades (1837)
  27. How To Make Everything Yourself – Online Low-Tech Resources
  28. Aerial Ropeways in Nepal
  29. Trashwiki for Dumpster Divers
  30. Scale Models of Dutch Windmills
  31. Technical Illustrations by Karl Hans Janke (1909-1988)
  32. DIY Low-Tech Windmills
  33. Cargohopper
  34. Too Many (African) Babies?
  35. Vintage Alloy Tools
  36. Good Question
  37. The Blackpool Tramway
  38. Steampunk Cities
  39. Competing with Computers
  40. Optical telegraph in the Netherlands
  41. Why Paper Is Eternal
  42. Can Cars
  43. Cycle Chics
  44. 1920s Off-Road Vehicles
  45. How Far Back?
  46. Wind-Powered Knitting Machine
  47. Human Powered Dredger (1859)
  48. Automobiles on Steroids
  49. Guido Vigevano’s Wind Car (1335)
  50. Cargo Trams, Trolleytrucks & Road Trains
  51. Walk-Behind Tractor
  52. Polynesian Stick Charts
  53. Los Grumildos in NYC
  54. Antivirus Software Sucks
  55. A Low-tech Trick to Eliminate Standby Power Consumption
  56. Seasteading: Floating Utopias
  57. One Day We Will All Be Writing and Revising Code
  58. Make a Cardboard Surfboard
  59. Airships Past and Present, by A.Hildebrandt (1908)
  60. Smarter Technology
  61. The Great Panjandrum Rolls Again
  62. Street life
  63. The Body as a Machine
  64. Steel Art by Chris Hausbeck
  65. Historical Statistics for Mineral and Material Commodities
  66. A Practical Guide for Automobilists (1901)
  67. Horse Powered Ferry Boat
  68. Economic growth
  69. Shovelman
  70. Atlas Obscura
  71. Ostrich Car
  72. The End of the Line
  73. Wooden Bridges
  74. Waste Heat
  75. Homebrewed CPU
  76. Magic Motorways
  77. How to Depave the Planet
  78. A Perpetuum Mobile Railroad
  79. The History of Helicopters and Autogyros
  80. The Flying Oven
  81. Prison Treadmills
  82. Supporters and Opponents of Technology
  83. The Folly of Building-Integrated Wind
  84. Sailing Rockets
  85. Materials = Energy
  86. Bookbinding: a tutorial
  87. Miracle biofuels
  88. Steam engine galleries
  89. Man versus nature
  90. Construction and Farming in the 21th Century
  91. Kicking the habit: the Oil Depletion Protocol
  92. Redefining Wildernis
  93. Economy = Energy
  94. Hybrid windmill
  95. Build your own low-tech turntable
  96. Wooden pipelines
  97. High speed trains
  98. Reserve base / Annual global consumption
  99. Speculative biology
  100. The immutable verities of grand physical laws
  101. Four wheels good, two legs bad
  102. Kiteboating
  103. Too many babies?
  104. Bolides d’autrefois: vintage paper art
  105. Steampunk Magazine #5
  106. Macho pedal power
  107. Temporocentrism
  108. Beyond Utopia
  109. Carville & Carzonia
  110. Who needs a Prius?
  111. Technofix
  112. Stop recycling. Start repairing.
  113. A rising tide of ocean debris
  114. The battle of the bowlturners
  115. Tigchel heaters and finovens
  116. The electric man & the electric horse
  117. The woodmobile
  118. Lost London
  119. Kite aerial photography
  120. Scrap it
  121. The development of the electric motor
  122. Lost knowledge
  123. Early Machine Technology
  124. Street life in 1905
  125. Steam log haulers
  126. Ecotech fantasies
  127. Slow geeks
  128. Snow scooter from the 1920s
  129. Dynamos from the 1880s
  130. Tools and ideas
  131. Cleantech
  132. Older mixed links