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2026 5

  1. bookshop
  2. | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
  3. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV
  4. Rediscovering the Handcart
  5. Low-tech Magazine: The Uncompressed Book Series

2025 8

  1. Winter is Coming: Build a Solar Powered Foot Stove
  2. How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee
  3. Thematic Book Series: Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire
  4. How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven
  5. How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch
  6. How to Mount a Balcony Awning
  7. How to Dress and Undress your Home
  8. The Compressed Book Edition

2024 5

  1. How to Build an Electrically Heated Table?
  2. Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse
  3. Low-tech Magazine: The Ebooks
  4. Thematic Book Series: How Circular is the Circular Economy?
  5. How to Escape From the Iron Age?

2023 12

  1. How to Build a Small Solar Power System
  2. Thematic Book Series: Heating People, not Spaces
  3. Test our Bike Generators in Paris, Rotterdam, and Barcelona
  4. Plastic Waste in the Fuel Tank?
  5. Thematic Book Series: How to Downsize a Transport Network?
  6. Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator
  7. Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries
  8. Thematic Book Series: How to Build a Low-tech Internet?
  9. Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System
  10. Rebuilding a Solar Powered Website
  11. Low-tech Magazine: The Comic
  12. Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?

2022 4

  1. What if We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows?
  2. When Lethal Weapons Grew on Trees
  3. How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator
  4. The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle

2021 7

  1. The Printed Website: Volume III & The Comments
  2. Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild
  3. How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel?
  4. How to Design a Sailing Ship for the 21st Century?
  5. Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
  6. How Sustainable is High-tech Health Care?
  7. Vertical Farming Does not Save Space

2020 7

  1. How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
  2. How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again
  3. Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?
  4. Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
  5. How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
  6. The Solar Powered Website in Spanish, French, and Other Languages
  7. This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

2019 7

  1. Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire
  2. The Printed Website: Second Volume Out Now
  3. Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?
  4. How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
  5. Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
  6. Low-tech Magazine: The Printed Website
  7. Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill

2018 11

  1. Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
  2. How Circular is the Circular Economy?
  3. How to Build a Low-tech Website?
  4. Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels?
  5. The Messy World of Fermentation
  6. We Can't Do It Ourselves
  7. Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage
  8. History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy
  9. How Much Energy Do We Need?
  10. Energy labels oblige frugal homeowners to make unsustainable investments
  11. Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency

2017 8

  1. How to Run the Economy on the Weather
  2. How (Not) to Run a Modern Society on Solar and Wind Power Alone
  3. Non-Electric Hearing Aids Outperform Modern Devices
  4. Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?
  5. Heat Storage Hypocausts: Air Heating in the Middle Ages
  6. Rebooting Energy Demand: Automatic Software Upgrades
  7. Vietnam's Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay
  8. Medieval Heating System Lives on in Spain

2016 6

  1. The Curse of the Modern Office
  2. Why the Office Needs a Typewriter Revolution
  3. Pigeon Towers: A Low-tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers
  4. How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid
  5. Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power?
  6. Power Water Networks

2015 12

  1. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
  2. Reinventing the Greenhouse
  3. How to Build a Low-tech Internet
  4. The 4G Mobile Internet That's Already There
  5. Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet
  6. Garum: Fermented Fish Sauce for the Ancient Roman Masses
  7. Water Johads: A Low-Tech Alternative to Mega-Dams in India
  8. How Sustainable is Stored Sunlight?
  9. How Sustainable is PV solar power?
  10. How to Keep Warm in a Cool House
  11. Radiant & Conductive Heating Systems
  12. Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places

2014 5

  1. The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
  2. If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots?
  3. Well-Tended Fires Outperform Modern Cooking Stoves
  4. Modular Cargo Cycles
  5. How Sustainable is Digital Fabrication?

2013 8

  1. High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network
  2. Heat Your Clothes, Not Your House
  3. Burning the Bones of the Earth: Lime Kilns
  4. Power from the Tap: Water Motors
  5. Back to Basics: Direct Hydropower
  6. The Mechanical Transmission of Power (3): Endless Rope Drives
  7. The Mechanical Transmission of Power (2): Jerker Line Systems
  8. The Mechanical Transmission of Power (1): Stangenkunst

2012 7

  1. How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware
  2. Electric Velomobiles: as Fast and Comfortable as Automobiles, but 80 times more Efficient
  3. Electric Velomobiles: as Fast and Comfortable as Automobiles, but 80 times more Efficient (Part Two)
  4. Cargo Cyclists Replace Truck Drivers on European City Streets
  5. How to Keep Beverages Cool Outside the Refrigerator
  6. The Solar Envelope: How to Heat and Cool Cities without Fossil Fuels
  7. The Art of Producing Sustainable Consumer Goods: Basketry

2011 9

  1. How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow
  2. Gas Bag Vehicles
  3. Medieval Smokestacks: Fossil Fuels in Pre-industrial Times
  4. The Bright Future of Solar Thermal Powered Factories
  5. Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable
  6. Pedal Powered Farms and Factories: The Forgotten Future of the Stationary Bicycle
  7. The Short History of Early Pedal Powered Machines
  8. Insulation: First the Body, Then the Home
  9. Aerial Ropeways: Automatic Cargo Transport for a Bargain

2010 11

  1. Hand Powered Drilling Tools and Machines
  2. Boat Mills: Water Powered, Floating Factories
  3. The Velomobile: High-tech Bike or Low-tech Car?
  4. Recycling Animal and Human Dung is the Key to Sustainable Farming
  5. Piston-powered aircraft from the 1950s were as fuel-efficient as the current average jet
  6. How to tie the world together: online knotting reference books
  7. Lost Knowledge: Ropes and Knots
  8. The Status Quo of Electric Cars: Better Batteries, Same Range
  9. Overview of Early Electric Cars (1895-1925)
  10. The Sky is the Limit: Human-Powered Cranes and Lifting Devices
  11. Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank

2009 19

  1. Trolley Canal Boats
  2. How (Not) To Resolve the Energy Crisis
  3. Cars: out of the way
  4. Rings of Fire: Hoffmann Kilns
  5. How to make everything yourself - online low-tech resources
  6. Wind Powered Factories: History (and Future) of Industrial Windmills
  7. Water Powered Cable Trains
  8. Get Wired (Again): Trolleybuses and Trolleytrucks
  9. Electric Road Trains
  10. The Monster Footprint of Digital Technology
  11. How much energy does it take (on average) to produce 1 kilogram of the following materials?
  12. Small Windmills Put to the Test
  13. Sailing at the Touch of a Button
  14. Cargo Ships, Then and Now
  15. Who Killed the Electric Grid? Fast-charging Electric Cars
  16. The Museum of Old Techniques
  17. Truckloads of Hard Disks
  18. Camping in the clouds: the Aeromodeller II
  19. Moonlight Towers: Light Pollution in the 1800s

2008 30

  1. Only idiots travel by train
  2. Sunbathing in the Living Room: Oven Stoves and Heat Walls
  3. How to Build a Floating Trash Island
  4. Tiles as a Substitute for Steel: The Art of the Timbrel Vault
  5. Viva Las Vegas: LEDs and the energy efficiency paradox
  6. The Age of Speed: How to Reduce Global Fuel Consumption by 75 Percent
  7. Urban windmills harm the environment
  8. A Steam Powered Submarine: The Ictíneo
  9. Carbon sequestration: Bury the Idea, not the CO2
  10. The Citroen 2CV: Cleantech from the 1940s
  11. Life Without Airplanes: from London to New York in 3 Days and 12 Hours
  12. Is ecotech the new asbestos?
  13. Mechanical Calculators: Computing Without Electricity
  14. The Pinhole Camera: Low-tech Photography
  15. Bring Back the Horses
  16. Leave the Algae Alone
  17. Why bottled water is good for the environment
  18. Life Before Television
  19. The Ugly Side of Solar Panels
  20. A World Without Trucks: Underground Freight Networks
  21. Download, print, fold, paste
  22. The Right to 35 Mobiles
  23. Faster Internet is Impossible
  24. The digital oubliette
  25. Why the electric car has no (wireless) future
  26. Satellite Navigation in the 18th Century
  27. The World's Factory Hall
  28. Gaming unplugged
  29. Cars on Hot Air
  30. Information damages the environment

2007 4

  1. Heat your House with Car Tyres and Earth
  2. Email in the 18th Century: The Optical Telegraph
  3. Second Hand Bits and Bytes
  4. High speed trains: planes on wheels

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