#low tech

[ornithorynquerouge]

Vinyl and Needle at 1000x

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Learning to weave from my grandmother this week. Older generations hold so much wisdom we can tap into to build a more solarpunk world. I really enjoyed using the loom and I hope I have my own one day, and that I can make clothes for myself and other people if my dyspraxia plays ball. This was only my first try though so I’ve got a long way to go!

[noneedtofearorhope]

[schar-aac]

"high-tech"

image: blue upwards arrow next to a device with a screen and buttons.

"low-tech"

image: blue downwards arrow next to a device with a screen and buttons.

[crasybirdlady]

I have been bragging about my heroRat Baraka here before.

But Apopo does really important work and I hope more people will support them.

Adopt a rat or donate some food or equipment. It all helps.

[marcherren]

shot with a 1930s Voigtländer Jubilar on Fomapan 400

[anarkittyuwuuniverse]

"There is a lot of room to reduce the steel intensity of modern society. All our basic needs – and more – could be supplied with much less steel involved. For example, we could make cars lighter by making them smaller. That would bring energy savings without the need for energy-intensive high-grade steel. We could replace cars with bicycles and public transportation so that more people share less steel. Such changes would also reduce the need for steel in the road network, the energy infrastructure, and the manufacturing industry. We would need fewer machine tools, shipping containers, and reinforced concrete buildings. Whenever steel intensity is reduced, the advantages cascade throughout the whole system. Preventing corrosion and producing steel more locally from local resources would also reduce energy use and emissions.1014

The continuous growth of the steel output – the increasing steel intensity of human society – makes sustainable steel production impossible. No technology can change that because it’s not a technological problem. Like forestry can only be sustainable if the wood demand does not exceed the wood supply, steel is sustainable or not depending on the balance between (scrap) supply and (steel) demand. We may not be able to escape the Iron Age, but we have an option to escape the catch-22 that inextricably links steel production with fossil fuels." -How to escape from the Iron Age?

[blueiskewl]

Simple but Effective

[nathandiary]

Low-Tech Article and illustration

Here is my article about low-tech. I experimented with an isometric illustration and that was quite the journey.

[vorpalbun]

solar witch is back! it's a solar-powered server that only runs between sunrise and sunset (UK time). you can leave a message but all messages are deleted when it shuts down for the night. link here

[greenhorizonblog]

Here is one of my Pinterest boards that has a lot of cool things that I would love to incorporate in the future eco villages that we will be building in the coming years here in the UK

It's a beautiful, elegant flavour of solarpunk, with some inspo from both victorian, art nouveau, organic modern and indigenous architecture and decoration, and is less high tech. I really don't think we need to wait for technology in order to make a thriving and sustainable life and society right now

[luckyspike]

Good morning from my little Zen Zone

[noneedtofearorhope]

Nowadays, most wood is harvested by killing trees. Before the Industrial Revolution, a lot of wood was harvested from living trees, which were coppiced. The principle of coppicing is based on the natural ability of many broad-leaved species to regrow from damaged stems or roots – damage caused by fire, wind, snow, animals, pathogens, or (on slopes) falling rocks. Coppice management involves the cutting down of trees close to ground level, after which the base – called the “stool” – develops several new shoots, resulting in a multi-stemmed tree.

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Because of the short rotation cycles, a coppice forest was a very quick, regular and reliable supplier of firewood. Often, it was cut up into a number of equal compartments that corresponded to the number of years in the planned rotation. For example, if the shoots were harvested every three years, the forest was divided into three parts, and one of these was coppiced each year. Short rotation cycles also meant that it took only a few years before the carbon released by the burning of the wood was compensated by the carbon that was absorbed by new growth, making a coppice forest truly carbon neutral. In very short rotation cycles, new growth could even be ready for harvest by the time the old growth wood had dried enough to be burned.

[sleepydrummer]

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[marcherren]

[anarkittyuwuuniverse]

I'm currently looking into a lot of low-tech replacements for everyday items and it's very fascinating to me trying to like figure out ways of using technology that is less energy-intensive or completely free of electricity while still making it convenient for your average joe. Lately I've been looking into alternative ways of showering. When I was in Dubai I tried bathing with just a bucket and a cup and even though I really enjoy the luxury of western showers I honestly felt like I could live my life fine with just using a bucket and a cup. But I know not everyone would be as partial to that so I've been looking at things that kind of try to preserve that same sort of decadent experience showers give you while also saving water and power.

There are of course mist showers which save a lot of water by atomizing it into very tiny and fine droplets, which I think is a very cool idea, but the problem with those are that you still need electricity to heat the water up.

But then there's stuff like solar shower bags, which are items mostly used for camping. They're cool because they're literally just black water bags that you leave out in the sun for a few hours and the black absorbs the heat, then there's a shower head attached to it, so you just hang it up and then you have a home made hot shower just like that. Now I'm wondering if anyone's ever thought about combining these two, like if you could use the same kind of shower head from a mist shower on these kinds of bags (if that's even how they work, I'm not an expert). Or what about using this kind of electricity-free heating method for other situations where we use hot water, for example when washing dishes or clothes? Is there any way of making this kind of thing more convenient so someone like me who lives on the fourth floor and doesn't have a balcony wouldn't have to carry it up and down from the street to find a sunny spot to put it? Idk but I'd love to hear if anyone else has any ideas or knows about something similar.