I find vertical fridges terribly inefficient (even the high efficiency ones)... open the door and all the cold pours out.. I'm thinking of doing somet...

do you think it would be advantageous to take a solar panel installation class like this one:I'm excited by the design of these solar panels:and I wou...

Thanks for all the good info... Where can you get a non plastic toboggan?

what about earth bags as an cheap alternative for underground building, link to instructables page:

I like the eco village Idea...you definitely have to find the right people and location...but if you do I think there is real strength in numbers.

what i want to know is why you had to clean your knife with bleach?....oh ....maybe i don't want to know.

comfort food.... chocolate and beer

you would need to use some kind of metal polishing compound with the buff... i think lee valley is more oriented to polishing wood... princess auto or...

I think Canadian tire still caries them. On a semi related note Ikea sells some solar charging led reading lights that will also charge AA's.

Thanks for the good advice, I like the rocket mass heater idea maybe I could turn it into a boiler and pipe the hot water into the house for heat... C...

I'm just a beginner myself but my plan is to work toward self sufficiency... Growing and storing my own food getting some chickens and hopefully getti...