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Green Trust, a renewable energy research center, powers their facilities with waste vegetable oil. Their 12.5 kw Detroit Diesel 2-71 generator (the VeggieGen) h...

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2004 in Portland, Oregon on 10th to 12th November – 3 days of workshops, talks and exhibitions for anyone inv...

10 easy steps to start a vegetable garden – Select a good spot for your garden: make sure the soil’s well drained, not too shallow, not too rocky an...

There’s something incredibly exciting about getting into an abandoned building — a huge, disused factory. It gets you right there, you’re scar...

You could make use of your swimming pool (or small lake) for much longer with a solar pool heating system. Pool solar heaters are just a set of solar panels, or...

Self-build geodesic domes course on Dec 10th to 12th at the Low-Impact Living Initiative, Redfield Community, Winslow, Bucks, UK. Build your own low-impact dwel...

Green roofs are designed to support the growth of plants. They consist of a special waterproof and root repellant membrane, a drainage system, filter cloth, a l...

UK planners James Woudhuysen and Ian Abley look forward optimistically to 2016 in Blueprint magazine : Forget the 0.12 million new dwellings that deputy prime m...

From Clare Morgan Here is one self-build home that got around the planning laws! A CLASSIC BUS that had been converted into a UK home sold at auction for 132,50...

Known as the Type 2, or “bay window” van (its predecessor had a beaky nose and split windscreen), it fell off the twig in Europe in 1979, but factor...

How a couple lost everything they owned and still found happiness — off-grid...

The makers bill the Seascooter as a Personal underwater transporter, but that’s going a bit too far. The Seascooter is just a small, safe hand-held propel...