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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

How to Build a DIY Natural Swimming Pool (Video)

Image credit: Permaculture Media We already know that swimming pools are a huge suck on natural resources , not to mention a possible source of allergies . But from Brooklyn’s repurposed dumpster pools to

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Floppy Disks Upcycled Into USB Drives

Image via Gizmodo Figuring out what to do with obsolete tech can be either tedious, or a lot of fun. Floppy disks are a perfect example of where creativity can be let loose — makers have turned them into everything from notepads to laptop stands. But what about simply upgrading the old technology into something still useful? … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spoonflower: ‘Online Social Networking’ Meets ‘Print Your Own Fabric’

Move over Amy Butler , there’s a new kid on the block for designer fabrics. All custom-designed by a growing online network of DIYers and printed in Mebane, North Carolina, fabric pattern buffs will appreciate Spoonflower , a print-on-demand service that is also an Etsy -type of online community and marketplace where users can upload, share and purchase a mind-boggling variety of unique pattern designs. From the quirky to the sublime, the site probably has a pattern to … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bring Back Home Ec (and Shop Class)

Marion Nestle (via Apartment Therapy ) quotes a paper by Harvard pediatrician David Ludwig and Tufts professor Alice Lichtenstein that suggests home economic classes be reintroduced to schools. Girls and boys should be taught the basic principles they will need to feed themselves and their families w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Man Single-Handedly Builds Underground Subway System

Everybody is into rail these days; it is the greenest way to get around next to a bike. Leonid Mulyanchik has been into it for years since before the Berlin Wall fell, since before the first Macintosh, building “his own private underground Metro railway system.” English-Russia says that he has been doing it with his pension, that it is all legal and approved and that he is still at it. Gizmodo c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Man Single-Handedly Builds Underground Subway System