Kalo coming out of the solar cooker, just in time for lunch 
Lunch was: kalo grown by my bf, and eggs from @saltphoenix . Topped with butter and chili sauce. I'm so grateful that I have these wonderful people in my life who share their bounty with me and feed me 
Intelligente Stromzähler bei Verbrauchern sind eine Privatsphäre-Albtraum!
At Le Jardin des Mille Pas near Rennes today I met these beautiful donkeys
If hollywood will really return to "traditional values" as Le Figaro writes, and expects there will be more movies about rural life, and religious themes involves, should we expect:
cheap horror movies a-la 1980s? boring films-to-snore-during? rural mystique about (folk?) witchcraft? "wild ghosts or evil witches vs brutal pastor" trope in rural setting
Will side effect of this be more people dreaming about #anarchism via #anarchoPrimitivism #offGrid #offGreed communities?
On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html
On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 2 as Off-grid Server (2015) - Read how I set up my solar-powered RPi2 (previously a Model B then a B+) to take on load from servers elsewhere on the Internet... #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-2-setup.html
Some numbers. $2,500 is left on our fundraiser. We're halfway. I'd freaking love to hit that.
But if we can't, bare-bones I need $300 for a generator rental (we are off-grid and fully self-powered. More funds and I'll do bigger solar this gear), $100 for educational decor, and I pulled $700 from my (meager) savings for poorer campers already.
$1,100 would do a LOT.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-glow-radical-educational-electronics-camp-fundraiser
At Le petit bois today, planted three rows of spinach and between them strawberries, moved from the raspberry beds where they got lost last year. They took care of themselves all winter and now they're here for us in spring.
BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4
→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.
→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion
Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels
(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez
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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid
I'm actually finding a lot of 3D printed solutions to things. I also got 3D printed shelves for my old RV fridge on eBay, since the originals are hard to find.
I'm getting a 3D printed siphon attachment for a hose as well. Moving water from one place to another can be a bigger problem than you'd think.
Ahh, a nice pile of pre-mulch (category: pallet). This pile isn't the final pile. It's the holding pile. Next step is distributing the pieces based on where i'd like them to decompose.
Stuff like managed decomposition really makes me feel like I've got my arm up to the elbow in the circle of life, swishing things around and trying to make something happen lol.
And yes, all my most profound ecological insights come only when I'm *at least* elbow deep in the circle of life.
Which reminds me, I have some goat poop (from @saltphoenix ) compost tea brewing in a bucket and I gotta stir it and distribute it. Swish swishing the circle of life quite literally, in this case 
Yesterday morning was supposed to be a freeze warning, but soon as the sun would rise, bumblebees were busy with flowers. This morning, is that a butterfly? Birds are fluttering their wings, flying past me while enjoying the beautiful garden. The solar garden collected five kilowatt-hours soon after the sun would rise. Anyone need to charge up their electric vehicle, it's all free and from the sun!
After many months of living #offgrid and "blindly" as well as happily relying on our #solar system every day, we've been without #power for two days now. After many hours of troubleshooting and dismantling half the electrical wiring, we finally found a connection that had melted for no apparent reason, causing the fuse box to blow. No moisture, no animals, nothing. But now everything is back to normal and my relaxation level is skyrocketing. 
The #heatBattery (indeed all storage including #offGrid) filled up for the first time this year! So monthly electricity use stayed up as consumption switched from space heat to heat storage, kinda!
https://www.earth.org.uk/out/monthly/16WWMonthlyElectricityConsumption.png
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