diy - DIY & Electronics

I'd start with the basic: learn carpentry, metal welding, etc. You could build your own wooden house with no mayor issues, given a year with no help, weeks with community help.
Transportation is a big isue. Most jobs are concetrated around big cities, and locomotion is a huge problem you have to conmute several kms to get to your job.
If you want to start a business, perhaps you could try startig it o a small city. You'd be contributng to the local economy, and you'd have less competition from big coms.

i have one suggestion.. try aquaponics

>>1026
Human power is underrated; bicycle powered anything is really interesting. Would be nice to see a bike powered battery cell like the new Tesla wall packs. Storing power still an issue for the long run.


One thing that is always over looked by sustainability folk is our dependency on electronics. And lack of an alternative.

>>1074
>Human power is underrated;
Food is a really environmentally damaging fuel to produce, and humans get terrible thermodynamic efficacy.
Even a basic air-filled Stirling engine burning wood as fuel would do better.

>Storing power still an issue for the long run.
True. Batteries are a mess to produce, and most other forms of rechargeable storage are really clumsy.

>One thing that is always over looked by sustainability folk is our dependency on electronics. And lack of an alternative.
I'm not really sure you CAN have an advanced society without electronics. The best you can do is try to limit the harm done by making them, and build them to last as long as possible.

>>1026
I started beekeeping for honey wax and to help pollinating plants in my neighbourhood. This year I'm having problems with wasps. Any good diy wasp traps ?

>>1109
true, humans aren't the most efficient. I suppose it's worth bringing up passive energy generation though, such as capturing kinetic energy from underneath sidewalks and what not.

For those in this thread, an interesting read regarding a future without electricity and much greater integration of sustainable, closed loop farming systems is; "The fifth sacred thing" by Starhawk.

A little idealistic, and a little liberal, but still worth reading just to see yet another version of utopia might be to some people.

>>1074
>>1109
>>1118
I'd still be really interesting in charging a battery with a bicycle though, since I could use it for exercise anyway.

>>1109
>Food is a really environmentally damaging fuel to produce, and humans get terrible thermodynamic efficacy.
Even a basic air-filled Stirling engine burning wood as fuel would do better.

Maybe, but build a 100W human sized robot that can compare to a human on strength/speed and we'll talk.