The Passive Solar Energy Book
"Passive solar" means heating and cooling with no moving parts, just intelligent design and sunlight. It's efficient, cheap, and tested. This is the book on the subject.
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Rainbook
Rain was one of the brightest stars of the mid-70s alternative technology movement, a magazine of ideas and sources for appropriate technology. This anthology is mostly an idea book and a reference to hundreds of useful but out-of-print books.
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Survival Scrapbook #1: Shelter
English hippie funk. More an idea book than a practical manual, but the ideas are usefully counterintuitive (especially to American minds) and some of the material is quite good.
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Survival Scrapbook #2: Food
More English hippie funk, putting the food on the table with a healthy serving of working-class radicalism.
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Survival Scrapbook #3: Energy
Still more English hippie funk. Solar, alcohol, wind, fire, the weirder powers of the mind, and red-hot Situationist political rhetoric to add to the mix. If you can read this book without getting at least one new idea your brain is probably turned off.
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The Book of the New Alchemists
Among the most creative of the appropriate technology groups of the 70s, the New Alchemists pioneered an extraordinary array of relatively low-tech solutions to survival problems. This book is more of an overview than an in-depth handbook, but it's a good place to fish for ideas
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