Do It Yourself Green Design & Building

Bioshelter Greenhouse (North Carolina, USA) The structure of the greenhouse is conventional. Six-inch block walls — reinforced in alternate cavities with concrete and 1/2" steel ...more

Cargotecture Brings Cargo Containers Home Transforming cargo containers into a weekend studio By Lawrence W. Cheek / Seattle P-I If there's any ...more

Flying Cloud Home To EcoTravelers (USA) By Kate Heber and John Byfield -- Like almost everyone, we had always admired the sleek and shiny vintage Airstream trailers we had seen ...more

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Awnshade

from Florida Solar Energy Center

Build It Solar

This website provides a selection of references and analysis tools for solar design - books, websites, publications and information on solar ...more

Collector Efficiency Calculator

Calculator will calculate the two output values.

Efficiency -- The efficiency of the collector. That is, (Collector Heat Output / Total ...more

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Alaska Bioshelter Solar Greenhouse Video (USA)

This guy built, out of the side of an Alaska mountain, a water recycling, self-sustaining shelter. Out of some fairly simple stuff. The goal was ...more

Amazing SOLAR and WIND Powered VAN Video

This is fantastic, and it just shows what you can do with renewable energy. This is the way forward for vehicle technology. An electric powered ...more

APPER Solaire (France)

APPER Solaire is an association for the promotion of renewable energy sources. Its motto is "solar within everyone's reach." APPER helps ...more

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