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Books tangentially related to homesteading

05/9/07 9:07 PM

Mike asked me to post a list of the books I have that are related to homesteading and homebuilding, so here it is. Note that the connection of some of these to homesteading is extremely tenuous.

From Eco-Cities to Living Machines
The Foxfire Book
Creating Alternative Futures
Guns, Germs and Steel
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The [...]

Links I’ve been harvesting for a while

03/8/07 9:38 AM

Hello everyone, I’ve been meaning to collect these up and post them. So without further delay:
Land:

http://www.bchomesforsale.com/
http://www.okhomeseller.com/
http://www.landquest.com/
http://www.bc4sale.ca/
http://www.niho.com/

Offgrid Power:

http://www.gaiam.com/realgoods/
http://www.backwoodssolar.com/
http://www.energyalternatives.ca/
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001011.php Listeroid (Bio)Diesels (Start here… but also see: http://www.utterpower.com/ and http://www.utterpower.com/jeffm.htm)

Lodging/Housing:

http://www.sustain.ca/ (Ontario)
http://www.wildernesscabin.com/index1.htm (BC!)
http://www.yurtco.com/ (BC!)
http://www.yurts.com/ (Oregon (I think))
http://www.weekendwarriorcabins.com/ (and http:///www.robinsonplans.com/) (Saskatchewan)

Cohousing/Ecovillages

http://www.yarrowecovillage.ca/
http://www.cohousing.ca/

Life Imitates The Onion, again

02/26/07 1:01 PM

Well, if right-wing ideologues have anything to do with “life,” that is. The funny thing is, while this:
Fears of Canada-Mexico superhighway driving U.S. critics loco
Are North American governments secretly conspiring to build a “NAFTA superhighway,” four football fields wide, from Mexico to Canada, to bypass regulatory controls and whisk goods swiftly to market?
looks superficially [...]