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From How to make awesome thermal curtains

Awesome thermal curtains at CCAT.

For overall convenience, relevant information from different visual and procedural methods to building your own thermal curtains have been integrated to one page. The texts have been written by different people at different times but all with the similar objective of providing easy-to-follow directions to minimize your heat loss, save you in heating costs and give you a wonderful appropriate-technology project. The more detailed procedure, found below, will provide extended benefit for those who learn better with diagrams than with the following photos and descriptors.

If you live in frigid dorms or just need a quick fix to a cold apartment, house or attic check out Quick and Dirty Thermal Curtains.

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From Engr305 Appropriate Technology Projects § G-O

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  HCOE bike power classroom
  A Bike Powered Blender

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  HBCSL cobb oven
  A cobb oven for the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living

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  HBCSL solar shower
  A solar shower for the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living

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  HSU solar suitcase
  A Solar Suitcase

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  Jefferson Community Center compost
  A large composting system for Jefferson School

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  Jefferson Community Center E305 teach-in
  A vermicomposting workshop

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  Jefferson Community Center edible landscape
  Garden Beds in the Edible Landscape

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  Jefferson Community Center native landscaping 2017
  Native Landscaping at the Jefferson Community Center

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  Kiva's straw bale greenhouse
  A straw-bale greenhouse

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  Loleta Elementary rainwater
  Rainwater Catchment System at Loleta Elementary

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  M Street Eureka rainwater catchment
  A rainwater catchment system for residential property

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  Mattole Community Center rainwater catchment
  A rainwater catchment from the roof of the Mattole Valley Community Center in Petrolia

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  Millcreek greywater
  A residential greywater processor

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  Old Growth Cellar rainwater catchment
  A rainwater catchment system for Old Growth Cellars

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Thich Nhat Hanh

We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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