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• 1000 to 3000 Capacity Brick Kiln
• A Bibliography for the Solar Home Builder
• A Chinese Biogas Manual
• A Cooking Place for Large-Sized Pots
• A Design Manual for Water Wheels
• A Manual of Building Construction
• A Method for Cutting Bottles Light Bulbs and Fluorescent Tubes
• A Series of Articles on the Use of Bamboo in Building Construction
• A Sitting Handbook for Small Wind Energy Conversion Systems
• A Solar Water Heater Workshop Manual
• A State of the Art Survey of Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps Solar Cookers and Woodburning Stoves
• A Survey of the possible Use of Windpower in Thailand and the Philippines
• A Woodstove Compendium
• Adobe as a Socially Appropriate Technology for the Southwest (Solar-Adobe Sundwellings)
• Adventures with a Hand Lens
• Alternative Limbmaking
• An Attached Solar Greenhouse
• Anaesthesia at the District Hospital
• AntiPollution Lab
• Artificial Salmon Spawning
• Aspects of Irrigation with Windmills
• Basic Principles of Passive Solar Design
• Better Freshwater Fish Farming: The Fish
• Better Freshwater Fish Farming: The Pond
• Biogas Handbook
• Biogas Plants in Animal Husbandry
• Biogas Systems in India
• Biogas Technology in the Third World
• Biogas and Waste Recycling
• Bread Box Water Heater Plans
• Brickmaking in Developing Countries
• Bridging the Gap
• Brief Notes on the Design and Construction of Wood-burning Cook-stoves
• Building with Earth
• Burning Issues
• Charcoal Making for Small Scale Enterprises
• Charcoal Production Using a Transportable Metal Kiln
• Comparing Simple Charcoal Production Technologies for the Caribbean
• Comparison of Alternative Design Wheelbarrows for Haulage in Civil Construction Tasks
• Comparison of Improved Stoves
• Compost Fertilizer and Biogas Production from Human and Farm Wastes in the People's Republic of China
• Considerations for the Use of Wind Power for Borehole Pumping
• Construction Manual for PU350 and PU500 Windmills
• Construction Manual for a Cretan Windmill
• Construction Reference Manual
• Construction and Use of Simple Physics Apparatus
• Construction of Trail Suspended Bridges in Nepal
• Cook-stove Construction by the TerraCETA Method
• Cost Reduction Considerations in Small Hydropower Equipment
• Demystifying Evaluation
• Dermatological Preparations for the Tropics
• Design for a PedalDriven Power Unit for Transport and Machine Uses in Developing Countries
• Design of CrossFlow Turbine BYS-T3
• T1
• Design of Small Water Storage and Erosion Control Dams
• Design of Small Water Turbines for Farms and Small Communities
• Designing a Test Procedure for Domestic Wood-burning Stoves
• Development and Production of School Science Equipment
• Directory of Manufacturers of Small Hydropower Equipment
• Disabled Village Children
• Doing Things Together
• Double Drum Sawdust Stove
• Electric Power from the Wind
• Elementary Guide to Fish Culture in Nepal
• Elements of Solar Architecture for Tropical Regions
• Energy for Rural Development
• Energy for Rural Development (Supplement)
• Energy from the Wind
• Energy: The Solar Prospect
• Establishing a Refugee Camp Laboratory
• Evaluation of Solar Cookers
• Farm Structures in Tropical Climates
• Fish Catching Methods of the World
• Fish Culture in Central East Africa
• Fishing with Bottom Gillnets
• Food from Windmills
• Food or Fuel
• Foot Power
• Forestry
  • A Forest Tree Seed Directory
  • A Pocket Directory of Trees and Seeds in Kenya
  • Agroforestry Species: A Crop Sheets Manual
  • An Overview of Possible Uses of Sawdust
  • Barnacle Parp's Chain Saw Guide
  • China: Forestry Support for Agriculture
  • Constructing and Operating a Small Solar Heated Lumber Dryer
  • Crosscut Saw Manual
  • Environmentally Sound SmallScale Forestry Projects
  • Firewood Crops
  • Forest Farming
  • Forestry Case Studies
  • Forestry for Local Community Development
  • Frame Saw Manual
  • Land Clearance
  • Leucaena
  • Make Your Own Precision Milled Lumber from Logs and Trees: Alaskan MKII
  • Manual of Reforestation and Erosion Control for the Philippines
  • Natural Durability and Preservation of One Hundred Tropical African Woods
  • People and Trees
  • Planning for Agroforestry
  • Practical Guide to Dryland Farming: Planting Tree Crops
  • Reforestation in Arid Lands
  • Savanna Afforestation in Africa
  • Short Rotation Forestry
  • Small and Medium Sawmills in Developing Countries
  • The Chainsaw and the Lumbermaker
  • The Propagation of Tropical Fruit Trees
  • Timber Drying Manual
  • Tree Crops
  • Tree Planting in Africa South of the Sahara
• Freshwater Fish Farming-How to
• Freshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management
• Freshwater Fisheries and Aquaculture in China
• From Lorena to a Mountain of Fire
• From the Field
• Fuel Alcohol Production
• Fuel Gas from Cow Dung
• Fuel from Farms
• Gaviotas tropical windmill
• Gemini Synchronous Inverter Systems
• General Surgery at the District Hospital
• Guidebook to Constructing Inexpensive Science Teaching Equipment
• Guidelines on Evaluating the Fuel Consumption of Improved Cookstoves
• Harnessing Water Power for Home Energy
• Helping People in Poor Countries Develop FuelSaving Cookstoves
• Hints on the Development of Small WaterPower
• Homegrown Sundwellings
• Homemade 6Volt WindElectric Plants
• Horizontal Axis Fast Running Wind Turbines for Developing Countries
• Hot Water (Morgan, Morgan, Taylor and Taylor)
• How to Build a "Cretan Sail" Windpump for Use in LowSpeed Wind Conditions
• How to Build a House Using Self-Help Housing Techniques
• How to Build an Oil Barrel Stove
• How to Construct a Cheap Wind Machine for Pumping Water
• How to Look After a Refrigerator
• How to Make Tools
• Hydro-power
• Improved Wood Waste and Charcoal Burning Stoves
• Independence Through Mobility
• Independent Energy
• Industrial Archaeology of Watermills and Waterpower
• Lab Tests of Fired Clay Stoves the Economics of Improved Stoves and Steady State Heat Loss from Massive Stoves
• Laboratory and Field Testing of Monolithic Mud Stoves
• Less Smoky Rooms
• Local Experience with MicroHydro Technology
• Local Self-Reliance
  • Local Responses to Global Problems: A Key to Meeting Basic Human Needs
  • Soft Technologies, Hard Choices
• Lorena Owner-Built Stoves
• Low Cost Development of Small Water Power Sites
• Low Cost Passive Solar Greenhouses
• Low Cost Physiotherapy Aids
• Low Cost Science Teaching Equipment
• Low Cost Wind Speed Indicator. Brace Research Institute
• Low Cost Windmill for Developing Nations
• Making Aquatic Weeds Useful
• Manege: Animal-Driven Power Gear
• Manual for the Design of a Simple Mechanical Water-Hydraulic Speed Governor
• Manual of Rural Wood Preservation
• Manual para la Construccion de la CETARam
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• Matching of Wind Rotors to Low Power Electrical Generators
• Micro - Hydropower Schemes in Pakistan
• Micro Hydro electric power
• Micro Pelton Turbines
• MicroHydro Power: Reviewing an Old Concept
• MicroHydro: Civil Engineering Aspects
• MicroHydropower Sourcebook
• Microhydropower Handbook Volume 233
• Mill Drawings
• Mini Hydro Power Stations
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• Model Boilers and Boilermaking
• Model Stationary and Marine Steam Engines
• Modern Stoves for All
• More With Less
• Mud Brick Roofs
• Mud Mud
• Multi-Purpose Power Unit with Horizontal Water Turbine: Basic Information
• MultiPurpose Power Unit with Horizontal Water Turbine: Operation and Maintenance Manual
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• Nepal: Private Sector Approach to Implementing MicroHydropower Schemes
• New Himalayan Water Wheel
• New Nepali Cooking Stoves
• New UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching
• Nuevas Tecnicas de Construccion con Bambu
• On Watermills in Central Crete
• One Pot Two Pot...Jackpot
• Optimization and Characteristics of a Sailwing Windmill Rotor
• Overshot and Current Water Wheels
• Painting Inside and Out
• Pair Trawling with Small Boats
• Part I
• Part II
• Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Pedal Power: In Work Leisure and Transportation
• Pelton Micro-Hydro Prototype Design
• Performance Test of a Savonius Rotor
• Personal Transport for Disabled People
• Perspectives on Non formal Adult Learning
• Philippine Medicinal Plants in Common Use
• Piston Water Pump
• Plastic Sheeting for Emergency Shelter and Other Purposes
• Pole Buildings in Papua New Guinea
• Popular Manual for Wooden House Construction
• Practical Shellfish Farming
• Preserving Food by Drying
• Proceedings of the Conference on Energy-Conserving, Solar-Heated Greenhouses
• Proceedings of the Meeting of the Expert Working Group on the Use of Solar and Wind Energy
• Profitable Cage Culture
• Raising Fresh Fish in Your Home Waters
• Rattan and Bamboo
• Rays of Hope
• Reaching Up, Reaching Out: A Guide to Organizing Local Solar Events
• Reference Material for Health Auxiliaries and Their Teachers
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• Renewable Energy Research in India
• Renewable Energy Resources and Rural Applications in the Developing World
• Renewable Sources of Energy-Biogas
• Renewable Sources of Energy: Biogas
• Report on Training of District Extensionists
• Report on the Design and Operation of a Full-Scale Anaerobic Dairy Manure Digester
• Rice Husk Ash Cement
• Rice Husk Conversion to Energy
• Rice Husks as a Fuel
• Roof Constructions for Housing in Developing Countries
• Roofing in Developing Countries
• Rotor Design for Horizontal Axis Windmills
• Running a Biogas Programme
• Rural Building: Basic Knowledge
• Rural Building: Construction
• Rural Building: Drawing Book
• Rural Building: Reference Book
• Sahores Windmill Pump
• Savonius Rotor Construction: Vertical Axis Wind Machines from Oil Drums
• Sawdust Burning Space-Heater Stove
• Selecting Water-Pumping Windmills
• Selection of Materials for Burnt Clay Brick Manufacture
• Self-Help Construction of 1-Story Buildings
• Self-Help Practices in Housing
• Set of Construction Drawings for PU350 and PU500 Windmills
• Shaft Lime Kiln
• Shelter
• Shelter II
• Simple Bridge Structures
• Simple Dental Care for Rural Hospitals
• Simplified Wind Power Systems for Experimenters
• Small Earth Dams
• Small Hydroelectric Powerplants
• Small Hydropower for Asian Rural Development
• Small Michell (Banki) Turbine: A Construction Manual
• Small Scale Brickmaking
• Small Scale Hydropower Technologies
• Small Scale Lime Burning
• Small Scale Manufacture of Burned Building Brick
• Small Scale Renewable Energy Resources and Locally Feasible Technology in Nepal
• Small-Scale Production of Cementitious Materials
• Soil Block Presses
• Soil Cement
• Soil cement
• Solar Dwelling Design Concepts
• Solar Photovoltaic Products - A Guide for Development Workers
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• Solar Powered Electricity
• Solar Water Heaters in Nepal
• Splitting Firewood
• Standard Trail Suspended and Suspension Bridges
• Steam Power
• Syllabus for Irrigation with Windmills
• Technical Report dealing with the TOOL Windmill Projects 1977-1981
• Technology Markets and People: The use and misuse of fuel stoves
• Technology for Solar Energy Utilization
• Testing Timber for Moisture Content
• Testing the Efficiency of Wood-Burning Cookstoves
• Thatching
• The Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Wastes to Produce Methane
• The Banki Water Turbine
• The Biogas-Biofertilizer Business Handbook
• The Complete Book of Heating with Wood
• The Construction Installation and Operation of an Improved Pit-Kiln for Charcoal Production
• The Construction of a Transportable Charcoal Kiln
• The Dhading MicroHydropower Plant: 30kWe
• The Economics of Renewable Energy Systems for Developing Countries
• The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse
• The Fuel Savers - A Kit of Solar Ideas for Existing Homes
• The Gaudgaon Village Sailwing Windmill
• The Haybox
• The Heat Generator
• The Homebuilt WindGenerated Electricity Handbook
• The Homemade Windmills of Nebraska
• The Kenya Ceramic Jiko
• The New Solar Home Book
• The Owner Builder's Guide to Stone Masonry
• The Owner Built Home
• The Owner Built Homestead
• The Passive Solar Energy Book
• The Planning Installation and Maintenance of Low-Voltage Rural Electrification Systems and Subsystems
• The Power Guide
• The Principles and Practices of Primary Health Care
• The Production of School Science Equipment
• The Provision of Spectacles at Low Cost
• The Segner Turbine: A low-cost Solution for Harnessing Water Power on a very Small Scale
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• The SocioEconomic Context of Fuelwood Use in Small Communities
• The Solar Cookery Book
• The Solar Energy Timetable
• The Solar Greenhouse Book
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• The Solar Survey
• The Timber Framing Book
• The Tooth Trip
• The Use of Bamboo and Reeds in Building Construction
• The Use of Pedal Power for Agriculture and Transport in Developing Countries
• The Use of Wheelbarrows in Civil Construction
• The Village Health Worker
• The Wind Power Book
• The Yurt
• Towards Scientific Literacy
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• Traditional Bridges of Papua New Guinea
• Traditional Suspension Bridges in Taplejung District
• Trees as an Indicator of Wind Power Potential
• Tropical Oysters
• Vegetation as an Indicator of High Wind Velocity
• Vertical Axis Sail Windmill Plans
• Water Power for the Farm
• Watermills with Horizontal Wheels
• When You Build a House
• Where There Is No Dentist
• Where There Is No Doctor
• Wind Power for Farms, Homes and Small Industry
• Window Box Solar Collector Design
• Windpower in Eastern Crete
• Windpumping: A Handbook: World Bank Technical Paper Number 101
• Windpumps for Irrigation
• Wood Conserving Cook Stoves Bibliography
• Wood Conserving Cook Stoves: A Design Guide
• Wood Frame House Construction
• Wood Stoves: How to Make and Use Them
• Wooden Bridges
• Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide
• Your Own Water Power Plant

Bibliographic information:

Lester, R. Brown. Food or Fuel: New Competition For The World's Cropland. Washington, DC: WorldWatch Institute, 1980.

Copyright information:

© Worldwatch Institute, 1976.

Currently all information is available online from the following site:

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/JF/424/19-414.pdf

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