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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.Selected gallery
The Fall 2018 semester of ENGR215 Introduction to Design worked with Six Rivers Charter and Arcata High Schools to design and build outdoor educational spaces for their High School in Arcata, CA.
solar cellphone charger
Direct and educational solar charging of cell phones.
outdoor common area
Transforming an outdoor area into an inviting meeting space.
human sundial
A student powered sundial in the center of campus.
garden landscape
A large agricultural learning area retained by 66 feet of gabions.
pirate's cove corner
A pirate themed agricultural area replete with gabions, rope, and a ship wheel.
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We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.
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