DIY Stone Bathmat: Create a Luxurious Shower Experience It is a sensation we associate with luxury resorts and remote beaches – stepping out of the water and onto smooth pebbles. It is also remarkably easy to recreate this experience at home. Susan Wasinger from Natural Home (via LifeHacker) spells out the simple steps and materials, but essentially: (1) make the frame, (2) add a wire mesh screen, (3) add the stones. And voila, a free foot massage every day. The tools are elementary as well: a basic saw, pliers, screws and glue will do. Details can be found here, but think of this as a fun project worth adapting – not something to strictly follow the rules on, particularly when it comes to the constituent materials: “The stones can be collected in your beach-combing adventures or purchased by the bag at garden centers and stone yards for a couple bucks a pound.”
Cédric Carles : l’énergie en partage Le créateur du SolarSoundSystem est un passionné. Depuis une quinzaine d’années, ce designer de trente-sept ans fait de l’éducation à l’énergie son cheval de bataille. «Au départ je me destinais à des études d’ingénieur, mais je me suis orienté vers le design industriel pour avoir une approche plus globale : concevoir un moteur ne m’intéresse pas si je ne peux pas réfléchir aussi à la voiture voire au réseau routier ou au transport en général» nous confie Cédric Carles. Durant ses études, en France puis en Suisse, il élargit sa réflexion toujours davantage. De la voiture à l’énergie qui la propulse. «Finalement la question de l’énergie est un fil conducteur de nos sociétés, de la production à la consommation. Le SolarSoundSystem est né de cette même volonté pédagogique. A l’image d’Ariel Wizman sur le plateau de la Nouvelle Edition : Mais le succès est planétaire. Car c’est là une des préoccupations principales de notre pédagogue de l’énergie. Une petite vidéo s’impose :
Primitive Tech, Traditional Skills & Hand-Made Tools Spicy Storage Solution Frees Up Stacks of Cupboard Space People who do more than a casual amount of cooking are bound to have cupboards full of spice jars. There are plenty of store-bought solutions for organizing and arranging those jars, but it seems that a vertical storage method is the most space-saving of all. This DIY version was created using a sheet of stainless steel, some canning jars with one-piece caps, epoxy glue and super-strong magnets – all for a little over $100. The wall-mounted spice rack is perfect for holding the seemingly endless collection of spice bottles that build up so easily in the kitchen. As with any DIY idea, the key is to make it yours.
Les miracles de la permaculture ,La productivité insoupçonnée de la terre Faites le test autour de vous. Affirmez haut et fort que nous pourrions nous passer des engrais et des pesticides. Ajoutez que l’utilisation de l’espace agricole en France pourrait être optimisée et que les monocultures défigurent une grande partie de nos paysages. Prétendez que nous pourrions produire beaucoup plus, sur de plus petites surfaces, en recréant des emplois en masse. Je ne donne pas cher de votre peau. Et pourtant, ce que l’agroécologie et la permaculture – entre autres – sont en train d’apporter à la réflexion agronomique démontre, s’il en était encore besoin, à quel point cette vision est fondée. Je m’engage aux côtés de Kaizen pour un monde de solutions. Je fais un don Recréer la diversité et l’interdépendance des écosystèmes Depuis quatre ans, ils ont choisi d’appliquer les principes de la permaculture à leur pratique agricole. Quels résultats peut-on observer sur l’exploitation de Charles et Perrine ? Une révolution agricole
100 Best Books: Homesteading & Perma If you've ever considered getting into Permaculture, or if you're a veteran Permaculturist who's looking for a new skill to master, the following resources are the absolute best places for you to get started. Each of these books has the potential to introduce you to a whole new skill that you can enjoy for literally the rest of your life! You will find here links to over 60 Free eBook previews and full eBooks! Feel free to post down at the bottom if there are other books you would include on this list. Enjoy and Share with Your friends! Sophia Permaculture - Introductions to the Subject Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway - The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. eBook preview: Gaia's Garden, Second Edition Permaculture - More in depth Forest Gardening
3 Lovely Ways to Upcycle Glass & Plastic Bottles into Vases Generic disposable containers take on new dimensions with a simple twist or touch of decoration. These three solutions show how a little extra time or material can go a long way. Take the essentially two-dimensional Pimavera Vase, for instance – simply drop in your old bottle and voila, you have a neat receptacle for a single perfect flower. Cover It does what the title suggests: a net sheath slips around the outside of the container, conforming to it but also transforming it. The Lace Vase extends the same principle upward, combining a flexible silicon rubber sleeve that snugly hugs the top of the container while opening the neck upward to turn an inwardly-tapered bottle into an outwardly-expanding vase.
Site de petites annonces gratuite - petites annonces francophone : lepetitbazar.fr Farmers' Handbook | Permaculture Research Institute - Permaculture Forums, Courses, Information, News and Worldwide Reports Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Chinese Proverb Worldwide, mainstream aid projects tend to deal with the symptoms of problems, rather than the problems themselves. In fact, often aid projects actually exacerbate the root issue, by supply free food and clothing that undermines the ability of people on the ground to make a living. In other words, we put them out of their low carbon business, forcing them off the land into cities where they must become part of the consumer treadmill, or perish. But, sometimes, people with clear heads and unselfish hearts manage to help in much more substantial ways. Although the information is specifically tailored for Himalayan conditions, almost everyone will find some useful ideas and information in this comprehensive work. Please note: These files are free for personal use and circulation (please just link to this page), but can not be used for commercial purposes.
Practical to Impossible: 50 DIY Projects, Designs & Ideas For a little summer fun, you could use IKEA-style plans to construct your own time-and-space-ship or turning your computer cables into wall art. Alternatively, you might turn your pursuits to something a tad more practical, like creating an instant laptop case from an old hooded sweatshirt or making old books into new planters. Click the image links below for more pictures of and information on each design or idea: Either way, there is sure to be something in this collection of fifty do-it-yourself projects, ideas and concepts to tickle your fancy. Some of these project concepts come with pragmatic plans and material lists, while others are intended to spark your imagination.
10 fruits tropicaux mangés = 10 plantes tropicales à faire pousser ! Je ne sais pas s'il y a un nom pour cette manie : systématiquement recueillir les graines et les noyaux des fruits que l'on vient de manger pour tenter de faire pousser quelque chose. Je fais ça depuis que je suis tout petit, mais ces dernières années, je donne plutôt dans les fruits exotiques. L'hiver est la saison parfaite (oui, je sais, le printemps est sensé avoir pointé son nez frileux le mois dernier) : litchis, kiwis, mangues, papayes, dattes, fruits du dragon.. Les étales débordent de ces fruits multicolores au petit goût de paradis. Tout ça pour dire qu'aujourd'hui, on ne va pas faire d'équations ! Faire pousser une plante.. et la garder en vie! Le plus dur n'est pas de faire germer la graine : souvent, il suffit de la mettre en terre et d'arroser régulièrement pour voir apparaître une pousse. 1 - L'avocat Pour l'avocat, pas de soucis : ce machin pousse tout seul. Une fois lancée, la plante pousse à une vitesse fulgurante. 2 - Le citron vert 3 - Les dattes Ah! 4 - le gingembre
Ten Acres Enough: Old Homesteading Book eBook and Texts > California Digital Library > Ten acres enough: a practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family. With extensive and profitable experience in the cultivation of the smaller fruits View the book (~272 pg)Read Online (10.1 M)PDF (8.0 M)B/W PDF (414.8 K)EPUB(~272 pg)Kindle(~272 pg)Daisy (380.1 K)Full Text (5.1 M)DjVu All Files: HTTPS Torrent (2/0) Help reading texts Resources Bookmark Ten acres enough: a practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family. fullscreen Author: Morris, Edmund, 1804-1874 Subject: AgriculturePublisher: New York : J. This book has an editable web page on Open Library. Be the first to write a review Downloaded 3,078 times Reviews Selected metadata
Just Undo It: Re-Folding Clothes into DIY Bags & Backpacks Any do-it-yourself idea should get bonus points for not requiring any fasteners, hardware or other accessories to work – and extra credit for utilizing just one object, particularly something nearly everyone has a spare of in their closet. The video says it all, without requiring more than 20 seconds (let alone anything by way of words) – how to just flip, fold and wrap your way to a temporary laptop-to-go bag that even your precious computer should feel nice and secure inside. But why stop there? ConceptualDevices likes to keep things nice and easy, playing with elemental videos and simple sketches to show very clear new ways to organize existing objects and data into nifty new formations.?