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Popular Mechanics
October 2009
Jim Gorman |
4 Future Classic Tools You Can Buy Now Tillers, pliers, tape measures, and Remington shotguns are classics.   |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
8 Alternative DIY Woodworking Projects Reuse and recycle with these home woodworking ideas. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
How to Get Your Gadgets Off the Grid I recently decided to design and test a plan to keep our gadgetry humming once society collapses. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The 7 Best First Aid Kits For Any Situation For the home, on the go, and for your pets. |
Popular Mechanics
September 23, 2009
Seth Porges |
A Smarter Generator: Generac XG8000E Meters Power Using an emergency generator is both a balancing act and a guessing game: It's tempting to try to pull as many watts from the machine as possible, but plug in too many appliances and you'll trip the circuit breaker. |
Popular Mechanics
September 23, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
Toxic Shower-Head Hysteria: Reality Check Vincent LaBombardi, the director of microbiology at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center says, "you shouldn't be ripping out the pipes over this." |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
Harry Sawyers |
The Guide to Home Geothermal Energy Unlike wind and solar, geothermal's power source never varies. |
Popular Mechanics
September 18, 2009
Roy Berendsohn |
How to Decide Between Oil and Natural Gas to Heat Your Home Having been a home improvement editor here for more than 20 years, I can make one prediction with uncanny accuracy: As cooler weather settles in, heating questions will arrive. |
Popular Mechanics
September 18, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
5 Realistic Lessons in Radical Consumption From No Impact Man In the film, No Impact Man, Colin Beavan and his family pledge to give up their high consumption life style. Are his radical cut backs in energy use really necessary to save the planet? |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
The New Homesteaders: Off-the-Grid and Self-Reliant The specters of financial crisis, climate change, uncertain energy reserves and a fragile food supply loom large for the new generation of survivalists -- and though I don't share their apocalyptic mind-set, I find myself relating to the urge to run for cover. |
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