I was wondering if anyone would happen to know how to convert a car to run on vegetable oil instead of gasoline and around how much it would cost to do so.

Thank you!
Theo

Anyone here know about making your own solar water distillers? I found various plans online (like this and this (which looks almost too easy :-)), but I also found this. (Although I don't consider an anti-solar-distiller rant from a company selling distillers to be the best source. And whatever you do, don't go to the home page. GAH the music ( Read more... )

So, I read this article recently. My husband and I are always joking about preparing for the zombie apocalypse, but when I really think about it (and read stuff like this), I find that I'm a bit uncomfortable with just how much we (as a household) depend on others, and on electricity, for our survival. For example ( Read more... )

Is anyone here a practitioner of Reiki? If so, would you mind answering some questions for me ( Read more... )

Hello! I joined this community *years* ago, but I haven't been reading for quite some time now - My how it's grown! Let's see if I remember how to do this ( Read more... )

As other people have posted, I agree that in a perfect vacuum, living in a society concerned only with helping others and functioning within the limits of the environment would be the best way to live. I also agree that capitialism exploits the enviornment and people to a degree that is shameful and sickening. However, I think many ( Read more... )

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Hello, I'm Winnie. My partner and I have been watching the economic crisis for a long while now, and we had decided it was time to start making arrangements in case something happened to necessitate living off grid for a while. So we've been doing a lot of research and I thought I would share some of the better sites we've found along the way ( Read more... )

Anyone care to share their thoughts on Ethanol to be used as a fuel? Pros? Cons?

TIA :)

EDIT: This is thoughts for a small scale co-op type organization and not so much of a tycoon of sorts creating a huge company...

My friend is doing a paper on biofuels, basic pros and cons. I think this is English 102 or something, not terribly advanced. But she needs actual journal articles, and she can find them about the evils of burning up our food but not about the benefits of biofuels. Anybody know of any ( Read more... )