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Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?


Categories: [Low-tech Solutions]

The water and energy use of the mist shower is so low that the bathroom could be taken off-grid and off-pipe even in an urban context.

image Image: Mist Shower Hack Kit. Jonas Görgen.

The daily shower would be hard to sustain in a world without fossil fuels. The mist shower, a satisfying but forgotte...

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Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security


Categories: [Low-tech Solutions]

To improve energy security, we need to make infrastructures less reliable.

Maintaining a steady supply of something that’s finite is impossible. Image: Camilla MP.

As a society depends more on energy sources for its daily functioning, it becomes more vulnerable if the supply of energy is inte...

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