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A Website on Paper
In 2019, Low-tech Magazine makes the jump from web to paper. We publish a 732-page perfect-bound paperback, which is printed on demand and contains the 45 most recent articles. The book will be launched next week, but Patrons can already order it.Because the book is based on the same electronic documents as the solar powered website -- all articles were converted to Markdown, a lightweight markup language based on plain text files -- the content is almost identical.We only edited parts of texts ...
How Circular is the Circular Economy?
[This is an unedited preview of an article that will be published on Wednesday -- if the weather is good]The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without destruction or waste. However, the concept only focuses on a small part of total resource use and does not take into account the laws of thermodynamics.Introducing the Circular EconomyThe circular economy has become, for many governments, institutions, companies, and...
Hardware & Software details for Solar Powered Server
Thanks so much for your support !Today we have released the source code for the solar powered website design, and we have published technical documentation of the hardware and software that we use.
