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Thanks, Richard, ali-celt and Christopher. This is very encouraging. I had not thought of looking for secondhand materials and this opens up all sort of options that were previously closed....

Thanks, Richard. Still looking for a solution that is affordable and doable. Thanks for the link.

Can anyone direct me to images with accompanying commentary on the web of solar passive low-impact house designs, suitable for an urban environment?

I have found a few images of show-places and...

I don't want to be full of unjustified gloom, but when I look at the less optimistic scenarios that could follow peak oil and add to them the evidence I see around us of outlaw motorcycle gangs, your...

Yes, I had thought about this. The firies' knapsacks are about $250 and the Bunnings typs are much less. is there any difference? Perhaps the firies' tanks are larger? Perhaps they squirt further? I...

I can't find any on the internet. Plenty of small ones for crop spraying, but nothing big enough for fire fighting.

Keith
Canberra

Everything has an oil component. A heavy IXL stove, for example, will require a lot of oil to manufacture and transport to its final location, even though it has no plastic or other petroleum derived...

Try these guys in Seymour - down your way:

http://www.scandiastoves.com.au/spare_parts.html

Keith
Canberra

Sure, fresh from the garden. I don't eat grains, bread, rice, flour, sugar, anything in packets; but I do eat some tinned fish. Lotsa salads. This arrangement gives me the incentive to take my garden...

Kitchens are possibly the room in the house which has become most divorced from function. Kitchens are the celebrity room of the house.

I don't want a celebrity kitchen. I want what is, in effect,...