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  • 16:34 Popular Whole Earth Catalog revisited

    Whole Earth Catalog revisited

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    Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog "one of the bibles of my generation". He went on to explain in his Stanford commencement speech in 2005, "It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and ove

  • 09:52 Popular In Thailand a Man Needs Three Things

    In Thailand a Man Needs Three Things

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    At age 65 I had some big dreams of a new life, and I did something about it.

  • 25:55 Popular Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead

    Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead

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    At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. In the seventies he was a poster child of the geodesic dome (he published Domebook One and Two and he and his dome home were featured in Life magazine). He got his start in publishing when Ste

  • 44:44 Popular Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with 2 containers

    Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with 2 containers

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    Paul Chambers had began building a home out of two shipping containers as a project, but when his wife got tired of suburbia and put their four-bedroom home on the market, his project became the couple’s full-time home (Paul’s ebook: www.build

  • 20:32 Popular Self-reliance in LA: backyard farming and radical home economics

    Self-reliance in LA: backyard farming and radical home economics

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    Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne have been farming their yard in Los Angeles for over a decade. In addition to a mini orchard and extensive veggie garden, they have all the instruments of an urban homestead: chickens, bees, rainwater capture, DIY greywater, s

  • 06:07 Popular Square Foot Gardening (SFG): Growing More in Less Space

    Square Foot Gardening (SFG): Growing More in Less Space

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    If you don't have a lot of time available to weed, water and maintain your vegetable garden, then efficient gardening techniques such as Square Foot Gardening could be the answer. With simple and well-defined instructions, Square Foot Gardening is a great

  • 31:05 How Karl Hammer Feeds 600 Chickens (Without Grains)

    How Karl Hammer Feeds 600 Chickens (Without Grains)

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    Karl Hammer of Vermont Compost has been feeding hundreds, sometimes thousands of chickens without grain for 20 years. His magic? Compost. But, do the chickens still lay? 300 a day! Oh, and he’s got unique donkeys that deliver the eggs and other good

  • 19:37 How Greg Judy Farms 1,600 Acres He Doesn’t Own

    How Greg Judy Farms 1,600 Acres He Doesn’t Own

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    Master grazier Greg Judy explains how to lease land for cattle, how to move the cows everyday to improve productivity. .

  • 09:15 Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo

    Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo

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    A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock.Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them.

  • 08:49 Living Off-Grid in an Earthship Style House

    Living Off-Grid in an Earthship Style House

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    Hélène Dubé and her partner Alain Neveu from Es-Cargo (http://www.es-cargo.qc.ca/) have lived off-grid in Quebec, Canada for 11 years in a self-built earthship style home made of recycled tires filled with earth and large south-facing

  • 26:38 Grossing $350,000 on 1.5 Acres of High Intensity

    Grossing $350,000 on 1.5 Acres of High Intensity

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    Neversink Farm in NY grosses $350,000 on farming 1.5 acres (area in production).

  • 08:29 Profile of an Urban Homesteader

    Profile of an Urban Homesteader

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    As urban homesteader Charlyn Ellis explains in the video, she grows a variety of fruits and vegetables on her property and tries to stay within a 100 mile radius of her home to meet her family’s year-round food needs.

  • 07:17 13 Years Living Off the Land

    13 Years Living Off the Land

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    Peter from TreeEater Farm & Nursery (http://treeeaternursery.com/) in BC shares the challenges and lessons learned from his experience earning a living off the land for 13 years with his partner Magdalene.Peter moved to a piece of land in British Columbia

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