Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law, (US) Special UN Ambassador for Family, Professor, Harvard (Synopsis of address given at the Round Table of the 2010 Rhodes Forum on 10th October 2010 at Rhodes, Greece)   I am honored to address today this distinguished gathering [...]

By Aldon Hynes A basic assumption of the industrial revolution has been that the benefits of centralized mass production outweigh the disadvantages. Sure, there have been detractors, Luddites, Federalists and others that question that belief but their voices have not dominated the discussions. Yet in the twenty-first century, as we think about the implications of [...]

An open source stove project in progress.   Here we see the Peacham Volcano , closely modeled on the Swiss Volcano stove,  as it is used.  The cup, from a Swiss Volcano stove unit, with the water to be boiled sits inside the iCan made from a single pineapple juice can.  The iCan, in turn, [...]

Commentary by:  Jock Gill   How are we going to reduce Vermont’s carbon footprint and at the same time protect Vermont’s agricultural heritage and family farms, create local jobs, and stimulate small business formation?  Is utility-scale wind part of the solution? I would suggest the answer is no. For a number of reasons, utility-scale turbines are [...]

Inspired by the work of Paul S. Anderson [Dr. TLUD] , Hugh McLaughlin, and WorldStove, I offer the start of a small collection of photos of a Peacham natural draft TLUD made from recycled cans.  I look forward to seeing how these pyrolysis units will be improved by the contributions of others to this Open [...]