Natural Home Tour Including Solar/Wind Power Learn how you can create a sustainable home and lifestyle from the Wilson family, recognized experts at green living. Held on location at the Wilson Natural Home, you get a full tour of this amazing, inspiring home, that incorporates straw bale natural insulation, passive solar design, solar & wind

People who have solar photovoltaic systems and mini wind-turbines installed on their homes often produce enough electricity to not only fulfil all their household energy needs, but have enough left over to sell back to the grid. Unfortunately the money you get for the electricity you sell isn’t nearly as much as it costs to

Mmm snotty!

It has just been brought to my attention that Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday. His death, after a brief battle with cancer, was announced yesterday by Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based electronics company where he worked for a quarter-century. The integrated circuit that Mr. Kilby designed shortly after arriving at Texas

This is pretty mad. You’d never need to cut your lawn again.