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Ted Carns. Off On Our Own
OFF ON OUR OWN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE. A Way of Life
1. THE STONE CAMP
Kathy
2. NEEDS, DESIRES AND MAGIC
A Different Reality
3. FROM FIRST LIGHT
4. TIME, MONEY AND MY JEWELED CAPE
Delightful Necessity
The Library
Time
Unembellished Truths
5. DEEP CONNECTIONS
Thayendanegea
Barefoot Walking
Ruth
6. RECYCLING
Rule #1: Every end must meet with a new beginning
Rule #2: Time has no relevance in the practice of zero waste
Rule #3: All organic matter must be separated from all synthetic material
In the Sunroom
Frogs and Toads
Landfills and Garbage
My Affair with the Landfill
The Broken Circle
The Paradigm of Necessity
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
7. TURNING HOUSEHOLD PLASTICS INTO BUILDING BLOCKS (kind of like swords into plowshares)
Three Practical Uses. Super-insulators
Interlocked walls
“Straw bale” construction
It’s Not Just About Plastic Blocks
PART TWO. The Systems
8. AT HOME
The Sunroom
The Sunroom’s Hot Tub
Hot Water
9. FOOD AND OUR KITCHEN LIFESTYLE
Soil
The Lower Garden
The Gold at Your Feet
Our (almost) Vegan Diet
Married Life
Drying
Our Multi-functional Grinding Stones
Our Stoves: Beauty and The Beast
The Fireplace and Other Heat Sources
The Sugar Shack
Tapping trees and making syrup
Wine and Mead
10. REFRIGERATION
Peltier crystals
Crude geo-cooling
The Icehouse
Converting a propane refrigerator to methane
11. WATER
Starting Any Project: a Pep Talk
Gray Water Treatment
Preparing for drought
Utility water system for the kitchen and for drinking
Underground cisterns
Black Water
A fiberglass compost toilet
The methane digester
Seeds of a great idea
12. POWER
Wind Power
Erecting the tower
A Windmill Near-Death Experience
Solar Power
White White Lightning: Ethanol
A cautionary tale
Converting a battery charger to alcohol
Making alcohol from tree sap
Thermoelectric
Methane
Wood Gasification
The Oliver
13. EIGHT SMALL DIY PROJECTS
1. BIODEGRADABLE SEEDLING MARKER
What you need:
How to do the project:
2. PLASTIC BALL TRAP FOR FRUIT TREE PESTS
What you need:
How to do the project:
3. A LEAK-PROOF VALVE FOR A RAINWATER COLLECTION BARREL
What you need:
How to do the project:
4. CHAPEL HINGES
5. APPLE MILL
What you need:
How to do the project (the chopper and drive):
6. WASHING MACHINE BOILER
What you need:
How to do the project:
7. PROPANE BOTTLE WOOD STOVE
What you need for a complete emergency packet:
How to do the project:
8. STOVETOP FOOD DRYER
What you need:
How to do the project:
A “HOW-TO” TESTIMONY TO PATIENCE
14. FAVORITE RECIPES FROM THE STONE CAMP KITCHEN
Our Integrated Salad
Beans and Torts & Vegan “Cheese” Dip
15. THE YEARS AHEAD OF US
EPILOGUE
ON FORESTS, WOOD GASIFICATION AND TRUE SUSTAINABILITY
Forestry Management
Equilibrium and the Three-Part Pie that is a Forest
The Perfect Board
Wood Smoke Exhaust
Stubborn Assumptions
A What-If
Trees and Drought: The Acceleration of Elements
Yesterday is Today
ON FOSSIL FUELS AND PETROCHEMICALS
“unnecessary necessaries”
The Alchemy of Disease
Chimneys and Other Illusions
Sustainability: the Way Back
ON DOMINION, DISPOSABILITY AND THE UNDIVIDED EYE
The Divided Eye
Nature’s Equilibrium
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
