Do-It-Yourself Projects to Get You Off the Grid

Do-It-Yourself Projects to Get You Off the Grid

Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, Solar Panels, and More

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Description

Instructables is back with this inspiring book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about going green. Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your own backyard chicken coop, or turn a wine barrel into a rainwater collector.

Here, you will learn to:

Clip a chicken’s wings
Power your lawn mower with solar power
Create a chicken tractor for the city
Water your garden with solar power
Build a thermoelectric lamp
Create an algae bioreactor from water bottles
And much more!

Illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the online community has to offer, turning a far-reaching group of people into a mammoth database churning out ideas to make life better, easier, and, in this case, greener, as this volume exemplifies.

Genres

Sustainable LivingHouse & HomeCarpentryDo-It-YourselfSustainability & Green DesignArchitectureRemodeling & RenovationDesign & Construction

Pages144

Released2018

LanguageEnglish

PublisherSkyhorse

ISBN9781510738461

SellerSimon & Schuster

About the author(s)

Instructables.com is a bona fide Internet sensation, a web-based community of motivated do-it-yourselfers who contribute invaluable how-to guides to the site on a wide range of topics, from gardening and home repair to recipes to gadgets that defy categorization. The site hosts more than 100,000 projects. More than 15 million people visit the site each month, leaving comments and suggestions on the ever-growing list of do-it-yourself projects.

Noah Weinstein is an editor at Instructables.com, co-founder of SF Media Labs and spends time making things both big and small at his shop in Oakland, CA. He has worked as a white water rafting guide, custom speaker builder, sheep shepherd, and tractor driver. He earned a BA from Brown University where he concentrated in environmental studies and visual art.