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How to build your own hybrid electric car using a 1970s-era vehicle as the starting point. Advanced mechanical skills required. Originally printed in 1980.

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This build-it-yourself outdoor furnace keeps the dirt, soot, smoke and firewood outside. Includes a materials list and 29 pages of building instructions and diagrams.

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Easily build a bench with this easy to follow plan. Designed by naturalist Aldo Leopold, this bench is inexpensive and easy-to-build. How to instructions for an ultra-simple seat made from a plank and two log sections are included. The plan packet also includes construction drawings, instructions and a materials list for each project.

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Build a bench and garden table with these easy-to-follow instructions. Designed so even inexperienced woodworkers can build them, this bench and garden table are easy to cut and assemble from standard lumber, without complicated joints. The plan for this easy DIY project includes construction drawings, instructions and a materials list.

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS is pleased to offer a study plan of the beautiful Country Straw Bale Home, created by Living Shelter Design Architects, PLLC. The study plan provides detailed information on this copyrighted home design, including elevation drawings, floor plan, descriptions of design features, the MOTHER EARTH NEWS feature article about the home and information for ordering the construction-ready blueprint.

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If you have chickens to pluck, you'll want to build this tub plucker. To use a tub plucker, you simply drop one or more scalded birds into the tub, turn it on, and watch them spin around while their feathers disappear. This book tells you everything you need to know to easily build your own, inexpensive Whizbang Plucker.

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This study plan gives you a closer look at the beautiful passive solar home created by One World Design. The three-bedroom, 1,387-square-foot home combines a Craftsman-style with remarkable energy efficiency. The study plan provides detailed information on this copyrighted home design for your DIY project, including elevation drawings, floor plan, the MOTHER EARTH NEWS feature article and how to order the construction-ready blueprint.

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The study plan for this home will give you a close look at its design, which can be modified to your liking. Package includes elevation drawings, floor plan, description of design features and a color copy of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS article.

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS is pleased to offer study plans for this beautiful, energy-efficient home. The traditional Prairie home style has its roots in the Midwest and is easily recognized by the linear horizontal design, roof overhangs and centrally located fireplaces. This energy-efficient solar home design is optimized for its climate and will perform best in colder areas of the United States.

At about 2,600 square feet, this energy-efficient home has a floor plan design which allows it to be functional while minimizing the heated space and amount of construction materials. This solar home can perform at least 50 percent better than a standard new home. If located in the Great Lakes region, The Solar Prairie Home, will require only about $600 per year to heat! These impressive energy savings come from a super insulated shell and high-performance windows, as well as optimum passive solar design and natural ventilation. Add solar thermal panels and you can cut your heating bill by a total of 75 percent!

This two story solar energy-efficient home has three bedrooms, and one full bathroom with a wise design component that makes it function as two separate bathrooms while saving you at least $5,000 in construction costs. Each living space is situated to maximize the energy-savings; for example, the kitchen is located in the coldest area of the home, because kitchen appliances create heat, warming up the kitchen without using extra energy.

The solar home plan provides detailed information on this copyrighted energy-efficient home design, including elevation drawings, floor plan, descriptions of design features, the MOTHER EARTH NEWS feature article about the home and information for ordering the construction-ready blueprint.

Designed By Nathan Kipnis Architects, Inc.

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Imagine how nice it would be to easily make gallons and gallons of your own fresh, wholesome, sweet apple cider at home without spending a small fortune on equipment.

If you have some basic handyman skills and tools, you can now build an easy-to-use, amazingly productive apple grinder and cider press. This book tells you everything you need to know to get the job done.

The process of turning apples into sweet cider begins with the Whizbang apple grinder, which is built around a modified kitchen garbage disposal. The Whizbang grinder will quickly turn bushels of apples into buchels of juicy apple mash, ready to press. No tedious hand-grinding is required. Just feed your apples into the electric grinder and beautiful mash will flow out the drain pipe. No other home-scale apple grinder on the market produces apple mash as fine as the Whizbang. Apple mash then goes into the Whizbang press. You may find cider presses that are more attractive to the eye, but you will not find a more practical and intelligent cider press design than the whizbang.

Light in weight yet remarkably strong, the Whizbang cider press is an outstanding cidermaking tool. Instead of using an expensive Acme screw, the Whizbang press utilizes an inexpensive automotive scissors jack to squeeze juice out of the mash. Innovative pressing discs layered in the tub of mash serve to extract the most sweet cider as quickly as possible.

About the Author:

Herrick Kimball lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. He is a shadetree engineer and developer of numerous down-to-earth products including the Whizband automatic chicken plucker, Whizbang chicken scalder, Whizbang garden cart and the Plant Whizbang wheel hoe.

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