Web-pages: (Links open in another tab for the sheer convenience of it.) - (Link) www.urbanhomestead.org - A terrific website similar to this one in its ideas and info, just much more graphically designed, integrated and (currently) extensive.
- (Link) www.canadianhomeworkshop.com - A good site for anything workshop related.
- (Link) www.greensteamengine.com - Designs on modern steam engine building.
- (Link) desertdomes.com - A list on all sorts of ways to build homes differently, and a bit of how
- (Link) www.trove.nla.gov.au - National Library of Australia records. Can find loads of good stuff in there.
- (Link) www.groundhouse.com - An excellent site on how to build an Earthship home.
- (Link) www.dtei.sa.gov.au - South Australian Government site on energy efficiency and use.
- (Link) www.oscarlisabuild.blogspot.com- A site about a home-build experiment of an Earthship cottage.
- (Link) www.bluerockstation.com - A resource on alternative building and living.
- (Link) www.skillfulmeansdesign.wordpress.com - A blog and informational page on alternative design for all over.
- (Link) www.skillful-means.com - A fantastic blog on a strawbale built vaulted home/studio out in the desert.
- (Link) www.argoatv.com - A distribution site for slip-skid steer 6x6 and 8x8 wheel drive amphibious vehicles.
- (Link) www.maxatvs.com - Another distributer also of 6x6 atv's.
- (Link) www.hydrotraxx.net - Another 8x8 Atv producer.
- (Link) www.landtamer.com - Another Atv site, a bit different from the others.
- (Link) www.squidoo.com/buildanearthship - Another link about building Earthship homes, pretty good info.
- (Link) - A list on how to reliably and simply preserve wood.
- (Link) www.chestofbooks.com - A fantastic source for all manner of books.
- (Link) www.wilderness-survival.net - A decent source on survival information where it counts. Look out for the gimmicks though.
- (Links) www.neoterichovercraft.com - If you ever wanted a hovercraft, this would be the one to get - the best in the world. If I could, I would. fantastic.
- (Link) www.fyneboatkits.com - A site selling and displaying a heap of boat kits for craft of all sizes and shapes.
- (Link) www.jordanboats.co.uk - Another kit boat site, lots of info on all round boating skills and knowledge.
- (Link) - A link to a google-book on boat building, loads of plans and information (currently) for free.
- (Links) www.selway-fisher.com - A good site for kit-boat information.
- (Link) www.gartsideboats.com - Heaps, I mean heaps of boat designs. No need to pay a pro for it when you can get it for free.
- (Link) www.cookingforengineers.com - A sweet as site dedicated to making, making meals an easy task. A good site for a melancholy like myself.
- (Link) www.artofmanliness.com - A real website for real men who want a manly way of doing things. Covers all and any topics and tasks you can imagine that a man might turn his mind to accomplishing.
- (Link) www.mnmlist.com - A excellent blog on minimalist living. Feeling like you have a cluttered life? This site could just give you the kick-start to improve it how you want.
- (List) www.permaculture.com.au - If you live or can travel to Australia, this company runs courses on permaculture. I want to go to one eventually, but as yet my schedule and funding has been tied up.
- (Link) www.theprepared.com - A paranoid but informative site with all sorts of different articles on survival, gear and preparation.
- (Link) www.greenhomebuilding.com - A sweet as site on building a sustainable home and lifestyle.
- (Link) www.grisb.org - A more scientific resource on sustainable living.
- (Link) www.armofthespiral.com - A site about sustainable building and living from people who have done it themselves.
- (Link) www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk - A forum for green-builders to meet others with a like mind and discuss the topic.
- (Link) www.instructables.com - A brilliant website with user uploaded content full of instructions for prettymuch everything.
- (Link) - HHO car engine adaptation (Instructables.com).
- (Link), (Link)- Electric bikes (Instructables.com)
- (Link) www.dreamgreenhomes.com - A sweet website full of ideas for green self-build home designs you can use for inspiration or even purchase cheap as plans off the site.
- (Link) www.dune-buggy.com - Like dune-buggies? Want to build your own. Look here.
- (Link) www.beachbuggy.com.au - Another buggy site, aimed more at kit plans and buying built machines.
- (Link) - The UK's Channel 4's Grand-Designs page. Some pretty good info here, inspiration from the episodes (Torrentable if you live outside the UK and away from well stocked stores) and contains a forum to meet people.
- (Link) www.thefarm.org - A site about a hippie commune, basic building, permaculture and various other associated fun.
- (Link) www.earthsci.org - specifically this bit linked in specializes in talking about building a home from shipping containers.
- (Link) www.undergroundhousing.com - A brilliant site. Heaps of information available from people who-done-it.
- (Link) www.greenbuildingelements.com - Heaps of green home building info. The page linked specifically mentions Yurt living and building.
- (Link) www.jeffersoninstitute.org - Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute, the article linked specifically, is on Amaranth.
- (Links) www.seedsofchange.com - A site on organic seeds, farming with how-to's with a sales section too.
- (Link) www.vintageprojects.com - The link supplied links to a how-to on building a hay cart, but the site contains how-to's on basically every useful/fun you can think of. Very old-school. Very cool.
- (Link) www.blog.modernmechanix.com - Another brilliant site similar to the vintageprojects.com with more/different designs and instructions. The specific linked page shows a crossbow design.
- (Link) www.huntersfriend.com - A website based on hunting tech, technique and reviews to help anyone outdoorsy or wanting to improve their hunting.
- (Link) www.hollowtop.com - A massive database with information on everything from primitive skills and living, to physiology and spirituality to modern day clean living.
- (Link) www.crossbowhunters.com - A hunting website plain and simple. The author has all his views on show but a fair bit of useful info on making/using/maintaining gear.
- (Link) www.lurkertech.com/water/ - A sweet source compiled by an engineer on various water-pumps and their variants, both man and water powered.
- (Link) www.leastfootprint.blogspot.com - A blog about the morality of modern living and the impact it is having on the earth.
- (Link) www.containercity.com - A site about building homes from recycled shipping containers. A bit fancy and commercial for my tastes - but that's a preference.
- (Link) www.thesolarplan.com - A site all about solar with even some DIY info.
- (Link) www.isbu-info.org - A sweet as site about shipping container use in society, as housing and full of info generally. Very, very high quality site.
- (Link) www.davesgarden.com - An awesome gardening site. Heaps of info, loads of it user-submitted. Good, active forums.
- (Link) www.waterpoweredcar.com - The name goes with its content, believe it or not, when I get a garage to tinker in, I surely am going to try it.
- (Link) www.eagle-research.com - An energy research company, loads of big claims, not so sure on all of it, but good info on energy can be found of you hunt.
- (Link) www.ronincycleparts.com - A site all about motorbikes, fixing them yourself and with forums.
- (Link) www.carlsalter.com - Heaps of how-to's based on cars and motorbikes, the link directly from this page links to a menu giving you a load of motorbike manuals.
- (Link) www.rokon.com - a 2x2 motorbike. Yes, a 2x2, two wheeled motorbike. Looks like a tractor, sort of. A fantastic machine really, brilliant idea.
- (Link) www.gas4free.com - A site selling plans to modify your cars engine to boost it with HHO fuel (Basically a hydrogen gas booster) to improve your fuel economy. Again, when I get a garage, I am checking this out.
- (Link) www.drakyl.com - Interested in making your own chain-mail and chains? This site has how-to's. I found it ages ago when bored on a long weekend. Good fun.
- (Link) www.chainmailbasket.com - Another mail site, very good tutorials and information. Shouldn't need more info really.
- (Link) www.blueridgeoutdoors.com A great site about being outdoorsy and has a good newsletter. The story linked from this site is extremely inspirational.
- (Link) www.fabprefab.com - A super site all about prefab building, hundreds of designs and websites connected from this one page alone. If you like prefab, you'l love this site.
- (Link) www.architectureandhygeine.com - Another containers/prefab site, it's alright, but half its links do not always work.
- (Link) www.prixmaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe Completely unrelated to the project in all ways, but it does provide an excellent scale of the universe. Click the link, it will be a strange and humbling experience.
- (Link) www.airships.net - I have always had an obsession with lighter-than-air travel. An indulgence.
- (Link) www.thegarbagewarrior.com - This man is an inspiration, watch his dvd, you can recycle anything, into pretty much anything if you put your mind to it.
- (link) www.collectivegarden.com - A huge blog site being built for gardeners all around the world, a wiki, for tracking and a forum. Cool gardening site.
- DIY SITES:
general
http://www.instructables.com/
http://hacknmod.com/
http://www.ikeahackers.net/
http://craftzine.com/
http://www.younghouselove.com/
http://kipkay.com/
http://www.vintageprojects.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/diy
http://hackaday.com/
Crafts living.
http://makezine.com/
http://www.copycatcrafts.com/
A/V
http://www.avsforum.com/
http://forum.doom9.org/
i dont know lol..
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_63/2512000/2512986/4/print/2512986.pdf steam stuff i guess...
knit
http://www.hipknitized.com/
http://www.bernat.com/
http://www.purlbee.com/
knitty.com
Ravelry.com (Im not sure)
Info stuff
http://www.infodocs.org/library/
https://sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide/ (sci sticky)
Garden
http://www.squidoo.com/grow-shiitake-mushrooms
chainmaille
http://www.mailleartisans.org/
funny stuff
http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/
http://woodgears.ca/index.html
http://www.diyaudio.com/
http://www.craftster.org/ http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/ http://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage
http://www.youtube.com/user/myst32YT
http://www.youtube.com/user/mabakken
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHomeScientist
Youtubers: Just a heap of folks I have found on (Link) Youtube.com that have good information and present on topics relevant to these pages. - "Wranglerstar" - Presents on off the grid living and homesteading. Excellent, clear videos.
Also;
Remember to read books. Paper ones.
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Books: (Not all necessarily related to the project, but the provide interesting insights.) - Hell's Gates - Paul Collins
- Roughing It - Mark Twain
- Virgin Earth - Philippa Gregory
- Recipes for Disaster - Crimethink Ex-workers Collective
- Evasion - Crimethink Ex-workers Collective
- Days of War, Nights of Love - Crimethink Ex-workers Collective
- The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes
- For The Term of His Natural Life - Marcus Clarke
- My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
- The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
- A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Into thin air - Jon Krakauer
- Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakeur
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
- Hell or High Water - Peter Heller
- The Golden Spruce - John Valiant
- The Orientalist - Tom Reiss
- Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile
- Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
- The Great Escape - Paul Brickhill
- They Lived on Human Flesh - Enrique Hank Lopez
- Journal Of The Dead - Jason Kersten
- Keep the River on Your Right - Tobias Schneebaum
- The Final Frontiersman - James Campbell
- The Stars, The Snow, The Fire: Twenty-Five Years the Alaskan Wilderness - John A. Haines, John Meade Haines
- Living off the country - John Meade Haines
- Fables and distances: new and selected essays - John Meade Haines
- Typee, Omoo, and Mardi - Herman Melville
- Issac's Storm - Erik Larson.
- A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf - John Muir's
- Alive - Piers Paul Read
- Miracle in the Andes - Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
- Thor Heyerdahl is a good source for some classics
- Long Way Round - Ewan McGregor
- A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins
- Looking for Alaska - Peter Jenkins
- Across China - Peter Jenkins
- Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
- A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
- The Grizzly Maze, about Timothy Treadwell - Nick Jans
- The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time - National Geographic
- Outside's The 25 (Essential) Adventure/Explorer Books
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition
- Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World - Jennifer Armstrong
- One Man's Wilderness - Sam Keith
- An Island to Oneself - Tom Neale
- Adrift - Steven Callahan
- Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
- The works of Jack London.
- Farthest North - Charles Lanman
- Adventures in the wilds of North America (V2) - Charles Lanman
- Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American (V1) - Charles Lanman
- The Last Man on the Moon - Richard Feynman
- A Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
- Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac.
- Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
- The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
- Hobo - Eddy Joe Cotton
- The Hot Zone - E.G. Bradshaw
- Lost Moon - Jim Lovell
- Failure is not an option, Nasa from Mercury to Apollor - Gene Krantz
- The Terrible Hours - Peter Maas
- What is the What - Dave Eggers
- northern derring-do - James Houston
- National Geographic Adventure magazine named 'Worst Journey in the World' the number one adventure book of all time.
- The Sledge Patrol: One of the Greatest Adventure Stories of World War II (1951) - David Armine Howarth
- We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957) - David Armine Howarth
- Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors - Edward E. Leslie.
- Alone - Richard Evelyn Byrd
- In the Heart the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Owen Chase
- Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness - Ann LaBastille
- Dersu Uzala (apparently the film is also not to be missed) - Vladimir Arsenyev
- Survival of the Bark Canoe - John McPhee
- Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits - Bill Porter
- The Corpse Walker - Liao Yiwu
- The Days of Henry Thoreau enough - Walter Harding
- Henry Thoreau: A Life of the mind - Robert Richardson
- The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
- Crocodile Eats the Sun - Peter Godwin Picador
- Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
- Papillion
- The Last Run
- Everett Ruess - A Vagabond for Beauty
- The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
- The Places In Between by Rory Stewart.
- anything by Joe Simpson — The Beckoning Silence
- And The Band Played On - Randy Shilts
- Walden: Or, life in the woods - Henry David Thoreau
- Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
- Tanaina Plantlore' - Priscilla Russel Kari
- Education of a Wandering Man - Louis L'Amour
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy
- Call of the Wild - Jack London
- White Fang - Jack London
- Moon-Face - Jack London
- Brown Wolf - Jack London
- To Build a Fire - Jack London
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Terminal Man - Michael Crichton
- O Jersualem! - Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
- War and Peace - Tolstoy
- The Drifters
- Family happiness - Tolstoy
- The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - W.H. Davies
- Education of a Wandering Man - Louis L’Amour
- The Call of the Wild - Jack London
- Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Works from Seymour John and John Wiseman
- The Dice Man.
- A Rebours - Huysmans
- Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
- Diary of a Superfluous man - Tugenev
- A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
- Big Sur - Kerouac
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Republic – Plato
- The Wealth Of Nations – Adam Smith
- A Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Bartimaeus trilogy – Jonathan Shroud
- How To Win Friends And Influence People – Dale Carnegie
- Call Of The Wild – Jack London
- Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss
- (The) Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
- The Lliad – Homer
- The Odyssey – Homer
- Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The Young Mans Guide – William A. Alcott
- The Art Of War(fare) – Sun Tzu
- Into The Wild – Jon Krakauer
- The Entire Redwall Series – Brian Jacques
- His Dark Materials Trilogy – Phillip Pullman
- The Hobbit & Lord Of The Rings Series – John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
- Adventures Of Huckelberry Finn – Mark twain
- The Politics – Aristotle
- The first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook
- Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- Tarzan Of The Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Beyond Good And Evil – Freidrich Nietzsche
- A River Runs Through It – Norman F. Maclean
- The Island Of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Essential Manners For Men – Peter Post
- Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
- A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Dafoe
- The Karma Sutra
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose
- Paradise Lost (either 10 book edition or 12 book edition) – John Milton
- (The?) American boys’ Handy book
- King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- The bible
- The Koran
- Maos Red Book
- The Dangerous Book for Boys – Conn and Hal Iggulden
- The Histories – Herodotus
- Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
- Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As A Man Thinketh – James Allen
- Science and Practice of Strength Training – Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, William J. Kraemer
- Supertraining – Mel Siff
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