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We’re planning to incorporate Solar design features into our next home – actually, we’re looking at wind & solar. Which magazines are worth subscribing to? Which are not?
I should specificy that we’re more interested in passive solar than in solar panels.

Actually, check out some of the links on http://www.builditsolar.com

If you are going to do much of the work yourself, you will be sadly disappointed by what is available in print:

Homepower magazine http://www.homepower.com for example, it most often reads like a sales brochure, because "hands on" to a number of people usually means buying most of the system ready made in a kit. Hands on for me is breaking out the soldering iron and doing point to point wiring on components to construct the regulators (often called charge controlelrs.) Too much chaff for a hands on person to find useful. Some of the ads are useful.

Nuts and Volts http://www.nutsvolts.com/ is a bit better, but their topical coverage is far ranging so you do not always get as much as you would like. Spendy, might be better to sheck it out at the bookstores and buy it off the newstand when a decent article appears.

Mother Earth news http://www.motherearthnews.com is pretty good, but the best bang for the buck there is to buy their archives on CD rom, which is 3 disks, broke down by decade. There is a fair amount of substance, sometimes you encounter an article that sought to convert one item over to another, only it would have been much less work and cost for them to have started out from ground level and construct (with used parts) the same thing, which they sought to construct in the first place, a solar charged electric tractor is one specific item I have come to mind as one the author of the article could have done better. You might find the book they published "The Mother Earth News Handbook of Homemade Power," which is not real good for specifics in some areas, but is good for some ideas if you are good at working from thumbnail sketches, you can fill in the blanks where there are gaps in detail. The book was written more as a "primer" than a complete compillation.

For your wind systems, there is a lot to be found at http://www.lindsaybks.com Hugh Piggott has written a few good books on the home construction of windmills. The LeJay Manual is a good reprint that has a lot of good info for home constructing- down to the wooden propeller profiles. As well as the book "Generator Secrets."

One of the good sources for materials and tools supplies and systems is Northern Tool http://www.northerntool.com

One thing on propeller materials- never us ABS and never use PVC. As tempting as those can be they break. When they break, the blades will go for a great distance in modest winds. They can kill too.

It occurs to me that I do not have a bookshelf deep enough in which to stack magazines (like one would books, side by side, row by row). I don’t want to leave them lying around, yet I do not have enough to purchase a whole new book case.

Any suggestions?

-Kri

Go to any store that sells school supplies. Look around to see where they sell the folders- the stiff paperboard kind with pockets and/or brads. See if they will give you several of the cardboard containers that the folders come in. Most stores will let you take these home for free. You can paint them or cover them with fabric or wrapping paper to match your decor. Put your magazines in these then insert them into your bookcase bottom end first (the spines of the magazine face upward so you can see them.) The folder cases will hold them upright so they don’t sag. You can pull the cardboard case out and see a couple years worth of magazines at a time, then just pull out the one you want.

mainly porn magazines, or anything really doesnt matter as long as i get on the mailing list and they keep sending me shit forever. im in australia.

You can download latest magazines in PDF format for free here:

http://0rz.tw/Mprh7

Cheers!

I have a large home that I’ve truly enjoyed decorating. A lot of people say it looks like a show house in a magazine. How can I submit photos of my phone to be shown on a magazine? Or them send out a photographer here?

contact one of the magazines that you want your house to be featured in

Do they make magazines for home-schooled teen girls? I can’t find any! lol
If you can help then thanks!
god bless<3

Here are some online magazine for homeschooled kids, not just girls:

http://www.homeschoolingteen.com/

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/homeschooling-teen-magazine/

Magazines in general are having a hard time making it in today’s economic climate and with the availability of the internet. Many have stopped publishing on paper. With homeschooled kids being 4% of students, homeschooled girls would be maybe 2% of all teenagers. It’s kind of small demographic to bring to print. You could make an e-magazine for homeschooled girls as an interesting project or why not try a magazine for Christian girls/teens? (Basing that on your user name) Here is a link to magazines geared at the teen Christian demographic:

http://christianteens.about.com/od/christianentertainment/tp/Magazines.htm

He said they belonged to a little girl.

Nothing. What’s wrong with you?

Home and Garden magazines from 1959.is there a buyer out there?

put them on e-bay

I know I don’t. Also…What is the name of the magazine?

We don’t

Is there any part of the country in which codes are liberal enough to allow one to reside in a shed or a prefabricated/modular garage? I have seen pictures of old fashioned quonset homes (the aluminum arch houses) but I have never seen any which were lived in. I only read about such homes in magazines like DWELL and Readymade. Here in Michigan, very little housing diversity exists. Is there any part of the country in which an owner could legally build a house for under $30,000? If so, please tell me where and provide links if possible thanks. For anyone else interested, Karrie Jacobs, founder of Dwell magazine, recently published a book called the $100,000 house. It discusses the issue of affordable housing. Thanks very much!
I don’t care to here criticism of my motives.

Also, I trailer plot will require me to live amongst a group of people I dont want to be around. Plus I want to own my home and land not pay some trailer park owner for the rest of my life.

There are a lot more places around the country without codes and zoning than places that do–you need to get away from the cities and out into the countryside. You can purchase a home in many Oklahoma communities for well under $50,000, in small towns across the state if you don’t insist on staying up north. We are friendly and living is cheap. Plus we don’t have a lot of snow. If you live down in the mountains in southeast Oklahoma like a lot of people do, you can build your own log cabin on an acreage and live like a hermit if you wish. Electricity and telephone service is tough, though unless you build near existing lines. In the west part of the state, you can live pretty well anywhere you want and have full services. And unless you live in a city of 5,000 or more, no zoning laws.

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