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This hands-on guide for converting a gas-powered car to electric has all the information you need to choose a donor car, and successfully make the conversion. It also includes how to drive, charge and maintain your electric car.

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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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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 is the key reference to living off the land. Packed with practical information, tried-and-tested tips, Seymour's visionary handbook explains how to reap the harvest, respect the land, stay healthy and waste nothing.

The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It teaches all the skills needed to live independently, harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more.

This new expanded edition includes 150 new full-color illustrations and a special section in which Seymour, the father of the back-to-basics movement, explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

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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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Make your own bent willow furniture by following these step-by-step instructions. You can master this technique, traditionally passed down from generation to generation with this illustrated book. Start your own DIY bent willow projects today.

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Build an energy-efficient, sustainable home with this introductory guide to green building. With more than 1,200 how-to photos, this 595 page book takes you through the construction of a small building that incorporates a wide spectrum of alternative construction techniques and materials, such as green roofs, straw bale homes and modified stick frame walls.