Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson.In her new book, LO–TEK Design by Radical Indigenism, Watson argues that tribal communities, seen by many as primitive, are highly advanced when it comes to creating systems in symbiosis with the... See more

For example, induction burners are more efficient for cooking than traditional electrical burners in the same way that microwaves are—targeting the energy to a particular material (metal for induction, water molecules for microwaves) means that less energy is wasted in warming up the kitchen. We can replace furnaces with heat pumps or with thermal

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