If you find yourself with lots of leftover wood (from carpentry projects and the like), you don't need to waste them. By building a rocket stove, you can heat your house with just a handful of wood.

Wrap the copper tubing around the burn chamber to add even more heat-capturing surface area. Concentrate the coils around the bottom third of the chamber to gain the most heat. My wife and I designed ...

Discover the art of crafting your own rocket stove and homemade BBQ grill in this step-by-step tutorial. Perfect for outdoor ...

Rocket stoves are an interesting, if often overlooked, method for cooking or for generating heat. Designed to use biomass that might otherwise be wasted, such as wood, twigs, or other agricultural ...

We've previously covered larger rocket stoves designed to heat your home, but now we have a portable version of the highly-efficient wood stove that you can build with 4 soup cans, 1 larger #10 can, ...

[Bigelow Brook Farm] has a cool geodesic dome greenhouse that needs to stay warm in the winter. There are a lot of commercial solutions for greenhouse heating, but if you’re the kind of person who ...

The idea of cooking dinner over a roaring campfire sounds delightful when you’re picturing it in your head. In reality, though, campfire cooking can be irritating, difficult or even disastrous when ...

It’s easy to forget how comfortable our lives have become. When we cook food with the twist of a stove knob or heat our homes with the nudge of a thermostat, we fail to recall that in the not too ...