Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices by Martin Lafréchoux might be of interest to some followers. (Via No Tech Magazine)
A beautiful mod to make a Wii the size of a Game Boy cartridge, although it’s really the Gamecube play that’s obviously valuable here…
Crazy photos of Chinese solar panel installations (possibly paywalled). The really cool bit is what looks to be all the existing houses that have panels on top though – the UK will sadly never dream so large or get political buy-in for large-scale farms, I suspect, but retrofitting remains a distinct (if far-flung) possibility.
Vladimir Khorev’s ‘Characters’ photo series from Taipei is beautiful:
In the ongoing world of webmentions, Fershad Irani has enabled webmentions on their blog, so consider this another test ping. Fershad is definitely worth a follow for insightful greentech thoughts, but the overlap between planetary sustainability and personal sovereignty, self-hosting, and freedom of thought – anti-extractionism across all levels – is something that needs highlighting each and every day.
Branch Magazine issue 9 is out now. Subbed ‘A Sustainable Internet for All’, this issue has some intriguing-looking titles (such as “An Internet that Works with Our Natural Rhythms”) that I’m hoping to read on holiday.
Lastly, I was also thrilled to discover Patch magazine at the recent Develop conference. An indie mag for indie games, and very affordable at that. Very tempted to try it out for a bit.
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