Contents

• Most Independent People of 1989
   
• From Domes to Yurts, Home Ideas Get Their Inspiration from the Past
   
• Solar Power — Is It the Answer for Your Electric Needs?
   
• Solar Cells, Inverters and Your Personal Computer
   
• Steal a Porch from the Forest
   
• Sheetery stichery — Better than Paint or Wallpaper
   
• How to Tell if Your Water Supply Is Safe to Drink
   
• Making Water Fit to Drink
   
• A Yurt Was the Answer for Geri Rose
   
• Making a Living Independently by Teaching Adults to Read
   
• Just for Kids — Finger Weaving
   
• Letters to the Editor
   
• She built Her Own Cross-country Ski Lodge
   
• Vernon Hopkins — Wood Splitter, Trapper, Dowser
   
• Backwoods Home Recipes
   
• Fiber — the Fact and the Fiction
   
• My dad was never home for Santa Claus
   
• Make Some Homemade Christmas Ornaments
   
• Tepee to Cabin to Dream House
   
• Don't Let Household Moisture Problems Run Amuck
   
• Spice Up Your Life With Lemon Grass
   
• Recycling and Capitalism Shake Hands
   
• The Virtues of Vitamins — A Megadose Warning!
   
• A Quake Preparation Primer
   
• Great Quakes of the Past