(pardon our dust…)
bikes:
- The Chainlink- Chicago Cycling Community forum
- Streetsblog Chicago, from the authors of Grid Chicago
- Bike Winter
- Bikes at Work- heavy-duty commercially made cargo trailers
- Blue City Cycles (best shop in Bridgeport, with best cattes)
- Comrade Cycles (Worker-Owned Chicago Shop)
- Cycletote Handmade Bike Trailers (closed)
- Electric Cargo Bike
- Rivendell Bicycle Works (lugged steel bikes and accessories)
- Sheldon Brown (the late great bike guru’s how-to’s)
- Velo Orange (parts and accessories for commuting and touring in style)
- Yehuda Moon: Kickstand Comics
- Four Corners Guides (Bikes AND Boats- all things bikerafting and adventure)
boats:
- American Canoe Association (and other people-powered craft)
- Alpacka Rafts
- DIY Packraft (boat building kits and tips)
- The Packrafting Podcast
- Cape Falcon Kayaks (skin-on frame-kayak and canoe plans and boatbuilding videos)
- Romany Kayaking (Sam Crowley, ACA Instructor and Instructor-trainer and long-distance paddler based out of Marquette, MI)
- Kayak Chicago (longest running guide and rental company in the city)
beer:
- American Homebrewers Association
- HOPS!
- CHAOS
- Randy Mosher
- Olympia Brewing Co wiki
- Northern Brewer (forum & supplies)
- Whiner Beer (brewing barrel-aged belgians Back-of-the-Yards)
down on the farm:
- Advocates for Urban Agriculture
- Antiquity Oaks
- ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- Cold Antler Farm
- Domesteading- Henge and Hollow Farm
- Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
- Ghost Town Farm
- The Greenhorns
- National Center for Appropriate Technology
- DIY Seeds (short informational films about seed saving)
diy, radical domesticity, and other acts of homemade heroism
- Poor Prole’s Almanac (podcast and other projects)
- Low Tech Magazine
- Artemis (National Wildlife Federation Organization for sportswomen and conservation)
- The Chatelaine’s Keys: Finding the keys to the future…and trying not to lose them in the mess.
- Sharon Astyk’s Ko-fi
- Root Simple
- New Domesticity: Thoughts about women and homemaking in the 21st century
- Apron stringz: Diary of a Revolutionary (Housewife)
- Girl’s Guide to Guns and Butter
- Northwest Edible Life: Life on Garden Time
- Honest-Food.net (Hank Shaw, wild fish and game chef and author)
- Punk Domestics: Preserving, Culture, Community
- Radical Homemakers
plain eats and fancy fixins (or, “How to Can a Wolf”)
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Preserving Abundance
- Food In Jars
- Hungry Tigress: Tigress in a Jam & Tigress in a Pickle
- A Kitchen of One’s Own: Women and Cuisine
- Wild Fermentation
friends and other heroes:
- Al Scorch Audiotree TV
- Belly of the Beest: recipes and amazing food photos by my pal and photojournalist, Beth Rooney
- Vanessa Rae Art
frugality and other prudent practice:
- Casabon’s Book
- The Just In Case Book Blog: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens
- Mr. Money Moustache: Early Retirement through Badassity
- Early Retirement Extreme: a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism
- The Frugalwoods (financial independence and simple living)
- JL Collins (investing basics)
- Mad Fientist (early retirement calculators and podcast)
- No More Harvard Debt- $90k of student loan debt gone in ten months!
- YNAB: You Need A Budget (you do.)
- Zen Habits: The Cheapskate Guide
shelter:
- Reshaping our Footprint: The Road to a Zero-Energy Home with a Sustainable Landscape
- Building Science
- Green Building Advisor
- Cold House Journal
- Lloyd’s Blog: Shelter Publications
- Gypsy Living- a handmade vardo tiny house
- Being Somewhere: Best hobbit house ever!
- Whittle Down- couple builds a caravan, and other adventures
- Earthships!