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Off-grid groups - how to build a group and case studies of successful and unsuccessful groups of individuals who are off-grid together

DIY as much as possible
…and truck update. A few weeks ago, I had a chance encounter with an elk, an animal of much height, girth and weight. After looking up the average weight ...

Snowboarder plus tiny home equals cool!
Each time I see a new tiny home, I think it’s the coolest one I’ve seen yet, and this is no exception, pro-snowboarder, Mike Basich, shows us his ve...

Keyhole garden
It’s so nearly spring, I am itching to get out and do some gardening, I’ve been getting seed catalogs, the siren song of the gardener. About a year ...

Don’t try this at home
Last Sunday afternoon, I decided I would do some work in town to get ahead of my work week, it wasn’t a lot of work, but doing it early meant I would be a...

2015 – the year of antitech backlash
Government spying, corporate prying, virtual sex, so-called freinds you never met …no wonder we are sick of it. A London PR agency says this year people w...

A wonderful off-grid couple
There are many off the grid tutorial videos about nearly anything having to do with off-grid life, there are a precious few about the people themselves, the why...

UK Green Leader Needs New Script. We Can Help Her.
Natalie Bennett, leader of the UK Green party, had a car-crash interview today as she attempted to explain the party’s housing policy to an unsympathetic ...

Mobile living
A few months ago, a long lost friend appeared back in my life, a friend I knew when I was an early teen but lost contact with, all these years later we reunited...

On demand water heater
There are a few needs, requirements for life, food, water, shelter, once those basic requirements are met, after that come the things that make life pleasant. W...

Fantasy castle on wheels
When I first saw this, I wondered how interesting this might be, then I watched the video, I’m blown away, so is PB, he was even impressed, and that’...

Squeezing the photons
Squeezing those photons, that’s what I call it when we don’t have much power. Our solar system is small, and most of the time, it holds us pretty we...

How about a shed for a cabin?
There is a big movement, well maybe it’s a “small” movement :) using sheds for cabins or even your full on home, it’s a good way to have...
