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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

Tiny home documentary
CommunitiesAug 12, 2015

Tiny home documentary

Most of the tiny home videos I find tend to be snippets, showing a 15 minute (on average) slice of life in a tiny home, usually not much more than a nickel tour...

Here I am
CommunitiesAug 8, 2015

Here I am

  My dream, it’s something I have had more or less since I was a very little girl, I’ve always loved nature, wild places, as a young child I tr...

The Lilypad
CommunitiesAug 4, 2015

The Lilypad

The Lilypad, love the name, love the home, it’s one of the cutest tiny homes I’ve seen, I know I say that a lot, but it’s the truth, each one ...

Do what you love, love what you do
CommunitiesJul 30, 2015

Do what you love, love what you do

What is your passion? If money were no object (and just what does that actually mean anyhow???) what would you be doing right now? Now, how can you turn this pa...

What are you doing?
CommunitiesJul 28, 2015

What are you doing?

Where do you see yourself next week, next month, next year, in a decade? Are you actively planning your life or are you merely floating through the flotsam and ...

Rainwater harvesting, and a teaser!
CommunitiesJul 24, 2015

Rainwater harvesting, and a teaser!

Shelter, food and water are the trinity of life, actually that should be in the reverse order, water absolutely comes first, without it, there would be no life ...

Off-Grid with his own personal natural gas well
CommunitiesJul 22, 2015

Off-Grid with his own personal natural gas well

Ted Baker is my kind of man, independent, sharp, knows what he wants but is also flexible to change his path when need be. As I was watching this video, there c...

Arvo off-grid
CommunitiesJul 16, 2015

Arvo off-grid

Arvo Thompson went from wanting to live off-grid to actually doing it, a step that sadly, not enough people actually do. He has been living the life for 15+ yea...

Budget solar install
CommunitiesJul 14, 2015

Budget solar install

I love seeing how other people do their solar systems, especially those who create and maintain their systems on a shoestring budget, which is how we do things ...

Going tiny with a family
CommunitiesJul 9, 2015

Going tiny with a family

You take one ratty camper, tear it down to the frame, then rebuild it, now it’s transformed into a home, and not just for one or two, but a family with yo...

Freezers and fridges in Africa
CommunitiesJul 8, 2015

Freezers and fridges in Africa

One of South Africa’s largest producers of household appliances has announced plans to offer solar powered fridges and freezers to 600 million low-income ...

Water issues
CommunitiesJul 7, 2015

Water issues

Living in our little rural community in the mountains, we don’t have many choices for over the air radio stations, the mountains block most if not all of ...