Communities
Off-grid groups - how to build a group and case studies of successful and unsuccessful groups of individuals who are off-grid together
Carolyn Chute living in the woods – she couldn’t be happier
Catch our video visiting one of America’s greatest living novelists as she does her daily chores the Maine backwoods? She just doesn’t trust the sys...
Cabin Porn – the official book
You loved the Cabin Porn web site – now Buy the book from Amazon US. Its amazing how Tiny Homes in general and remote cabins in particular have caught the...
Home & Away star goes off the grid
Home and Away’s Lisa Gormley is in the middle of building an off-the-grid eco cabin in the Tasmanian rainforest. She is looking forward to spending more time wi...
Eviction Notice for Amish Family Living Without Electricity
An Amish family in Wisconsin woke up one morning last week with an eviction notice on their front door. It was for refusing to fit a smoke detector in their off...
Experience a Tiny House – No Strings Attached
Perhaps you’ve thought about ditching the concept of the traditional house and living a full off-grid experience, in a tiny home? But you haven’t got the...
Replacing our 12 volt water pump
Most of the time, items are replaced when they fail, break or quit working. We decided to get a jump on replacing a critical piece of our daily life before it s...
Printable Solar Cells
The Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium in Australia has started to showcase solar cells made with a 3D printer. According to Fiona Scholes, senior examinat...
How Rob Greenfield lives off-grid in the City
Today I talked to tiny home YouTube sensation Rob Greenfield for his tips on how to go off the grid. Greenfield by name and Greenfield by nature! Amazingly in h...
Encyclopedia of homemade tools website review
I am always on the lookout for websites where you can learn about DIY, I recently found a fun site all about homemade tools, this site is a repository of links ...
Solar myths debunked video
Solar power myths and outright lies, learn the truth here....
The Off-Grid Killer
At first sight, Robert L Dear might seem like many thousands of other reclusive cabin-dwellers in deserted parts of America. In his late 50s, divorced, the man ...
Sharing solar power in Germany
BERLIN, Nov 25 (Reuters) – German battery maker Sonnenbatterie has launched a scheme to connect households with solar panels together with their neighbour...