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Greenpeace “loses $5m” of donations
Greenpeace, the environmental charity that lost its way over a decade ago, has announced it has also lost money – over $5 MILLION dollars of donations hav...

Happy Father’s Day
My Dad is much of the reason why I am getting to live my dream, he gave me a sense of adventure from a young age, as a family we would watch nature and science ...

Short cycling? Problem solved :)
Short cycling, it makes me think of riding a bike a very small distance, or someone riding a really short bike…. actually it’s when a motor or compr...

Spring in the Sky Castle
I do my best to see the bright side of life and everything in it, take winter for instance, the cold temps means there are no bugs or other creepy crawlies out ...

Nova Scotia bans new off-grid homes
Dear Off-Grid, I live on the south shore of Nova Scotia and I want to build a tiny, off-grid homestead. So far, it is proving to be a near impossibility. The bu...

Lost Faith in the System
Joachim Hagopian voices the feelings of millions of Americans The forsaken American population finds itself more in poverty (46.2 million people) as well as mor...

Tiny home in Hawaii
I think we can all appreciate Johnny Sanphillippo’s situation, he worked hard at a job he loved that unfortunately didn’t net him a large salary, of...

Keeping it clean…
Hygiene while living off-grid, especially if you are living rough and/or just starting out, keeping clean can be one of the challenges. When PB and I first move...

New rural community to launch
As the nation’s housing crisis (also known as the nation’s house price bubble) intensifies, part of the solution is hiding in plain sight – cheap rural housing,...

Illegal to be off-grid?
Apparently it is illegal in some places, Florida makes off-grid living illegal – mandates all homes must be connected to an electricity grid. It’s no secret tha...

Choices, we all have them….
For those of you who have followed my writing for a while, you will notice I am frequently trying to get people to go beyond just dreaming about their dreams an...

Mom knew best – cooking from scratch
Mother’s Day passed last weekend, for me it’s a bittersweet day, I’m happy because I’m a mother, but it’s sad because my mother is...
