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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

Unready for the crash
CommunitiesApr 22, 2009

Unready for the crash

British economy now most likely to collapse – prepare for food and power shortages...

UK Off-Grid festival in August
CommunitiesApr 22, 2009

UK Off-Grid festival in August

A new Festival is added to this summer’s line-up – the Off-Grid Festival on 20th August...

Preppers in the paper
CommunitiesApr 9, 2009

Preppers in the paper

We do live in extreme times and it seems to be getting worse. Today I received an email contained a link to a Fort Worth (Texas) newspaper, they wrote an articl...

Soilcrete
CommunitiesMar 9, 2009

Soilcrete

It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on what we are doing on the cabin, so this time I’ll write about concrete, or more accurately s...

Travel Trailer/Redneck Games pt 2
CommunitiesFeb 9, 2009

Travel Trailer/Redneck Games pt 2

Getting the trailer up the hill and past the boulders and trees was more challenging than we thought it would be, but when you have to do something, then you fi...

X-prize announced
CommunitiesFeb 6, 2009

X-prize announced

This week, the X Prize Foundation announced a pair of California students won the $25,000 prize for their crazy green idea, an...

Well Duh!
CommunitiesJan 25, 2009

Well Duh!

It seems that "someone" is trying to prove that free range chickens are no better or possibly worse than caged chickens. Ok, here is an excerpt from a...

Travel Trailer/Redneck Games pt 1
CommunitiesJan 20, 2009

Travel Trailer/Redneck Games pt 1

It took 3 days, lots of sweat, nerves of steel, and a lot of that Archimedes factor to get a small travel trailer from one side of the creek to the other. Shoul...

Off-Grid house poised to win X-prize
CommunitiesJan 20, 2009

Off-Grid house poised to win X-prize

An Off-Grid home is set to win $25,000 prize...

TV review: Green? We’ve been slimed!
CommunitiesJan 12, 2009

TV review: Green? We’ve been slimed!

BBC screens one of the worst eco-series ever to appear on TV...

Best job in the world
CommunitiesJan 11, 2009

Best job in the world

Caretaker of a small Island near the Great Barrier reef, 12 hours work a month – and its for real...

Doom and Gloom…
CommunitiesJan 7, 2009

Doom and Gloom…

…it’s coming to a station near you. I’m not one for doom and gloom, though anyone starting a sentence with “I’m not one for doom a...