Communities

By Tia Meer My dream home is an oddball. It doesn’t quite fit it. It’s unlike anything in the surrounding neighborhood. It is, in fact, unlike anything in Centr...

An off-grid Community in the UK has been awarded £350,000 of central government money to help it spread its low-carbon lifestyle to families across the country....

Sit, flush and forget, that’s what most of us do, multiple times a day. Composting toilets are the answer. We use perfectly good, drinkable water to flush...

What a great early Christmas gift, I know that to those who get snow every winter, it’s not that exciting, but for those of us that live in places with li...

Every now and again, I get an email with some great questions, this evening I received such an email from a new ‘net friend, Marcy. She has recently taken...

SO much pointless stuff gets passed around at Christmas. We’ve tried to suggest a handful of gifts which are both useful and unlikely to be things you hav...

I wish I could say that I had read this book way back when, and that was what inspired me to live my off-grid life… but my earliest inspiration was the Gr...

David de Rothschild has revealed he prefers life off-grid and can’t stand carbon off-setting.  “There is just something more satisfying about living off-g...

2012 is perhaps one of the stupidest movies ever made – it has no basis whatsoever- its just an experiment in computer graphics with a few false assumptio...

No, I’m not talking about your last job… I’m talking about canning. It’s all but becoming a lost art. But it doesn’t have to be a ...

A verbatim account of Sarah Palin discussing energy and the enviuronment with Rush Limbaugh...

One of the most important attacks on the power industry ever made by a serving politician...