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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

Arrests Celebrate 800 Years of Freedom
CommunitiesJun 12, 2015

Arrests Celebrate 800 Years of Freedom

Police moved in on Runnymede Eco-village friday night to prevent a 3 day “Alternative Magna Carta Festival.” The Historic site, where the Magna Cart...

Canadian container home goes viral
CommunitiesJun 11, 2015

Canadian container home goes viral

OTTAWA–When Joseph Dupuis decided to spend the summer of 2012 building a cabin in the woods out of three shipping containers, he never realized his projec...

Shade in the desert, priceless
CommunitiesJun 7, 2015

Shade in the desert, priceless

Our rainy season is about to start, but before it does, it gets warm, some might call it hot, I call it mildly uncomfortable. It only lasts a month or less, and...

Filing cabinet smoker
CommunitiesJun 5, 2015

Filing cabinet smoker

  I’ve seen some ingenious peeps on FaceBook and YouTube, this has to be in the top 10 of cool DIY, have you seen the filing cabinet smoker? This is ...

Living in small camper vans
CommunitiesMay 30, 2015

Living in small camper vans

I am learning more and more about people who live nomadic lives, driving and living in smaller camper vans rather than buying into the larger campers and such. ...

Why be debt free?
CommunitiesMay 24, 2015

Why be debt free?

Why is it so important to be debt free when you go off-grid? I can answer that because I’m living it and reaping the benefits of being debt free, it means...

BBC series has a laugh at self-sufficient lifestyle
CommunitiesMay 21, 2015

BBC series has a laugh at self-sufficient lifestyle

Former member of 1990s boy band 5ive, Abz Love, has swapped a life of singing for a farm in Wales in a new BBC2 series “Country Strife: Abz on the Farm&#8...

Big guy, tiny home
CommunitiesMay 20, 2015

Big guy, tiny home

When Joel Fleck moved home to after college, he wanted his own place, but he didn’t want to pay the steep Sonoma County rents, so he decided to build his own ti...

Tiny home, big amenities
CommunitiesMay 10, 2015

Tiny home, big amenities

This tiny home on wheels packs real stairs, not a ladder, 2 lofts and a tub bath, things you don’t normally find in a tiny home. I am surprised at having ...

Friends in small places
CommunitiesMay 9, 2015

Friends in small places

Welcome To “Bestie Row”: Lifelong Friends Build Row Of Tiny Houses In The Middle Of Nowhere. Some friendships last forever. You hear of lifelong friends often l...

Do what you love, love what you do…
CommunitiesMay 3, 2015

Do what you love, love what you do…

I love my life, it wasn’t always that way though, I used to live like most people in the middle-lower echelons of working and living, I did pretty well, b...

Manual washing machines – pre-electricity
CommunitiesMay 2, 2015

Manual washing machines – pre-electricity

When going off-grid, things can tend to get a bit primitive, but you still need to get your laundry clean, there are many ways to do it, from washing by hand, t...