Communities

By Jim Martin – Homeless Shelter Director, Delaware Every day in Southern Delaware, I work in the trenches and on the front lines of poverty, fear, homele...

An off-grid village of 150 souls in Oregon is running out of food due to the severe snowstorms in the area.  And there is a severe threat of the weight of snow ...

There are some things that can be (or look) fun about living off-grid, but there are many things that are less attractive, but still have to be done. One of tho...

When you think of someone living off-grid, chances are you either think of a man or perhaps a couple (or even a family), but it’s doubtful you will think ...

With winter in full blast mode, people are sniffling, sneezing and coughing all around me, I work in the public, not necessarily with the public, but I’m ...

Food goes in and it must come out, that goes for you, me and even folk who live on the road. It’s one of the things that people either don’t think a...

I am not believing it’s 2017 already, in just 3 short years, it’s going to be the year 2020, now that will take some getting used to! People traditi...

An ongoing documentary series celebrating sustainable communities and ecovillages around the world is promoting the off-grid way of life. Living in the Future h...

I typically steer clear of politics and religion as topics for me personally to discuss here, not that I’m anti religious or not political, quite the cont...

This Christmas, we celebrated our 9th year living off-grid (actually the 22nd), I thought it was our 10th year and was so excited, then I realized I was having ...

It is not often that large events can call themselves self sustaining. But two upcoming music festivals on two entirely different continents are bucking the tre...

I’m amazed at how the people in your life can become your biggest and loudest critics when you decide you are going to do something, especially something ...