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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

Daily Mail story about off-grid Emma
CommunitiesDec 28, 2012

Daily Mail story about off-grid Emma

Currently the top story on the Daily Mail web site is a plug for off-grid living, featuring Emma Orbach who first came to prominence when she was described in m...

The Global Ecovillage Network
CommunitiesDec 21, 2012

The Global Ecovillage Network

The Global Eco-village Network is a network of sustainable communities. It offers invaluable knowledge and experience from the most successful sustainable commu...

Stellar Gardens project
CommunitiesDec 19, 2012

Stellar Gardens project

Son of Graham Nash moves from Manhattan to Hawaii...

DIY inspirations
CommunitiesDec 16, 2012

DIY inspirations

Ever wonder what websites I enjoy visiting (besides this one of course!)? There are quite a few, but I have to tell you about a couple of websites I have recent...

One or many?
CommunitiesDec 9, 2012

One or many?

Are you a lone ranger type of person or do you want to be with other like minded people in a group setting? There are different directions you can go when going...

The Cultural Creatives – 50 Million Changing the World
CommunitiesDec 7, 2012

The Cultural Creatives – 50 Million Changing the World

Are you one? Take the test set by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson...

It’s December, again!
CommunitiesDec 2, 2012

It’s December, again!

I can’t believe it’s already December! Where did the year go? As I posted previously about being thankful, I can’t say it enough, I am so very...

UK preppers come out of hiding
CommunitiesNov 30, 2012

UK preppers come out of hiding

Prepping involves having a bug-out location, a bug-out vehicle, plenty of canned food, weapons, and bushcraft skills...

Black Friday, preview of what’s to come? No thank you!
CommunitiesNov 24, 2012

Black Friday, preview of what’s to come? No thank you!

Black Friday, it’s something that some of us look forward to, for the rest of us it’s something to avoid like the plague, the consumerism, and somet...

Being thankful
CommunitiesNov 22, 2012

Being thankful

I just spent the day, actually the last two days, working on and working up to one of my favorite holidays, a holiday we celebrate in the USA during November, T...

Vandwelling
CommunitiesNov 18, 2012

Vandwelling

There are many ways of living off the grid, for some it means buying up some land, putting up a small cabin with solar panels and such, growing a garden, huntin...

Turn off your power for a week… what would you learn?
CommunitiesNov 11, 2012

Turn off your power for a week… what would you learn?

So, you are sitting in your climate controlled home, with lights, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, heaters, fans, TVs, computers, home theater systems...