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Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living

America’s bad dream
Time the propagandized “Ideal Lifestyle” from commercial architecture magazines is recognized for the sales pitch it is...

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

God and green politics
Exclusive interview with the new boss of Greenpeace USA, the top Green pressure group...

Gov. loans for off-grid power
The US government is making good on it s green promises – new government publications call for loans from Agriculture Dept for off-grid rural electrificat...

Action Man
Canadian adventurer describes off-grid life in Thunder Bay...

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...

Secrets of happiness
A UK born Buddhist singer-songwriter explains why he is living in a yurt in the Spanish Pyrenees...

Next-gen info processing
If you are reviewing your carbon footprint, consider a data storage and retrieval system now being sold on the internet. The product does not need a plug or a b...

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

Remote island life
Females on remote island are trained in solar panel skills – now connected with world while remaining off the grid...

Eco-hotels in Canada
Siwash – generator backup The Siwash Lake Ranch is truly off-grid. Its a luxury dude ranch outside Kamloops, B.C where Allyson Rogers, the ranch’s...
