Courses, guides & tutorials
Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living
Portable battery chargers
Battery charging is an important part of off-grid life. Some of the devices I rely on when I’m on the road are ones that basically sit in my backpack doin...
Copenhagen’s off-grid tree
With international climate change talks less than a week away, the host city has taken its Christmas tree off-grid with a rack of bicycles powering LED lights. ...
Off-Grid questions
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...
Foreclosed? Move to Rio Rancho
Architecturally, the dwellings run the gamut — railroad cars, travel trailers, plywood shacks, doublewides and two-story ranch-style homes. Here in Rio Rancho o...
Don’t get frustrated – be inspired
We are honored to welcome a serving member of the US Armed forces as our newest regular contributer. Laurie Tamminen is currently in a theater of war that is fe...
Sanyo’s packaged life off-grid
Sanyo is has started producing homes that go off-grid at the flick of a switch...
Possum Living-How To Live Well With (Almost) No Money
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 loves life off the grid
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...
Scrap carbon targets – they’re unachievable….
UK carbon reduction targets are a fairytale, a fantasy, says report from influential Institition of Mechanical Engineers. UK would have to build 30 Nuclear powe...
Getting canned
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 ...
Under the Dome – book preview
Stephen King’s latest novel is about a small town that is suddenly and mysteriously taken off the grid....