
Courses, guides & tutorials
Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living

Something To Read
Here’s something to keep you occupied while I’m away doing the grandma thing… (like you have nothing better to do…grin!) https://www.reu...

Harrelson’s Hawaii haven
Woody Harrelson lives in an off-grid community in Maui – description and interview...

Cell-phone base stations
The phone industry’s efforts to put cellphone base stations everywhere is spurring advances in renewable power...

Down to Earth
An offgrid newbie describes her first experience of “wilderness therapy”...

Wave powered computers
From big oil to big wave The data centres at the heart of the global Internet may soon all be off-grid. Google has filed a patent for a datacentre that uses wav...

Freedom beer
Freedom: Secret is in the water FREEDOM BEER, which was kind enough to provide 50 cases of its amber nectar for the launch last year of “How to live Off-G...

DIY Water Filter – Update (Edited-More Info Added)
WooHoo I scored!!! I found the original author/creator’s PDF that shows in detail, including pix, how to make the water filter using terracotta clay. Here...

Perrey Reeves, naturally
Perrey in red, and mum in white Perrey Reeves who plays Mrs. Ari Gold in Entourage on HBO is in real life no power-hungry toady, but an off-grid fanatic. Born i...

Small House Plans
OK, so you have a property, but no home on it, or maybe you have been looking for land, a place away from the city, away from the crowds, but if it already has ...

Donkeys, Deer, Tomatoes and a Marine
All is well here on the mountain, my Dad is enjoying the peace and solitude, and the various animals running around. A couple of days ago a herd of donkeys stro...

How to live cheap
Cash-strapped teacher Kath Kelly claims she has been living on just £1 ($1.70) a day for the past year. And she has written a book about it. Miss Kelly, 47, ate...

Make your home off-grid ready
Warmth and comfort not optional Start by calculating how much energy your home is consuming and what you can save by changing your habits and retrofitting your ...
