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Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living
Berkeley playhouse goes off-grid
San Francisco theater company switches to natural energy...
The Land
The immortal song by Woody Guthrie is about to become the anthem for a new generation of dispossessed....
Solar powered Christmas lights
Off-grid lighting invades Christmas displays from Wales to Washington DC...
Solar cooking… first attempt
One of the ways I will be cooking off-grid is to use the sun, it’s free, nearly always available where I live, and it works great! My first attempt was ab...
In the beginning…
Hello and welcome all readers, friends, those I have met and those I know through the internet. This is a first for me, blogging, I have resisted blogging ever ...
Low energy computing
computing from mountaintops and suchlike....
The Drain Brain
Introducing our new eco-plumbing advice service....
Dystopia Experiment
The UK Utopia project split widens, as the founder leaves to finish his book, and volunteers take over the running....
Economics of going solar
How to decide whether solar makes financial sense...
Snake for dinner
Ditchmonkey’s off the grid training camp tries fried grass snake for dinner...
micro-community in Finland
How to live off-grid in a very cold part of the world....
Blue Crabs Leaving Maryland Tables?
I know how does that work with getting people off-grid? Well look at it as a cautionary tale of what not being self-sufficient and responsible in our resource u...