Courses, guides & tutorials
Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living
Travel Trailer/Redneck Games pt 1
It took 3 days, lots of sweat, nerves of steel, and a lot of that Archimedes factor to get a small travel trailer from one side of the creek to the other. Shoul...
Off-Grid house poised to win X-prize
An Off-Grid home is set to win $25,000 prize...
Doom and Gloom…
…it’s coming to a station near you. I’m not one for doom and gloom, though anyone starting a sentence with “I’m not one for doom a...
Heat your space
Choosing the right heater for your van, boat or tent...
Simple Solar Homesteading Book Review
Before our big move off the grid, I did a lot of research to learn everything I could about living off-grid. I used the internet as my main source of informatio...
Off-Grid – On The Cheap
It seems that the “green” (or brown) movement is growing faster and faster. It used to be the realm of unwashed hippies, tree huggers and other so c...
Boston prof goes off-grid crazy
Top writer and academic Lou Ureneck opts for an off-grid holiday home...
Now Oprah pushes off-grid message
Oprah Winfrey’s magazine will feature a wholesome off-grid couple from Florida – the off-grid movement is taking off...
How to fit a skylight on an RV
Step by step guide to fitting a skylight in your RV that will reduce damp and increase ventilation...
How to unplug from the Grid
A New Scientist cover story about living off-grid contains a series of hilarious mistakes and inaccuracies...
Got Hot H2O
Tankless Water HeaterLiving off the grid, and on the cheap, requires sacrifices, you do give up some conveniences. Some of the things I didn’t have when I first...