Courses, guides & tutorials
Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living
Economy Gastronomy is low stress
Slow cooking is the best way to eat off the grid. Here is the philosophy for successful slow stews. It’s an icy winter’s day in west London and Alle...
Cool Tools
This site does not talk enough about the great new gadgets and technologies which make off-grid living ever more comfortable. Here are two – your favorit...
Blueprint for sustainable living
An off-grid Community in the UK has been awarded £350,000 of central government money to help it spread its low-carbon lifestyle to families across the country....
Free solar calculators
Free tools online to calculate the amount of sunlight you have and the solar panels you will need...
Eco-villages now in 70 countries
In 1991, Robert and Diane Gilman co-authored a seminal study called “Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities” for Gaia Trust. Today, there are ecovi...
Nick Rosen on CNN
Off-Grid founder Nick Rosen is interviewed on CNN today. The article puts Off-Grid living into the context of Copenhagen. In the interview given at the start o...
Humanure – sawdust toilets
Sit, flush and forget, that’s what most of us do, multiple times a day. Composting toilets are the answer. We use perfectly good, drinkable water to flush...
India’s cleantech start-ups
We all know that China is the world leader in relatively low-tech solar panels. Now a clutch of tiny Indian start-ups are proving that global warming’s...
How I built a $100 solar panel (2)
DIY expert Mike Davis provides a detailed account of his experience of building his own solar panel...
How I built a solar panel for $100 – You can too
In this article I am going to describe how to build a photo voltaic solar panel for a fraction of the price you would pay a manufacturer. I’ll show you how inex...
Off-Grid update
What a great early Christmas gift, I know that to those who get snow every winter, it’s not that exciting, but for those of us that live in places with li...
Propane Appliances, or Electric?
The Department of Energy reported in 2007 that natural gas or propane is still the cheaper form of energy compared with electric. Comparing previous years indic...