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When weekenders arrive from the city it can often spell doom for the local rural community and the local environment A group of cottages in Canada provide a mod...

Wrenches – they’ll never give up The first test of a new policy to promote off-grid housing in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire has ended with a de...

Birds make great ringtones Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.This piece from Fortune Magazine sums up the ambivalent relation many of the Bl...

Nick Rosen in his research RV Thousands of people are choosing to live in homes without mains electricity, gas or water. Are these the eco-townies of the future...

Live above water level Up to half a million Brits are poised to go off the grid this morning as floods interrupted water supplies and power stations were closed...

Live In The Wild In Style! The Do It Green site has a fine roundup of recent articles about living off the grid, full of neat examples and useful links. (Pictur...

Amish reject tying into the public electric grid, but happy to use solar power for home comforts....

Ramsey – Idiot The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Solar Power for Your Home (second edition) by Dan Ramsey with David Hughes What is it? One of the lates...

getting there If you commute to work in a city, then the scooters in our online store could be help take part of your life off-grid. The scooters have engines r...

The Off-grid web site has started publishing extracts from the summer hit, “how to live off-grid” by Nick Rosen; You can see the first extract here...

Vacations that cleanse the spirit and allow you to drop off the grid...

He tells Letterman he is off-grid and wears a silly hat...