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Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living
Off-Grid island for sale
Sunset view from Long Island Its enough to make you long for an economic collapse. Long Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, has gone on the market The uninhabited ...
Welcome to Mission Improbable
Ditchmonkey start his blog on Off-Grid by announcing his next big mission – a walk through the mountains of South America, and a search for sponsors....
Into the Wild
Interviews with Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch about the morality and meaning of their new movie plus plot details of this off-grid journey across America....
Don’t bother with solar backpacks
Solar panels embedded in bags and briefcases, just don’t do a very good job yet....
Green Billionaires
Tulsi, Richard Branson, Zac Goldsmith, John Doerr, Ted Turner, Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, Luciano Benetton, Vincent Tzchenguiz,...
How to be in when you’re out
Outdoor rugs are a way of making the outside come indoors....
Life in a Dome
Kibbutz Lotan in Israel has already achieved what the governments of New York and London have recently aspired to – a working eco-neighbourhood. In this e...
Thomas Dolby goes off-grid
Singing the off-grid song Synth-pop and music-technology icon Thomas Dolby will shortly embark on a new album project, recorded totally off the grid...
Eco-town UK – competition
UK Government launches architectural design competition to build ten new “eco towns” to be greenlit in early 2008....
Luciano Benetton’s eco-yacht
Preview of life aboard Luciano Benetton’s new yacht, which has won the first ever yachting green star for eco excellence at the Monaco Boat show....
Sunday Times Editor goes off-grid
$260,000 “shack” has newspaper editor praising Thoreau and crowing about his manliness....
Home Depot’s solar deal spurned on net.
Reputational issues BP Solar this week tried to take us a step closer to mass-market off-grid living. The solar energy giant announced the availability of its h...