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Six homes foreclosed after being illegally connected to utilities. Will be sold grid-free....

The UK Government’s planning White Paper is mainly aimed at forcing through large national infrastructure projects like airports and power stations, but i...

Designer John Bartlett really got to the heart of the issue, with a menswear line created entirely off-grid, using tools of days gone by like foot-pedal sewing...

Florida realtors and scientists announced plans to create an energy-efficient, environmentally progressive community called “Sky” on 571 forested ac...

China will provide electricity to remote regions and alleviate fuel shortages in rural areas through renewable energy microgrids....

Let there be light The Development Marketplace team of the World Bank today launched a competition, to reward project ideas that address the various off-grid li...

Not cheap, and not pretty Here’s another idea for disconnecting from the mains electricity grid – not cheap to buy, but cheap to run on a pint of di...

Last year’s battle Teams from 20 universities have spent the summer building enough homes for an entire solar village. The off-grid, self-powering homes w...

Browne: saintly In his new eco-TV series Ed Begley has just outed singer songwriter Jackson Browne as a long-time off-gridder. Browne, who used to go out with D...

After the arrest of a man for piggybacking on a neighbor’s Internet broadband, we are compiling a list of all known “war surfing” hot-spots wo...

An off-grid community in Devon – has won temporary planning (zoning) permission after a long battle against wealthy local residents. The group of 16 peopl...

Visitors at underground Motel The tiny outback town of White Cliffs in far north-west New South Wales can now claim a place in Australia’s engineering his...