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Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living

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

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

NY’s green fashion week
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’s first eco-town takes shape
Florida realtors and scientists announced plans to create an energy-efficient, environmentally progressive community called “Sky” on 571 forested ac...

China endorses off-grid future
China will provide electricity to remote regions and alleviate fuel shortages in rural areas through renewable energy microgrids....

Off-grid lighting competition, $200,000 prize
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...

WhisperGen
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...

Solar Decathlon
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...

Jackson Browne’s off-grid ranch
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...

How to get free broadband
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...

Landmark off-grid housing victory
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...

Cave dwellers of Oz
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...
