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For Sale: the Van that started a Movement
How to find the right camper van by scouring London for sale small ads...
Doomsday Preppers
This TV show first aired in the US last summer and arrives in the UK this wednesday on an obscure cable channel. It is the latest in a long line of attempts by...
Top Gear presenter says living off-grid can make you happy
Multi-millionaire TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said that anyone living off the grid is likely to have a better life than his own. In a recent newspaper colu...
Clooney to take off-grid project
Story of man who leaves top govt job to live in a cabin in Northern California...
Jackson Browne next song about plastic bottles
Singer’s ranch in California is off the grid , he operates a plasticfree backstage, and travels on bio-diesel...
New York Times journalist sullies off-grid out-house
Excerpt from “Off the Grid” by Nick Rosen...
Chinese greener than US
The common perception of China is a culture so hell-bent on economic growth that it doesn’t have time for the luxury of environmental awareness. That view needs...
Daryl Hannah slams Steven Chu
Says Mexico Climate Change conference center is over-air-conditioned and condemns Chu for proposing “nothing concrete” in his keynote speech....
Excerpt from OFF THE GRID
MY NEGOTIATION TO MEET EUSTACE CONWAY, THE LAST AMERICAN MAN...
Husk power guru
Profile of Gyanesh Pandey, 33, CEO and Co-founder, Husk Power System...
Solar Flare could kill the Grid
One of the biggest dangers to the grid is bothering the British Secretary of Defense Liam Fox. Today he warns that the electricity grid, financial networks and ...