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Fight for local energy
KR sells off-grid to Arnie In a feature on companies that will disrupt existing businesses, Business 2.0 cites power company Bloom Energy THE DISRUPTION: Energy...
Mel Gibson goes off-grid
Mel’s Costa Rica welcome Mel Gibson is about to head off-grid on a remote $12m, 400 acre ranch in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 300 miles from capital, San Jose...
Great Yarmouth van dwellers targeted
Burgh Castle 1818 Self-employed Richard Thorne amd his family live a simple lifestyle near Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth — they recycle everything, grow th...
Off-Grid Launches YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/offgridnick contains videos of people living off-grid in the Uk. We are building a library of off-grid video from around the world. Plea...
Eco child’s play
Eco-upbringing and still cute East Coast home-maker Jennifer Lance told web site Eco-child’s play about her family life with renewable energy. “One ...
Greening the second home
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...
Wild style
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...
Weekend Getaways
Vacations that cleanse the spirit and allow you to drop off the grid...
Off-Grid Ready – the new architecture
“Off-Grid Ready” – the new architectural model....
Life without a phone
Unexpectedly cut off from phone, fax and Internet, this writer discovers he rather liked it....
Two billion live off the grid
For those not yet grid connected, they can access power, water and phone without ever connecting to the national grid and repeating the mistakes of developed co...
Architecture for eco-towns
Feature Factory’s off-grid designs would be ideal for the new eco-towns being planned by Gordon Brown...