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Prepping on a budget, part 2 – book review
CommunitiesOct 13, 2012

Prepping on a budget, part 2 – book review

While scouring the internet looking for ways to be more self sufficient, I ran across a great (new to me) author, her name is Susan Gregersen. As I dug deeper a...

World’s Top Eco-Cop
PeopleSep 20, 2012

World’s Top Eco-Cop

David Higgins works for Interpol. He wants the world to wake up to eco-crime, and take steps to prevent it. Higgins is head of Interpol’s Environmental Crime Pr...

Lucas Foglia pics
PeopleJun 26, 2012

Lucas Foglia pics

“By the time I was 18 we owned three tractors, four cars and five computers,”says photographer Lucas Foglia. Growing up on a small farm in New York ...

NBC to air off-grid drama series
PeopleMay 14, 2012

NBC to air off-grid drama series

Prolific writer-producer JJ Abrams is behind the new series Revolution – a post-apocalyptic off-grid drama to air on NBC in a late-evening Monday slot &#8...

Bollywood star’s off-grid home
PeopleApr 24, 2012

Bollywood star’s off-grid home

India is one of the world’s most off-grid countries – mainly because so many of its inhabitants were never on the grid in the first place.  As hundr...

We were an island
PeopleApr 22, 2012

We were an island

Art and Nan Kellam bought an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine in 1949 and lived there for more than 35 years, content with little more than each other&...

Fred Eaglesmith
PeopleApr 20, 2012

Fred Eaglesmith

Canadian Country singer  Fred Eaglesmith is our kind of environmentalist. “I’m not part of the trend. I’m not part of the Green Revolution,” he tells the ...

Now even Zillow heralds off-grid housing boom
PeopleApr 19, 2012

Now even Zillow heralds off-grid housing boom

Government may not heed it – when do they ever listen to the people?  – but big business is getting the message. Zillow, a division of Forbes, is ce...

Canada series: Quit Your Job and Get Paid to Live Your Dream
PeopleMar 7, 2012

Canada series: Quit Your Job and Get Paid to Live Your Dream

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Alicia Castro raises the heat in London
PeopleFeb 10, 2012

Alicia Castro raises the heat in London

Will Prince Charles be her next conquest? The Falklands (or the Malvinas Islands) is the world’s most hotly-disputed off-grid territory. Now, just as the ...

Jewel spurns Discovery
PeopleJan 26, 2012

Jewel spurns Discovery

Platinum chanteuse Jewel Kilcher will have “nothing to do” with new Discovery series about life off the grid...

Glenn Beck goes off-grid
PeopleDec 14, 2011

Glenn Beck goes off-grid

Right-wing internet-only channel trials Apocalypse programming...