All you need to go off-grid

March 23, 2010

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Video-clips from “How to Live Off-Grid”

The Off-grid channel on YouTube has a growing collection of clips showing real people living and working off the grid. Please send us your clips for inclusion, or send links or embed codes.

When Nick Rosen travelled the UK, interviewing off-gridders for his book How to Live Off-grid (UK edition – click the cover image to buy in US), he filmed them as he went, and a selection are now available on the channel. Here is one example, from Hillholt Wood in Lincolnshire. Nigel Lowthrop is one of the leaders of the UK off-grid movement. He succeeded in turning his 30 acre wood into a vital local resource,and won planning approval after a long battle. (Click “keep reading” to see the video)…

March 23, 2010 2 Comments

Data management and other off-grid technologies

Going off-grid sounds exciting.

Many people approach it with a sense of adventure as if they were living in a camper van, trailer or small cabin. The high tech aspect consist of adding a small solar photo voltaic panel to power a set of LED lights and maybe a laptop computer.

I have seen people express the sentiment that going off-grid was a way to get away from other people, society and the evils of modern technology.

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March 23, 2010 2 Comments