All you need to go off-grid

December 28, 2014

Wish list

Everyone has a wish list, right? Although one of the secrets to happiness is being contented with what you have, you can still wish for more and better, just as long as those thoughts don’t take over your entire world.

Honestly, I’m pretty contented with my life, I have a place to live, have few and small bills, have a good vehicle to drive, have great family-friends-neighbors and pets… That being said, I do have a wish list, things that could be better-improved or changed, here it is.…

December 28, 2014 No Comments

Community

New Slow City by William Powers

The Slow Movement is slowly becoming mainstream.

Several years ago, William (Bill) Powers, after a decade in international aid work, embarked upon an experiment. He spent a year in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity in a farm in North Carolina, subtitled “off the grid and beyond the American dream”, he wrote a diary in his green-living memoir “Twelve By Twelve”. Now, in New Slow City, Powers decides to up the ante. While it might be easy to craft a simpler life far away from the neuroses of modern-day urban life, is it at all possible to live by the deeper principles of Twelve By Twelve smack-bang in the middle of Manhattan’s obsession with speed?…

December 28, 2014 No Comments