Juliette Smith

Off-Grid 101

Guy Grieve’s survival tips

The story of an ordinary guy who built a cabin in the Yukon in winter and survived

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Mobile

Top tents

A survey of high quality party tents to buy or rent in the UK.

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Land

The Battle of the Benders

The Off-Grid web site is serialising Nick Rosen’s book, “How to live Off-Grid” about his journey round the UK visiting eco-homes. In it he meets survivalists and nimbys, free love hippies and millionaire idealists. This excerpt finds Nick visiting a “bender” community in Devon fighting for planning permission — they bought some land and built a barn and the canvas benders. Their public enquiry has just finished and the residents are awaiting the planning inspector’s decision.

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Water

Big Water

Water, recycling, harvesting, water harvesting, thames water, wasted water, grey water, Thames Water,

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Energy

Microgrids

alternative energy, Ingenia, Berkeley Lab, microgrids, Siemens, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, Chris Marnay,

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Food

Jamie Oliver’s Camper Van Adventure

TV chef Jamie Oliver goes off-grid
TV chef Jamie Oliver to go off-grid alone

So it IS true.

We broke the story TV chef Jamie Oliver ‘s production company denied — and today it was confirmed.

On 24 Feb we announced that Jamie was going to live in a camper van in Italy for his next series. Today he set off on his trip. We wish him well.

Jamie Oliver and wife Jools make a meal of their tearful farewell – as he set off on the six-week cooking tour. The gossip in London’s Primrose Hill is that Jamie is not a happy man. Whether his marriage is truly on the rocks or it is being done for the benefit of the cameras remains to be seen.

Jamie has become a national hero since he reinvented school food, and a knighthood cannot be far off.

Now he will reinvent off-grid cooking. A new TV show will follow Oliver on a trip round Italy in a converted camper van carrying all his kitchen kit.

It is no coincidence at all that Sainsbury’s is overhauling its Italian food range under the single banner of Simply Italian.

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Off-grid living made easy

We will bring you details of job opportunities and advice on every area of off-grid living as well as off-grid books like this one: Eating Off the Grid: Storing & Cooking Food Without Electricity: 1

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Community

Help and advice to get started

Professional help is available whether what you need is advice on which solar panels to buy, or how to build the most eco-friendly and efficient house.

Ecoarc drawing
Drawing of eco house by Ecoarc
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Community

Greenbuild Expo

Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2004 in Portland, Oregon on 10th to 12th November – 3 days of workshops, talks and exhibitions for anyone involved in green building. There’ll also be tours of green buildings.

Exhibition

Fees vary depending on how many events you want to attend.
For more information and registration see the website

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Food

How to grow a vegetable garden

10 easy steps to start a vegetable garden

– Select a good spot for your garden: make sure the soil’s well drained, not too shallow, not too rocky and avoid shady areas. Remember vegetables can be grown on terraces too.

The Garden

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Careers at Halfords

Halfords make bikes, car, outdoors and workshop equipment and motorcycle accessories. They are always recruiting and have a website especially for that: www.halfordscareers.com. Roles range from store manager to IT technician or leading role in the head office. They have a graduate recruitment programme, gforce, for which you just need a degree, in any subject, and ambition to work in buying or marketing.

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Mobile

The coolest trailers

Bicycle trailers are the solution if you’ve got children or are always carrying stuff around. These days, trailers are safe, sleek and practical. Here are the best ones we’ve come across.

Chela
koga myiata’s Chela
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