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Down to Earth

A skill-sharing weekend for system shifters who want to be first to experience the future (and help bring it about)

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Urban

Rip-off Britain

Power companies ripping us off – big ruckus – same old, same old. Politicians will do nothing about it — they have their noses too deep in the trough.

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Spirit

Simple in the City

First in a series about going off the grid in the city center.

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Energy

$100 barrel looms again

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Renewables, please

OPEC is once again under pressure to boost production ahead of a winter supply crunch in northern Europe. The group decided to hike a small amount, an extra 500,000 barrels of oil a day, as of November. ” We don’t see sufficient evidence that there’s a need [for an output hike],” was how Chakib Khelil, the Algerian energy minister, explained the decision last week. “We still have a meeting [in November] and an extra meeting in December where we could make the right decision,” he added.

The market reacted as if nothing had happened: oil broke through the $80 mark on Thursday night.Speaking in Canada last week, Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, said he saw no fundamental reason why crude prices had breached such levels. “There is a lot of psychology in the price,” he said.

Van der Veer has a point, but he would no doubt admit that the era of cheap oil has been over for some time.

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Off-Grid 101

Great Yarmouth van dwellers targeted

REMAINS OF THE ROMAN CASTLE, BURGH, SUFFOLK..
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Self-employed Richard Thorne amd his family live a simple lifestyle near Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth — they recycle everything, grow their own vegetables and

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Unplugged – Guardian article

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Nick Rosen in his research RV

Thousands of people are choosing to live in homes without mains electricity, gas or water. Are these the eco-townies of the future? The Guardian newspaper today features Nick Rosen’s call for changes to the law to encourage off-grid living. Here is the article in full.

I reckon there are 75,000 people living in nearly 25,000 off-grid homes in the UK. These are homes not connected to mains gas and electricity, water and sewage or even the phone lines that bind the rest of us into a system that wastes energy transporting it around the country, and loses up to 30% of water through leaks.
To get some idea of how many are living this way, I travelled round the UK for most of last year researching a book, How To Live Off-Grid. I met some of the thousands of normal families living this way, in everything from brick houses to yurts.

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