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Six homes foreclosed after being illegally connected to utilities. Will be sold grid-free.…
September 13, 2007
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Six homes foreclosed after being illegally connected to utilities. Will be sold grid-free.…
House building eco-kits are the perfect way to combine sustainability with lower unit costs, says leading eco-architect Bill Dunster…
Its a long, long way from the five eco-towns Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised the people when he assumed office, but the site of Britain…
An off-grid community in Devon – has won temporary planning (zoning) permission after a long battle against wealthy local residents.
The group of 16 people, featured in Nick Rosen’s book, How to Live Off-grid, paid just…
Plans are afoot to prepare a $10m eco-palace” as a wedding gift for Prince Charles son Prince William,and his fiancee Kate Middleton. As they holiday in a tiny island int he Seychelles, the palace in Wales is being fitted with a range of eco-features.…
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.…
The first test of a new policy to promote off-grid housing in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire has ended with a defeat for Tony and Jane Wrench who built a roundhouse in a beautiful field ten years ago and have been fighting the planning authorities ever since.
The Pembrokeshire planners decided earlier this month that the hobbit-style home is not suitable for the area, even though it is built entirely of natural materials and uses renewable energy and rainwater. The application for retrospective planning permission was declined on the grounds it could not make a positive environmental contribution and has an adverse impact on the semi-natural habitats in this location. The officers also stated that the development cannot meet the basic needs of the applicants in the long term, because of the yield from the woodland.…
Listing of this year’s top 10 plus interview with Dr. Beach himself.…
Recently I took the boys on their first wild camping trip on Dartmoor, writes Electric Kevin on his blog. I had picked Postbridge as a good location for mix of open moor, forest and stream. How wrong could I have been ! We pitched by a wooded area and had started our fire, the boys had been running around excitedly for about an hour making noise as excited 8 year-olds are want to do. I was startled by the sound of a 4×4 being driven furiously towards us via a track from the woods – it skidded to a halt by our tent and the middle-aged driver was apoplectic, “You can’t camp here –…
If you missed the 60s, you can now buy the wisdom, and the t-shirts, neatly repackaged.…
A California company has introduced a solar powered wireless internet router.…
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