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Top tents

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

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Luciano Benetton’s eco-yacht

Preview of life aboard Luciano Benetton’s new yacht, which has won the first ever yachting green star for eco excellence at the Monaco Boat show.…

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Zero-carbon car

The Auto industry could perfectly well build a zero-carbon car tomorrow. Author Bill Kemp shows them how.…

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How to get free broadband

After the arrest of a man for piggybacking on a neighbor’s Internet broadband, we are compiling a list of all known “war surfing” hot-spots worldwide. All readers are invited to add to the list by going as quickly as possible to the Off-Grid forum.…

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Beach huts on Albanian Riviera

Qeparo Beach, Albania
Hurry – get your beach hut here

A holiday on the Albanian Riviera may sound like Europe’s final frontier but a recent article by Benji Lanyado in The Guardian, found beautiful empty coves,…

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No-one killed the electric car

A new electric car aims to change the way cars are made, sold, owned, and driven, plus reinvent the economics of batteries and even the business model of the electric grid itself.…

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Commuter scooter

Folded electric scooter
getting there

If you commute to work in a city, then the scooters in our online store could be help take part of your life off-grid.

The scooters have engines ranging from 100W to a gob-smacking 750W, can take you from 8mph to over 20mph for up to 30miles! They are perfect for the everyday commute, and for errands that are too far to walk but not far enough to take a car.

There are several varieties in our store, something to fit every budget – here’s just one example,…

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Motorhome facts

The Motorhome facts web site has a listing of wild camping sites in Europe. Interview with its founder David Burley.…

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(Another) Long Way Round

Last week, Ewan McGregor announced his second motorcycle trip. He�s due to set off in the next couple of weeks � and this time the journey will take him from Edinburgh to Cape Town.…

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Grease me up

I started working toward converting my car to run on vegetable oil over a year ago. My 1992 Jetta can burn vegetable oil as well as regular diesel fuel; its engine is based on a design by Rudolph Diesel first shown in Paris in 1905, and slightly modified to run on a petroleum product we call diesel, rather than the peanut oil his engine originally used.…

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