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Top govt advisor attacks Big Power
One of the most important attacks on the power industry ever made by a serving politician…
October 30, 2009
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One of the most important attacks on the power industry ever made by a serving politician…
Treetop Jen has returned home to the UK, and now she is wondering how to reshape her life.
Aim: to live off-grid in the back of a minibus, simply parked in a ‘normal’ town, with a job in the charity sector, still part of ‘normal’ society.
WHY? Hmmm…where to begin?
Well – like most people, I have spent some of my time in life pondering on the future; imagining how my life may turn out & how I might feel in each of the imagined outcomes.
I also spent (& still spend) time observing my others’ lives around me as they currently are. These two activities left me less & less inclined to live in an ‘ordinary’ house with a mortgage & equally less willing to rent accommodation; …
Biomass is freedom for a village that has ceased to pay any bills for power or heat…
Federal grants for stoves can cover 30% of the $3000 cost, and there is much more you need to know before making a choice…
Click to buy There is too much information around about how to go green. Many are left wondering who to trust and just how they can individually make a difference.
Every day we make hundreds of small choices that can influence our future and the planet’s. …
Public meeting at Denver Art Museum to discuss role of micro-nuclear in small eco communities…
The provision of off-grid charging services such as solar mobile phones or external solar chargers could bring mobile operators a market opportunity of $2.3 billion in emerging markets, according to research commissioned by the GSMA’s Green Power for Mobile (GPM) programme.
It was always ironic that the actor who played oil tycoon JR in Dallas, himself lived in an off-grid home in California. But no longer. Larry Hagman and his wife Maj are about to list their longtime mountaintop home near LA for $11 million.…
China has taken significant strides in the past fortnight on the long march to making its economy sustainable. President Hu has priomised to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in energy use to around 15 percent by 2020.…
I typically do reviews on eBooks, but a while back I was contacted by James Ballou to do a review of a hard copy, Makeshift Workshop Skills for Survival and Self-Reliance, published by Paladin Press. Of course I was thrilled to review his book; honestly I had seen it previously and had been interested in reading it, so I jumped at the chance. It turns out that my instincts were correct, this is a great and useful book!…
Some time back, I did a review of LaMar’s Simple Solar Homestead, a great (and inexpensive) ebook created by LaMar, the great thing about LaMar, is he is actually LIVING this lifestyle, not just spouting theory.…
Europe’s first Earthship off-grid ecohome is up for sale. …
