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Into the Wild

Interviews with Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch about the morality and meaning of their new movie plus plot details of this off-grid journey across America.…

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Green Billionaires

Tulsi, Richard Branson, Zac Goldsmith, John Doerr, Ted Turner, Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, Luciano Benetton, Vincent Tzchenguiz,…

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Life in a Dome

Kibbutz Lotan in Israel has already achieved what the governments of New York and London have recently aspired to – a working eco-neighbourhood. In this exclusive article, two residents, Sheera Cipilinski and Ryan Gluckman, describe their setup.…

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Thomas Dolby goes off-grid

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Singing the off-grid song

Synth-pop and music-technology icon Thomas Dolby will shortly embark on a new album project, recorded totally off the grid…

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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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Home Depot’s solar deal spurned on net.

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Reputational issues

BP Solar this week tried to take us a step closer to mass-market off-grid living. The solar energy giant announced the availability of its home Solar kits through Home Depot stores in the metropolitan Denver and Boulder, Colorado, areas. The program enables customers to purchase complete, installed solar electric home power systems. Problem is, the notoriously bad service at Home Depot will deter many thousands of potential customers.

The service offers a licensed solar professional who visits you at home to assess your electricity needs and give a free consultation but the net is crawling with complaints about the outside experts provided by Home Depot.…

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Campaign for off-grid planning permission

The UK Government’s planning White Paper is mainly aimed at forcing through large national infrastructure projects like airports and power stations, but it represents a unique opportunity to bring in an off-grid category of planning permission, which would allow another 25,000 homes a year to be built off-grid.…

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