Off-Grid 101

Off-Grid 101

Mel Gibson goes off-grid

Mel GIbson and Oscar Arias
Mel’s Costa Rica welcome

Mel Gibson is about to head off-grid on a remote $12m, 400 acre ranch in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 300 miles from capital, San Jose. Gibson, who achieved Hollywood stardom playing a detective in the Lethal Weapon series, is still serving probation following his arrest for drinkdriving, during which he unleashed an anti-Semitic tirade on a policewoman

“Mel loves the country, ” a source told the London Express newspaper. “He’s planning to live there for much of the year.”…

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Energy

Zero carbon living

The meaning of Zero carbon living – 5 tips on how to do it and what are the tax advantages going to be.…

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Land

The Battle of the Benders

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.…

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Off-Grid 101

Great Yarmouth van dwellers targeted

REMAINS OF THE ROMAN CASTLE, BURGH, SUFFOLK..
Burgh Castle 1818

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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Off-Grid Launches YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/offgridnick contains videos of people living off-grid in the Uk. We are building a library of off-grid video from around the world. Please send us yours.…

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Community

Big Green Apple

If you can green it here you can green it anywhere. The NY Green Fest will include advice on how to build a small wind turbine, bake in an earth oven, build a green roof, practice permaculture, live job free, build local food networks, practice liberation ecology, build new media outlets, and use third party politics to effect social change.

Two off-grid pioneers, Steve Nicholson from Ithaca and Tony Moretti from Hammondsport will offer advice on living off-the-grid.…

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Off-Grid 101

Greening the second home

When weekenders arrive from the city it can often spell doom for the local rural community and the local environment A group of cottages in Canada provide a model for future off-grid second homes.…

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Land

Setback in Wales as planners reject off-grid house

Tony and Jane Wrench
Wrenches – they’ll never give up

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.…

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