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.…
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.” …
The meaning of Zero carbon living – 5 tips on how to do it and what are the tax advantages going to be.…
The links you need to build your own multi-machine, and here’s why you might need to do it.…
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.…
BusinessWeek has reported on the hidden problems with solar energy and concluded that power consumption should be as close as possible to the point of production…
Ethical, off-grid holidays walking the route Moses took. Details. The timing is right as a survey reveals 70% of holidaymakers prefer low-impact travel.…
Self-employed Richard Thorne amd his family live a simple lifestyle near Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth — they recycle everything, grow their own vegetables and …
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.…
A leading environmentalist has calculated that walking to the shops …
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.…
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.…
