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Success of smash hit play Jersualem has focused minds on off-grid themes in a way no other medium could. now it transfers from London to Broadway…
April 18, 2010
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Success of smash hit play Jersualem has focused minds on off-grid themes in a way no other medium could. now it transfers from London to Broadway…
A former soft porn writer and her film director husband have developed “a passion for living off-grid after three years in the middle of the African desert,” reports The Daily Express.
British-born film director Matt Aeberhard and his wife Melanie Finn spent three years living in a stone house formerly occupied by missionaries on a hilltop in the Tanzanian wilderness to make Disneynature’s first and documentary about flamingos,Crimson Wing. 
American Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont — to live in her yurt. “Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees,” she told People magazine “and I love it there.
“I helped my parents get solar power this past year, and I’ll be running on solar and hopefully wind power with my yurt so I can be completely off the grid.”
Meanwhile, Olympic gold medalist skateboarder Shaun White says he is anxious to return to his 1969 Volkswagen Van.
Hannah Teter, however, is the off-grid flavor of the month.…
George Clooney’s starring role in “Up in the Air” is a movie about a special class of off-gridder – the business traveller – living in a peculiarly amoral world, of airports, corporate hotel rates and frequent flier cards. George Clooney plays a smooth-suited consultant whose job is firing people at a time when downsizing is the fastest growing industry in the US. “We take people at their most fragile and we set them adrift,” says Clooney’s character.
Directed by Jason Reitman, the hero of Up in the Air inhabits an entirely new state: Airworld, where the hometown paper is USA Today, the laptop-plus-executive-lounge is the office, a mobile phone is the only permanent friend, the indigenous cuisine wilts under heat lamps, and the citizenry speaks a Byzantine dialect of upgrades, expense accounts, and market share.…
by Susan France Bonner, Author of Opening a Registered Nurse’s Eyes: A Life Altering Journey Across North America.
The health care debate in the United States of America has reached critical mass. Over 16 years as a Registered Nurse with a Bachelors Degree, I have seen first hand the problems as well as the possible solutions.
The problem for affordable health care is “government involvement” and the solution is called “personal responsibility”. Let me give ya’all some background on the United States health care system.…
Sit, flush and forget, that’s what most of us do, multiple times a day. Composting toilets are the answer.
We use perfectly good, drinkable water to flush our waste — what a waste it truly is! After we flush, we don’t think about all the water that is used/wasted to process the sewage that is created, chemicals are pumped into our water system, the water we DRINK, so that we can do it all over again.
I’m starting to sound pretty green aren’t I?…
A new report from Environment America names power stations as the biggest polluters in the US. It lists the dirtiest facilities and the dirtiest states.…
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;…
What we have to learn from Cuba about self-medicine – when the oil runs out it will be needed…
Tracey Emin and Simon Cowell flaunt their wealth – are they out of step with the times or are we still living in the greedy 80s?…
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.…
NBC sports has come out with an appalingly sexist story naming its choice of the top “sexy and green” twitteristas.
The list of female tweeters with their Twitter addresses range from an LA socialite to a British anti-corporate campaigner.
Kelly Drennan, @ecofashionista
Ecofashion activist and founder of Fashion Takes Action
Location: Toronto
Sample Tweet:
RT @SUGARMOONSALON: Body Sugaring: 100% natural, no double dip, no strips, completly sanitary, prevent ingrown hairshttps://bit.ly/18wE83
Sheila V. Flores, @EcoGlamourista
The latest in sustainable fashion, beauty and lifestyle.
Location: New York City…
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