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Off-Grid 101

Fortune steps tentatively off-grid

A whippoorwill
Birds make great ringtones

Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.This piece from Fortune Magazine sums up the ambivalent relation many of the Blackberry generation have with the grid:

I’M STANDING ON A BLUFF overlooking the Pacific Ocean, writes Stanley Bing. The surf is tremendous. In a field to my right, horses are grazing, munching on grass they pull up a clump at a time. A pleasant, ripping sound of roots being torn from the turf is audible under the crash of the waves as they leap up in curls of spume from the black rocks of the beach.

I am off the grid. This is a phrase I have heard only recently, possibly because it is new, possibly because I am no longer so new and hear things later than I used to. Off the grid. It has a nice feel to it.…

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DANGER from the Grid

Howard Stoate MP
Stoate: fear of frying

Britain edged closer to a ban on house building near high voltage power lines THREE YEARS after it was first announced by the government that this could cause health risks to children.…

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Just green friends

Cameron Diaz and new boyfriend David de Rothschild are an eco-item according to the London Daily Mail…

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Off-Grid 101

Burning man, Green man

As the founders of Burning Man struggle for control of this iconic off-grid anarchist art event, it has been announced that this year�s Burning Man in late August will have an environmental theme.…

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