Farmland price surge leads to even more demand
BOSTON, March 19 (Reuters) – As a teenager in Wisconsin, Perry Vieth spent his summers baling hay in a neighbor’s field. Four decades later, Vieth
Space Travellers offered new options
The cheapest land, unspoilt environment, cheap energy,but the gas bills are huge
Land in Hungary and Romania
Austrian farmers are buying cheap land as fast as they can, but there are 10 million hectares to go, mainly in smallholdings across the country.
Choosing Land for your off-grid home
Buying land means foreseeing problems with water, septic and solar or wind power. Cheap land may not be a bargain if you need to truck in water
Seven million foreclosures in US
buying cheap land and living self-sufficient is the best revenge
For sale: Off-Grid home in Eire
Green Valley Properties, a rural property specialist in Ireland, is selling a fully equipped off-grid property in Co Clare for just €99,000. GVP is a
British family outwits the planners
A family in England who built a home in the woods without planning permission which remained undetected for four years have won the right to
What if you lose your off-grid haven?
Billionaires go off-grid too – this private island is the ultimate luxury bug-out location
New way to use Containers as homes
There are plenty of shipping containers being used as homes, some stacked one on top of the other, some just laid out lengthways on a
Better believe it: $80,000 per home in Ontario
Entire mixed use development that is both off-grid and geared towards low-to modest-income people
For sale: entire French village – suit large off-grid community… just $430,000
Buyers have until Friday to put in for the village, 30 miles from the city of Limoges
Scotland moves to revive Hutting
Grassroots campaign to allow off-grid cabins as retreats for urbanites
Planners pass Katie Price live-in garden shack
Slapper-turned-model gets permission to live in grounds to look after her horses
An overview of the last 4 years living off-grid
This December will be 4 years for us living 100% off-grid, I can tell you it’s been quite the adventure, my only regret is that
Utility companies “sick with greed”
lawsuits against National Grid and Verizon over outrageous charges for moving utility lines and poles
Homesteading-book review
Homesteading, it’s a buzzword that means different things to different people, back in the day, it meant getting land for free as long as you
Sold my Life, Bought an Island
off the coast of Bocas del Toro, in north-west Panama, he is now master of his own Universe
Block power lines across the Everglades
Just a few days to put in your comments and influence the decision
How to live on Land without Residential Planning Permission
Here is a summary of the rules and how to get around them
Seeking: ideal off-grid location. Offering: first edition of “Walden”
looking for a south-facing, gently sloping, wooded five acres, with a creek, a couple hours from a big airport, and with nice neighbors. West Virginia is my favored area.
Going off-grid in Ecuador – join me!
Over 600 acres untouched virgin land. Natural springs, waterfalls, streams, abundant pasture, forests, mountains
Let him live in peace!
Would not clear the weeds from his land, so it was done for him and he was charged $71,000. Now home siezed to pay bill
“This land is your land…” if your name is Malone or Turner
Media Titan John C. Malone, is completing on nearly one million acres of timberland in Maine, and could soon overtake Ted Turner to become the largest private landowner in the United States.
Off The Grid in Oklahoma
Just getting started on my project. We have twenty acres down on the Salt Fork of the Oklahoma Red River. The view is worth all
Indiana zoning battle
72-year-old Dick Thomson “not sanitary” because he does not have a sewer nor running water
Small house, big movement
Americans have overhoused themselves for decades. Now they are buying or building small homes that could fit inside a living room
Home insurance for remote or seasonal properties
Seasonal properties in more remote areas with no caretaker cost more to insure – another reason to do without
Off-Grid updates
My off-grid life is more enjoyable and more fulfilling than just about any part of my old life – living in the city, working 2
How to avoid foreclosure
Most who cannot afford their mortgage might think, “well, I can’t afford a lawyer either.” Its OK, you don’t need one
Bottle Island – copy this idea where you can
New island is made of 120,000 plastic bottles
Small is the new big
One of our readers commented recently “It’s sad that municipalities force people into huge homes, by refusing to let people build small homes. It’s all about the money (taxes) that they want to rake in.”
Foreclosures grinding to a halt – for now
One of America’s leading banks says it will freeze foreclosures in 23 States because of dishonest paperwork
Greek Islands for sale
The world is waking up to the potential sales of thousands of tiny Greek islands as bug-out locations or even permanent residences. Off-Grid.net first reported
No Math Island
Denise de la Cerda lives off the grid out of choice. I visited her during my research trip writing Off the Grid: Inside the Movement
Service charges for off-grid buildings
SEATTLE (AP) – Why should off-gridders pay the same rate for County services as those who are on the grid? King County in Washington State
Off-grid real estate, Phoenix
On March 13, 2010, bidders will have a rare chance to acquire Vulture Ranch, a sprawling 80 acre compound, and “an absolute jewel among Arizona
Time to buy an island
The Greek government is being urged to sell its uninhabited islands to bail itself out of bankruptcy, and the UK is likely to find itself
Real Estate, Cincinnati
Talks are afoot in Hamilton County about building what could be the first subdivision in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky that is completely off the grid.
US Embassy in London to be off-grid ready
For decades the residents of elite Grosvenor Square in London’s Mayfair had to contend with overbearing security along the entire side of the square occupied
Off-Grid HQ in UK
If you want to go off the grid in the UK, Pembrokeshire is where its at. It now has recognised over 50 off-grid homes. Officials
Off-Grid update
What a great early Christmas gift, I know that to those who get snow every winter, it’s not that exciting, but for those of us
Sanyo’s packaged life off-grid
Sanyo is has started producing homes that go off-grid at the flick of a switch
Shoestring Survivalism – book review
This is the third book I received from Paladin Press to review. I appreciate the chance to read and review these books, I have enjoyed
LaMar’s Simple Solar Homesteading videos
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,
French Earthship for sale at less than cost
Europe’s first Earthship off-grid ecohome is up for sale.
Clochemerle in Quebec
Vicious battle over wind farm in rich Quebec village being manipulated by the power company to overcome opposition
Eco-McMansion in Aspen
Luxury home in ski resort is fitted with all latest green gadgetry
Insurance boost for off-grid homes
New eco-law will make it much easier to get a mortgage on an off-grid home
The new-old way to cook / book review / video
Retained Heat CookingHave you heard about hot box, hay box or cook box cooking? It’s the new-old way to cook that saves energy, improves flavor
Alive and well-updates
Alive and wellHere is an update on what has been going on in our off-grid life. I know I haven’t written in a while, I
We’ve come a long way baby
I’ve been going back over the first pictures we took of our cabin, before it was renamed the sky castle, it’s hard to believe we
Our 4th of July Weekend
Moving to energy Independence. Starting to build our off-grid home.
Updates and the new shed
Here’s an update on what has been going on with us. Things have been going pretty well, we have been living here, 100% off-grid for
Now Dreyfuss gets off-grid ready
Unexpected Celeb Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss and his wife Svetlana Erokhin plan to go off the power grid. They have started work on a new
DIY laundry soap – video
Today I made another batch of laundry soap. I had ran out about a month ago, I was using the leftover powdered store bought soap,
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Rocket Stove Video
Rocket stoves, have you heard about them? If you have then I’m preaching to the choir, if you haven’t, then it’s high time you learned
No home loan with no utilities
Lenders are unwilling to finance off-grid homes – even though they are greener and cheaper than any other kind of home – the government should underwrite off-grid home financing
Ready for the crash
Fast growth in simplifying life – trend to homesteading is on the increase
Soilcrete
It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on what we are doing on the cabin, so this time I’ll write about concrete, or
Ex-strawdinary
All women building firm gets contract for UK’s first straw council houses
Simple Solar Homesteading Book Review
Before our big move off the grid, I did a lot of research to learn everything I could about living off-grid. I used the internet
Off-Grid – On The Cheap
It seems that the “green” (or brown) movement is growing faster and faster. It used to be the realm of unwashed hippies, tree huggers and
UK forests & rivers may be sold
Buy banks, sell forest and river – that’s the message coming from British Treasury. Its important for hopes of off-grid communities
Fight to halt power line
Power company forces lines across land of eco-couple who do not have power and do not want it
“Brainless” council bans eco-house
Historic off-grid home in UK beauty spot is banned by right wing bureaucrats on a technicality
NY Times features Eco-RVers
NY Times salivates over big ticket “eco” vehicles. Been there,done that…..
CBS Morning show features Earthships
CBS implies the Earthship movement is a weird hippy cult, but still gives them plenty of prime-time.
Harrelson’s Hawaii haven
Woody Harrelson lives in an off-grid community in Maui – description and interview
Green rules for real people
Forget anything you ever read about how to green your house. Forget fancy gizmos or weird materials. Here is the real deal:
The Goldman Sachs eco-system
Millionaires are snapping up billions of acres – entire eco-systems – to feed their ennui – should we be pleased or angry?
Memo from Turner
Laura: did she really need 5000 ft? Welcome to EcoManor, built in Atlanta by Ted Turner’s daughter. At 5,000 square feet its about as eco
Diggers for Dreamers
A new off-grid house designed by top UK architect Bill Dunster hopes to set new standards for Britain’s eco homes.
Grow your own food, make your own fuel
Off-grid has been covering the Dervaes family’s eco lifestyle in Pasadena for years. Now the family is becoming famous – they are California’s leading off-grid ambassadors.
Eco second homes
Eco homes of interest as second homes and also to internet connected home/office workers
Short, Interesting Article
Are they talking about me??? How about you? I don’t know if I agree with everything they say, but the bigger truth is evident, being
Reinventing the nation state
A group aims to create a series of floating island states to pioneer 21st century social systems. And they have the money to carry out their goal.
Life in the outback
As Melbourne power grid collapses, Australians are learning the benefits of self-sufficiency
Garbage Warrior A Must See
Before seeing the movie of Michael Reynolds’ fight to be able to build his Earthships in New Mexico I wasn’t to sure what to think
The great housing swindle
Why its hard to get permission for an off-grid home in the UK, and what to do about it.
REGREEN when you ReModel
Starting in March 2008 those of us who wish to remodel, rehab, or gut either part or our entire existing homes now have a program
Eco-Homes for Baby Boomers
Now Baby Boomers are retiring, they are demanding ethical retirement communities to match their self-image.
A breakdown of the precise costs of self-building an off-grid, sraw bale, turf roofed house.
Make Your Landscaping Green
Green or natural landscaping ,also known as native gardening , is when you use indigenous plants in your residential or commercial landscaped gardens. These plants