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Plenitude

Many, including writer Juliet Schor,question the underlying assumptions of the consumerist mentality. She has just written a new book about it – Plenitude: The New

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Daryl’s Travels

Daryl Hannah is on a world tour raising awareness of The Green Wave and the loss of biodiversity in the International Year of Biodiversity. First

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Off-grid Olympians

American Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont — to live in her yurt. “Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees,” she told

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Up in the Air

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

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Medical self-reliance

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

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My Off-grid plan

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

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Top “eco-hotties”

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

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Chia pets or survival food

Remember those silly little Chia Pets? Little did we know then that those strange little seeds painted on those cheesy terracotta pots shaped like animals

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Off-peg

Kate Moss off-grid fashion shoot with crusties in a field – the gypsy boho look – and despite the toe-curling hypocrisy it s a boost for off-gridders

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Grandma goes TEOTWAWKI

I ran across this article today, it’s about a grandmother who has made the active choice to protect herself by prepping for an uncertain future.

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EDF:“Biggest greenwash in corporate history”

French energy company EDF stands accused of ‘Green Jack’, high-jacking the green Union Jack which already belongs to a small eco-energy company in the UK. It is accused of promoting itself as Green, when only 6% of its out put is sourced by renewables.

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Bittersweet sunrise

Ahhh, if only I had a camera that would/could capture the beautiful colors I am seeing right now. I am usually sleeping at this time,

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Save our Mountaintops

Judd PalinThe clean-up crews are slowly moving in to deal with the smoking craters and ecological detritus of the Bush years. The latest teams actress

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Eco Innocence

We are living through a massive extinction of species on Earth The true innocents are the planet’s endangered species.

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Pictures…

…are worth a thousand words, or so they say, I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of myself, I know that when

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3 of 100 things…

…that you may not know about me. … This is a continuation of a list 100 things that you might not know about me. Well,

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Miss Manners

Hey everyone, I have a Miss Manners type of question and would like your honest input. Here’s the situation, I am about to be going

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Mind Games pt 1

If you want to participate in a small experiment and start on the road to improving your mind and body, before you read any more

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End of Consumerism

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has announced the end of the consumer society in a remarkable series of unreported speeches to the business community

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Telecommuting spreads

Telecommuting has multiple benefits including: increased control of your life, improved work-family balance, reduced stress and greater worker retention.

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Telecommuters the norm by 2018

Big companies expect more of their staff to work from home, or sub-contract. There will be no job security, yet employers will have more power, management study forecasts.

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Autobiogeographies

Social mapping and mashups are the next big thing. There are civil liberties worries, but the power of the GPS to find people like you wherever you go is too great to ignore.

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The Land

The immortal song by Woody Guthrie is about to become the anthem for a new generation of dispossessed.

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DANGER from the Grid

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

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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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Jessica Alba – secretly green?

Jessica Alba’s two new films have apparently persuaded the actress to embrace her green side. In the Fantastic Four sequel, The Rise of the Silver Surfer, Alba will be driving a Hybrid car � the �batmobile� of the Fantastic foursome, Fantasticar. In Good Luck Chuck, she’s a dolphin trainer. She’s also a fan of cult organic labelsLush, 1921 Premium Denim and Levi’s ethically-made jeans.

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Orlando Bloom’s Epiphany

Orlando Bloom is taking time out from acting to study Buddhism, and he is building a nearly off-grid home in London at the same time. Orlando says he needs time to reflect on what�s going on in his life. He embraced Buddhism after a break-up, and says it helped ease the pain after the four-year relationship ended.

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I Feel Free re-release

Cream – Songs of Freedom Classic Rock band Cream have re-released their hit song “I Feel Free” after 35 years. Its not exactly an anthem

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Here be Unicorns

Moonrise Photographer Colin Prior, who took this photograph says: I am fascinated by the fleeting nature of the optical phenomena I observe outdoors, such as

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Be your own Yes-Men in 3 steps

The Yes-Men got international coverage when one of them impersonated a spokesman for Dow Chemicals and announced a multi-billion dollar compensation settlement for the people

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Pod Life

Off-Grid loves any excuse to kick back and enjoy the view, and design team The Collaborators have made it possible to do that just about

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All White Now

https://www.off-grid 200W Portable Power Station, Powkey 120Wh/33,000mAh Power Bank with AC Outlet, 110V 6 Outputs Solar Generator External Battery Pack with LED Light for Home

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Sports sandals

In the past couple of years, sports sandals have grown up, evolving from cousin of the flip-flop to globetrotting year-round shoe. 200W Portable Power Station,

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Organic Week

Organic Week 4th to 12th September all across the UK. Events include the Organic fair in Bristol on 4th and 5th Sept, discounts on organic

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Walk the walk

Walking is the simplest of all off-grid experiences. Visit a site dedicated to walking. We-walk.com is a collective of artists, surfers and travellers who post

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