Save the Spike
Sarah Bear – fighting A building where George Orwell once stayed when he wrote “Down and Out in Paris and London” now houses London’s most
How to live cheap
Cash-strapped teacher Kath Kelly claims she has been living on just £1 ($1.70) a day for the past year. And she has written a book
John McCain’s hood ornament
Palin: snakelike advocate of Big Oil Sarah Palin, is a true enemy of the ecological movement. The current Governor of Alaska is also a sharp
Greedy Guelph
Pflug – pulling the plug The local government in the town of Guelph, Ontario is running a campaign against a group of young people living
I lived in a van
After three years living in a van, even a scummy apartment share seemed desireable for this ex-off-gridder
Making homebrew diesel
The UK law allows individuals to make up to 2500 litres per year for personal use, and in the US thousands are making their own fuel every week for a dollar a gallon.
Power from the people
Biodigesters could be installed in every high-rise and turn our human waste into valuable power
Middle class survivalists
As threats grow to our way of life, going off-grid seems like an increasingly logical choice
Urban Sustainability Training
A course on how to live sustainably in the inner city features mushrooms grown in coffee grounds, a fig tree fed by water from a washing machine, and electricity generated by a turbine made of old bicycle parts.
A breakdown of the precise costs of self-building an off-grid, sraw bale, turf roofed house.
Rip-off Britain
Power companies ripping us off – big ruckus – same old, same old. Politicians will do nothing about it — they have their noses too deep in the trough.
50 ways to slash your grocery bill
Join the new spend less revolution. Earn less -spend less – be free – be happy
How to build a free wood-burner
Details on how to make a really efficient stove out of an old water heater.
What if New York….
New York’s Mayor Bloomberg launches competition for best survival designs in event of climate change catastrophe. Rest of world should follow suit.
Carbon gold-rush
UBS bank is hyping carbon capture investments, but nobody understands the science yet.
Wild swimming in the UK
Ten beautiful lakes and ponds where you can swim without fear, and go nudie without shame.
Laurie David and other Econazzis
Hype, all hype Of today’s fashionable causes, the environment is the most fashionable of them all. And no Hollywood activist is more dedicated than Laurie
Your own machine shop
The links you need to build your own multi-machine, and here’s why you might need to do it.
Coming soon – your hab
James and his pod This time next year you could be ordering cardboad accomodation from MyHab. A product design student from the UK won a
Auto dweller denies he
An eccentric Brit living in a Land Rover in New Zealand has denied wild speculation that he is Lord Lucan, the missing peer whose disappearance sparked an international manhunt 20 years ago after the death of his nanny.
How to live a low-carbon life
A leading environmentalist has calculated that walking to the shops
McDonalds switch to used cooking oil
They want your grease After a successful trial in the Netherlands, hamburger chain McDonalds will power all its UK delivery trucks with cooking oil by
How to live off-grid in Manhattan
Descriptions of ways to survive free or very cheap in the most expensive city
Urban Sea of Green
Green Roofs currently sweeping across Europe inverts our spatial perception by taking vegetation from the ground to the rooftops. Aside from their ecological benefits, nobody would deny the aesthetic improvement of replacing an ugly old rooftop with a floral delight
Putting the free into freedom
Here are some eco-product freebie offers you might want to check out�
Borrow this book
Cheap, gipsy, pikey, save money, cheap flight, barter, bargain, martin lewis,
How to drive around America for free
driveaway agency, auto transportation, automobile transportation, www.autodriveaway.com,
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Ditchmonkey, Woodland Trust, Sotheby’s, sleeping rough, nothing,
New Orleans grid destroyed
New Orleans, Entergy, Biloxi, Dominion Virginia Power, Ray Nagin, Entergy, New Orleans Sewage and Water Board, American Planning Association,
“The Gleaners and I” by Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda – Filming is like Gleaning For her documentary, “The Gleaners and I,” French documentary Director Agnes Varda turned her mini DV-camera on an
This story was recycled
Live cheap…live well Here are 101 money-saving ideas for the truly frugal, with thanks to the web site www.allthingsfrugal.com. The list covers every aspect of
Not the North Face There are a hundreds of traders selling fake North Face outdoor gear on E-bay. They will return the money if you
We are all carbon neutral now Marketing firms are cashing in on public concern about the environment to sell PR services rather than solutions. They
Cheap London from A-Z
More for less This is the first in a series about how to get around cheap or free in major cities. Contributors from around the
Buy this book
Save Cash and Save the Planet – buy this book Printed on 100% recycled paper, of course, this book is a refreshingly commercial attempt to
Meet the Reclaimers
Knebworth house, stately salvage Fair Salvage is so now! It’s not only planet-friendly, its also the cool way to cherish off the grid craftsmanship. SALVO
Sleeping in Airports
sleepinginairports.net We have all had to do it at one time or another, and some do it out of choice. Sleepinginairports.net is an essential travel
Giving is not just for Christmas
Beal – giving is “cathartic” RECYCLING is part of the post-consumerism we advocate at Off-grid. But FREE CYCLING goes one better. Freecycle founder Deron Beal
Drive for free, on Used Veggie Oil
Christian drives for free, in his 1980 Mercedes Benz 300 TD. This diesel wagon was converted to run on vegetable oil, and is powered with
Free electricity, from fryer grease
Green Trust, a renewable energy research center, powers their facilities with waste vegetable oil. Their 12.5 kw Detroit Diesel 2-71 generator (the VeggieGen) happily slurps
Cash from Trash
Garbage foraging is not new, but we are here to make it respectable. We had a boost last year when thousands of middle class Argentinian
My free loft in central London
There’s something incredibly exciting about getting into an abandoned building — a huge, disused factory. It gets you right there, you’re scared and a bit
survival is war in this city
I am the very model of a modern hunter-gatherer. Its 7 on a Monday evening. My head’s hanging over a supermarket skip. Behind me, unawares,
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