Events
News and events about renewable energy and green living.
Nine last minute DIY Christmas gifts
In this last weekend just before Christmas, some of us are still behind on gifts, and often there are extra friends, family and such who would appreciate a hear...
The Christmas rush has begun…
Unless you are blind and deaf or live under a very large rock, you are probably being bombarded with Christmas ads on TV, radio, internet, in the stores and suc...
Welsh planners’ double standards
The Welsh institute of town planners has awarded its top prize to a newly built off-grid home. Meanwhile Welsh planners decline applications from hundreds of of...
First time was because of fire, this time it was the ice…
I just spent 3 days in my neighborhood, AND the 3 surrounding towns without power. Well, WE had power, our little sky castle, but everyone else (of those on gri...
Water harvesting event
San Diego Permaculture and the Sky Mountain Institute will host the 2013 San Diego Permaculture Convergence, Nov. 9-10, aimed at showing how to harvest rainwate...
Let There Be Dark
On October 27th the lights will go out. Imagine 10 days of a catastrophic blackout across the United States. No cell phone service, no ATM withdrawals, no worki...
Off-Grid amongst the power lines
Family “living the dream” want to exchange their freedom for stonking electricity bill...
US shutdown hits thousands of off-grid homes
The National Park Service(NPS) issued a warning last week to all people residing in its parks and campgrounds, in RVs in the backcountry, or on houseboats in go...
Naked and afraid on the island from hell
There is a moment on the Discovery Channel’s new reality show, “Naked and Afraid,” when Alison Teal and the survivalist ex-Marine she was pair...
At last – Welsh govt welcome eco-home
Wales has been saying for years that it wants more environemntally freindly buildings – trouble is they keep on rejecting the planning applictions made fo...
Bilderberg Agenda 2013
The Bilderberg Group (meeting in the UK currently) operated completely in secret for two decades after it was founded in 1954, bringing together the most powerf...
‘The East’ – movie premieres
X Men star Ellen Page is co-star opposite Arbitrage actress Brit Marling in new espionage thriller The East, which was produced and co-written by 29-year-old Br...