Courses, guides & tutorials
Practical guides and tutorials to off-grid living
WHY GO OFF-GRID?
TWO wonderful things happen when you move from the grid-connected life to an off-grid existence. The first is that you become instantly attuned to the natural w...
Battery Buyer’s Guide — Prices Have Collapsed
There’s a quiet revolution rumbling beneath the surface of the global energy market — and no, it’s not just the hum of your neighbour’s Tesla Powerwall on a sun...
Hawaii treehouse to escape ‘The Matrix’
Robert Breton left his home in California and moved to Hawaii to ‘escape the Matrix’ He bought a plot of land for $29,850 (£24,215) and built his ow...
Be off-grid ready – Power yourself up with this battery-panel combo
If you want to Work From Anywhere, and you need to make sure you never run out of power, then this pairing will allow you a couple of days heavy usage to charge...
Seven Ways to Beat the Blackout this Winter
Homeware stores report a 60% year on year increase in website searches like hot water bottle, candle and flashlight. These are baby steps. You don’t need to bec...
Care-and-Cleaning-of-Natural-Stone—16pages.pdf
AGuide to the Care & Cleaning of Natural Stone Apublication from the Marble Institute of America Marble Institute of America 28901 Clemens Road, Suite 100 ...
Reinventing writing, paper, printing presses after fall of civilization
After the initial trauma of the coronavirus lockdown, one can imagine the ease with which civilization might disintegrate in the face of disaster. In a real end...
Iowa Land Rental Prices Up
An authoritative annual survey of cash rental rates for Iowa farmland, a bellwether for the national market, shows cost per acre have increased, but by no more ...
Digital detox weekend
We’re on our way to West Virginia for a low-tech weekend at promisingly-named Lost River State Park – just across the Virginia border in Mathias, We...
No 1 destination on AirBnB, final few days left unbooked – Yes, its off-grid
Hurry! AirBnB has just announced the world’s most popular getaway — its an off-grid mushroom-shaped shed located in 10 acres of woodlands in Coastal Calif...
Why Off-grid Housing is the Future
Green living has gone beyond being a fad and has become an essential part of modern life. So much so that people nowadays are looking to live off the grid to pu...
Be Our Guest – Food Preserving Part 2
In Part I, I covered canning and smoking as food preservation methods. This article takes a look at refrigeration and dehydration. Freezing and refrigeration is...