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Interview: Remote, exurban homesteaders in Alaska
Mark Zeiger has been living with his family in an off-grid homestead in Alaska for over a decade . This is episode 2 of our interview. In this film: What are hi...

Eviction Notice for Amish Family Living Without Electricity
An Amish family in Wisconsin woke up one morning last week with an eviction notice on their front door. It was for refusing to fit a smoke detector in their off...

Earthship project on CNN
The divisive figure of Mike Reynolds of Earthship Biotecture, has been in the press again, this time on CNN. His company built 15 off-grid cliff-top homes in Ta...

Off-Grid living on British TV
Channel 5, the smallest UK channel, is featuring a British off-grid family next month as part of a series which usually visits pioneers around the world. The sh...

Stuck in for 3 days
Earlier this week, I only worked Monday and Tuesday, I had an unexpected “vacation” after that. On my way home Tuesday, I passed through a storm, a ...

Sold up and gone to Crete
Artist and carpenter Julienne Dolphin Wilding has recently sold her flat in Kings Cross and bought land in Crete. She shipped out all her possessions in a 20 fo...

How the Do It Yourself World came to be
Several years back, I found a YouTube channel featuring Troy and his Do It Yourself World, he posted videos about going off-grid on the smallest of budgets, I s...

Australian off-grid hero
Go back a few years and the media loved to laugh at people who went off the grid. Increasingly journalists wish they could be doing it themselves. Take this sto...

UK Channel 4 new off-grid show — secrets revealed
The Cyber Security firm behind a new Channel 4 show has revealed some of the secrets behind the series in which volunteers try to avoid being found by the show&...

Underground housing guru
How many of you remember Mike Oehler and his “$50 & Up Underground House Book“? I have a copy of this book and if I didn’t already live i...

The Lilypad
The Lilypad, love the name, love the home, it’s one of the cutest tiny homes I’ve seen, I know I say that a lot, but it’s the truth, each one ...


