Self-Sufficiency
News and guides on how to be self-sufficient and live off the grid.
Pellet Power: Fossil-Fuel-Free Heating
A clean, cheap and carbon neutral way to heat your home – sounds good. Its a reality for thousands of families and businesses in Europe and North America....
The Road to Self-Reliance
American families have been going off-grid for more than forty years, but for most it’s a gradual process, involving a lot of learning by trial and error. In a ...
Regenerating the Eco-village
Self-sustaining communities that can talk to each other; sounds like something from the future doesn’t it? But Regen Villages is making this a reality – right n...
Try Out Ecovillage Life
Want to test out living off-grid but don’t want to do it alone? If you have $6000 to spare you can by taking part in the Permaculture and Ecovillage Immersion E...
Return of the Scottish Hut
If you fancy buying an inexpensive off-grid getaway in Europe – try Scotland. The government announced changes to their building regulations early this ye...
What happened to PB?
There are some things that can be (or look) fun about living off-grid, but there are many things that are less attractive, but still have to be done. One of tho...
James Wesley Rawles followers grow in NW USA
The Economist newspaper ran the foilowing report on the growth of survivalism in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana: A movement of staunch conservatives and doomsday-wa...
Staying warm in the cold weather
As I sit here next to the wood burning stove, I am cozy warm inside of the SkyCastle. The temps are dropping and we just might have our first real cold snap of ...
No I’m knot kidding
Knots, everyone needs to know how to tie different kinds of knots, whether you are living off-grid, or in the big city, it’s a handy thing to know. I a wo...
Heard of a Walker stove?
Me neither, but once I discovered it, I am definitely intrigued, it takes the best of rocket stove, thermal mass heaters, masonry heaters and the such puts it t...
Auroville, the Utopia next door
Imagine a place free from politics, religion and money. People from every background, of all ages, living in unity and self-sufficiency. The food that yo...
Doomsday retailer
Meet Scott Hunt, also known as Engineer775 on his Youtube channel where he gives expert reviews for National Geographic’s reality TV show, Doomsday Prepp...