Urban
Strategies for resourceful living
10 ways to beat the Depression of 2008
This is what to expect Off-gridder Lamar has researched the great depression and “gleaned much info from my parents that lived through it” to come u...
Coping with the downturn
How two ordinary families are struggling, and failing, to overcome the US credit crunch...
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 inventive and d...
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 about it. Miss Kelly, 47, ate...
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 and dangerous adver...
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 off the grid. A ...
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 g...
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...