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EPA $1m to Colleges for off-grid research
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded more than $1 million in grants to 15 university and college teams for innovative off-g...
Future high-end homes
Los Angeles, the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the California Institute of Technology are running a poster child for a new generation of sma...
Searching for community, family or couple that lives off-grid
Filming to start in September 2012...
Powering your cell phone
I know, I know – how do you call yourself off the grid when you have a cell phone so rooted to your ear that you would need surgery to remove it? Whatever...
Australia falling for Earthship marketers
Boasting an outer shell made of stacked car tyres packed with earth, an Earthship claims to be a cutting-edge, sustainable green home made from recycled materia...
Doomsday business is booming
Be it the Mayan prophecy, Peak Oil or Global flooding, there is big money in the coming collapse...
A day in the life of snoops and corporate marketers
Your every move is diced and dissected, repackaged and resold by electronic spies embedded in all our lives...
Urban Danger
“Civil unrest could be a very high probability,” says a ten-term US congressman from Maryland. “….those who understand, need to take adv...
BG & E – you can kiss my gasstove
Baltimore woman goes off-grid after her power bill doubles...
In an Emergency, do I head for country or city?
The conventional wisdom is that if the system breaks down for reasons of economic collapse, or some sudden natural disaster, then the best place to be is the co...
Australian off-grid home design
Its not quite a McMansion, as its appearance is too distinctive, but is this $500,000 home a case of greenwash, or just naive?...