Green Party attack central power
The UK Green manifesto promises major redistribution of income and less reliance on centralised power.…
April 17, 2010
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The UK Green manifesto promises major redistribution of income and less reliance on centralised power.…
If you cannot wait until Earth Hour on 27 March to switch off power in your house, try making this weekend your Power Off Weekend. That is what a group in the UK are doing. The Power Off movement chooses random weekends to switch off all power (yes, including the freezer), and play games by candlelight.
“Power Off is all about having time to have fun, play games, talk to people, have friends and neighbours round, spend time with your children,” says Malcolm, who has started the Touchwood project in the Orkneys to popularise the idea. Of course if you turn off the power in the Orkneys at night, then it gets really dark, unlike London. But the freezer wont melt in a single weekend because its normally too cold.…
On March 13, 2010, bidders will have a rare chance to acquire Vulture Ranch, a sprawling 80 acre compound, and “an absolute jewel among Arizona real estate” locals claim. Opening bid is only $250,000.
Just 60 miles northwest of Phoenix, Vulture Ranch is a self-contained, off the grid Arizona real estate complex on the Sonoron Desert. It’s highlight is a nearly 5,000 square foot 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom main house and features four guest suites and two cottages. Vulture Ranch has a large reception hall, opening onto a perfectly landscaped courtyard. It’s a rare find on the real estate auction market.…
The company recently raised $5m, a step forward in its aim to become a major corporate player in the solar panel market. But this tiny start up is making some inflated claims.
1BOG sounds to British ears like a good name for a toilet. …
Ecobuild has become the most important building exhibition in the UK.Off-grid picks its favourite products.…
American Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont — to live in her yurt. “Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees,” she told People magazine “and I love it there.
“I helped my parents get solar power this past year, and I’ll be running on solar and hopefully wind power with my yurt so I can be completely off the grid.”
Meanwhile, Olympic gold medalist skateboarder Shaun White says he is anxious to return to his 1969 Volkswagen Van.
Hannah Teter, however, is the off-grid flavor of the month.…
A new but still unseen fuel cell technology that its creator claims can be an off-grid source of cheap energy, and clean power, is about to get its formal debut
Because we live off the grid, people seem to think we live in a shack without modern conveniences. Totally not true, but we do have to be frugal with our energy usage. On sunny days, we can turn on all sorts of appliances at the same time, allowing me to vacuum and wash clothes while we brew coffee, heat stuff in the microwave, watch TV, and surf the Web.…
The world’s first walking home set off on vacation early this morning. The box-like dwelling which uses six hydraulic legs powered by solar panels left the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge UK where it has lived for the last 18 months, bound for an arts festival in Essen, Germany.
Meanwhile in the virtual world, a British design company in cahoots with industrial giant Samsung unveiled a film of a “revolutionary transport system’” it calls ‘Aircruise’ –a solar-powered air-born luxury hotel.…
…..Lou Reed sang the song; now he has gone back to the wilderness.
The archteypal New York heroin rocker,Reed,together with his wife, performance artist Laurie Anderson, has bought land in upstate New York. She has taken up farming, and he is into nature photography.
A show of Lou Reed’s photos opened last month in Wichita Falls.
Reed, 67, former lead singer of the Velvet Underground, has rediscovered the ethereal, ephemeral beauty of nature in his photographs, but with a kind of avant garde sensibility.…