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All women building firm gets contract for UK’s first straw council houses …
February 13, 2009
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All women building firm gets contract for UK’s first straw council houses …
Before our big move off the grid, I did a lot of research to learn everything I could about living off-grid. I used the internet as my main source of information. I quickly found a great source of info at LaMar Alexander’s website. In following with my Off-Grid – On The Cheap message, this is a very practical, hands on approach to how to get off the grid without having to spend lots of money. …
It seems that the “green” (or brown) movement is growing faster and faster. It used to be the realm of unwashed hippies, tree huggers and other so called “degenerates” who lived off the grid, in the wild, on the fringes of society.
Lately, I keep reading about how more mainstream people are jumping in, purchasing solar panels, adding passive solar rooms, collecting rain water. I read about people who build $300,000+ green homes, that price doesn’t include the price of the land it sits upon! It’s all fine and dandy for those who have lots of readily available cash sitting around, or worse, they get loans to bankroll their ubergreen homes.…
Buy banks, sell forest and river – that’s the message coming from British Treasury. Its important for hopes of off-grid communities…
Power company forces lines across land of eco-couple who do not have power and do not want it…
Historic off-grid home in UK beauty spot is banned by right wing bureaucrats on a technicality…
NY Times salivates over big ticket “eco” vehicles. Been there,done that…..…
CBS implies the Earthship movement is a weird hippy cult, but still gives them plenty of prime-time.…
Woody Harrelson lives in an off-grid community in Maui – description and interview…
Forget anything you ever read about how to green your house. Forget fancy gizmos or weird materials. Here is the real deal:…
Millionaires are snapping up billions of acres – entire eco-systems – to feed their ennui – should we be pleased or angry?…
