Even if you can’t live off-grid you can still unplug and go on holiday on an off-grid farm. Get the nitty-gritty off the grid experience, from relying on a solar power setup to tending a vegetable garden.
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Green sanitation and organic waste management 27th Sept to 1st Oct at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynllet, Wales.
Learn about eco-friendly off-grid sewage systems and how to store and recycle water.
Fees 500/ 395/250
courses@cat.org.uk…
No qualifications are needed to cruise a canal boat, although you do need to learn a few basics before you leave.
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New technology and new materials are making pop up tents lighter, stronger and easier to set up. Here’s an overview of the best expedition tents.…
How to build a wind turbine, with Hugh Spiggott- 3rd to 8th Oct at the Center for Alternative Technology in Machynllet, Wales.
Fees �500/ �395/ �250
courses@cat.org.uk…
Want to learn how to build a wind turbine? Here are a few tips
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If you’re planning to go off-grid, spending some time in a community can be a good way to learn the basics. Here’s where to find communities online.
We encourage comments, advice and questions, via the comments section at the end of this story (you will have to register first – takes 5 seconds).…
Organic Week 4th to 12th September all across the UK. Events include the Organic fair in Bristol on 4th and 5th Sept, discounts on organic products in most shops, organic farm tours and open days, walks and worshops.
For a list of events see the Organic week website…
Tree houses are not just for children. A tree house can be a great summer house, studio or reading room
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If any manufacturers are reading this here are three products we would order if they existed. All are winners of 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).…
It looks like a big metallic mushroom, a futuristic tent or a spaceship. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion was the first modern house specifically designed to be off -grid, autonomous, energy self-sufficient and environment friendly. That was almost a century ago. Best known for the invention of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller is also one of the founders of the environmental design movement.
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If water is scarce, recycling becomes essential. Off-grid water is often sent through Reed bed water treatment systems — a series of artificially created ponds with reeds growing in them, through which waste water circulates. Even sewage can be treated this way as well as washing up water and shower water.
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