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Charles Baird - jolly good sport

Is he secretly being sponsored by Remington?

A 40-year-old oil rigger and filmmaker from Anchorage will spend the next year on uninhabited Latouche Island in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.  Charles Baird will live in a shed, and plans to feed off catches from hunting and fishing.

He’ll send short updates via a satellite to http://www.facebook.com/AlaskanPioneer with no way to receive any inbound messages.  He calls his experiment more modern-day homesteading than a survival game, and he’s heading into the adventure well-armed. (more…)

Art and Nan Kellam bought an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine in 1949 and lived there for more than 35 years, content with little more than each other’s company. They had no electricity or running water, and heated the house they built with firewood from their forest. To fetch supplies, they rowed a dory several miles to the mainland and back.

New Jersey native and avid conservationist Peter Blanchard III tells the unusual love story of Art and Nan Kellam in “We Were an Island,” a book based largely on journals kept by the Kellams. (more…)

Res Publica, a London Think Tank for “Radical Traditionalists” has published Nick Rosen’s call for off-grid settlements in the UK.

The Disraeli Room is ResPublica’s blog, where experts, fellows and friends of all political stripes from the worlds of policy making, social innovation and entrepreneurship meet to swap ideas, debate and provoke.

“Policymakers need to recognise that, whilst it may not, in the short-term, become a mainstream housing offer, it is an idea worth taking seriously and that on its own will make a noticeable difference,” wrote Nick Rosen in the blog posting.

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Post your details on Landbuddy and win a free copy of Nick Rosen’s new book OFF THE GRID.

Landbuddy is a free service from Off-Grid.net which helps people who plan to go off-grid to form a group to share skills, costs and responsibilities.

The best three posts published by August 31st will win the book, and be featured on off-grid.net thus increasing the visibility of their own entry. (more…)

Off-Grid founder Nick Rosen is interviewed on CNN today.

The article puts Off-Grid living into the context of Copenhagen.  In the interview given at the start of the climate talks, Rosen dismissed the whole process,saying it had no chance of success.

“We are still being fed the lie that we can somehow keep our lifestyles just like they are — just tweak them a little bit (more…)

There are a burgeoning number of resorts going off-grid to provide vacationers with a full-fledged eco-experience.  Check out this Hot Springs in New Zealand, as featured on the Travelgood.com web site.

We are building a database of off-grid resorts and other eco-travel opportunities and destinations all around the world.  We already have a database of UK and Irish and US resorts — now please send all your best off-grid travel suggestions to news@off-grid.net.

The Green Reaper In the Netherlands legislation has encouraged green investing, and although there is nothing yet on that scale in the US or the UK, you don’t need to go to Holland to find green investments.With over 30 dedicated green portfolios to choose from, there is little excuse for keeping your  savings in conventional investment vehicles. (more…)

Marese: don’t be a sheep! I volunteered to work on a farm because there was no chance of a job in my part of America after I graduated.  In the 1950s, 20-somethings went on a European tour. In the  1960s we dropped out.  In the 1970s we protested, and in the 1980s we got a job. The 1980s then stayed with us right up until the credit crunch. Now the age of greed and  individualism is over at last, what’s the next step?

For about $25 each, we can buy  two-year memberships in Workaway.info, World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), and Help Exchange (HelpX), all Web-based directories of hosts seeking helping hands in exchange for room and board. (more…)