Posts by — rosario

Hooked on memes

Gadget freak Dan Tynan reports on a few days enforced abstinence from Broadband. (This story first appeared in PCWorld and is reproduced with permission of the author): WE WERE SITTING in a charming little pub in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. As the band cranked through bad covers of American pop tunes, we sipped Guinness, checked e-mail on our laptops, made cheap Skype calls to friends halfway around the world, and IM-ed with reckless abandon. We had discovered Web nirvana. (more…)

Steve’s first Park home

Croc hunter Steve Irwin, whose Memorial service is taking place in Australia tomorrow, lived off-grid with his mum and dad for the first few years of his life, in a caravan on what they then called Beerwah Reptile Park.

Steve takes up the story:

Dad and Mum bought our original four acres of land (more…)

Average daily carbon

Good news for anyone living off-grid in the UK — the environment Secretary has radical plans to create a ‘personal carbon trading scheme’. Individuals would be allotted credits to be deducted as they undertake CO2-emitting activities, such as buying gas for the car or taking a flight.

Each person in the UK emits 9 tons of carbon per year on average, but off-gridders use only a tenth of that, so will end up making money from the scheme. (more…)