BOOKS: The off-grid community and the battle to live their way.
Off The Grid in America (Penguin, 2010)
How to Live Off-Grid UK (Bantam, 2008)
It started here
In San Francisco, the new trend is bustaurants, restaurants built into buses complete with kitchens and dining rooms. While this region didn’t invent the bustaurant — that mantle goes to a double-decker in London named The Root Master — the Bay Area has evolved the concept and is now home to two moveable feasts, which attract equal parts adventurous diners and bus-loving kids. (more…)
Island power for India
India, one of the biggest markets for alternative energy technologies, is being targeted by German businesses.
Berthold Breid, CEO of the German Renewable Energy Academy is in Kolkata, India at present, leading a nine-member German delegation promoting its renewable energy products and technology. (more…)
Why did he do it?
The Wall Street Journal, no less, has run an article commemorating Richard Zimmerman (1916-2010). The 94 year old “Dug Out Caves in Search of Pay Dirt, Then Rented Them,” says the headline.
He was the last of Idaho’s river-canyon loners that date back to Territorial days. Other locals swore he was the most self-sufficient individual they knew.
Dugout died in his cave on Idaho’s Salmon River also known as the River of no Return. (more…)
Preppers are part of local politics
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 21 — The city of Bloomington issued a press release fully endorsing a report into post-peak oil scenarios.
December, 2009, “the Bloomington City Council overwhelmingly approved the report of the Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force entitled Redefining Prosperity: Energy Descent and Community Resilience (PDF 13.36 MB). The report is the product of a seven-member task force and outlines the community’s vulnerability to a decline in cheap oil and proposes numerous mitigation strategies.”
Within 30 years, Bloomington’s least-used roads could be dirt or gravel instead of asphalt. City residents could have to capture and collect the rain water that falls on their roofs if they want to receive city water service. (more…)
Women of Char Mantaz install solar A BRIGHT future for 18,000 people on the island of Char Mantaz — one of many off the coast of Bangladesh. The main income for residents is fishing, but now they have added solar power to their skills.
Prokaushali Sangsand Limited (PSL), an engineering consulting group went to the island of Char Mantaz to train the female residents how to build and set up solar power panels for the whole island. The effects have changed this off-grid island forever. The traditional role of men earning an income as fishermen has been supplemented by new skills the women have gained — making everyone’s future brighter.
Eating With a Purpose
I am a Flexitarian- that means I am a vegetarian who eats fish and meat …sometimes.
Yes, I know, you can call me a fish and chipocryte, but actually I am better and more rational than you think. Because I recognize what many other vegetarians do not — namely that I am a veggie in a meaty world.
Growing up in the Midwest it was unusual not to be a big meat eater. (more…)
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