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by spy_vondega on March 1, 2010 · 4 comments

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Off-gridders White & Teter - Yurt and VW sales will boom

American Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont — to live in her yurt. “Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees,” she told People magazine “and I love it there.

“I helped my parents get solar power this past year, and I’ll be running on solar and hopefully wind power with my yurt so I can be completely off the grid.”

Meanwhile, Olympic gold medalist skateboarder Shaun White says he is anxious to return to his 1969 Volkswagen Van.

Hannah Teter, however, is the off-grid flavor of the month.

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Fox buys John Twelve Hawks

February 28, 2010
Fox buys John Twelve Hawks Is there really a John Twelve Hawks? The author of a bestselling sci-fi series called the Fourth Realm Trilogy lives off the grid, according to the New York Post and writes about the surveillance society. He has never met his editor or agent and uses a voice scrambler and satellite phone to communicate. Recently,Fox optioned the film rights.  This success generated considerable envy from poorly paid scribes. Twelve Hawks might be a pseudonym of James Frey, suggests one.

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Rocker who lives in a shed

February 18, 2010
Rocker who lives in a shed Tim Barry has been rockognised. The singer songwriter from Richmond VA lives back of his girlfriend’s house in a shed with a busted kerosene heater – not great at this time of year, but ok, really, when you are wearing camouflage coveralls to fight the chill. Winter has been harsh but the shed balances Barry’s queasy relationship with fame. Since the early ’90s, he’s fronted the speed ’n’ scream punk rock band Avail, but he isn’t always as comfortable with the attention. He’s a hermit with a publicist.

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Take a walk on the wild side….

February 7, 2010
Take a walk on the wild side…. .....Lou Reed sang the song; now he has gone back to the wilderness. The archteypal  New York heroin rocker,Reed,together with his wife, performance artist Laurie Anderson, has bought land in upstate New York. She has taken up farming, and he is into nature photography. A show of Lou Reed's photos opened last month in Wichita Falls. Reed, 67, former lead singer of the Velvet Underground,  has rediscovered the ethereal, ephemeral beauty of nature in his photographs, but with a kind of avant garde sensibility.

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Fight to stop the new Super-Grid

January 23, 2010
Fight to stop the new Super-Grid Actor and broadcaster, Griff Rhys Jones has joined the battle against the Grid. He opposes the new electricity towers,or "Super pylons," which are supposedly needed as part of the coming "Smart Grid." Here is Griff's manifesto against the new Super-Grid: "We live in perplexing times for rationalists. The people of Suffolk have recently been presented with a “choice” by National Grid, the largest electricity provider. You may recognise the proposal from the school playground: “What do you want, a punch or a slap?” The “punch” is a new length of super pylons across an exquisitely beautiful landscape

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Soccer’s swampy bugs out

January 15, 2010
Soccer’s swampy bugs out MANCHESTER United defender Gary Neville is building an earth sheltered eco home that promises to become one of Britain's leading environmental showcases.

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Survivalism vs the media

December 24, 2009
Survivalism vs the media Cody Lundin, the survivalist author, spent two years spent living in a brush shelter in the woods where he slept on pine needles and cooked over an open fire, becoming disenchanted with his new role in the elite class of television survivalism presenters. It seems like Hell may have broken loose after Cody issued a bizarre letter at the end of the first week filming his new series, Dual Survivor, for Discovery Channel. "I have little if any control over how Dual Survivor is ultimately concepted, produced, and edited...." Lundin tells a small group of survivalism fans.

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Daryl Hannah interview

November 3, 2009
Daryl Hannah interviewMany stars are termed "eco-celebrity," but few have taken their commitments as seriously as Daryl Hannah. The actress first made famous as a beautiful android in the dark thriller Blade Runner, and most recently as a one-eyed assassin in 2003 and 2004's Kill Bill Vol. I & II, is a save-the-world girl at heart. She became a vegetarian at age 11

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Ellen Page on Perma-culture

October 10, 2009
Ellen Page on Perma-culture Juno star Ellen Page recently took a break from Hollywood to study permaculture design in an eco-village near Eugene, Oregon. Teen Hollywood reports that Page "spent a month living on the settlement and learned how to live more simply -- and how valuable urine can be."

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