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Singer Jackson Browne doesn’t just talk the talk. Not only does he have a ranch in rural California that is off the grid in terms of its energy use and environmental impact, he also operates with a plasticfree backstage while on tour, and travels in buses that run on bio-diesel.

Even his stage lighting is outfitted with energy-reduced bulbs. “I wanted to try it myself and see how hard it is,” he said. “It turned out to be not hard at all.”

His next song, If I Could Be Anywhere, has yet to be released, is about the environmental impact of plastic. (more…)

Malone - in need of landbuddies

Chorus:

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

Mr. Malone, who lives in Colorado, has a controlling interest in QVC cable channel; Expedia.com, travel Web site; and Sirius XM satellite radio.
But what will he do with the land – enough to house hundreds of thousands of Americans? (more…)

Brody - off-grid role model

This web site has invited Brody to write a diary of his travels and post some of his music up on our YouTube channel. (more…)

Werner - Saint or Sinner?

The tragic dichotomy of saintly David Werner is that he has written one of the world’s most important manuals of medical self-help, and at the same time he apparently went through a delusional period where he thought that sexual relationships with minors was “part of their mentoring.”

Werner is celebrated in some off-grid circles for his book Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook – Other Off-Grid web sites report Werner’s “extraordinary life story, including:

• The real, in-the-field solutions he has chronicled
• The difference between what to do before the doctor arrives and what to do when no doctor is coming
• The secret discovered by indigenous Mexicans centuries before European science caught up
• How to implement creative, practical solutions in an emergency…even if you have zero medical experience

And the new edition of Where There Is No Doctor is all this and much more.
(more…)

Helena - will not compromise on comfort

Eco-curious supermodel, Helena Christensen went all the way to Rome to promote ecofriendly hotel, Save the Beach, but admits that she checked out just hours later as she couldn’t cope with the toilets.

The 41-year-old supermodel was at the world’s first hotel built out of the rubbish found on Europe’s beaches, as part of Save The Beach Campaign. It comes complete with portable toilets, no showers and ripped sheets for curtains.

"I don't want anything"

Vincent Kartheiser likes living off the grid. He doesnt have a car, a toilet, a TV or a mirror. Its a far cry from his Mad Men role as an ambitious 1960s ad man.

The TV series portrays the ad men as archetypes, always selling versions of themselves to anyone who will listen. And Kartheiser, on the screen, is able to convey that sense perfectly.

So, among all the riddling personas, does he have a stable sense of who he is? One thing is for sure – he is not defined by his possessions. (more…)

Sting and Coco - well-fed

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have given interviews to CBS about their  ”eco-lifestyle.  A clip is embedded lower down the story in which the couple talk about how they limit their carbon footprint. But be warned – it is sponsored by Dove soap, which is about as ecological as an oil slick. (more…)