Category — EVENTS

Hi im living off grid in the high desert of NE Nevada and Im looking for others to join me in my adventure.It has always been a dream
to found a village of friends and neighbors
a community of different types of people but with a simple common ideal freedom.Freedom to
build how you want to eat whatever you want without some politician telling you its approved for consumtion. (more…)

Ex-Vice President Al Gore, who did precisely nothing for the environment during his eight years in power, has unveiled plans for another ego-stroking exercise in climate change politics.

His Climate Reality project announced it would kick off with a 24-hour live streamed event on 14 September. The day’s schedule will include a new multimedia presentation by Gore, who unbelievably won an Oscar for his Inconvenient Truth slide show.

The danger is that he brings real, sincere environmental campaigns into disrepute. (more…)

Flee the city -- study bushcraft

Not content with spending a night in a shack trying to create the next Royal Baby, Wills and Kate are set for a weekend of Moosehide tanning during a tour of Dechinta – a hippy haven in the NorthWest Territories.

The Royal couple are to visit the so-called “Bush University” and sample off-grid life as part of their hugely successful Canadian tour.

RoyalPrince William and Kate’s trip to Yellowknife this week will include a tour of Dechinta,  the”bush university,” giving them a chance to try their hand at “fish drying” as well as moosehide tanning. (more…)

New off-grid role model

As predicted here a year ago, the play Jerusalem was a smash hit when it opened on New York’s Broadway last week.

Vodafone is set to announce it will build one of Africa’s greenest commercial buildings as a base for testing new ways of using renewable energy across its global network.

Based in Midrand, South Africa, the innovation centre will examine how the company can reduce carbon emissions through the use of renewable energy, as well as batteries. The centre will also look at how to reduce the running and deployment cost of base station sites. Findings will be shared across the Vodafone group. (more…)

Ah, the irony. In San Andreas, CA, atop a possible earthquake of cataclysmic proportions, the town is adopting the latest distributed power generation technologies.

Someday soon, fuels from forests in this area south-east of Sacramento may power water plants, schools and even private businesses.

Bob Dean, a member of the board of directors of the Calaveras County Water District,has proposed portable cogeneration plants to both generate electricity and allow for more efficient use of wood-chip waste generated as local forests are thinned. (more…)

Teach a man to fish and you ....

Such concern led Rep. Brad Galvez, R-West Haven, to successfully sponsor HB317 in the Legislature. The bill, which awaits Gov. Gary Herbert’s signature, would require the state to recognize gold and silver coins issued by the federal government as legal tender. (more…)

One in 138 million

In the developed world, folks tend to go off-grid for ideological reasons. But in the developing world the main reason people need off-grid electricity is to power their mobile phones, says a new report out this week.
The study by computer firm Cisco found that the explosion in mobile phone use is a prime factor driving tens of millions people in the developing world to set up off grid power, says the study. (more…)

June 4, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.

Many technologies of the 21st century are vulnerable to solar storms. Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about: (more…)