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August 2007

Energy

Green Gadgets of 2008

Apple
Even Apples may turn green

You might think the very idea of green gadgets is self defeating. After all its just more consumption, right?

Wrong

The best kind of green gadgets

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Land

The Battle of the Benders

The Off-Grid web site is serialising Nick Rosen’s book, “How to live Off-Grid” about his journey round the UK visiting eco-homes. In it he meets survivalists and nimbys, free love hippies and millionaire idealists. This excerpt finds Nick visiting a “bender” community in Devon fighting for planning permission — they bought some land and built a barn and the canvas benders. Their public enquiry has just finished and the residents are awaiting the planning inspector’s decision.

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Water

Why no bottled water from Africa?

Two contrasting stories conterpoint the developing politics of water – an Africna river that needs work to continue to carry life-giving water to the people, and the new debate in the US about the amount of water we consume.

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Spirit

Island addiction center

Behind the scenes at an Off-Grid addiction treatment center with many star clients

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Energy

Business Week recommends off-grid power

BusinessWeek has reported on the hidden problems with solar energy and concluded that power consumption should be as close as possible to the point of production

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Mobile

Sustainable travel? Try walking.

Ethical, off-grid holidays walking the route Moses took. Details. The timing is right as a survey reveals 70% of holidaymakers prefer low-impact travel.

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Energy

HMG admits fiddling carbon figures

UK Energy Secretary Malcolm Wicks
Wicks: Carbon? No comment.

The British Energy Secretary Malcolm Wicks was just interviewed on The World at One, BBC Radio 4, where he failed to deny this morning’s reports that the UK government has privately accepted it will not achieve its carbon emission reduction targets. It is planning to slash its targeted carbon reduction, according to a leaked document, and civil servants have now focused on advising the government how to finagle this change of policy with the public and with the European Union where the targets were agreed.

Wicks said “I am not going to comment on a leaked document in August…” as if that would somehow dismiss the problem. Martha Kearney gave him two opportunities to deny the reports but he failed to do so.

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Urban

Coming soon – your hab

James and his Hab
James and his pod

This time next year you could be ordering cardboad accomodation from MyHab. A product design student from the UK won a design prize sponsored by steel company Corus for an inspired temporary habitat to be used at music festivals. James Dunlop who completed a three year ‘Creative Product Design’ Course intends to sell the pods for $120 each and is testing them at a number of festivals this year. My.Hab consists of two recycled plastic components which hold in place a weather treated cardboard skin.”

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Mobile

Beach huts on Albanian Riviera

Qeparo Beach, Albania
Hurry – get your beach hut here

A holiday on the Albanian Riviera may sound like Europe’s final frontier but a recent article by Benji Lanyado in The Guardian, found beautiful empty coves,

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Off-Grid 101

Great Yarmouth van dwellers targeted

REMAINS OF THE ROMAN CASTLE, BURGH, SUFFOLK..
Burgh Castle 1818

Self-employed Richard Thorne amd his family live a simple lifestyle near Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth — they recycle everything, grow their own vegetables and

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Off-Grid Launches YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/offgridnick contains videos of people living off-grid in the Uk. We are building a library of off-grid video from around the world. Please send us yours.

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Urban

Auto dweller denies he

An eccentric Brit living in a Land Rover in New Zealand has denied wild speculation that he is Lord Lucan, the missing peer whose disappearance sparked an international manhunt 20 years ago after the death of his nanny.

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