Month: October 2009

  • I changed blog’s theme

    I’m sorry I write about changing theme, and not about living off the grid. I just couldn’t pass by this theme I saw on another blog. I thought it fits perfectly to my idea of living off the grid — to live in the country, make your own energy and grow some biomass to heat […]

  • Produce, save, store!

    If you want power your off-grid home by yourself, you need to look at this idea on three levels: producing the energy in any source, reducing the energy use, storing it for future when supply exceeds demand. There are only two ways to deal with this problem with one simple solution. But none of them […]

  • Is living off-grid a good way to reduce utility costs?

    I just looked at the results of the poll I posted in the sidebar when I launched this blog. I ask there, what are the causes you want to live off-grid. One of the main causes is at the moment the “to reduce utility costs”. When I cast my vote in that poll I didn’t […]

  • Walden, or life in the woods

    A couple of days ago I finished reading the “Walden”, a book by Henry D. Thoreau. Though it was published more than 150 years ago (in 1854), it is considered by many off-gridders as their bible and source of inspiration. When I first started reading about living off the grid, I found references to this […]