Month: November 2011

  • Self-sufficiency vs self-reliance off the grid

    The more I learn about modern survival and being prepared for SHTF (which is one of the reasons I want to live off-grid), the more interesting concepts I undertand. Not being english native for some time I didn’t get the difference between self-sufficiency and self-reliance. It took me some time, and now it’s clear. You […]

  • 5 reasons I want to go off-grid

    Since the time I started this blog, I never took the time to write about my goals and reasons why I want to live off the grid. Today is a good time to do it. 🙂 1. I want to be independent and free I want to be free and be independent from all the […]

  • Garbage warrior

    This week I watched the “Garbage warrior”, a film about american architect, Mike Reynolds. This documentary shows several buildings and subdivisions built by Reynolds, starting with the Thumb House, and the Earthship, of course. This film was highly motivating and inspiring for me. I am wondering if I could add some tires with rammed earth […]

  • Off-grid heating, ventilation and cooling

    Off-grid house should not get any energy input from outside. It should use only energy generated on-site. Because of that, in my opinion a house that’s powered by propane (for genset, cooking and heating) is not off the grid. But in cool climates most of the energy is required for heating and domestic hot water. […]