Tag: stuff to read

  • Peak Oil Survival – review

    Today I read the last page of the book Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash, another Amazon purchase. Since I planned to post here every week, it’s a great I have something to write about. The book’s title indicates that it’s about preparing for living after the electrical grid crashes. It’s not a […]

  • Five Acres and Independence – review

    Yesterday I finished reading a book I purchased some time ago on Amazon, the “Five Acres and Independence” by M. G. Kains. This article will start a new series of reviews of various books and articles to read. So here’s my review. The description of this book on Amazon is very short, and consists of […]

  • 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 […]