By Sam bot on February 27, 2016
british columbia, canada, island living, off the grid
Inspiration, Stories, Videos
VIA “trueactivist.com” by Sophie McAdam Lasqueti is a secret Canadian island where the vast majority of residents are completely off-grid. Lasqueti is a small island between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, twelve miles long and three miles wide. It is home to a little known community of off-gridders who take pride in their isolation from both mainstream culture […]
By Sam bot on April 18, 2015
1970's, hippies, hippy communes, off the grid
Culture
VIA The Open Mind by Jade Small Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, a deep-seated social discontent developed among young people in the United States. These were men who’d been forced to fight a war they didn’t believe in only to return home to a country that didn’t want them. The country was filled with college […]
By Sam bot on February 28, 2015
advances, cheap energy, elon musk, off the grid, paypal, technology, tesla
Stories, Tech
VIA “naturalsociety.com” by Christina Sarich One of the brains behind Tesla motors and Paypal, Tesla Motors CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk has a new invention up his sleeve that will help power homes at low cost, and it will make living off-grid easier than ever. A Florida woman had to stand up to a local […]