Off-Grid - how to free yourself

Off-Grid.net provides a platform for a global community of off-grid experts to help each other, share skills and resources, and offer products and services to grid-tied businesses and households. It reports on the people, technologies, events and influences throughout the global community. The brainchild of author and campaigner Nick Rosen, the site now has 75,000 visitors a month, mainly from the US and UK, and continues to expand. Off-Grid.net is an eclectic mix of practical advice, news on the use of low-energy solutions in the on-grid world, and issues rarely covered by the mainstream media. It promotes the many enterprises that are working for a sustainable future. It campaigns on issues affecting people who live or work off-grid, including zoning/planning permission where we are calling for changes to allow people to receive special permission to set up off-grid homes in places which do not currently have residential permission. How can off-grid energy techniques help in the looming crisis this winter? What long-term lessons can we learn about eliminating wasteful energy consumption? This is not just a long-term exercise. The UK population need answers now if they are to prepare for a winter of blackouts and blankets. We want to foster large-scale off-grid developments in towns and in the countryside, so that the hundreds of thousands who would like to live this way are free to do so.