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Off The Grid Living: 10 Off-Grid Kitchen Cures For Everyday Aches And Pains

Off The Grid Living: 10 Off-Grid Kitchen Cures For Everyday Aches And Pains

Greetings, 10 Off-Grid Kitchen Cures For Everyday Aches And Pains Written by: Tricia Drevets Natural Health “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food,” wrote Hippocrates,…

(Video Incl.)Off The Grid Living: How To Grow Fresh And Almost Instant Late Winter Vegetables Indoors

(Video Incl.)Off The Grid Living: How To Grow Fresh And Almost Instant Late Winter Vegetables Indoors

Greetings, How To Grow Fresh And Almost Instant Late Winter Vegetables Indoors Written by: Tricia Drevets Survival Gardening  If you are getting the itch to get out in your garden…

Off The Grid Living — The Perks of Going Solar: 3 Benefits That Will Make You Wish You Had Switched Sooner

Haven’t made the switch to solar yet? If you’re still buying your energy from an energy retailer, you’re missing out on some major benefits. As the cost of living in…

Breaking Off The Grid News: Cape Coral Verdict Makes Living Off the Grid Illegal in Florida

Breaking Off The Grid News: Cape Coral Verdict Makes Living Off the Grid Illegal in Florida

If you’re in Florida and hope to live a more sustainable “off the grid” lifestyle that’s free from the influence of energy companies and massive agricultural conglomerates by adding solar…

Off The Grid Living: Food Storage…Dehydrated Vs. Freeze Dried Food — What’s Best?

Off The Grid Living: Food Storage…Dehydrated Vs. Freeze Dried Food — What’s Best?

Greetings, Dehydrated Vs. Freeze Dried Food: What’s Best? Written by: Tara Dodrill Off-Grid Foods Images source: thrivewithjodie.com Building a long-term food storage supply can be both a daunting and expensive…

Off The Grid Living: 7 Herbs You Can Grow Indoors Year-Round

Off The Grid Living: 7 Herbs You Can Grow Indoors Year-Round

Greetings, 7 Herbs You Can Grow Indoors Year-Round Written by: Tricia Drevets Survival Gardening It feels great to just step outside into your garden for a sprig of rosemary or…

(Video Incl.)Off the grid: 15 Incredible Uses For Lemons

(Video Incl.)Off the grid: 15 Incredible Uses For Lemons

Greetings, 15 Incredible Uses For Lemons Written by: Tricia Drevets How-To The fresh, clean smell of lemon is something that we enjoy in everything from our furniture polish to our…

(Video Incl.)Off the grid: How to Build a solar powered IBC tote Aquaponics System CHEAP and EASY!

(Video Incl.)Off the grid: How to Build a solar powered IBC tote Aquaponics System CHEAP and EASY!

Greetings, SOLAR AQUAPONICS DIY How to Build a solar powered IBC tote Aquaponics System CHEAP and EASY!                                                                                      How to Build a solar powered IBC tote Aquaponics System CHEAP…

Off the grid living: 6 Secrets To Urban Gardening With No Yard

Off the grid living: 6 Secrets To Urban Gardening With No Yard

Greetings, 6 Secrets To Urban Gardening With No Yard Written by: Lindsey Cox Survival Gardening Gardening is a wonderfully rewarding experience — a great way to add healthy and organic…

Off The Grid Living: Beat Winter And Start Gardening NOW With This Simple Idea

Off The Grid Living: Beat Winter And Start Gardening NOW With This Simple Idea

Greetings, Beat Winter And Start Gardening NOW With This Simple Idea Written by: Pat B Survival Gardening Image source: spsmw.org This winter has been a rough one by the standards…

Off the grid: (Video Incl.)3 Vegetables You Can Grow All Winter … Even Without A Garden

Off the grid: (Video Incl.)3 Vegetables You Can Grow All Winter … Even Without A Garden

Greetings, 3 Vegetables You Can Grow All Winter … Even Without A Garden Written by: Priscilla Cash Survival Gardening Image source: About.com When it comes to gardening, I have a…

Off the grid — Modular Large-scale (5MW) Battery Storage System to be Built This Year

Off the grid — Modular Large-scale (5MW) Battery Storage System to be Built This Year

In what could be a potential gamechanger for wider adoption of renewable energy as a bigger component of utility grids, a large modular battery storage system is planned for construction…

Off the grid — Vegetable Garden In The Snow? Here’s 5 Ways To Do It

Off the grid — Vegetable Garden In The Snow? Here’s 5 Ways To Do It

Greetings, Vegetable Garden In The Snow? Here’s 5 Ways To Do It Written by: Pat B Survival Gardening Image source: rustikmagazine.com Growing crops has traditionally been thought of as an…

The Power Grid Might Become The ‘Alternative’ — Off-Grid The Norm

The Power Grid Might Become The ‘Alternative’ — Off-Grid The Norm

Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Leia Guccione and Peter Bronski. For years, low-cost solar-plus-battery systems were seen as a distant possibility at best, a fringe technology not likely…

JA Solar Launches “Highly Efficient” Solar Panels Using Black Silicon

JA Solar Launches “Highly Efficient” Solar Panels Using Black Silicon

JA Solar, a global leading manufacturer of high performance solar cells and modules, has just launched its relatively high-efficiency PERCIUM module and RIECIUM module. First launched at CleanTech Summit & Exhibition in Israel on 18th February……

(Video Incl.)Florida woman living off solar power and rain water ordered use city utilities

A magistrate ruled last week that a Florida woman must hook up to city utilities or face possible eviction from her home. Robin Speronis, of Cape Coral, has drawn national…

Off Grid Living — Cost Of Solar PV Continues To Plummet

Off Grid Living — Cost Of Solar PV Continues To Plummet

Originally published on RenewEconomy. One of the most misunderstood aspects of the solar PV phenomenon over the past 5 years is the idea that it has been that it has…

Off Grid Living: Graphene’s Great Water-Filtration Potential Unveiled By New Research

Off Grid Living: Graphene’s Great Water-Filtration Potential Unveiled By New Research

The great potential that graphene has shown with regard to electronics and energy technologies is well known, but there’s quite a bit more to graphene than ‘just’ that…. In particular,…

Off The Grid — SolarWorld To US Solar Industry: Drop Dead

Off The Grid — SolarWorld To US Solar Industry: Drop Dead

By Jigar Shah, President of CASE, the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, and a world-leading cleantech champion It makes so little sense that it reads like a round of Madlibs: a German company…

Off The Grid:(Video Incl.)Portable Solar-Powered Kit To Prevent Infant Mortality

Off The Grid:(Video Incl.)Portable Solar-Powered Kit To Prevent Infant Mortality

Originally published on Ecopreneurist. Here in the developed world, we take modern healthcare and all of the technology that supports it for granted, including the most basic of services, such…

Off The Grid: Renewables’ Disruption Of The Utility Business Model Is A Good Thing

Off The Grid: Renewables’ Disruption Of The Utility Business Model Is A Good Thing

Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. Amory B. Lovins. Renewables are making headway in Europe and bringing a low-carbon electricity system to the forefront. Renewables were 69 percent of new…

Off the grid: PHOTON’s 2013 Solar Module Yield Measurements Show That Solar Modules Are Improving

Off the grid: PHOTON’s 2013 Solar Module Yield Measurements Show That Solar Modules Are Improving

Originally published on the ECO Report For the past eight years, PHOTON Laboratory has been monitoring solar modules on a shade-free area of land near the historic city of Aachen,…

Off The Grid: More-Efficient Organic Solar Cells Coming Soon Thanks To New Research On Charge Separation

Off The Grid: More-Efficient Organic Solar Cells Coming Soon Thanks To New Research On Charge Separation

A new multi-university study focusing on the fundamental science of charge separation has resulted in a greatly improved understanding of the subject — an improved understanding that should lead to…

Off Grid Living: Solar Panel Efficiency Has Come A Long Way (Infographic)

Off Grid Living: Solar Panel Efficiency Has Come A Long Way (Infographic)

Originally published on Cost Of Solar. There are many reasons why solar panel prices are down so much. But technological advancements in solar panel technologies are certainly a big one. We…

Off grid living: Arizona Rooftop Solar Power Under Threat From APS, Again!

Off grid living: Arizona Rooftop Solar Power Under Threat From APS, Again!

Update: Show your support for solar once more, by attending a meeting at the Arizona Corporation Commission this Thursday, February 6 at 10am at 1200 W. Washington St., Phoenix AZ 85007. If you are unable…

(Video)Energy Generation At Your Feet With Power Box Pedal Power

Connecting people proactively to the energy they use is a beautiful notion. Enabling people to produce their own energy independent of other dubious sources such as diesel power is an…

Off grid living — Which Solar Panels Are Most Efficient?

Off grid living — Which Solar Panels Are Most Efficient?

Originally published on Cost Of Solar. One of the most common things people ask when they start to consider going solar or start to plan their life-changing solar expedition is…

DIY Drip Irrigation for Under Ten Dollars

If you’ve ever come home from work in the summer and found your lovely garden wilted, this DIY drip irrigation system might be just the thing for you. Best of…

Off the grid — South Africa World’s Most Attractive Solar Energy Country

Off the grid — South Africa World’s Most Attractive Solar Energy Country

Global information company IHS has released an analysis which paints South Africa as the world’s most attractive emerging country for solar energy, pointing to the country’s target of 8.4 GW…

Realistic Ways to Go Green In Your Home

Realistic Ways to Go Green In Your Home

Going Green has become very popular these days and almost everyone is doing their part to help the environment and to save money and stay healthier in the process. When…