How to Live Off-grid: Journeys Outside the System
- ISBN-10
- 0553818198
- ISBN-13
- 9780553818192
- Category
- Alternative lifestyles
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Nick Rosen
Description
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES. Literally, the word 'off-grid' refers to places or people without mains water, power or phone line. Off-grid locations can range from private islands to yurts and tree-houses; the people living there might be back-packers, right wing survivalists, international business travellers or hippies; they may move around in buses or yachts, houseboats or 4-wheel drives. All are outside or inbetween the criss-crossing lines of power, water and phone that delineate the civilised world. Some are trying to save the planet, some live that way because it is all they can afford, some just want the freedom.This book is about that physical sense of off-grid. But it is also about taking the off-grid attitude into your local park or your own back garden. It is part travellogue and it is also a guide to avoiding the pitfalls and finding the best solutions - and the most appealing gadgetry - for going off-grid yourself.
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