Living Off the Grid in 2008

Are you tired of $300 electric bills? Interested in renewable energy as a solution? Learn where you can find free solar panels, free wind towers and even free batteries to get started now living off the grid. In as little as one year you and your family could learn how to live off the grid.

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Living Off The Grid Newsletter #18

We had some visitors on Wednesday who wondered why we weren’t ‘at work’. We tried to explain that we worked at home, but it just didn’t get through to them. Jane and I spent an hour telling the couple that we were taking 2 months to just finish some building projects around home

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Living Off the Grid Newsletter #17

Learn about living off the grid

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Renewable Energy Solutions

Renewable Energy Solutions that are easy on your wallet. Find Free Solar Panels, Wind Towers and Batteries. With 14 years of experience you can rest assured the Renewable Energy Solutions Guide is based on experience, not just talk.

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How to Build Wind Generators

Learning how to build wind generators was not that difficult once we found the right construction plans. Finding out what materials to use for the blades, where to get the generator from and how to put it all together proved rather interesting actually. When we found the plans we wanted the author even helped us along with friendly online advice.



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Off Grid News

It has been an exciting week here at Off Grid Living. We are just putting the finishing touches on our second, much larger wind generator. This model, adapted from the original plans we purchased should produce almost 2000 watts of power at 24 volts.



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Video- Home Wind Generators

Looking to see a home wind generator in action? Want to build one yourself?Some interesting video and some photos too.



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Home Wind Generators

This is an update on our report about how to build home wind generators- now we wanted it to look good. When visitors come to our homestead we want them to ask, “ Where did you ‘buy’ your new wind generator?” To which we would reply, “ Oh, we built that ourselves” as confidently as we could muster...



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Off the Grid Living

For 14 years we have been learning about off the grid living. Solar panels, how to build a wind generator and ways to prevent global warming. We have made our choice to take action...



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How the Weather affects your Renewable Energy System

The main factor that affects how much Renewable Energy that is produced at our home is the weather. If the sun is shining our solar panels are working non-stop to charge our batteries. When the sun isn’t shining that’s a different story.The weather outside has a direct relationship to the amount of charging that takes place with our battery bank



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Alternative Energy today

AlternativeEnergy is in the news and everybody seems to be talking about it today. But what is Alternative Energy ? In this article we will tell you what Alternative Energy is and take a look at common AlternativeEnergy sources.



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Living Off Grid

Living off grid today is much easier than it was 15 years ago. There are still many challenges but living off grid in today’s world means better renewable energy equipment and thankfully much better communication equipment. These advances have made living off grid, not only possible, but very comfortable.



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The Good Life of Helen and Scott Nearing

Today in the mail we just received an advance copy of ‘The Good Life of Helen Nearing’ by Margaret Killinger. It was especially intriguing as Margaret had interviewed Jane and I in connection with the writing of this book.



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Global Warming Articles

Global Warming ArticlesHere is a collection of recently written global warming articles for your enjoyment. The nature of this subject is very serious and we endeavour to bring you the very best global warming articles to read so you can stay informed.



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Wind Generator Plans

We built a wind generator to run our off grid home. Finding wind generator plans that we could download now actually proved to be the hardest part of the whole project.We looked at the price of wind generators and quickly found out that the $2000 price tag was not in our budget. Andre’s and I decided to build one!



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Greenhouse Plans

Greenhouse PlansIf you are looking to download the very best greenhouse plans right now, then go to the following link.



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Build Your Own Greenhouse

I walked into Blaine Oatman’s greenhouse and my world was forever changed. Outside it was blowing and cold, even for March; inside it felt like a warm June morning. All around me the smell of plants growing, some beginning to flower, and the smell of damp earth made me stop and take a deep breath...



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No Easy Ways to Stop Global Warming

There are no easy ways to stop global warming. It all boils down to the personal choices that you and I make everyday. One of the building blocks and best ways to stop global warming is by starting a personal fitness program.If the choices we make- driving our car to work, leisure activities that use gasoline engines etc. all affect global warming



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Henry Ford would drive a Hydrogen car.

Henry Ford would drive a car that runs on Water… and doesn't contribute to Global warming.But more importantly he would find a way that the average North American could afford it! I would really like to talk to Henry today and see how he would find ways to stop global warming.



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Take the Renewable Energy Challenge for 2007

Today we are sharing our own challenges to find ways to prevent global warming for 2007. We are personally involved in all of the following challenges that we are giving to you.Make a difference- Take the Renewable Energy Challenge and find better ways to Prevent Global Warming. Take action today ! The first challenge- 1000 cars run on biodiesel.



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