Sustainable Living

What is off grid? What does it mean? There’s a lot of opinion on what actually constitutes being off grid. Specifically, it means not being connected to the public electrical …

The Philippines was hit with the Mother of all Typhoons in November of 2013. With death tolls in the thousands and over a million people displaced from their homes, Typhoon …

Let’s face it: hydrocarbons are secondhand energy sources. Trees and other plants absorb electromagnetic radiation from the Sun and use that energy to convert water, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen into …

Meet the future of off grid living. This 26sqft aerodynamically designed micro-home resembles an egg-shaped camper trailer. But it’s so much more than that. It’s the epitome of off grid …

Grow your own food. Why? Because it could be the difference between life and death. That and because you’ll save money at the grocery store. There are numerous reasons why …

101 Reasons to Live Off The Grid – People go off grid for all kinds of reasons. The biggest one I think is that people seem to think life will …

  Talk about a master-planned community. One Community Global is developing plans for a sustainable community based on straw-bale construction. As an Open Source project, all these designs and ideas …

A new and better light bulb. One that is more efficient (uses 10% less energy) than LED lights, and is made from cutting-edge innovative material called graphene. Graphene is 100 …

Did you know a simple DIY bee watering station can have a huge, positive impact on pollinators? If we want our plants to reproduce, we need to give bees all …

The next generation might just be able to clean up the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into. Cynthia Sin Nga Lam from Melbourne, Australia for instance, just entered an innovative device …