Living Off the Grid
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- pr20
In recent years there was a huge growth in the "away from society" movement - kind of a comeback to "fuck the system" of the 60s and early 70s with communes. The commune system doesn't work - noone is truly equal - there is always one that's more powerful than another, so people are searching for ways to "fuck the system" but in private, Thus you have the tiny house movement (shelter), grow your garden movement (food that doesn't kill you), on less extreme end the community-first movement ("you can't change the world but at least can do something locally"). Some sociologist would say that it's a direct result of people's uncertainty about the future and their lack of understanding of the societal movements and history. People don't have the safety net (financial or otherwise) and they search for the basics: food, shelter, community. I subscribe to that analysis, so before you go into middle of nowhere and "start a new life" make sure you are not doing it became you don't know how the same feelings of "loss" were prevalent through centuries - and though the centuries, despite all those fears, the shit generally speaking, never hit the fan.
- yeah. and i think in our microculture we're just all in advertising and want our souls backscarabin
- there is also the "quotation" movementcannonball1978
- antimotion0
- lol at TBWA logo and then every feature is company sponsored thingcannonball1978
- even though this is cool. seems more corporate because of the colab on this project. seems more of corporate drive now. Prob would serve better if this was kept local driven n local colabyurimon
- becomes more of pr stunt that these entities care about the future.yurimon
- bored2death0
I'm a designer. I make my living off the grid.
- doggydoggdog0
The grid is all in your head. Move out of SF/NYC/Chicago and be a solitary person and no one will give a - about what you do.
Lots of towns are cheap. You don't have to go all the way to Alaska to find quiet and nature.
- cannonball19780
If I could set something up where my off the grid living starts and stops as simply as flipping a switch, that would be ideal.
I show up... I flip the switch... I wait a about an hour. Presto change I have a running infrastructure that is off the grid that I can shut down when I want to return to civilization.
The thing about off the grid living is that people make it synonymous with leaving society. Why does it have to be that way? Why can't I be off the grid and still want to participate? I would much rather look to living off the grid as a means of self-sustainance as opposed to economic otherness.
- doggydoggdog0
Become a park ranger and freelance at night.
- ie, get high all day, sleep at nightdoesnotexist
- Good benefits too - maybe.doggydoggdog
- GeorgesIV0
is going sometime to the bathroom without my cell phone considered living off the grid??
- benfal990
Have you heard of them : http://www.theminimalists.com/
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- "while approaching 30" says it all.nb
- can't trust anyone with an "n" like that in their logo: http://www.theminima…Krassy
- scarabin0
i've enjoyed this book series since i was a kid. there's tons of how-to knowledge in there on every aspect of living
- colin_s0
alaska.
my dad has lived in a cabin in AK for 36 years. no running water. hunts for a primary source of meat (moose, sheep etc). i was born up there, go back now and again. too addicted to cities to live off the grid for now, but i fully intend on getting back to AK for awhile at some point in my life.
- Gnash0
i just lost out on this property:
http://rickkennedy.com/HobbyFarm…Looking at another one this weekend
- cannonball19780
^^ you may want to consider an area that doesn't get snow. Not having to adapt energy usage to cyclical seasons is a plus.
- scarabin0
there are so many fun problems to solve... irrigation, power, waste... i was telling my gf yesterday how my brain would go apeshit over building our own place in the wilderness like this
- +1Gnash
- Hey, what was the cost of your solar set-up? how many watts do you average?Gnash
- i can spend around 8,040 watts in ideal sun safely (50% battery capacity, to protect battery life). priced out the parts in my original post's commentsscarabin
- post's comments abovescarabin
- that's 8040 watts per day i meanscarabin