Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with 2 containers
Paul Chambers had began building a home out of two shipping containers as a project, but when his wife got tired of suburbia and put their four-bedroom home on the market, his project became the couple’s full-time home. The containers are cleverly and creatively transformed into ...
How to Build an Off Grid Log Cabin: For FREE!
James start to building his new log cabin, for free, and he talk about the time lived off-grid and show us his old log cabin that has been standing for 25 years now – 15 of those years completely unmaintained.
Stay tuned for the following videos as he complete the cabin using ...
How to Make a Vermicomposting Flush Toilet
Quinta do Vale is an an off-grid permaculture project of 2.5ha in the mountains of Central Portugal and an evolving demonstration/experimentation site for many aspects of sustainable living.
They created a composting toilet system with a flush toilet, a worm-composting bin and a filter ...
An Off-Grid House Hidden In Utah’s Cliffs
Thousands of years ago, the Anasazi tribe of Native Americans made their homes in the cliffs of southeastern Utah. Their cliff dwellings provided a cool reprieve from the desert sun, warmth from the cool, dry nights and a measure of defense from their enemies. Now, a modern off-grid ...
Smartflower Solar Panel
Clean solar power, whenever you need it – until now it has just been a pipe dream. Now you are closer than ever to realising that dream, because smartflower POP+ can not only turn the sun’s energy into electricity very efficiently; it can store it in sufficient quantities ...
Family of 7 Living Completely Off-Grid in Northern Canada!
If you thought it’s impossible to live completely off-grid, take a look at this video. It features a family of 7 that has achieved complete off the grid status in Northern Canada. With less than $25,000, the couple with 5 girls managed to build their own off-grid cedar ...
How to convert a Van into an Off-Grid Camper
You probably already know all those projects that show you how to convert a van into an off-grid camper. But what about projects that teach you how to do this in a short period of time? Here is a success story, of someone who managed to turn a van into an off-grid camper in just 17 ...
‘Farm from a Box’: The Best Solution for Off-Grid Farming
Besides using shipping containers to make awesome micro-homes, now you can also use them to create micro-farms. A company based in California designed ‘Farm from a box’, a farming toolkit that provides everything you need in order to produce your own organic and off-grid food. The modified shipping ...
The Groundfridge: the best solution for off-grid food storage
Nowadays people have become overly dependent on modern appliances and would probably find it hard to imagine that they can refrigerate food and beverages without any electrical power. Floris Schoonderbeek is a designer and entrepreneur originally from the Netherlands. He developed ...
