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How would you like to go off the grid? Well, we’re doing it, and we’re looking for folks who want to live off grid too! We’re tired of the everyday grind of the system, and after losing almost everything, we’re starting over from scratch. This time we’re going off the grid, are designing and building [...]
You and me, and a whole bunch of our friends are going to get together to build an open sourced, off the grid, sustainable-living system for under $100k to provide affordable natural built and energy efficient housing for people needing affordable housing. We’re all giving 33 cents a day. (we all spend more than this [...]
Here’s a list of the top 10 US states for “off the grid” trending based search. According to Google Trends and search results, the trend is UP over the past 5 years, with dramatic increases in people within certain larger cities searching for information using the keyword phrase “off the grid“. Here’s a screenshot from [...]
OK so here’s the deal. I’m going to try the “off-the-grid” lifestyle. No really. I’ve decided to DO IT! I’ve had it with renting, and never owning anything of real value. I’m tired of paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent and never actually having anything of value. THAT SUCKS! I’ve been renting [...]
Here’s my design for a $25k Container Home (2560 square feet = $9.77 per square foot): For this one, I removed the sloped roof and replaced it with a flat roof, which could be turned into a place for the solar/wind power system. Simplistic, inexpensive and minimalist is the point. Since the building parts/materials cost [...]
Ever wondered about building with shipping containers? Here’s a few of my shipping container home designs. I’ was playing around in Google Sketchup and thought it would be cool to design a few homes, from one extreme to the other, cheap and small, to extremely large and extravagant. To start off here’s a shipping container [...]
