In the United States, off-the-grid living – without relying on government entities or utility companies to provide electricity, heat, gas, and water – often is associated with gritting it out on the survivalist fringe. But an increasing range of Americans are leading a snug, even smug, lifestyle totally or mostly unhitched from public utilities. Using nature – the sun, wind, water, and the earth itself – they cheaply warm and cool their homes and power everything from a blender to a giant flat-screen TV to a raging hot tub. And with the constant concern about global warming and messy dependence on fossil fuels, its natural that growing numbers of Americans – the foot soldiers of energy independence, as one expert calls them – would begin taking steps to untether themselves from the grid. csmonitor/Environment/2010/0807/Green-living-Off-the-grid-families-pioneer-sustainable-energy-lifestyles
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:10:01 +0000
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