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...off the grid cabin I want to put in a green water collections and water and waste management system can you advice what is the best one to go with and an idea o...

...Off-grid heating solutions Passive solar home design Choosing the right wood stove Off-grid living blog: heating systems Dear Emmanuel, Thanks for you...

I have an illustration of a top view looking down but still working on a side view but not quite sure on what section and how much reinforcement I would need t...

...off grid project? Thank you in advance What size of project are you talking about? To the best of our knowledge this is, at the moment at least, more of a com...

...off grid as the cost of grid power on our site is expensive. We also need a water collection system as our water is not good for consumption. I was looking at t...

...off grid house, see some of these pages Passive Solar Home Design and Living Off Grid . As for Geothermal, it is a great system for efficient heating, the onl...

...off grid cabin in Flagstaff arizona, 8200 feet elevation so it gets a good amount of snow. Flat buildng lot. Will be on solar, septic and hauled water/water cat...

...off grid articles. You can find all that stuff and more in the Ecohome Building Guide Pages , but also pop in any keyword like 'off grid' in the search box at t...

...off-grid in the North Woods area, it's not a case of slapping as much PV on as possible and feeding the excess into the grid for a credit - everything has to be...

...offer on that front unfortunately, and we've never been in contact with the new owner. You may have seen this already, but here is a page on phase change buil...

At the moment I'm designing a small house that I hope to be able to be able to live in all year round, with zero bills so I'm using wind, hydro and solar for e...

...off-grid, passively heated home, we have lots of pages that will help you design properly for whatever climate your building in. Below are a few starter pages. ...

...off-grid green living ideas including rainwater harvesting, they often land on Earthship pages, but those are little more than gimmick homes that should never h...

I will probably build a solar panel with layers of black screen. My question is, I have a patio door with a thermal pane in it. Could this be used for the glas...

...grid tied, ground mounted solar system into our design. Given that we are hoping to generate a portion of out own electricity what would be the best method of h...

...off grid, and after exploring all the options for our client we ended up installing a solar tracker , and the next step will be installing a home battery. Des...

...off-grid use or during power outages, see here © Ecohome

...off. In other words, I'm happy to spend $50,000 today if it will save me $50,000+ in the long run. Some eco/green building strategies are expensive and I suspec...