Off-grid living / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...off-grid house; now lithium-ion home batteries are easily available, if expensive. Buying a lithium-ion home battery for security during power outages can run you easily 20+ thousand to keep a moderately-sized home operational, although that option requires either grid power to stay charged and ready, or a massive sola...

...off-grid living, tiny houses, and sustainable residential projects, the composting toilet has evolved from a rustic necessity into a high-performance sanitation solution. For those new to composting toilets, it is hard not to conjure an image of a backwoods sort of environment where someone is manually managing their o...

...off-grid LEED Gold passively-heated home. See post 1 of the off-grid homes blog here, the overview . or post 2 in the off-grid homes blog here covering design and construction choices. or here see post 3 in the off grid homes blog about off grid power generation and here see post 4 all about off-grid heating systems an...

...off-grid LEED Gold passively-heated home. See post 1 of the off-grid homes blog here, the overview . or post 2 in the off-grid homes blog here covering design and construction choices. or here see post 3 in the off grid homes blog about off grid power generation and here see post 4 all about off-grid heating systems In...

...off-grid pellet stoves that don't need power to operate. Outside of ultra-efficient, passively heated structures, a conventional wood stove or a properly engineered backup power system is often what prevents frozen pipes and emergency evacuations when local power distribution networks fail. A standard grid-tied photovo...