{"id":4019,"date":"2015-01-04T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2015-01-04T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:46:07","slug":"10-lessons-from-living-life-off-the-grid-alternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/environment\/10-lessons-living-life-grid\">10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\">It was in 2011 that I first understood what off-grid living really meant. Before then I had heard people claim they were off-grid if they switched their cell phone off for a day or two. Other people thought anyone who lived in remote places was off-grid. None of that made any sense. It was when I first visited British Columbia&#8217;s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #f1602c; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Life\/2012\/06\/14\/Living-Off-the-Grid-On-Lasqueti\/\">Lasqueti Island<\/a>\u00a0and later the floating home community of<a style=\"color: #f1602c; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Life\/2012\/01\/24\/Living-Off-The-Grid-In-BC\/\">Clayoquot Sound<\/a>\u00a0that I got a real taste of the off-grid life: life, that is, in a place disconnected from large natural gas and electricity networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\">For the next two years, photographer\/videographer Jonathan Taggart and I travelled close to 105,000 kilometres together across Canada to find people who live off-the-grid and visit them in their homes. Occasionally we lived with them for a short period of time. Sometimes we followed them around as they fished, harvested, collected wood and built or fixed their homes. And we too practiced living in off-grid homes and cabins for short stretches of time. Overall we visited about 100 homes and interviewed about 200 off-grid Canadians, as well as many American and British expats living in Canada. We managed to find off-gridders in every single province and territory, and through our\u00a0<a style=\"color: #f1602c; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/lifeoffgrid.ca\/\">book and forthcoming film<\/a>\u00a0we narrated our travels and chronicled the experiences, challenges, inventions, aspirations and ways of life of a few of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"OLE_LINK4\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK5\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK6\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK7\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK8\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK9\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK10\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK11\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK12\"><\/a><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK11;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK10;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK9;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK6;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK5;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 32px !important; margin: 0px 0px 22px 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet. 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