Back to Basics: a Self Sustaining Life on and Off the Grid
June 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Layoffs & Firings
I recently read a story of a young women who wanted a self sustaining life and did all she could to make it come true. It was in Mother earth news – great article, I wish I knew that young woman.
I have been a big fan of living off the grid. I have watched program after program on families who spend more money to build a home off the grid. Only to be disappointed because they could not make it as they felt it should be. Living off the grid is a great life. But you have to want it
like anything else. You can live just like you live in the city but the cost is usually a factor that leads people to abandon their plans. The up keep is the same way. Solar panels do not last forever and even a cheap solar panel can cost hundreds of dollars. Kind of like owning a hybrid car the battery does not last forever and in five years will cost you what you saved when you bought the car never mind what it took to manufacture that car…