Showing posts with label Off The Grid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Off The Grid. Show all posts

Sunday, August 11, 2013

750,000 American Households have gone Off-the-Grid ~ Nick Rosen



Nick Rosen is an award winning documentary maker, journalist, and broadcaster. He has made films for CBS 60 Minutes and PBS Frontline and has written for the Washington Post and Reuters. Born and based in London, England, he has often lived and worked in the US. He says when he wants to know what the future holds, he comes to America.
Over the past two decades he has been a Teaching Assistant at the Georgetown University Philosophy Department, a journalist in San Francisco and a documentary filmmaker in New York. Nick is an off-grid expert, editing the website www.off-grid.net, and since 1994 has been off the grid part-time.


Friday, August 9, 2013

Surviving Off The Grid in America 2013


Off the Grid - Documentary




2012 Documentary by Alexander Oey

Alexander Oey traveled throughout the United States and filmed communities who are taking matters into their own hands. 50 of the 46 U.S. states are nearly bankrupt. Over 13 million Americans are unemployed. More than 49 million people live below the poverty line.

How was it able to come that far? People seek for their own Utopia outside the financial system and government. Are these communities the right path and solution? Has they found effective alternatives, while governments worldwide are heading to bankruptcy?