This YES! Magazine blog post really inspires me to continue on the path. The Perks of Being Gainfully Unemployed by Shannon Hayes — YES! Magazine
Being Gainfully Unemployed
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Simple clean soap
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The bane of my existence! Can't wait till it's running...
I feel as though I’m loosing my mind! Setting up off grid energy when you are a laymen requires a lot of reading. Even getting cables to connect to the batteries takes quite a while of reading and pertinent forum research. Still all is coming together. Just got my Xantrex ProSine 2 inverter/charger and will soon be hooking it up. Solar coming up soon.
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Gaining Traction
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A friend mentioned a quote yesterday that I feel is appropriate to start this post.
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No internet makes blogging complicated
So as you know we’ve been living off-grid for almost a month now. The amount of information I’ve accrued is crazy. Set up some stuff, fixed some and broke some others. At this point the main goals are, reliable battery charging and internet. Blogging gets tricky when you are not online.
I’ll be back on track soon, till then it’ll be small posts from my phone.
Solar tracked thermosiphoning water heater
About a year ago I wrote about a thermosiphoning passive solar water heater from Build It Solar.
Well, they have out done themselves. Now they show a design that will also track the sun as it travels from east to west. This increases it’s water heating capabilities by %30!
Progressing towards the goal
Mobile is the new stable
Serendipitous as our life is, we have made some great strides this past month. It is the end of a wonderful chapter on our journey, and we’ll be leaving the community for a more rustic lifestyle. Thanks to good ol’ Craigslist we have found a new place to live and a new “home”.
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Interesting Technique
This video shows an “emergency” way to back feed your generator to your home electrical breaker panel. Not sure it’s safe, but it’s clever enough to entertain the thought.
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New and updating, welcome to 2012
We’ve been out of town for a while, visiting Erin’s family over on the east coast. How awesome was your Christmas and New Year? Mine was just perfect!
Econlockhatchee River, Orlando Florida
We’ve been looking into the logistics of buying land and building codes etc. It’s not an easily traveled road. Land buying is not generally given any love by the banks, so you are left with owner financing. Building codes are not meant to help the owner builder, but instead make it so the “industry” gets as many of their materials inside our homes. This creates on average a %40 or more waste of materials per home built. This only applies if you plan on doing this up to code and legally of course, which we are. Since we plan on building an Eco educational B&B out of sustainable materials and practices (best case scenario).
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There is no such thing as waste
How fun was this? Thanks Permaculture Planet
Have a good weekend. For me its permaculture class this weekend!