UK Family Faces Jail Or Eviction From Farm For Living ‘Off The Grid’
The Mason family purchased an abandoned orchard and moved out of public housing. Their self-sustaining lifestyle has baffled local authorities however, who have ordered them to give up their property...
View Article‘Wi-Fi Refugees’ Take Shelter In West Virginia Mountains
Is it mass hypochondria? More than ten million Americans believe they suffer from physical illness caused by cell phone and wireless internet networks. Some are upending their lives and retreating to...
View ArticleLife In The California Desert’s Slab City
Reuters offers a hypnotic glimpse inside a desert community which blurs the line between homeless encampment and off-the-grid utopian commune. Populated by hippies, the blue collar elderly, and...
View ArticleWild Man Living In Goat Costume Spotted In Mountains Of Northern Utah
Via Utah’s KSL, has the anthropomorphic furry lifestyle been taken vastly too far? A man spotted dressed in a goat suit among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern... The post Wild Man...
View ArticleNaked Caveman Discovered Living In Texas Canyon
Can't a man adopt the uncluttered lifestyle of the ancients without being persecuted? Yahoo! News writes: A half-naked man living in a cave in a canyon outside El Paso, Texas, scared a group of hikers...
View ArticleHow to be “Stealth” Homeless
You may see homeless people everyday and never suspect them. Conversely, that panhandler on the street corner may not be homeless at all. But, perhaps, you have that fear in the back of your mind that...
View ArticleOn Bringing Survivalism Into Mainstream Suburbia
The New York Times examines the booming business of selling preparedness for societal breakdown, with more and more Americans worried that civilization may be on the verge of collapse in the wake......
View ArticleFaulty iPhone Maps Could Kill You, Australian Authorities Warn
Is our reliance on GPS and mobile devices maps making us increasingly disoriented and oblivious? To me, the relevant aspect of this story is not that Apple’s map app is flawed, but... The post Faulty...
View ArticleKansas City Police Uncover A Subterranean Suburb Inhabited By Homeless
In the coming years, expect living in the tunnel cities with the outlaws, rejects, and copper bandits to become an increasingly popular lifestyle option. From Kansas City’s KMBC: Kansas City police...
View ArticleDisinfoCast: 65: Wendy Jehanara Tremayne, ‘The Good Life Lab’
iTunes | Download (mp3) | RSS | iPhone App Wendy Jehanara Tremayne was living a fast-paced life as a New York City publicist, but something was missing. To find it, she embarked... The post...
View ArticleFather And Son Spent 40 Years Of Isolation Living In The Jungles Of Vietnam
A tragic story of going off the grid Robinson Crusoe-style in response to the horrors of war, via the BBC: A Vietnamese father and his son who fled to the jungle during... The post Father And Son Spent...
View ArticleGermany’s Feral “Forest Boy” Found Guilty As Fraud
This is one way to start your life all over again. Via The Local: The young man who became world famous as the “Forest Boy” when he claimed he had lived feral... The post Germany’s Feral “Forest Boy”...
View ArticleThis Man Went to Prison for Collecting Rainwater | Brainwash Update
Abby Martin talks about the crackdown on individuals who choose to live ‘Off the Grid’ citing a examples such as a man in Oregon who faced jail-time for collecting rainwater and a... The post This Man...
View ArticleGoing ‘Off-the-Grid’ is Nearly Impossible
The “Surveillance Economy” is here to stay. Mega-ad agency Omnicom’s Media Pulse suggests you can forget about going off-the-grid: As surveillance technologies decline in cost and increase in...
View ArticleThe Unidentified Floating Object Home Concept
Jet Capsule, know for their mini yachts and other prefab home concepts, has drawn up a concept for a saucer-shaped UFO that floats on the ocean and is completely off the gird. The post The Unidentified...
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