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How to Live Off-grid: Journeys Outside the System (Paperback)

by Nick Rosen (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday (4 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385611277
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385611275
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 252,672 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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THE TIMES, Anna Shepard
With his book, [Nick Rosen] has caught the Zeitgeist.


The Sunday Telegraph
This is a timely and highly readable examination of what it really
means to live and travel `off-grid'.


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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading, 29 Sep 2007
By Neil (REUK.co.uk) - See all my reviews
In How to Live Off-Grid, Nick Rosen investigates the possibilities and difficulties of living an off-grid lifestyle (no mains water and no mains power) in the UK.

This is not a typical "How To" guide to off-gridding although the book is packed with useful information. Instead the main focus of the book is on real people living an off-grid life - their motivations, their struggles, their problems, and their solutions.

In the 120 page Chapter 4: Meet the People, Nick Rosen tells the story of his own journey around the UK in his newly purchased camper van meeting off-gridders from all walks of life who are living off-grid with varying levels of success and for a range of different reasons.

These short stories give a fascinating look into the often difficult world of the off-gridder: seemingly a constant struggle against council planners, neighbours, and the elements. Living an off-grid existence is rarely easy, but is shown to be hugely fulfilling.

The rest of the book comprises chapters on generating power, obtaining water, and building shelter. In addition a chapter entitled We Were All Off Grid Once tells the story of how we ended up on-grid in the first place and looks into the main motivations for people to move off-grid today: environmentalism, post-consumerism, rising energy prices, water shortages, rising house prices, fear, and the availability of new technology.

How to Live Off-Grid is information packed and very easy and entertaining to read. The real world practicalities of living off-grid in the UK today are well covered in this unique and well researched book.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An Important Insightful Book, 26 Jul 2007
By Cacciato "Jim" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
At last, a book about the environment which is not pious or humorless. A
book about living cheaply which is witty, and inventive, and surprising.
The author has really lived the experience, and as a result he can evidently walk the talk .

The first chapter finds him buying a shepherd's hut for 10,000 sterling
because its all he can afford, and chapter 2 is an extended and impeccably researched treatise on the foundation of the power and water industries as well as a survey of recent writings on imminent social collapse.

The fun chapter is chapter 3 where he buys a camper van, realises it's the wrong one, or his wife does, and then sells it and buys another one.

Its only in Chapter 4 that he goes round Britain visiting all the off-grid types - a chapter that lasts about 100 pages and is a really inspiring guide to how, what and where to go off grid.

The next chapters are rather textbookish, but that might be useful to some - the most complicated is the section on planning permission, but if you are going to stick your neck out and buy a chunk of land, you are going to have to think out your planning permission strategy in advance.

An important, insightful book.
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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A pompous, ridiculous book , 11 Sep 2007
I bought this book with great anticipation, having lived in a truck for 5 years myself but it was absolute unadulterated middle-class nonsense. In fact it was so bad it was funny! He goes on about how he can't afford to buy a country home in the UK (alongside his first home and his very expensively 'off-gridded' Spanish house in the mountains). The guy couldn't write well if his mortgages depended on it, clearly he has old-school chums in the media and publishing industry who have wasted trees on this nonsense of a guide (much of which is filled with borrowed material from people with real ethical principles).
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