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How to Live Off-grid (Paperback)

by Nick Rosen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (25 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553818198
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553818192
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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THE TIMES, Anna Shepard

With his book, [Nick Rosen] has caught the Zeitgeist.


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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24 of 25 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
This review is from: How to Live Off-grid: Journeys Outside the System (Paperback)
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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing - hack journalism, 12 Dec 2008
By William Parslow "WW" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Very disappointing and doesn't live up to the title. If you like to read about how a rather well off reporter went off in van and totally failed to engage with any of the people, issues or anything of interest, then this could be the anodyne book of the year for you. You won't be any the wiser about living off-grid tho.
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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
This review is from: How to Live Off-grid: Journeys Outside the System (Paperback)
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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5.0 out of 5 stars a must read
This book gives many examples of living off grid. The writer does not tell you, what is right or wrong about any of these people, he tells you how they are living and it gives you... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Mr. M. B. Bates

1.0 out of 5 stars haven''t read it
i haven't read this book. Isn't the review a strange and contradictory concept.
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Published 2 months ago by Kevin Francis

4.0 out of 5 stars An informative overview of the range of off-grid living
This was a really interesting book and highlights the extent to which one can live off grid and how different sums of money can be committed to the cause. Read more
Published 3 months ago by AP Crocker

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I was saddened that this book rejects the gypsy community -- page 15 generalises in what I found to be a concerning way about gypsy life. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Phreil

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing
I feel that it's a very interesting subject but nick rosen is totally the wrong person to write it. He obviously is not that well liked or respected by the people in the book and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Charles Parslow

1.0 out of 5 stars a muddled & woolly book
What a waste of a potentially interesting topic!
He says that he is unable to afford to buy a house in the country in England,but paradoxically he describes the 'shack' he... Read more
Published 11 months ago by edgar west

3.0 out of 5 stars The off-grid reader
There are lots of ways of living off the grid. The most familiar ones are narrow boats on our urban canals, caravans, and traveller or gypsy communities, and of course remote... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jeremy Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB - BUY IT !
great book, i have just started reading it, a great way to learn about some of the issues and see how people are going off grid in different ways

Published 17 months ago by Jason Palmer

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A great book overall and I personally enjoyed Nick's style of writing. Good read with some interesting characters that crossed many boundaries and gave numerous personal insights... Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Grayland

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading
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... Read more
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