“Have you ever wanted to unplug from the rat race and free yourself?” asks Nick Rosen in his new book How to live off-grid. In it he provides not only the inspiration to get off the beaten track and find your own space, he also provides countless resources to help you do just what he suggests, and live off-grid.
Nick’s book was published just this week, to coincide with the celebration of World Environment Day, and this in itself will give you some idea as to his environmental stance. He makes the case for off-grid living citing environmentalism, post-consumerism, survivalism and geopolitics as all being good reasons to make the break with “our familiar world of commuting, mortgages, no time, and fast food”.
To gather the information to write this book, Nick Rosen took to the road with his wife and baby daughter in a converted care bus fuelled by vegetable oil and sun. They toured the UK meeting with off-gridders of all sorts. Yurt-dwellers, communards, utopians and rural squatters were all on Nick’s path, all living happy and comfortable lives completely off-grid. Their stories are fascinating, inspiring and sometimes quite far-out. But they all have some lessons to pass on to those of us who until now have only dream about being self-sufficient.
Nick’s book goes into every detail of how to live off-grid. He’s pulled together all the information that you could need from types of shelters and how to get planning permission, to types of toilets and how to power your off-grid dream. He even reveals how to get Ocado to deliver to your yurt, and how to run a wireless modem off the car cigarette lighter.
If you have even the slightest urge to take a break from the pressures of urban life and try living off-grid, this book is a must-read.Get your copy here.
