Living off the Grid in Upper Canada Village. This is how it's done !

We visited Upper Canada Village today, a beautiful 17th Century village along the St Lawrence River east of Kingston Ontario. What an amazing place, stone and timber homes and shops totally off the grid.

"Traditional farming techniques are demonstrated through the growing of heritage vegetables and raising of heritage livestock breeds. 

Ornamental gardens throughout the village feature flora fashionable in the late Victorian era. Weavers, spinners and dressmakers demonstrate traditional handiwork. 

Aspects of late 19th-century social life, music, religion and politics are discussed and demonstrated by knowledgeable staff dressed in clothing of the period. 

Also offered are educational camp programs allowing children to experience everyday life in 1860s Canada."    Visit here :  http://www.uppercanadavillage.com/index.cfm/en/home/




Upper Canada Village Cook's Tavern

Upper Canada  Village School house.

Tesla and Airstream need to get together and build a Solar-Electric Camper Car

Solar Powered Camper Car Concept. For the ultimate Offgrid Living experience, I would combine the incredible Electric car battery technology of the Tesla car, the brilliant compact interior design of the Airstream and the latest Flexible Solar Technology. It's just around the corner.... Let me know if you are interested in this Concept !

OFF THE GRID from San Francisco to Vermont.

A message from Rob Greenfield :

Hello fellow off the gridders!
I am currently cycling OFF THE GRID  from San Francisco to Vermont. I'm halfway through my 103 day trip and haven't turned ...on a light switch, taken a hot shower, used water from on the grid, etc.

This 4,500 mile ride is an off the grid, solar powered, zero waste, eat organic, pure water, shop local and sustainable, seed planting, composting adventure! And it's bound to entertain, educate, and inspire!

Check it out at: www.GreenfieldAdventures.org

Tesla Model S - Rated Best car ever....

Is it finally time for an Electric Car ?

Maybe.....

If you had a roof of Solar Panels... definitely !

Consumer Reports  is calling the Tesla Model S the best car it has ever tested. The Model S, an all-electric plug-in car, earned a score of 99 out of a possible 100 in the magazine's tests.

Tesla Model "S"

A Tree house, a real house in the trees !

So, could you live here ? I think I could. I'd be a little nervous in a big wind storm though. What do you think ? A wonderful place to dream, a perfect writer's cabin.  Location will remain undisclosed.

"Simplify, Simplify " - Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously.  

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The Wisdom of Black Elk, Oglala Lakota