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Off-grid living

September 2024

  • Margaret Rutherford in the 1961 film Murder She Said.

    Brief letters
    Miss Marple’s scarf coat is back in vogue

  • Emma Melay and her partner Darren McFadden on the Great Blasket, the uninhabited Irish island for which they are caretakers, September 2024

    Experience
    Experience: We’re the caretakers of an uninhabited Irish island

June 2024

  • Emma Beddington

    I want to survive the apocalypse – but not if it’s just me and some terrible billionaires

    Emma Beddington
    Since the pandemic, remote properties have been marketed for off-grid living. But a life spent gardening and eating cormorants is not for me, writes Emma Beddington

March 2024

  • James Campbell and his daughter in the field around his tiny off-grid home

    No space, no power – and a hive of flaming bees: my teeny tiny off-grid house nightmare

    Living in a minuscule home is so crazy, you’d have to be a lunatic to do it. And it turns out I am that lunatic …

September 2023

  • Islands in Brijuni park, Croatia

    A piece of paradise on our own private island

  • Chris Lewis and his dog, Jet, on Hildasay

    ‘It’s beautiful to be alone’: the joy and pain of life on a desert island

July 2023

  • A sustainable off-grid community in New Mexico built by Earthship Biotecture.

    How off-gridders can avoid gridlock

    Letter: When it comes to living off-grid, communities are more efficient than communes, writes Nick Rosen

June 2022

  • Festival of Nature 2022

    Let’s go wild: 10 nature-based festivals in the UK

    From a rewilding gathering in Devon to eagle conservation in Scotland, these events celebrate a greener way of life

May 2022

  • The-Boxbnb-Stars (2)

    Stays in splendid isolation: 10 of the UK’s best off-grid retreats

    Turn off the laptop, ditch the phone and tune into nature at a remote bothy, lighthouse, cabin or narrowboat

August 2021

  • David Lidstone, 81, has been jailed after defying a court order to leave his house in the New Hampshire woods. Supporters say he should be able to live out his days off the grid.

    Off-grid New Hampshire man jailed for refusing to vacate cabin of 27 years

  • Scotland Retreat Hut credit Jack Boothby

    10 of Britain’s best off-grid cabins, lodges and cottages

June 2021

  • Eve

    George Monbiot's blog
    Eve: the off-grid life of a nine-year-old climate activist

    Filmmakers Lucy and Joya discuss their carbon-conscious approach to making their documentary about Eve and her community

October 2020

  • Exterior shot, at night, of the Carpenter's Cabin at Devon Dens, UK

    The Devon cabins so cosy you might want to take one home

    With wild Dartmoor and coastal walks nearby, these woodland dens offer an idyllic off-grid escape

February 2020

  • Rodney and Emma Bird, off grid couple

    How we live together
    How we live together: the off-grid couple

    This way of life makes you realise what you don’t really need

January 2020

  • Grain and solar panels for sale at a market in Gaoua, Burkina Faso.

    UK could tap into Africa's $24bn market for off-grid solar power

    Rapidly growing sector could prove lucrative as Britain seeks post-Brexit trade opportunities

August 2019

  • Margaret Gallagher at her cottage near Belcoo, Northern Ireland

    Living off-grid for 77 years – in pictures

    A wind-up radio, a smattering of colour photos and a stack of glossy books: these are the only signs that Margaret Gallagher lives in the modern world. For all of her 77 years, she has lived in a 200-year-old thatched cottage in Northern Ireland without running water, electricity or an indoor toilet

27 April 2019

  • Fisherman's cabin lake view 2019

    Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet

  • Bored teenage boy outside tent in forest

    Off-grid family holidays: Tim Dowling’s rules for survival

  • Guardswell Farm - a cabin on a hillside in Perthshire, Scotland

    15 of the best off-grid places to stay in the UK

  • Teacher’s Cottage Faroe Islands

    15 of the best off-grid places to stay in Europe

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