Posts Tagged ‘ city ’

3 Simple Steps To Living Off-The-Grid In The City

Apr 9th, 2013 | By
3 Simple Steps To Living Off-The-Grid In The City

Living off the grid is a great choice that families across the world make day in and day out, but not everyone has the opportunity to move to a spacious plot of land and leave the city behind. For those who love the tenets of living off the grid and running self-sufficient households, there are a wide variety of strategies that can be employed in a crowded urban environment to start your home on this path. Don’t fool yourself— it is impossible to transform your city home into a self sufficient, green space overnight. It
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Urban Homesteaders

Aug 10th, 2012 | By

August 10, 2012 CNN’s Thelma Gutierrez reports on a family living the ultimate green lifestyle on an urban farm in Pasadena, California. Video Courtesy of CNN Previous Video



Prepping for the City Slicker

May 18th, 2012 | By
Prepping for the City Slicker

“It’s the end of the world as we know it” – at least that’s what the popular 1980s band REM reported in one of their biggest hits of the same name. TEOTWAWKI is a much talked about and much prepared for scenario.  When you hear the term survivalist or prepper, do you picture camo-clad wild men creeping around in the far back woods? It may surprise you to learn that prepping is catching on in urban areas across the country. You never know when a catastrophe may leave you on your own without government services
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