Off The Grid
Lenses For Greener Living and Eco-Conscious Lifestyles
Please note that for "Off The Grid" we'd really like to see lenses about living greener and more eco-supportive lifestyles. This means that your lens should actually offer original content that genuinely talks about how people can be more energy-efficient, use natural resources more sparingly, eat more organically and locally, etc. We're really looking for first-person experience and hands-on stories for the day-to-day. If it's just hinted at or danced around, it's not doing that which was promised in the title. This is NOT an "everything and anything that might remotely be green" group. We're trying to focus on very local and home issues.
Lenses with a strong commercial focus on eco-logos or green designs (i.e. "shopping to go green") will no longer be accepted. Too many of these are poor in quality and offer products not from organic/sustainable sources. Buying stuff with "green" logos on it does NOT make you have a greener lifestyle. (buying less stuff, reusing and recycling does) Lenses which primarily encourage the reader to go shopping will most likely get declined.
Due to a veritable FLOOD of lenses about solar and wind power which link to Clickbank links, or sites that then just lead to Clickbank, lensmasters who submit lenses such as these will now be banned.
Green, Super green, Any Shade You Want Green...
Changing to a green lifestyle doesn't happen overnight. Most people get there through a gradual process of adapting how they live, shop and consume.
Activism and Education
These lenses provide information on green politics, world issues, and developing a green lifestyle.
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Not Just Another Green Living Guide
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Perhaps you are tired of hearing about how we need to live a greener life. Global warming isn't really going to happen is it? Well most scientists believe that climate change really is happening. Today. Now. No waiting around to see if we can get aw...
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Green Writing Challenge!
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Like throngs of other concerned citizens of Mother Earth, I'm always looking for ways to minimize my impact on our overwhelmed planet. In so doing I turned at one point to a very big aspect of my life---my writing career...an area I soon realized cou...
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29 Tips to Go Green
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29 Tips to go green's simple idea is to cut down on waste, reusing energy, and centering yourself towards efficiency. The list below shows ways you can help the earth by minimizing wasted energy. It has ways to waste less water, less electricity, an...
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Fresh Green Gossip
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Find juicy celebrity gossip and news as it pertains to the environment and climate change. There are lots of celebrities and brand names that are greening up there act to help reduce carbon emissions around the world. ...
Going Hand-Powered
Replace electrical appliances with devices that run on human power! Here are some items that would be very commonly used around the house if you didn't have electricity, or if you had to generate your own.
Please vote for which of these tools would be something you'd really find useful if you didn't have electricity!
If you've got an item to recommend, be sure to add it to the list!
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FK-01AG HAND CRANKED COFFEE GRINDER
Classic style hand crank coffee grinder. Features steel grinding wheels and adjustable settings from fine to coarse grind.3 points
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Oxo SteeL Can Opener
The OXO Steel Can Opener is a kitchen essential. The stainless steel blades make it durable, and the large, soft turning knob is easy to manage. Also includes a built-in bottle opener.3 points
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Scotts 20-Inch Classic Push Reel Lawn Mower #2000-20
The Scott's classic reel mower is light, maneuverable, and economical. The business end of this push reel mower is solid, sharp, and everything a reel mower should be, with five heat-treated, knife-sharp steel blades that can be adjusted for nine grass heights with very easy wheel tabs.1 point
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Wusthof 2 Stage Knife Sharpener
This Wusthof Knife Life Sharpener is a two stage knife sharpener with a built-in scissors sharpener. The carbide side sets your knife's edge, while the ceramic side finishes the edge.1 point
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Rival F64304-X 4-Quart Hand-Crank White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer
"RIVAL" ICE CREAM FREEZER, Hand crank, Wood tub with maple finish, Stainless steel can, Boxed, 4 Qt.0 points
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Bressant Manual Hand Clipper
The Bressant is the first choice of barbers universally. Original design, reliable, sturdy construction.0 points
Home and Lifestyle
These lenses offer suggestions for how to make your home a greener, more natural and more sustainable place to live.
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Are Traditional Household Cleaners Making You Sick?
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"If your Home or Office is typical, it already has dozens of Cleaning and Personal Care Products that contain Harmful Chemicals. These Chemicals have the potential to Greatly Harm or even Kill your Children, your Pets and You, should they accide...
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Building Ordinary--Sustainable Community
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They're known as eco-villages, cohousing or intentional communities. This lens explores several of them and answers these questions: What is cohousing? What do we mean by sust...
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A Healthy Home with Green Cleaning Products
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Welcome! This lens is dedicated to the environmental health of your home. Without knowing, most homes today are fully loaded with toxic chemicals, which come from common cleaning products. These toxins are a threat to your health and that of your fami...
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Yurtopia...
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Thank you for stopping by Yurtopia! Here you will find useful information, links, and even gifts related to all things YURT! Express YOUR Yurt love!
Our Greenest Lenses
the newest lenses added to Off-The-Grid
How to Build an Earthship, Explore Communal Living and Schools , Save Money on Healthy Organic Foods, Shipping Container Houses, 10 Frugally Green Workout Tips
Food and Gardening
Remember, you are what you eat!
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A Lazy Man's Guide to Compost
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Making compost that your plants will love is quite easy. You don't need an expensive bin or a fancy compost tumbler. All you really need is an enclosure of some kind and the organic ingredients to create black gold. Black gold is wha...
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Green Eggs & Chickens: Live Green with Chickens
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No, my eggs and my chickens aren't actually green. The eggs are brown and the chickens are black (but some do have a green sheen in the sun). We mean "green" in terms of earth friendly. If you want to know: *How chickens can be earth friendly, *Why...
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Mediaeval Gardening - Organically for the benefit of Wildlife
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With tadpoles and newts in the pond, Spring gets off to a good start for this organic mediaeval style vegetable plot and informal, almost cottage-like garden. By not using chemicals in the garden and working with nature the wildlife finds its own nat...
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Solar Food Dehydrators
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Once you start gardening, the issue becomes how to save your delicious harvest so that you can enjoy it all. One method that is very useful is dehydrating or drying your fruits and vegetables. Instead of having food drying come down to one more appli...
It's So Easy... Being Green!
off-the-grid lensmastersHere are the green people who created the content of this group!
Energy, Resources and Transportation
Reduce and Re-use! Changing how we consume energy and resources is a big part of moving towards a lifestyle that is healthier for us and the planet.
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Solar Energy
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Now is the time to seriously consider solar energy for residential and commercial buildings. I've pulled together some links to solar energy information and products.
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Bicycle Commuting
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Gas prices are continuing to rise, so what are you waiting for? Maybe you are already a serious cyclist just starting to think about commuting by bike. Maybe you hardly ever ride, but have a dusty old bike in the garage. Either way, read on. Riding t...
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Bicycle-Powered!
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As people work to develop sustainable forms of energy, one fun development has been the rise in bicycle-powered generators and appliances. Drawing on the ready supply of human energy, these devices let the spinning wheels of bike riding produce...
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Residential Wind Power - What Is It And How Do I Get Started?
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Traditionally, residential wind power has been limited to remote areas of the world where connection to the power grid is not an option, but more and more consumers are choosing to purchase what is called a "grid-connected" or residential wind turbin...
Headlines from Ecorazzi.com
the latest in green gossip
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comments, feedback, suggestions and moreThanks for visiting the Off-The-Grid HQ! We hope you found some info you were looking for or learned something new that can help you in your quest to live a greener lifestyle!
If you'd like to join the group, you can make a lens of your own!
Mortira wrote...
Thanks for making a group about actually living green, and not just wearing the T-shirt! I've submitted one of my green lenses for your review!
Posted March 18, 2009
Rach_75 wrote...
Hi - thanks for allowing me to be part of the group - it's an imporant group to belong to with a strong message - and it's my second so it's very exciting. I'm looking forward to browsing around. Thanks, Rach :)
Posted December 04, 2008
Frankster wrote...
Thank you for adding my Plastic Bag Alternatives to the group. Going green is so critical. I recycle, buying organic whenever I can, am a vegetarian, drive a Prius, and have solar that charges back to PG&E. I do not expect to be totally off the grid however I keep researching alternatives and ways to recycle everything!
Posted November 19, 2008
OffTheGrid wrote...
The shortage of power, the rapid consumption of non-renewable energy, the ever-increasing demand for power supply, the daily warnings about our environment are enough signs to tell us that it's time we do something. For starters, how about living off the grid? Let me tell you that living off the grid not only helps the environment and helps save power; it also cuts down our electricity bill substantially. Now, that's a tangible benefit apart from all the good you will do to the world.
%u2022 Reduced dependability on exhausting resource
%u2022 Freedom of usage of naturally available resources
%u2022 Reduced power costs, helping save your money
%u2022 Making way for a healthier environment
If you are thinking it is not very feasible to live off the grid, look for alternate power solutions and you will be surprised to learn that they are not only cost-effective but also extremely feasible. This forum site and http://www.innovatedthinking.com/forumreviewpage has been extremely helpful.
Posted September 12, 2008
Graceonline wrote...
Thank you for accepting my Grasscycling lens to your group. It's a pleasure to be here. As a groupmaster myself, I know it's a lot of work, but I hope you'll add all of us and our lenses to your page one of these days. It's so much easier to be a good group participant when you see the icons and can read the lens intros. (I know we can go to the ugly orange list, but it's just a list and not as friendly to use.)
Posted April 24, 2008
CarolSue wrote...
Great lens, we all need to be a conscious of how we can eliminate harmful toxins from our environment and sustain our planet. I have a few "green" lens, Creating a Healthy Home and Earth Day 2008
Posted April 07, 2008
Silver_Lotus wrote...
I'm glad you created this group. Another "green groupie!"
Posted March 20, 2008
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