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Welcome to this Blog on off-the-grid living.  This blog focuses on sustainable residential, USA based, OTG (OffTheGrid) living.  

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OTG rantings

OTG=off the grid.  What does it mean to go off the grid?    Recently I've heard some youngsters say 'i'm going off-grid'  which to them means they're either off facebook, or on airplane mode.  I mean wtf - turning off your phone!!  is 'going off the grid'.... gimmee a break! since when?  do millenials really rule the world?  i thought it was new yorkers.   let's get a grip here young'uns:  going off the grid refers to the electricity grid - and sometimes it means getting away from the 'man'  - as in the fuzz, the NSA, and nowadays any and all tech companies.  Lately the moniker OTG has as many meanings as a twitter ranting - it's in the eye of the beholder.  Sure, go off grid by turning off your facebook - while you're at it maybe you want to black out your web cam, your phone cam, your location settings, all your history setting, on and on ad naseum...and they'll monitor you anyway.  -----------------------...
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real 'sustainable' behavior

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Over the last 20 years I've watched too many people, (including myself) get sidetracked from this thing called 'sustainable' behavior. - so I decided to start a conversation:  here's a starting statement :   Everyone claims to be sustainable, few are. Our beliefs and behaviors are disconnected: cognitive dissonance. What does it mean to actually do sustainable things in everyday life – especially in community? How does one change embedded, unconscious behavioral patterns we learned as children? Let's start with definitions: what is sustainable behavior?   By it's very nature, behavior is sustainable. If you're not behaving (bad or good), you're probably sleeping – and even that is called 'sleeping behavior'. You can't escape behavior: maybe we should add it to death + taxes. Sustainable behavior is doing good for the environment, our health, and social justice. It's a bit easier to define it from a negative side: doing no harm, not t...
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