1. An off-grid home is not a hands-off home. The Tyee is supported by readers like you Join us and grow independent media in Canada. Our modern homes are designed to run themselves, free of our ...

Follow this advice about off-grid living from a 20-year veteran of producing utility-free electricity. ... to enjoy all through Canada’s long winters. Photo by Cam and Michelle Mather ...

Ten Things Learned Living Off-grid in Canada The key to a well-built fence is in the positioning of the posts. About one third of their length should be buried underground.

This family formerly from Alberta built their new home in B.C. out of glass and car tires after being inspired by a picture of an Earthship — a trademark design dating back to the 1970s.

A SAVVY couple have decided to abandon modern civilisation and live off-grid building their DIY shipping container home. Adventurers Jake and Nicolle have spent the last four years living rent-free… ...

Two Island couples are turning to self-sustained, off-grid living as a result of the pandemic: one for the first time and one after a bit of a hiatus.

Living off the grid natural choice for this `Survivorman’ ... Les Stroud outside his off-the-grid home. JOHN AVERY PHOTO FOR THE TORONTO STAR ... “I delivered the first blue box in Canada.

For B.C. native Simon Nessman, the answer in 2012 sent a minor temblor through the industry: he announced he was scaling back his modelling and escaping New York for a secluded island off B.C.’s ...