What Is Off-Grid Living?
Off-grid living is a lifestyle choice involving living without reliance on one or more public utilities, such as the electrical power grid, municipal water supply, sewer, or natural gas. People living off-grid generate their electricity with alternate energy sources such as solar and wind power. Because small systems are easier and cheaper than large systems, they are also involved in reducing the electricity they need. Water may come from springs, wells, streams, lakes or rain runoff collected in a cistern. Sewage disposal systems can range from the simplicity of an outhouse, to composting toilets, to a septic system. Heating can be from wood or solar. It’s impossible to know exactly how many people are choosing to live more or less off the grid, but the numbers are growing.
