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#offthegrid

Off-the-grid Cabin Has Proven Its Sustainability Over Fourteen YearsHow long can you live off the grid before you get really tired of the deprivations? It depends on how committed to are to constantly making it better. Stephanie and Joel started with almost nothing and built their own home with no plumbing and no electricity. They could have given up after the first year of hard work and no power, but once they got solar panels installed, they could have most of the luxuries of the modern world. After all those years, they now have two toilets! Sure, one is an outhouse and the other an indoor composting toilet, but that still means no waiting. Their story shows that you can live without municipal utilities if you select the right place and are ready to put in the work and make it a long-term project. The best part of this video is end, when Stephanie and Joel tell us what they've learned from the experience and how they feel about it.However, once they built their first off-grid home, they kept at it. The next one they built is rented out as an Airbnb. It doesn't have all the amenities of their home, but since it's for short-term stays, just call it an adventure. -via Digg #offthegrid #ownerbuilthouse #backtonature #sustainability

LUMIPOD: A Tiny Cabin Perfect for Getting Closer to NatureFrench design company LUMICENE has just made it easier to battle the stress of city living by introducing us to this gorgeous tiny cabin called LUMIPOD.A LUMIPOD is a small pre-fab circular house of just 183 square feet (17 square meters), comprised of just a bedroom and a bathroom, that use the company's signature curved floor-to-ceiling windows. These bedroom windows slide open to connect the indoor and outdoor spaces for the ultimate, immersive outdoor living.In 2019, LUMICENE unveiled the circular cabin in the French Alps, calling it a "cocoon of simplicity settled in the middle of Nature to welcome city dwellers willing to relax away from the concrete jungle." While the current version of the cabin has to be hooked up to water and electricity, the company is working on an off-the-grid version.Images: Oxygen and Kevin Dolmaire#cabin #LUMIPOD #LUMICENE #window #curvedwindow #offthegridhouse #offthegrid #tinyhome #tinyhouse #circular

Off-the-Grid Living in a 5x 20ft Shipping Container Home in a New Zealand ForestKiwi homeowner Rosie sold her house in Auckland and decided escape the city and move to the coastal town of Coromandel, New Zealand and built an one of a kind, off-the-grid house in a 23-acre lot in a forested preserve.Rosie decided to build her house out of five 20-ft shipping containers, and used off-the-grid technologies such as solar power, rainwater collection and even a vermi-composting toilet.View a tour of Rosie's off-the-grid shipping container home by Living Big in a Tiny House clip below.Images: Bryce Langston/Living Big in a Tiny House#tinyhouse #tinyhome #offthegrid #offthegridhouse #Coromandel #shippingcontainer #ShippingContainerHouse