Off Grid looking for new community members

[NorthernRaider]

Off-Grid is embarking on the next big project - establishing three large settlements in the UK.

Initially we are looking for people with the skills to help us get the project off the ground - architects,finance experts, planning consultants, accountants, lobbyists and administrators.

After that we will need engineers, builders, plumbers electricians, and of course people who want to live there - in off-grid settlements of about 300 homes.

Please send your resume to nick@off-grid.net

Any news? E-mail nick@off-grid.net or call toll-free 877-706 7423 in the US and +44 7971 543703 in the UK

[Scythe13]

That's right up my street! Nice one mate.

[NorthernRaider]

From Off-Grid magazine

Off-grid homes lure Americans to New Zealand
by AMY SUAREZ on JANUARY 20, 2012 - 4 Comments in COMMUNITY [Edit]


Preppers - a new kind of tourism for Taupo
Residents of Taupo NZ are hoping to “lure…Americans” to settle there by building an off-grid community.

The government has already earmarked the spot for a “Biosphere of the 21st century” and it is home to the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre.
The proposed family-style homes would be heated via geothermal or biomass sources, and electricity supplied via solar or wind energy.
Wastewater would be drip irrigated to energy crops that would provide future fuel for the community. Water would be supplied via rainwater collection.
There will be wi-fi internet along with communal vegetable gardens and septic tanks.

[Scythe13]

I'm more into Earthship designs.

[uks]

Love the sound of this but on a smaller scale the word large is putting me off

[bigpaul]

300 homes=too many neighbours!!!

[Skean Dhude]

(26 January 2012, 11:24)bigpaul Wrote: 300 homes=too many neighbours!!!

Yeah, by about 290 homes.

[bigpaul]

(26 January 2012, 12:08)Skean Dhude Wrote:

(26 January 2012, 11:24)bigpaul Wrote: 300 homes=too many neighbours!!!

Yeah, by about 290 homes.

more like 299! i'm like Greta Garbo " i vant to be alone!"

[Skean Dhude]

(26 January 2012, 12:13)bigpaul Wrote:

(26 January 2012, 12:08)Skean Dhude Wrote:

(26 January 2012, 11:24)bigpaul Wrote: 300 homes=too many neighbours!!!

Yeah, by about 290 homes.

more like 299! i'm like Greta Garbo " i vant to be alone!"

She is dead so doesn't need anyone. I think you need a couple though. 10 houses is 10 families which is just less than 50 people which is about right for a small community. Any more and it is a commune and suject to commitees.

[bigpaul]

(26 January 2012, 12:50)Skean Dhude Wrote: I think you need a couple though. 10 houses is 10 families which is just less than 50 people which is about right for a small community. Any more and it is a commune and suject to commitees.

10 families is too many, maybe 3 or 4. a hamlet rather than a village.