Off Grid looking for new community members

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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.