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Off-Grid.net

Off-grid brings you news, knowledge, discussion, and classifieds from the off-grid world. What seems like a tiny niche is growing in popularity as people seek a life outside of the city. Off-gridders must find ways to produce their own energy, food, water, shelter, and other necessities. Connect with people who live off the beaten path or begin the search for your own property on this site.

Build It Solar

Dedicated to do-it-yourself renewable energy projects, Build It Solar provides hundreds of ideas and plans for any kind of home energy endeavor. New to renewable energy? Start with the "Half Plan" that uses a variety of energy saving projects to cut your energy usage in half. New to solar? Look for the do-it-yourself site survey to understand your property's solar potential. Not limited to solar, Build It Solar also includes tons of projects for wind power and biofuels.

Earth2Tech

Energy self reliance is a big topic for environmental, political, and individual reasons. Earth2Tech posts news about technological developments that can affect us on personal and societal levels. Stay on top of the news about electric cars, the smart grid, the bloom box fuel cell, solar power applications, and LED lightbulbs.

Wisebread

Wisebread is well-known for its advice on real personal finance. It's a community of bloggers who write about frugal living, lifehacks, careers, and other financial wisdom. Being smart with your money isn't supposed to inhibit you: rather, Wisebread's advice helps people worry less about money, allowing you to focus on the really important things in life. They also feature an active forum where you can ask questions and interact with other people who are trying to live within their means.

Instructables

Do you want to know how to build a vertical garden? How about your own solar panel array? Maybe you're looking for ways to reuse a linen closet full of old pillowcases. Instructables is a community based site that allows anyone to post a how-to project complete with photos and instructions. The result: a lifetime's supply of projects that can help you save money, recycle, or simply satisfy your appetite for making stuff.

Survival Spot

Disasters are a reality that shouldn't be ignored. That's the reason Survival Spot was created - to share information about a variety of survival and preparedness topics. Topics cover many aspects of survival, including gardening, food storage, health, and self defense. Also read about getting by in the wilderness and reviews of essential gadgets and gear. Like any other type of self reliance, preparedness is something to get into gradually and this blog can give you ideas on where to start.

Self-Reliance-Exchange

Written by a group of self reliant people, Self Reliance Exchange is quickly building an enormous database that covers a huge range of categories on self reliant practices and philosophies. Anyone interested in self reliance will find something useful to take away from this blog - recipes from scratch, emergency preparedness, and personal finance are great categories to start looking into here.

Simple Self Reliance

This writer explores the concept of self reliance and how self reliance fits in this modern society. How far can you realistically go down the path of self reliance? How can you stay on track with your priorities? He also writes on the grandaddy of self reliance, Henry David Thoreau. We can't wait to see how this blog unfolds!

American Preppers Network

For information and news from the world of emergency preparation, American Preppers Network is a great resource. Learn about food storage, what to expect during a natural disaster, and about other survival techniques. You can also connect with other preppers in your region and all over the world in the forum and through the numerous links to other prepping blogs on the web.

Blogs

All over the country people are documenting their thoughts and experiences as urban homesteaders, off-gridders, financial advisers, survivalists, and just about any other category you can think of. Allowing us to glimpse into their lives through words and pictures is not only informative - it's also inspirational. They show us that anyone can deliberately change their lives for the better, work toward a goal, and make good use of their passions.

Finding great blogs is also a wonderful way to form connections with people with similar goals and interests and get connected with online communities that can give you ideas for your own path to self reliance.

While this list of blogs is continually growing, it's almost impossible to find all of the great blogs lurking out there. If you're a person who blogs about urban homesteading, rural life, crafts, cooking, emergency preparation, finances, or anything related to self reliance, please submit a link to your blog for review!

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Self Reliance Central: Because When It Comes Down to It, It Comes Down to You
Self Reliance Central is a blog that discusses self reliance from the survivalist perspective: everyday self defense and protection, self reliant thinking, and techniques for emergency survival. Learn more about purifying water, home health care and remedies, growing and storing food, and a wide array of other self reliant topics.
A Locavore's Diary: The Green Hearth Garden
Writing from Tennessee, this blogger documents the process of transitioning to a more sustainable lifestyle. The blog includes a wealth of links to CSA's, other gardening and homesteading blogs, and other useful resources to help anyone who wants to become a Locavore.
Survival Backpacker: Minimalist Survival Techniques
While more people are recognizing that survivalism and preparedness are prudent, many of us are put off by the number of gadgets and materials you need to buy to be prepared for an emergency that may not even happen. Survival Backpacker solves this problem by discussing the idea of "minimalist survival," recommending the methods and materials that are the core essentials of survival. He addresses everyday preparedness as well as preparing for emergencies.
Frugal Homesteads: Not Just for Hippies Anymore!
Frugality + homesteading = Frugal Homesteading, a blog that keeps track of the happenings on a homestead in Georgia. If you're in search of a simpler, more fulfilling life, this blog offers tons of information about how to do just that by growing your own food, raising animals (goats and chickens), recycling, and staying in tune with your surrounding environment.
Homegrown Evolution: Vegetables, Chickens, Hooch, Bicycles, and Cultural Alchemy
This is the blog of Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of the book The Urban Homestead. At the vortex of the urban homesteading movement, this blog offers information and news on growing gardens and raising small livestock in the city. Learn more about the ins and outs of their own urban homestead in Los Angeles, CA.
Little House in the Suburbs: Simplicity, Creativity, Self-Sufficiency... Minivans
This is a blog kept by two moms with kids. Browse through all of the how-tos, crafts, and guides for practical things you can do around your house... such as, bread and soup recipes, useful knitting projects, and do-it-yourself household products. Fun to read and full of interesting tips.
Changing lifestyles
Here is one blog you might want to bookmark, sharing practical knowledge about how to manifest a different sort of lifestyle.
Self Reliance Blog - Real Self Reliance
A blog that covers many aspects of personal self-reliance. Covers topics such as finance, shopping, gardening, and more. This blog also discusses the moral and psychological benefits of living a more self reliant life.
Urban Homesteading Blog - My Urban Homestead
Learn about what you can grow in an urban environment and learn about what you can cook from what you grow. Blood Orange Marmalade is one of many tasty sounding recipes.
Finance Blog - Generation X Finance
This blog provides various tips that will help you be more financially successful. If you're interested in learning about how to become more financially independent, this blog is definitely for you.
Gardening Blog - The Dig-It-Yourself Garden
This site provides some of the most unique gardening blogs I have ever come across. Check out the blog on heirloom tomatoes. It covers orange, white, and black pineapple tomatoes.
Urban Gardening Blogs - Urban Organic Gardener
This blog focuses on all the issues that revolve around urban gardening. Some especially interesting topics discuss the management of pests, and making a self-watering container.
Austin Urban Gardens: Raised Bed Gardening and Eating Well in Austin, TX
Austin Urban Gardens is a small raised bed gardening company run by two people who turned their gardening hobby into a profession. You can follow their work on this blog, and read about the No Grocery Store project for the year 2010 - in which the bloggers don't buy food from the grocery store for one whole year!
Southern Urban Homestead: Notes on the Pursuit of Bounty and Balance in the City
Here's a wonderful urban homesteading blog written by Allison who lives in Georgia. Her goal on this homestead is to live in balance with her surroundings and provide for herself by growing food, raising chickens, collecting rainwater, and composting.
 
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