Go off the grid Getting off the grid, away from a cellphone signal, can help you recharge.
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John L. Franco Jr., a longtime Sanders ally, says Vermont is an "off-the-grid" state and Bernie Sanders has always been an off-the-grid politician.
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The castle is completely self sustaining and off the grid.
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Slow WiFi making you want to go off the grid?
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Rummans: I just tried to disappear, go off the grid.
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My father was always at his best off the grid.
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In some ways, being partially off the grid was heaven.
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"He went off the grid, back to nature," she said.
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Still, we'd be out of touch and off the grid.
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Ford has been making his own robots off the grid.
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That's one of the things pushing coal off the grid.
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"They're way upriver," in a settlement far off the grid.
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Sometimes he goes off the grid and I get nervous.
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"I was in transition period, living off the grid." he says.
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"He went off the grid," said a source close to Cruz.
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He tried living off the grid, switching apartments, jobs, and friends.
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All told, this off the grid thing is a messy business.
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"For 20 years he has been off the grid," McGraw said.
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This time is different though, because Kevin goes off the grid.
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If the person disappeared off the grid, it becomes a problem.
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She and her neighbors don't live off the grid, she said.
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The first is to disappear: go offline and off the grid.
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The first is to disappear: go offline and off the grid.
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"The Green New Deal is so far off the grid of what's achievable that it's a nonstarter" "The Green New Deal is so far off the grid of what's achievable that it's a nonstarter," Katko said.
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Bogoslof is mostly off the grid when it comes to volcano monitoring.
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Going off the grid doesn't even require a trip into the boonies.
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No iPod does, really—unless you're trying to live off the grid.
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The whole living off the grid movement has gone way too far.
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They thus push more expensive producers off the grid, lowering wholesale prices.
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However, Palmer hasn't been completely off the grid in the last week.
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Everything is off the grid, and everything is made from stainless steel.
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Right now, I'm directing the film version of Connected Off-the-Grid.
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"He went off the grid," a source close to Cruz told CNN.
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Maybe Peggy escaped, again, and lives off the grid in El Paso.
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"I didn't even know what 'off the grid' meant," Mr. Dotson said.
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Johnson told me 8Bit isn't planning to completely go off the grid.
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Sam is off the grid this week, and I've got his megaphone.
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Those shutdowns would take enormous amounts of clean energy off the grid.
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Beyond his radio resurgence, it seems Mueller is mostly off-the-grid.
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Maybe there'd be rivalries, I thought, or some off-the-grid superstar.
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LG: All signs point to we should just go off the grid.
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Scientists, as well, have to move off the grid to solve problems.
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Fest (called Frequency that first year) at an off-the-grid art space.
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We don't understand why she is off the grid, it doesn't make sense.
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I went to meet her somewhere off the grid in the Pacific Northwest.
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And when we say this is off the grid, we really mean it.
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We've also thought about disaster relief for this particular off the grid utility.
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None of the Liars ever prep a plan to go off the grid.
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The company also offers solar charging options to go completely off the grid.
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For many, that's the difference between internet access and living off the grid.
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Best True Grime Gag: Hot Janitor living off the grid by growing mushrooms.
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Plus – living off the grid – why more Aussies are cutting off their electricity.
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A few days later, he flew to California and went off the grid.
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"I wanted to be away from electricity, live off the grid," Andy says.
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The Twins warn of falling off the grid while dating a sign-mate.
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Although the land was well off the grid, more than 21.1,000 people applied.
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Like the toilet, the rest of the van is completely off the grid.
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She and her partner live off the grid on the other 10 acres.
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Till then, when I'm "off the grid," I'd enjoy your visiting www.nedwhitebooks.com. Thanks.
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Of course, there is also the benefit of going further off the grid.
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Unfortunately, Elliot's retreat from the real world has taken him off the grid.
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In one piece, he explains how to get your apartment off the grid;
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Living off the grid is not for the faint of heart, he said.
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I Was Misinformed The three words that terrify me most are "off the grid," so it's a testament to our friendship that I visit my pal Joyce (yeah, same name) in her off-the-grid cabin in the Catskills every summer.
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But it's hard to get anything to work, because we're off the grid ourselves.
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"I'd never been to a place where you're literally off the grid," Justin says.
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Of course, you can be off the grid occasionally (kayaking down the Grand Canyon).
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Or better yet, just stay as far off the grid as you possibly can.
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Writer, Off the Grid What are you hoping to buy on sale this weekend?
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Her relatives are worried, saying it isn't like her to go off the grid.
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He kidnapped her and is keeping her safe in an off-the-grid cabin.
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We were off the grid, with no electricity, a water well and kerosene lamps.
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Except that here, on the off-the-grid mountain, there is no cellphone service.
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But when you return to the cabin, expect to be entirely off the grid.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has been off the grid since he left office.
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Soon after, the LA-based musician went off the grid after a rough breakup.
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This was, for me, as uncharacteristic as going off the grid for four days.
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In 2016, the chances someone is living completely off the grid are pretty slim.
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But every year that's harder to do, as America's off-the-grid places disappear.
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Some of these off-the-grid humans think airplane contrails are speaking to them.
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Scott is a survivalist and knows how to live off the grid, Marshals said.
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We should just leave, we should figure out how to live off the grid.
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It can set up guests for luxury glamping or an off-the-grid experience.
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She disputes the notion that off-the-grid life is common in northern Taos.
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Mo Lotman, the publisher of the Technoskeptic, a website that's critical of modern tech, points out that there are plenty of people who have "unplugged" to some degree—who have gone entirely off the grid, or as far off the grid as possible.
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Mulder is living partially off the grid with a burner phone, and Scully is working
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In an ever more connected life, there's something alluring about living completely off the grid.
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She left Magneto and Xavier behind and is now off the grid with fellow mutants.
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And still other people define off the grid as living simply, if not so cleanly.
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He may have lived off the grid, hewing out an existence in the deep woods.
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So connected has the world become that no diplomat is ever really off the grid.
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If you love to hike and go off the grid, you need a great compass.
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If anything, one might idealize this family as leading an exemplary, off-the-grid lifestyle.
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Yet for a place so far off the grid, news traveled fast throughout the valley.
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Chaos. He's talking about going off the grid and being executed by the Mexican cartel.
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The town is off the grid, with little electricity and still, for many, little food.
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Perhaps a survivalist who has been off the grid since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
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Unless you're making a move from Fifth Avenue to off-the-grid, that seems unlikely.
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Businesses in South African cities are increasingly installing solar panels, effectively going off the grid.
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I'm heading off the grid, where I'll be happy as a clam at high tide.
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Located deep in the desert of California, the Off-The-Grid House was wishlisted 98,796 times.
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"It's rare when they go off the grid like this and pull off something like this."
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An off-the-grid Doug has been listening to it while digging for Rachel Posner's body.
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Westover and her six older siblings lived entirely off the grid in the mountains of Idaho.
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Research is not underneath any of those columns, it's off the grid and to the right.
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He even tried to use the conversation to brag about his family's off-the-grid cabin.
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"That will solve our load shedding headache because households will be off the grid," she said.
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A longtime solar advocate himself, Birt has lived off the grid for more than a decade.
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The new homes won't be required to be completely off the grid using 100 percent solar.
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"More people are going to die if we continue to be off the grid," he said.
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It should go without saying that the towns of the Northwest Territory are off the grid.
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Perhaps, she jokes, it would be better to buy a farm and go off the grid.
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As an editor, I can't go too far off the grid, but I am into podcasts!
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The group had apparently been living off the grid for months in the trash-ridden lot.
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It was more fun this way, more authentic to keep streetwear off the grid and unrecorded.
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The governor and Anne stayed in a small cabin, without water or electricity, off the grid.
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So long as it is in a faraday pouch, your device is basically off the grid.
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Burning Man is typically an excuse to forgo cell phones and spend a week off the grid.
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The Walkins are already planning how to build an off-the-grid house on their new land.
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Zac Efron and his brother Dylan are getting off the grid and heading out on an adventure.
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Swift has slowly returned to using Instagram more regularly after going off the grid prior to Reputation.
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Wolfie Masters: I've always assumed Jen took the servers, flooded the office, and dropped off the grid.
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As for the couple, they appear to be enjoying their time as pseudo newlyweds off the grid.
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Is there a middle ground between giving in to total digital immersion and being off the grid?
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He's been off the grid in general, trying to find mental balance out of the public eye.
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Happily, we also wandered to various off-the-grid food destinations, stopping frequently to taste local specialties.
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Corsiar previously spent time in Guatemala, researching the successes and failures of off-the-grid solar ventures.
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Like many favelas, Chacrinha is a kind of off-the-grid shantytown, at once neighborly and dangerous.
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The biggest hurdle is to find gifted young people off the grid and persuade them to apply.
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Our phones had been confiscated and we would be off the grid for the next 22 hours.
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There's 11,600-wH of power in the rechargeable battery, allowing the van to go off-the-grid.
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Here are seven articles that will mentally transport you off the grid or into a great yarn.
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Even though I was in one of the world's largest cities, I was completely off the grid.
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Keeffe said she knew billionaire heiress Clare Bronfman was funding an "off the grid" fund for Raniere.
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Some people come to get off the grid, camping in the mangrove forests or living on sailboats.
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Just a few miles away, many homeowners live entirely off the grid, on even cheaper land parcels.
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They both need clean, sustainable stoves, power generators and water purifiers that work easily off the grid.
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The project offers a glimpse at how architects think we might live off-the-grid in the future.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest level of energy poverty: 65% of the population is off the grid.
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For others, living off the grid -- outside the reach of "the Man" -- is a form of ultimate patriotism.
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So aim for reducing the amount of information available, rather than attempting to go completely off the grid.
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She's currently hiding somewhere, off the grid, and making a video with her goodbyes in case she dies.
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After all, what could be more off-the-grid than learning the age-old art of baking bread?
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It also will create unprecedented access for the "bottom of the pyramid" who are still off the grid.
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The family of seven lives entirely off the grid in British Columbia, so they're no strangers to wildlife.
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People like to say that they're "off the grid" when they don't check social media for a week.
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I was off the grid for two weeks after that before getting the nerve to reactivate my account.
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Readers, if they care, will understand how Anna and Lena support themselves during their off-the-grid days.
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Beartooth turns your smartphone into a radio, allowing you to communicate even when you are off the grid.
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People find that in a week off the grid, freed from the social contracts of constant electric connectivity.
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They can run off the grid or alternative power sources, and use an extremely efficient adiabatic distillation method.
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When the SC Brilliant went off the grid, it appeared empty; when it re-emerged, it appeared full.
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My Space The weekend retreat, built by a survivalist, has no cell reception and is off the grid.
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The Beast MODE can stay off-road and off the grid for up to six or seven days.
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In the fifth-largest economy in the world, hundreds of thousands of people were forced off the grid.
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And for longer off-the-grid trips, the van comes equipped with a 300-Ah lithium battery bank.
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Basically, you have to go off the grid to avoid consenting to being subject to constant financial observation.
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If you want to truly get off the grid, Cabo Polonio is perhaps the country's most desirable spot.
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I don't personally use read receipts because I'm a really shady and strategically off-the-grid type of gal.
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They went full on off the grid, and kind of ended up building their own grid in the process.
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While most Poshtel units might remain off the grid, others could hook into government-provided services to simplify things.
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Turns out, he's an hour away from St. Bernardine, living off the grid after being transferred to St. Marys.
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Cities tend to have the wealthier ratepayers and if they peel off the grid, then who is left behind?
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It's even pre-wired for solar panels for those who want to live off the grid for small stretches.
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Use Garmin's inReach Mini Satellite communicators for off-the-grid contact that lets you send and receive text messages.
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" Magno reiterated that there's no power or water in these areas and that those stranded are "off the grid.
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Say you needed to disappear—what would it take to go truly off the grid, impossible to track down?
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There are two 335-watt solar panels to keep Fitz Roy powered while off-the-grid with its owner.
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Of course the only way to keep your personal data private is not to be completely off the grid.
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All for the indie tale of a whip-smart bohemian family engaging with society after living off the grid.
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He and his wife, Joanna, intend to live off the grid with the baby girl, but they never make it.
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And what happens if you lock yourself in the shelter, go off the grid, and then the apocalypse is averted?
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With demand no longer rising, natural gas prices stubbornly low, and pollution standards biting, they started dropping off the grid.
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Although they're supposed to be "off the grid," the guys cook gourmet pasta for dinner, complete with avocados and tofu.
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The house was constructed partly out of financial necessity and partly out of a low-impact off-the-grid philosophy.
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A stricken Churchill says that Princess Lilibet, currently off the grid and dispensing car advice in Kenya, must be notified.
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All they know is that they went from being off the grid to being very much on the government's radar.
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To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.
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Or a rugged individualist who follows the beat of their own heart and is willing to live off the grid.
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If you're looking to get off the grid (without sacrificing your iPhone, of course) this is the one for you.
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And at off the grid restaurants in Arizona, so he can't even eat at the best sushi restaurant in Scottsdale.
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So I had to just go off the grid and try and get that target off my back early on.
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Episode 9: "Off The Grid" Maura finds out from the plastic surgeon that something is going on with her heart.
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The post featured a listing for an "off-the-grid" teepee, where visitors are promised a "true Sioux style" experience.
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Kensington We all have that one jet-setting friend/family member who's a little too comfortable dropping off the grid.
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For many people around the world – especially those in rural areas – living off the grid is part of normal life.
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They must operate off the grid, without access to water, electricity or sewage plants, and fit into poor urban settings.
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The company BRCK, for instance, is connecting off-the-grid schools to the internet through solar-powered routers and tablets.
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It's not that dispensaries think they can hide off the grid—the transition to legal recreational cannabis is still unfolding.
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It's a good occasion to disconnect from technology, go off the grid and enjoy a few days of carefree excitement.
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The actress is used to leading a red-carpet life, but she always makes time to go off the grid.
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In the movie, he plays someone so turned off by pop culture that he has moved off the grid entirely.
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She was a DOJ crypto specialist, then she was a lecturer, and now she's ... Then she went off the grid.
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These two trends — more competitors, stagnant demand — have formed a pincer, squeezing conventional coal and nuclear generation off the grid.
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Then I'll go on retreat again, as I did this spring, going off the grid for days at a time.
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He lives nearly off the grid outside Charlottesville and has an office in town, where he says he's seldom bothered.
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The community of roughly 22 people, which member Chris Farmer described as "overeducated suburban refugees," is entirely off the grid.
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Unlike traditional survivalists, many are not schooled in off-the-grid living, and some have no idea how to hunt.
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With everyone's info online and with all of these hacks and everything, I'm trying to get more off the grid.
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Here's a cool off-the-grid cabin that Kyle Woolard built in northern Vermont, from the indispensable website Cabin Porn.
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If a new natural gas plant or wind farm goes up, something else has to get pushed off the grid.
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"Disappear" meaning "going off ..." Meaning not go off the grid, but adopt a new identity and shed my old identity.
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It is the perfect partner for renewables in driving coal off the grid and accommodating the oncoming demand of electrified transportation.
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In Certain Women, the idea was to sort of get across that the character was out of range, off the grid.
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When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts with the time he almost died.
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"This individual in particular was extremely crafty with going into the wilderness and going off the grid," DeNovi told BuzzFeed News.
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In this episode, we head to Asheville, North Carolina, and to the hinterlands of Tennessee to experience life off the grid.
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But The Circle's implicit reduction of humanity to sinister techies, credulous progressive sheeple, and off-the-grid objectors seems so insufficient.
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Corporations don't quite have the luxury of having their services just drop off the grid and not operating for a while.
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"In this off-the-grid environment, I want to help people do what is difficult, like charge their phones," he says.
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It's not the first attempt to sell smartphone users their own personal Faraday cage for taking their device off the grid.
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Doi Modt was a special project for Andy, who loved the mountains and wanted to live and train off the grid.
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We can achieve more by leaning into these trends and accelerating clean energy growth and taking fossil generation off the grid.
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He liked living off the grid, but it wasn't easy; he was sleeping with his cat in a friend's delivery truck.
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Between 2000 and 285, some 2200,2000 megawatts of coal-generated capacity were taken off the grid nationwide due to plant retirements.
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The use of GEDMatch is essentially the use of an off-the-grid database when CODIS does not yield a match.
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It comes equipped with off-the-grid-ready equipment: a tent, integrated snowboard support capsule, underbody rock protection, and custom fenders.
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That vessel, and its more than 40 sister ships, are far more difficult to track when they go off the grid.
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The two reactors were expected to push most of the state's remaining coal plants off the grid, reducing planet-warming emissions.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads If you've ever fantasized about going off the grid, that dream could soon become reality.
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The system can connect to the internet to create "smart microgrids" that could potentially power a home off the grid entirely.
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Prosecutors planned on going all the way with the case -- until the accuser went off the grid and refused to testify.
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For the first episode in his "Off The Grid" travel series, Efron and his brother decided to camp out on Lake Mohave.
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Cummins allegedly kept Elizabeth "off the grid" to evade authorities, and at one point the teen resorted to eating wildflowers for nourishment.
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Jaipur, India (CNN Business)India is trying to bring electricity to hundreds of millions of its citizens who live off the grid.
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Paige, who has been training to follow in her parents' footsteps, will, at the very least, have to live off the grid.
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It's not for everyone, but could buy you some peace of mind if you're a fan of driving deep off the grid.
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"He's totally not into the celebrity world and she likes how off the grid he is," explains one source of their relationship.
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And they probably can't afford to drop off the grid for 8-to-10 weeks in one of those boot camp intensives.
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Indeed, the lo-fi conditions at Russell lend it an appealingly scrappy, off-the-grid aesthetic, but have potential real-world consequences.
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And they're terrific as solar concentrators, whether you want to do some off-the-grid cooking, or just melt stuff for entertainment.
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If Jeffries did try to harm Julian, it's possible Marin killed the "Beacon" and fled Mosswood, explaining her off-the-grid life.
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The family went off the grid after the social media tsunami, and he says they are still adjusting to their sudden fame.
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"We just figured they were doing what we were doing, getting a piece of land and getting off the grid," Anderson said.
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GoTenna is best known for its outdoors-oriented consumer products that let you text and share locations between smartphones off the grid.
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So Ahmanet's tomb becomes an extremely off-the-grid burial chamber that was constructed to keep her villainous spirit trapped, not buried.
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But the playa is notorious, and celebrated, for being completely off-the-grid—so will it be possible to find Pokémon there?
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If you go off the grid at all, whether it's for hiking, backpacking, or skiing, you probably need a Garmin GPS watch.
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Like you were off the grid, a place where the normal rules of society didn't quite apply, especially being on his property.
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Get off the grid and reconnect with nature by staying in this adorable free cabin in the Bordeaux region of Southwestern France.
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So if you live off the grid, never fly in an airplane and don't eat, then you can call me a denier.
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In the county of Los Angeles, home to more than 10 million residents, is it still possible to live off the grid?
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Mr. Brown somehow manages to sustain a career in finance and regularly take off on long, meticulously planned, off-the-grid adventures.
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She was raised off the grid, spending her childhood hiking in the woods around her house, hunting deer, and learning survival skills.
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There are no roads to Freedom Cove, only waterways, giving the couple the privacy need to lead their off-the-grid lifestyle.
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For a Coachella headliner, the dude's surprisingly off the grid, though I'm sure that kind of mystique is central to his appeal.
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Ronda Rousey is still off the grid following her crushing loss at UFC 207 ... but her MMA star boyfriend has finally emerged.
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If you want to find a secure place up here and take it off the grid, I can help you do that.
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It used to feel remote, a land of intrepid pioneers and self-sufficient individualists who were thrilled to be off the grid.
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In the middle of a teeming metropolis, the two men seemed to be living off the grid and alienated from loved ones.
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Some of the Senate's youngest members — and most prolific Twitter users — are refusing to stay off the grid for the entire day.
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Last week, that off-the-grid cottage seemed like Ford's nostalgic attempt to revisit his childhood, using older models of his machines.
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The local historian turns out to be one Gordon St. Onge, leader of an off-the-grid community known as the Settlement.
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Two of our best finds for food and drinks were also off the grid, though easy enough to locate by asking around.
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Nearly one year ago, the singer went off the grid as she announced she would be taking a break from social media.
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WeWork, the shared space company, describes its annual summer camp as a place to de-stress, meditate and go off the grid.
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The Off the Grid driver cleaned, folded and loaded the cube back onto the truck, and drove it to a storage space.
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You'd think someone trying to convince the world they were dead might want to lay low, or go fully off the grid.
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"I spend most of my time off the grid during show season, in dingy studios, classrooms — even people's living rooms," Ms. Maino continued.
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If I had to pick any two characters to be on a sanctioned off-the-grid sexcapade, it would not be these two!
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Meanwhile, 'runners' like Faith prefer to live off the grid, flitting from rooftop to rooftop as they fill the role of illegal couriers.
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I still struggle with communicating with people who care about me, and have moments where I just disappear and go off the grid.
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My father and I had not been terribly close, so the trip was a welcome chance to spend time together off the grid.
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He and his teenage daughter Tom (a brilliant Thomasin McKenzie) live in a forest in Oregon, on public land, mostly off the grid.
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From supremely powerful tactical flashlights to beach mats that absorb sand, below are handy items that will upgrade your adventure off the grid.
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Nothing doing — in fact, it went straight to voicemail, every time, as if I were off the grid: Who is photographing whom here?
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For your average person It's hard, but i've been living off-the-grid for 21 years so for me It's not that difficult.
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As it relates to the game, off-the-grid check-ins won't count for as many coins as a normal check-in would.
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I sometimes catch myself wondering if I should go off the grid and live at the bottom of the well because I'm FINE.
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The woman, who hasn't yet been charged with a crime related to Epstein's alleged sex trafficking, seemed to have gone off the grid.
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The measures have allowed the museum to go "off the grid" for several stretches, operating exclusively on power that it is generating itself.
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The concept of going off the grid in itself is a form of needless hunger, of fixing a problem of your own making.
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Some members of the party may have talked about it with some groups of voters, but it was sort of off [the grid].
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The couple also lived off the grid, getting by on a small pension and pasturing horses on their three-acre (1.21-hectare) lot.
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Turns out he's pretty adept at social media for a guy who's been off the grid since the original iPod was a thing.
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In Alaska, for instance, we work with a family that has an off-the-grid sustainable homestead and uses rescue dogs for sledding.
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More pressure came after off-the-grid conversations and meetings that pharmaceutical lawyers arranged with certain news producers and executives; I wasn't invited.
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And so, as it happens, Miller didn't get Baldwin's email for several days, because he'd decided to experiment with going off the grid.
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How much money must King have had, to own a house off the grid and keep a family of five supplied for decades?
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I rented an off-the-grid Airbnb in the Catskills, warned my editor that I'd be offline for the weekend and took off.
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What Rush spirals into instead is a life of a dealer, a migration West, inexplicable violence and an eventual life off the grid.
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Now, somewhat improbably, Mr. Sanders is taking that off-the-grid strategy to the biggest grid there is: a quest for the White House.
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"It's not like her to go off the grid, and if she did, then she would tell me," friend Juliana Cauley told CBS News.
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Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, KENZO's creative directors, had also envisioned Slab City — an off-the-grid desert campsite — when first conceptualizing the film.
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The Philips Avent Manual Comfort Breast Pump is simple, quiet, and requires no electricity, making it great for occasional or off-the-grid pumping.
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Here's the thing — it looks like the app's been around for more than a year, and was largely off the grid for its lifetime.
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Libyans, in the west where the capital Tripoli is and the south, have been off the grid for weeks with sporadic hours of electricity.
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When 13-year-old Leni's family picks up and moves to Alaska to live off the grid, it's her erratic, Vietnam veteran father's decision.
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In Las Vegas this year, pretty much every major car company announced innovations aimed at helping you feel like you're never off the grid.
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Some info we learn in the episode: It turns out that John wasn't taking his family off the grid solely for his own benefit.
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If Nine Ball is trying to stay off the grid to conquer the web in peace, she could use some extra income to survive.
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The child star remained off the grid until July 5th, when a strange message reading "help me" was quietly uploaded to her Instagram story.
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"If you had storage in your home and you were careful about your energy consumption, you would be effectively off the grid," Kibert said.
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These communities are known for off-the-grid "hipnecks" (a portmanteau of redneck and hippie) whose livelihoods depend almost completely on black market cannabis.
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After 10 years off the grid and five years in jail, Rigmaiden is now on the side of those systems — privacy groups, lawyers, judges.
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Kingo's off-the-grid solar venture isn't just a short-term solution until power lines and infrastructure are expanded into remote and mountainous places.
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Maybe you live off the grid or have a huge diesel tank and a good generator, so the lights-out scenario doesn't alarm you.
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In this new series, Marty Raney, a homesteading expert, offers training in survival skills to some floundering families who have moved off the grid.
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Most artists and galleries were off the grid, social media had yet to become ubiquitous, and newspapers were just beginning to streamline arts reportage.
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I'm currently spending time camping in California's Slab City, in the Sonoran Desert, making portraits of those who choose to live off the grid.
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We loved its 300-year-old trees — enormous white oaks with great gnarled arms — and my husband loved that it was off the grid.
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Stephens, who just finished as the runner-up at the WTA Finals in Singapore, is "off the grid," according to her agent, John Tobias.
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Or you could disconnect, float away into another universe, bury yourself in a novel, pick up a hobby, take yourself completely off the grid.
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Loveless used multiple aliases, had no close living relatives in the national database and was an off-the-grid outlaw who lacked official records.
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Interest in living off the grid continues to grow, with people choosing to live in tents or even in pods to escape "regular" life.
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The front half of Juan's roof has 500-watts of solar panels, allowing the bus to stay off-the-grid, according to the couple.
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We took public transportation everywhere, and when we occasionally needed to go off the grid, my grandparents and my aunt stepped in as chauffeurs.
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Off the Grid is a free app that encourages users to get off their phone and holds them accountable, via fees, if they reconnect.
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Plenty of people live off the grid here in various types of homes that don't use public energy sources or fossil fuels, he said.
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He maintains an off-the-grid mentality, relies on nobody, and is never caught without his crossbow, a gun, and at least three knives.
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It is the place of radical and immaterial gestures, weirdos, and off-the-grid Hippie communes, away from saturated capitals and overhyped art fairs.
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Trump further suggests not going off the grid completely and instead checking in with the team once a week to stay in the loop.
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But that's why the competition aims to create software that kids can use to teach themselves, off the grid and with no top-down help.
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Ronda has gone off the grid since the loss ... but said in a statement she was taking time to "reflect and think about the future."
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There's a road, "but living would be off the grid," say The Farmer's Daughter Country Market management, in a follow-up post responding to questions.
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Culturally, you can't get interested in going off the grid when you're still trying to prove to people you can afford to live on it.
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GravityLight got its start after a successful Indiegogo campaign in which the startup received enough funding to produce prototypes for 1,300 off-the-grid families.
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Tyler Anderson, who lives near the compound, believes the group had moved to the area to live off the grid, just as he had done.
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Though disparate in location and subject matter, they all share a common thread: Hursley has taken a deep dive into off-the-grid American subcultures.
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Given the importance of keeping stress intermittent, it's easy to see how taking regular time off the grid can help keep your stress under control.
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During a tour of the off-the-grid properties, a home Andrade said he built out of recycled materials still stood, but was run down.
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But just because those two are off the grid, and the economy is in smoldering ruins, doesn't mean there wasn't plenty of hacking to do!
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Nathalie Mezza-Garcia is a political scientist turned "seavangelesse" — her term for an evangelist in favor of living off the grid — and on the ocean.
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The off-the-grid cabin is part of a larger initiative to get more people to "reconnect with the wild," while also protecting the environment.
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These LDIS databases are off the grid in the sense that they are not subject to the protections afforded profiles entering the FBI's CODIS system.
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And everyone's favorite antihero, Walter White on the TV show Breaking Bad, hired a consultant to deliver him to a new life off the grid.
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Over the last five years, he became increasingly interested in living off-the-grid and creating a self-sustaining home on his ranch in Washington.
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"We just figured they were doing what we were doing, getting a piece of land and getting off the grid," Anderson told the news outlet.
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" Returning to television after three years off the grid, Bush said he feels that he's "picked up some missing elements in the last few years.
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Sam's off the grid for the next week, having left me holding the bag for the Buffalo-pickled egg recipe he mentioned in Monday's newsletter.
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As Motherboard reported in 2018, it received an investment, seemingly from an investor with ties to the Saudi government, but is otherwise off the grid.
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Rather than a neutral overseer of the markets, they want FERC to take a more active role in pushing fossil fuel plants off the grid.
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Finn himself receives a shock in TROS when he meets Jannah, a fellow defecting stormtrooper living off-the-grid with a whole crew of them.
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As the commune culture in Taos began to fall apart in the 1980s it was replaced by individualist, off-the-grid experimental spaces, he said.
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Wyndham says increasing his clientele are busy corporates who make the short drive Sydney to literally "go off the grid" for a weekend or a week.
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Whether you get to work by land, sea, or air, these apps have offline skills to help you work—and decompress—while you're off the grid.
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There are a select few who've taken Wastelanding into the real world, and have chosen to live off the grid and adopt Wasteland principles 24/7.
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Precursor Ventures Managing Partner Charles Hudson invested in Tastemakers for its potential as an early entrant in an off the grid travel market attracting more curiosity.
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Years later, in 2014, he founded the nonprofit Off the Grid International, which helps provide access to clean water and sanitation systems in undeveloped areas. 3.
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Authorities believe Cummins is likely keeping Elizabeth "off the grid" and they've urged the public to search their properties, local campgrounds, rural areas and parking garages.
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The BCI is part of a band of "off-the-grid-indicators" that Nick Colas, chief market strategist at Convergex, uses to take the economy's temperature.
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Suffice it to say that the one-time killing machine has been living off the grid, before being drawn back by an old ally (Julia Stiles).
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Wen is an inquisitive kid who takes the family's vacation to off-the-grid New Hampshire seriously, studying grasshoppers and having fun being away from school.
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But now, thanks to falling prices for solar panels and increasing efficiency of LED lights and small appliances, rural Africans are obtaining electricity off the grid.
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Authorities allege Cummins is likely keeping Elizabeth "off the grid" and they've urged the public to search their properties, local campgrounds, rural areas and parking garages.
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This pushed coal power off the grid where green energy gets priority, while high carbon emissions allowances and low gas prices also worsened coal's competitive position.
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By producing a short-range radio signal, goTenna Mesh creates an off-the-grid wireless network that you can use to communicate with other goTenna users.
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Authorities allege Cummins is likely keeping Elizabeth "off the grid," and they urge the public to search their properties, local campgrounds, rural areas and parking garages.
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The group broadly breaks up connectivity challenges by population density, using machine learning to pinpoint population centers that remain off the grid for existing data sets.
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But with much of the industry's momentum coming from the millennial generation, going "off the grid" comes with a little more pizzazz nowadays, Happe told Cramer.
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She lived in New York for seven years, then relocated to Taos, New Mexico, living off the grid in an Earthship before coming back to California.
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Anatomy of a Scene Parents raise their kids off the grid in the drama "Captain Fantastic," featuring Viggo Mortensen and written and directed by Matt Ross.
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It's a summer-camp-meets-Burning Man meetup, where like-minded preppers come together to learn about farming, cooking, living off the grid, and shooting guns.
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You start to lean on things that shouldn't matter, you think you're doing well in life, then all of a sudden you fall off the grid.
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Sam, a repairman who specialized in installing geothermal heaters in case you need to get off the grid, was a great boss and even better guy.
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Don't worry — I'm not about to suggest we all move to off-the-grid bunkers in the Mojave Desert to reconnect with our pre-technology selves.
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Lorde's worst offense in the current popsphere then is that she didn't didn't make herself available in those years off—she went too off the grid.
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His starts haven't always been great this year, and after qualifying Rosberg had cited getting off the grid better as his biggest chance of getting ahead.
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"We share everything we have," the villagers of Motunui sing, tempting more mindful popcorn-chompers to get out of the multiplex and go off the grid.
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But going off the grid, setting up shop on the beach and enjoying the fruits of your ticket are not necessarily possible without informing the government.
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Permaculture is a holistic design concept concentered around regenerative agriculture and natural building, using materials from the land and being as off-the-grid as possible.
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Streetlights passively powered by electricity from radiative cooling would not have to have their batteries replaced, and people could charge their cell phones off the grid.
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My colleagues will laugh about this, but I also use a GPS watch when I'm going off the grid, to have my coordinates wherever I am.
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Still, Bobbie Hayes, whose power was cut off in Eureka, said she managed to find something of a silver lining in spending time off the grid.
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This jewel box of a house on the Atlantic coast has four bedrooms, three baths, is built to withstand hurricanes and can operate off the grid.
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But some observers hope that the experience in Africa—which today has more off-the-grid solar homes than the U.S.—could help drive transformation elsewhere.
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My feed is my off-the-grid pipe dream, yet I don't seem to care much about the wilderness available right outside my own metro area.
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It's unlikely that I'll ever live out my cottagecore dreams in a converted off-the-grid school bus, but I can at least fantasize about it.
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Unless you live off the grid, it's a hard fact that money buys your food, shelter and transportation, not to mention current recreation and distant projects.
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While it was hardly an off-the-grid experience, it did take me out of the daily news cycle for the first time in a while.
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There's a new prototype on the Kickstarter campaign trail that's designed to fill your belly in a convenient, energy-efficient way — while going completely off the grid.
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This environmentally friendly off-the-grid house includes an interior greenhouse that runs the length of the building and a fish pond that feeds another vegetable garden.
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Instead of going off the grid until 2018, we believe your New Year's resolution is a great way to help you prepare for the year to come.
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That way, Alias stays "off the grid" while you're using it, preventing your conversations from leaving the device, Bjørn Karmann, one of the developers, told The Verge.
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It tells the story of a father (Ben Foster) and daughter (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) who are living off the grid in Oregon until social services comes calling.
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And while she is sad and confused, Jill remains hopeful of Thomas' safe return even though authorities believe she is being kept "off the grid" by Cummins.
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Regardless of where you go on vacation and whether you've got Internet access or not, Knapp and Zeratsky suggest you act as if you're off the grid.
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Its Kio Kit, consisting of a solar-powered router and 23 tablets inside a weather-proof case, can connect an off-the-grid classroom to the web.
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Its Kio Kit, consisting of a solar-powered router and 40 tablets inside a weather-proof case, can connect an off-the-grid classroom to the web.
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Any zero-waste evangelizer will tell you that you don't need to upend your life and live in an off-the-grid cabin like an archetypal environmentalist.
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The lake supplies roughly 8 percent of Rome's water needs and ACEA says that if it is taken off the grid, it will have to impose rationing.
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But Weiss did something different this time around for his new album, Standards, the third under his Into It. Over It. moniker: He went off the grid.
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He aims to prove to the world that you don't need a corporation or nonprofit to help you go off the grid, you can do it yourself.
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You can't stop teens from staring at their phones, but maybe you can convince them that a weekend at Yellowstone doesn't necessarily mean going off the grid.
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He was ready to go off the grid, and he'd realized that with a little land, he could create a retreat for kids like Alex and Derek.
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But even if you're totally off the grid, social-media wise, there's a lot that employers can find out about you, once you're working for the company.
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W. Kamau Bell: True stories of life off the grid Yes, geography may have played a role in the lack of a big black population in Portland.
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Groundwater wells — the ultimate in off-the-grid water that roughly 15 million households in the US rely on — also need to be routinely tested for safety.
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Alicia Vikander portrays Ava, an exquisite embodiment of artificial intelligence and the latest creation of a tech mogul (Oscar Isaac) living off the grid in wilderness splendor.
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Mother and daughter are part of an off-the-grid community of caravan dwellers who live just outside the fictional town of Clachan Fells in northern Scotland.
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Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey launched an eco-friendly, off-the-grid cabin in Australia on Wednesday that will be available to rent out starting December.
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This retrograde will overlap with the next Mercury retrograde for a couple days, during which time we wouldn't judge you if you went off the grid altogether.
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"Today, if you see bitcoins transacting, you almost assume they're from someone who wants to be off the grid, or they're proceeds from illicit transactions," said Brown.
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He put the house on rented farmland in the Hudson Valley to use as an Airbnb rental, and imagined it would be an off-the-grid experience.
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But they're not off the grid — in fact, their constant construction of internet personas, mostly via Instagram, shapes their IRL personas, blurring what's performance and what's authentic.
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Inside the List SCHOOL OF LIFE: Tara Westover's parents, who practice a radical form of Mormonism, raised seven children off the grid on a remote Idaho mountainside.
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For the past three months, Gjermund Roesholt and his family lived far off the grid in the Yukon, the vast, desolate Canadian territory where wildlife outnumbers humans.
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While wealthier residents were able to fall back on solar panels and battery systems for electricity, living off the grid was not an option for Sharmaine Lindahl.
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Both wealthy and poorer areas were affected by the blackout but interviews across the state suggested that being forced off the grid disproportionately hurt the less affluent.
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It can be illegal to take your house off the grid and go completely solar on your own, but who knows how often the government enforces this.
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Mesh or off-the-grid messaging apps rely on device-to-device communication, rather than sending their 1s and 0s via a wifi router or cell tower.
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In this musical tale, Mariah Carey, Ciara, DJ Khaled, Fifth Harmony and Rudy Mancuso search for the true meaning of Christmas after accidentally going off the grid.
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For 11 years when her children were young, she and her husband, who installs solar panels, lived off the grid and used a hand pump for water.
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In her favor: Granik has won multiple best-director laurels from critics' groups for this note-perfect study of a father and daughter living off the grid.
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Moore's been a prepper for over two decades, as the book's subtitle explains, living off the grid in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; she knows what she's talking about.
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Don't expect a fully off the grid scenario, though: if you want to rent a cabin, you can, and there's also a bar and grill on site.
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Commissioned by the Wright Museum, the "Shine a Light Off-the-Grid People + Plant Conservatory" is a solar-powered pod-like structure that features video art installations.
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If Stranger Things 2 were nine hours of these two having adventures and living off the grid...you know what, let's call that a pitch for Season 3.
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Viggo Mortensen and Kathryn Hahn, stars of Captain Fantastic, used a bit from their film (about a big family that lives off the grid) while presenting an award.
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If your boyfriend owns a hybrid car (or like to live off the grid), then this portable power station from Ecoflow can help him out in a pinch.
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With Butler and company looking to go "deeper and darker" on Angel, Nolte joins the cast as Mike's absentee father, Clay, who has long been off the grid.
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BioLite just launched a Kickstarter campaign for its BaseLantern, which it's marketing as both a light for your off-the-grid campsite, as well as a phone charger.
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"In most countries, they won't let you work unless you are working off the grid," said Art Koff, founder of Retired Brains, an online job and information resource.
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Green Mountain expects the electricity batteries will also allow the utility to reduce peak energy load by 10 megawatts, the equivalent to taking 7,500 homes off the grid.
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In addition, it has other investments in hydroelectric, biogas, and geothermal power, and looks to purchase green energy off the grid when it can't generate its own power.
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The new Lisbon resembles "a speeded-up east London," as the city transforms from off-the-grid backwater to Airbnb-infested production hub of the international creative elite.
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And on neighboring Sviskar, an off-the-grid, four-bed log cabin offers a back-to-basics experience complete with a wood-fired sauna for guest use. silverskar.
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Today, "anarchism" seems harmless, almost quaint, something you might associate with ex-hippies, former punks and wild-haired loners scrawling anti-establishment manifestos in cabins off the grid.
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Not surprisingly, Hyderites are an eclectic bunch of nature lovers, survivalists, folks who live off the grid and former miners with a penchant for quiet, if boozy, living.
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With more than 80 miles of trails and a number of way-off-the-grid backcountry campgrounds, Guadalupe has a reputation for being a hard-core hiker's paradise.
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And while his fellow millennials are imprinting their lives on the internet through social networks like Instagram or Facebook and Snapchat, Spiegel tries to stay off the grid.
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But lawyers for the five said there was no terror plot and they were simply choosing to live off the grid, as many people do in New Mexico.
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"It's off the grid a bit," said Dan Cahill, 37, an asset manager who moved into the neighborhood in 2012 with his wife, Alexandra Cahill, 34, a teacher.
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The patents describe a wireless device-to-device communication system that sounds as if it would work, well, off the grid, much like the reportedly shelved technology would.
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Another company, the South Korean messaging app Kakao, has used what3words as a way to invite users to discover new fishing spots that were previously off the grid.
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While you may not want to go off the grid and venture into the wilderness today, it never hurts to have your bug-out bag prepared for tomorrow.
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When I began rebuilding my life this summer, I painfully discovered that they have no time for people who have fallen off the grid — such nuance eludes them.
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Edison was a huge supporter of clean energy technologies, and in 1912 he unveiled the "Twentieth Century Suburban Residence," a completely self-sufficient and "off the grid" home.
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Last week heavy rains partly shut down operations at its coal fired Medupi plant, wiping thousands of megawatts off the grid and causing unprecedented levels of power cuts.
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Arguably, hippies were opposed to modern society, in terms of their interest in archaic forms of communal living, off-the-grid sensibilities, and questioning of culturally enforced norms.
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Ben Foster stars as a military veteran with PTSD who is raising his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin McKenzie), off the grid in a state park — until they're found.
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For the environment, there's Angaza Design, a pay-as-you-go tech platform that helps manufacturers and distributors make clean energy devices more affordable for off-the-grid consumers.
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I'm online for a majority of my day, and I've accepted the fact that my digital footprint runs too deep for me to ever truly go off the grid.
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Each shuttered plant takes a gigawatt or two of low-carbon energy off the grid, at a time when we need all the low-carbon energy we can get.
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Currently, these regions that are off the grid rely on intermittent sources like wind and solar power, which require energy-storage solutions in order to deliver consistent, efficient power.
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Unless you live off the grid the chances you've had your electronic data mined by a social media company or an online retailer hovers at just about 100 percent.
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Where I live now, you have to take a 25 minute boat ride to the nearest town, so I'm a professional at off-the-grid event throwing and coordination.
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This image of Tess and her friends on their car from my series Connected Off-the-Grid perfectly describes my shooting style and who I am as a person.
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Because of how entangled it is with our existences, it inevitably comes up when you're dating someone—unless you and your partner(s) are totally off the grid, somehow.
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Even though you might be going off the grid, it's important to be able to contact the outside world in case of an emergency and/or to stay sane.
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In remote, off-the-grid lands, millions of people would be pleased to plug in a small fridge, or use a blender, or even just turn on a lightbulb.
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Off-the-grid customers walk to a local store and pay to have their solar electricity activated when they need it, similar to how a prepaid cell phone works.
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Using basic tools and the power of his own body, James managed to build a rustic, off-the-grid log cabin, and captured nearly every step in the process.
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According to the Energy Information Administration, the CPP would have taken another 25 percent of coal generation capacity off the grid, causing direct and indirect job losses totaling 127,000.
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"I've been a part of certain conversations off the grid, finding different ways to make our community better, especially for African-Americans," the Golden State Warriors point guard added.
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The women put together a questionnaire that emphasized commitment and values and made it clear that the land they were giving away was remote and well off the grid.
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The team also leave thought-provoking books in some guest rooms and maps of off-the-grid places to visit in London that will soon be new hot spots.
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They drop off the grid, abandoning their cellphones (imagine!) and all other aspects of their lives — jobs, contact with the people who love them — vanishing to God-knows-where.
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"Y234K" itself would go on to win WOTY honors for 226, but thankfully the Cassandras were wrong and we weren't all forced off the grid when the millennium arrived.
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And even if you don't have either of those things, it's easy enough to at least feel completely off the grid and claim your own private expanse of Padre.
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While CCAs don't take communities off the grid (they'd still be affected by outages), it can help in the long-term transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy system.
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They also come in a special camouflage exterior for buyers who want to use the Buhaus as an "off the grid" unit in the wilderness, according to a spokesperson.
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Mr. Sheeran has just released "÷" (pronounced "Divide"), his third album and the first since 2014, after which he very publicly went off the grid to seek inspiration and escape.
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Now that cities around the country are cracking down on live/work warehouses and illegal performance spaces, some D.I.Y. warehouses are trying to go even further off the grid.
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Once they'd ceased being objects of obsession, their lives had sailed off the grid—something that they were unable to easily explain to other people, or even to themselves.
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With all of this uncertainty, some fans of a 21st century cryptographic currency are bound to act a bit like paranoid grandparents and taking their finances off the grid.
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For two years, she enjoyed life off the grid, moving to Hawaii with her partner, Norman Kali, who worked in film production and is now a stay-at-home dad.
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They go do something and she is just studying all day, and we kind of know she's going to be off the grid that day for a bunch of hours.
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Apart from women from Indian villages, Barefoot College trains women from African, Asian and Latin American countries into becoming solar engineers for their villages that are still off the grid.
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In clean energy, the Midwest's research universities are developing next generation technologies in energy storage, photovoltaics and other "off-the-grid" solutions as part the nation's energy innovation hub network.
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The Turtle can create its own Wi-Fi network for connections when you're off the grid, which is great, because this thing is designed for exploring off the beaten path.
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Friday's new moon in Sagittarius puts you in a quiet mood, ready to retreat into your bed, turn off your phone, and let yourself off the grid for a second.
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About a quarter of the world's off-the-grid people, or 300 million or so, live in India, mostly in remote, rural communities like Paradeshappanamatha, or in informal urban settlements.
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Video: Mar Canet Now, Varvara and Mar have gone off the grid with The Rhythm of Wind, a new work currently on display as part of the annual Horizons exhibition.
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Eager for justice, Riley drops off the grid to prepare for her own brand of justice: taking out the cartel responsible for her family's death, one person at a time.
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The remote area is home to multiple animals – and possibly peopleMitchell and Kunz tell PEOPLE they believe DeOrr was kidnapped by people living in the mountains, perhaps off the grid.
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For two weeks, the Sherpa 100AC allowed me to venture off the grid for a few days at a time before retreating to caravan sites to plug in and recharge.
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It turns out that this doomsday prophet, who lives completely off the grid in a secret compound located somewhere in the middle of a volcanic island, is fan of mine.
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" He tells Dennis, "Fall off the grid all you want, just give us a heads up that you're okay," and adds, "because everybody who worried about you really does care.
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Scheduled to be completed this summer, the sustainable, off-the-grid custom-designed home features solar electricity and hot water and a hydroponic greenhouse for growing organic fruits and vegetables.
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The 150-square-foot home is a low-impact, off-the-grid structure made of wood, glass and canvas that can be carried into remote areas and constructed by hand.
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To be clear, my goal isn't to get "off the grid," but rather to try to stay connected and live as normally as possible by using alternative products and services.
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They all agree to live somewhat off the grid, according to Bean's edicts: no electronics, alcohol or artificial anything, modern vices Bean believes may have contributed to their children's difficulties.
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Left out are people like Gabby, who live off the grid of the culture wars — as does Douthat himself, a conservative whom liberal institutions have educated, sponsored and let thrive.
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I spend nearly the whole day outside chopping firewood for our house (we live off the grid), maintaining trails, plowing, going on walks with our dogs, snowshoeing, skiing, winter biking.
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Ben Foster plays a veteran with PTSD, living off the grid with his teenage daughter (the New Zealand actress Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) in a state forest outside of Portland, Ore.
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According to a statement from Wild Turkey, McConaughey teamed up with the bourbon company to design a luxurious, off-the-grid cabin in Australia, Travel + Leisure's Destination of the Year.
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In November, Variety described "Killing Zac Efron" as featuring Efron going "off the grid" on a remote island for 21 days with only a guide partner and basic survival gear.
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A small internet provider there is using decommissioned Seattle transit batteries, harnessed together with solar panels and a generator, to power a wireless network for 700 off-the-grid customers.
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According to his label, Jungle Gym Records, the elusive producer (pronounced "Coco") is supposedly living off the grid somewhere in Germany, but the truth is nobody really knows for sure.
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Civil War ends with Rogers breaking off with his own team of Avengers, essentially everyone but Tony Stark and James "Rhodey" Rhodes, and going off the grid and on the run.
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It's sort of like taking your device off the grid — Spotify doesn't know you're already streaming, so it won't stop anyone else from logging on to listen on the same account.
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Musk envisions his affordable, clean energy will one day power the remote villages of underdeveloped countries as well as allowing the average homeowner in industrial nations to go off the grid.
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How do you guys handle both the people that want to get off the grid, if you will, they want to not be a PokéStop, as well as the business interest.
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"I do see similarities, in that [Cummins] went off the grid and nobody can find him — and he's an older man preying upon this younger girl and using manipulation," Ed says.
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GoalZero Nomad 7 Solar Panel for $65 ($15 off): If you're going off the grid this summer, we really like GoalZero's light, portable solar panels for recharging phones and satellite messengers.
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However if it's goal is to appeal to those seeking adventure off-the-grid, or in foreign lands where data plans tend not to work, Sygic could be just the thing.
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Scientists have made huge strides in tracking potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in recent decades, but both the Bering Sea and Chelyabinsk meteors remained off the grid until they exploded.
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However, alongside the Twitter and Facebook share buttons, Swarm has now added an Off-The-Grid button for folks who want to check-in without broadcasting their location to their friends.
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It, too, had been off the grid in a sense, languishing for decades in her garage, and now, because of an automotive emergency, had just been put back on the road.
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The distilled spring water made slightly better ice, but I really wasn't complaining about the tap water — even the slightly sulphuric well water at my mother's mostly off-the-grid home.
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The actress stars in the film as the aunt of six children living off the grid with their parents until tragedy strikes and the family is forced to reintegrate into civilization.
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In theory, someone—even me—could strap one of these panels to the bed of a truck, drive out to the desert, and live off the grid with water to spare.
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Growing Up Off The Grid is a short film that follows Maddie Roarke, a 17-year-old who grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
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Off the grid: In Vermont, local electric company Green Mountain Power is trying to wean residents off of its mostly carbon-powered system to fix both environmental woes and financial ones.
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Maqubela worked in operations at career network Doostang (acquired by Universum Global) and solar startup One Block Off the Grid (acquired by NRG) before rising to general partner at Collaborative Fund.
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Photo: Patrick Sison (AP)At this point, if you don't want strangers to listen to recordings from your devices, it's looking like you may just have to go off the grid.
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There haven't, however, been reported attempts by governments to do so — although there has been some debate over whether shutting down the chans could drive extremists even further off the grid.
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The clichés, the fearmongering, the unfortunate attempts at humor, the awkward candidates struggling to look human — it's enough to drive a person off the grid for the duration of election season.
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AMALIA, N.M. — Anyone trying to drop out of sight could do a lot worse than the hills surrounding this remote outpost in northern New Mexico, dotted with off-the-grid dwellings.
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The idea below explains how Paul Beeken used a Times article as the jumping-off point for an assignment in which students design their own off-the-grid power system infrastructure.
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It's among the most remote corners of the U.S., and for decades, it has lured people who want to live off the grid — and who have a colossal appetite for risk.
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Martin said that as more consumers chose to "get off the grid," power prices on the grid can become too expensive for residential customers who can't afford to join the exodus.
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It's a pretty heart-wrenching, but inspiring, true story of a woman who was raised somewhat 'off-the-grid,' then put herself through university, grad school and to get her PhD.
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As the librarian at Madison High School in Maine's western mountains, he came to the reality of his eloquent narrative through firsthand knowledge of the challenges of life off the grid.
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Residents Scott (43) and Ruth (39) Roe, along with their 8-year-old daughter, have kept Bron Yr Aur off the grid, turning it into a hub of renewable activity, Marketplace reports.
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Tucked inside the tropical town of Trancoso, Bahia, Cooper felt an almost instant connection to the off-the-grid spot, which he first visited with partner Benjamin Maisani and friend Andy Cohen.
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Eric had never been outside without an OxyCap; he had only heard of people off the grid in Alaska and Montana and parts of Texas roaming, heads uncovered, breathing the natural air.
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The solution is simple—I am going to throw my computer and phone into the East River, go off the grid, and remember what being a human being is really all about.
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But, White went off the grid about a year ago, according to prosecutors who told the court they had been trying like hell to speak with her in order to prosecute Taylor.
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The company is calling these private check-ins 'off-the-grid check-ins' and users will be able to activate them through a toggle in the check-in portion of the app.
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Ryan Holmes, the 42-year-old founder and CEO of the social-media management platform Hootsuite, had an off-the-grid upbringing that saw him tending to animals instead of web pages.
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"I've just recently found out about Autumn Taylor's tweets after returning from travel off the grid, and I feel terrible that she experienced our interaction in this way," he told Business Insider.
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In many cases where authorities are seeking to track down people who have seemingly gone off the grid, they will ultimately reach a friend or relative who can clear up any confusion.
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Leave No Trace stars Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie as a military veteran with PTSD and his teenage daughter, who are living off the grid in a state park — until they're found.
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Generation Z is the first generation to grow up without landlines, and they're handling at least one aspect of being off the grid better than you'd expect, the AP's Leanne Italie reports.
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Better yet is the peek at the sylvan commune where Magneto and his crew have gone off the grid (or something), which after all the generic stress and storm looks mighty inviting.
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Now, a long boat ride from pommes Anna and cha ca la Wong, can you imagine living off the grid on a little island just off Vinalhaven, on the coast of Maine?
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Slide-N-Glo 3-in-1 Lantern ($24.95 Value) Ideal for people who love going off the grid, this lantern will make sure that there's ample lighting wherever they choose to go.
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Though Jonas added in a video that he went off the grid during the celebration so he could really live in the moment, he shared some great photos of the big day.
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The European Union's emissions are also on track to fall 1.7 percent this year as the continent's emissions-trading system helped push roughly one-fifth of its coal power off the grid.
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It also sends SMS alerts when prices turn negative and customers get paid for taking excess power off the grid, which happens a few times a year on sunny and windy days.
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The Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy structure—AMIE 1.0, for short—is a 3-D printed structure and a glimpse at how architects think we might live off-the-grid, and in the future.
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"Shortly after she reported him missing, we called her to do an interview and she didn't show up for that and fell off the grid and wouldn't call us back," says Lt. Dorris.
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In the California desert, about 150 miles northeast of San Diego on the grounds of a decommissioned military base, is Slab City — a drifter's utopia that exists off the grid of contemporary living.
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There are also concerns that solar power customers can go off-the-grid — reducing the number of people who rely on the grid for electricity and passing the costs to its remaining customers.
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"Take the refineries on the East Coast off the grid, and we're all reliant on Texas to keep American energy secure," said U.S. Republican Representative Patrick Meehan, whose district includes the Delta refinery.
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To wit, Luke lectures Rey in his off-the-grid Jedi retreat, just as Yoda once lectured Luke, only the lecturing takes place on a mountainous island rather than in a swampy cavern.
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If, like me, a founder can't voluntarily disconnect even while on vacation, they should consider joining a community like Soulscape or traveling off the grid so they are forced to disconnect and recharge.
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If being off the grid is outside your comfort zone, the nearby town of Kingston is only a short car ride away and has charming shops, modern wine bars and delicious dining options.
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It just so happens that these people who are living in poverty, off the grid and don't trust the government are also black and Muslim — and therein lies the problem with the case.
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Like other residential batteries, the device is supposed to pull cheap electricity off the grid during off-peak hours and feed it back into the home when power is in demand and expensive.
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His personal connection to the case drives him for the rest of the season and into Season 2, when we get the joyful premise of Hopper and Eleven living together off the grid.
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Companies want some protection from the rise they fear they will see in electricity prices when coal-fired power plants and nuclear power plants are taken off the grid in the coming years.
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On the season premiere of this show that takes Hollywood celebrities off the grid, Bear Grylls teams up with the "Captain Marvel" star Brie Larson to test her survival skills in the wild.
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"Researching power wall & home generator options due to the recent shutdowns, & the obvious global warming/wildfire trends that will eventually lead to savvy homeowners building off the grid systems," tech investor Jason Calacanis.
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The trip stops for two spots of heli-skiing: first in Whistler, with evenings spent in the luxurious Four Seasons Resort and Residences Whistler, before going off-the-grid with Last Frontier Heliskiing.
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If you've ever spent extended time on a boat, a camper van, or a small off-the-grid cabin, chances are that you quickly came to realize that ice becomes a hot commodity.
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Remember, Rousey went off the grid after her first loss to Holly Holm back in 2015 -- hiding her face at the airport and then stating on the 'Ellen' show she had suicidal thoughts.
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Jeff Raymond: Over the course of the last five years, I was doing a lot of research on living off the grid and that led to a bunch of big discoveries for me.
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As a kid, I was repeatedly told that one day we would have to live off the grid of society, hiding from the Antichrist army that was hunting down and exterminating all Christians.
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Wright has recently reentered the banking system and ultimately concluded the project, but the artistic fruits of his temporarily off-the-grid lifestyle will be on view at The Hole until September 4th.
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Zac Efron: He reportedly nearly killed himself making "Killing Zac Efron" — requiring a medevac to a hospital in Australia after living off the grid in Papua New Guinea for this adventure/survival series.
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Sanders acknowledged, "You certainly don't phase nuclear out tomorrow," but didn't say when he thinks we'll have enough low-carbon power that we can take several gigawatts off the grid without raising emissions.
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For seasons, he has shown quietly, at unglamorous, early-morning presentations at Comme des Garçons' showroom, to a handful of enraptured editors and retailers who knew enough to seek him off the grid.
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It has enough food and fuel for five years off the grid; by raising tilapia in fish tanks, and hydroponic vegetables under grow lamps, with renewable power, it could function indefinitely, Hall said.
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Putting Africa on the Grid Bill McKibben, in his piece on off-the-grid solar power in sub-Saharan Africa, unfortunately lapses into a cliché account of the region ("Power Brokers," June 26th).
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"We want to run an Airbnb out in the country," he says, adding that he also wants to offer sustainability workshops for people interested in earth-sheltered housing and living off the grid.
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The area was the subject of "Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa," a documentary that captures the variety of its inhabitants: war-scarred veterans, teenage runaways, garden variety social misfits, among others.
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Diana, here, is a hunter living off the grid in Idaho, attended by two dancing Virgins and clad in the military-grade camouflage favored by some anti-government types in the American west.
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If you've got sunlight and access to lighting infrastructure— yet can't afford monthly electricity bills (or are simply in a village that's off the grid)— this could present a means to self-sustainability.
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Famous for her luminous abstract expressionist paintings, Martin herself cultivated a hermetic image in interviews and by living alone, often off the grid, in New Mexico, until her death at age 903 in 290.
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It's not clear how many of those immigrants made an informed decision to go "off the grid" to avoid the risk that they, or their unauthorized immigrant parents or guardians, would ultimately be deported.
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This summer, I'll be doing research in New York City, climbing in New England, and taking a float plane to a secluded lake in Northern Ontario for a couple of weeks off the grid.
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After years of working as a lawyer in San Jose fighting for indigenous rights and environmental issues, she and her husband, Ian Macaulay, decided to move off the grid and live off the land.
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He points to an article written by a journalist going "off the grid" for the weekend on a Swedish island: The first thing she does upon returning is tweet a link to her article.
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She's also worked on long-term projects like Connected Off-the-Grid, which documents those who have abandoned the American dream and chosen alternative places to live, such as trees, teepees, cars, and boats.
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Electricity and plumbing: The cost depends on whether your tiny house is on or off the grid, as well as whether you hire out the labor, which is required by law in many locations.
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Their research suggests that police stops prompt people to stay "off the grid" — using public services less frequently for fear of additional unpleasant police contact and even producing neighborhood-wide reductions in voter turnout.
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Although the number of people living in these communities is hard to pin down — the demographic is often deliberately off the grid — Blue estimates that there are currently around 100,000 individuals residing in them.
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Among our key findings: This problem is not isolated to a few families "living off the grid," but is the result of historical and geographical factors that have left entire communities without basic services.
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A teacher in Airdrie, Alberta, he spends as much time in nature as he can — mountain biking, camping, hiking — and a capable four-wheel-drive vehicle is essential to get him off the grid.
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He allegedly faked a suicide on his boat The US Marshals said they believed Scott had faked his death to avoid prosecution and could have lived off the grid, thanks to his military training.
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He then spent three months off the grid in Querétaro, Mexico, without running water, electricity or telephones before an eight-year-stint at the Michelin-starred restaurant near D.C., the Inn at Little Washington.
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This runs parallel to the region's off-the-grid SME's and economic activity — on display and in commercial motion through the street traders, roadside kiosks and open-air markets common from Nairobi to Lagos.
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As an adventure guide for eight years and having lived off the grid in northern Alaska for part of a year in 2018, the 37-year-old artist feels most at home with nature.
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Debra Granik's beautifully observed story focuses on a father (Ben Foster) and daughter (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, in a breakout performance) who are living off the grid in the wilds of a big nature preserve.
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If the goal is true altruism, then the more a society becomes intertwined, the harder it is to ever extricate yourself from it, even if you're effectively living off the grid like Doug Forcett.
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Big business, along with Silicon Valley–tied venture capital cash, is beginning to pour into the sparsely populated rural region, long renowned for off-the-grid personalities—and of course off-the-charts weed.
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The "Shine a Light Off-the-Grid People + Plant Conservatory" can be visited on Manistique Street in Detroit, MI. For upcoming public events, Tammy Black can be contacted through the Manistique Community Treehouse Center.
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"This person is equally capable to live off the grid," the prosecutor said, adding that Raniere would pose a danger to victims and witnesses of the case if he was to be released from prison.
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For example, 2014 and '15 statistical exercises in countries such as Nigeria and Kenya revealed tens of billions of dollars in off-the-grid economic activity that has gone uncaptured in GDP calculations for years.
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"We firmly believe that they are essentially off the grid and Cummins has her out of public view," he says, urging the public to search their properties, local camp grounds, rural areas and parking garages.
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For instance, if the largest geomagnetic storm on record—the Carrington Event of 1859—were to hit us today, it could fry transformers worldwide, knocking billions of people off the grid for weeks to months.
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After disappearing for a week on a recent episode of Southern Charm, the mother of two gets candid with costar Shep Rose about how she "fell off the grid" as a result of her diagnosis.
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And it could create the opportunity to engage in deeper, more comprehensive, and more holistic coverage of all drug issues, since this electoral action came from out of nowhere, and is way off the grid.
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The home battery units are supposed to help ease a home's reliance on the power grid, if not take it off the grid entirely by storing enough solar energy to last it through the day.
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It's one of the best known of a genre that includes Forest, Freedom, Space, Off the Grid, AntiSocial and App Detox, all dedicated to reducing screen time (or at least encouraging more mindful smartphone use).
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But I also tend to be a little, uh, intense and if too much is going on, I get very tired and I might need to be off the grid for a couple of days.
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Originally the idea was to sell these to rich folks who wanted to live off the grid or have a more self-sufficient mountain cabin, but this is definitely better — for a lot of reasons.
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He put down his paintbrush in late 1966, halting an ascendant career, and didn't resume painting until the 1980s — long after he'd left New York and was living quietly off the grid in New Mexico.
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If you've ever spent extended time on a boat, in a camper van, or in a small off-the-grid cabin, chances are that you quickly came to realize that ice becomes a hot commodity.
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Mr. Mortensen is himself not a back-to-the woods survivalist, exactly, but he knows his Chomsky and lives about as far off the grid as a major movie star can and still get work.
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She posted her first two YouTube videos within two weeks of each other and, instead of waiting, logged off social media and went "off the grid," exploring places like Big Sur, California, in her van.
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I have time to appreciate—in passing—the openness, the vast silence, the smells of grass and loam and no B.O. But I don't have time to fantasize about slipping, utterly unprepared, off the grid.
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It harbors all manner of people looking to live off the grid: back-to-the-land-ers, draft dodgers, freed slaves, activists, religious puritans, and, in recent years, extremists and members of the alt-right.
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The Caribbean island north of Antigua was ravaged by the storm Wednesday -- reportedly 95 percent of buildings were damaged or destroyed -- and went completely off the grid for hours as high winds knocked out power.
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For the first, "off-the-grid" challenge, first place went to Lantern, a pocket-sized device that uses off-the-shelf components to create a sort of offline Wi-Fi that others can connect to.
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"Jason Bourne" - the fifth installment of the franchise - hits movie theaters on July 27, starring Damon as a conflicted, restless hero who resurfaces at the Greek-Macedonian border a decade after going off the grid.
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The Klevelands' father boasts that he lives off the grid at his ranch, "I think he knows that if everything goes crazy he has a well and a garden, a survivalist plan," Katherine Kleveland said.
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Marquee users have been slowly backing away from their feeds (or slipping off the grid entirely); last week, Twitter's stock plunged by more than 20 percent after the company reported a decline in monthly users.
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The purported rationale of the review is to examine whether baseload power plants (mostly coal and nuclear) are being unfairly pushed off the grid, thus threatening grid reliability, national security, and our precious bodily fluids.
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She has told me that most of the skeptical parents she sees each week aren't raving conspiracy theorists — bug-eyed stereotypes who write manifestoes in crayon, listen to Alex Jones and live off the grid.
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We drove up to Vermont's Green Mountains to meet with the couple behind one up-and-coming #vanlife account to see what it takes to turn an off-the-grid life into an online brand.
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Though the Make Your Own Chocolate Creations class is for adults only (no fair!), there is a demonstration of Stroopwaffel making, and children can join Koko NYC in building an off-the-grid Tiny House.
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BEST for staying hydrated Best for packing light Best for snacking Best for keeping clean BEST FOR refilling BEST FOR OFF-THE-GRID TRAVEL Best for staying protected Best for bugs Best for personal care
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My credit file was so thin from so many years of living pretty much off the grid that when I finally got around to applying for a Discover card, Experian thought I might be dead.
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Arensis Corporation, a Los Angeles-based company specializing in off-the-grid electricity, installed a generating system at a refugee support center in Fajardo, aiming to use building waste from the disaster itself as fuel.
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Hitting pause also lets drivers end their day cleanly, with the app automatically taking them off the grid when they drop off that last passenger, rather than making the driver turn down requests while they go.
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While no details were given with regard to names or particular characters, the world was described as a "remote frontier outpost" where people that often want to stay off the grid can go to hang out.
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In Kenya, more than 2130 percent of people living off the grid have a solar product at home, according to a Bloomberg report that also estimates off-grid households worldwide will reach that benchmark by 2200.
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"As a kid we lived very rurally, at times even 'off the grid,' and I was exposed to indigenous worldviews, so the idea of an animate landscape was utterly normal to me," the artist tells us.
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Although the house was connected to the city power subsystem in 2015, it is designed to operate completely off the grid, using solar panels for electricity, holding tanks for water and a septic tank for sewage.
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In 1968, while flying in a helicopter to prepare a weekend urban studies course about local Brooklyn history, Pratt Institute professor James Hurley, a black man, discovered four Brooklyn buildings that were completely off the grid.
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Maybe you want to live and work off the grid making handmade furniture out of reclaimed fallen trees (though I have to say, West Elm has seemingly found a way to make even this pretty profitable…).
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Just take the case of Lois Riess, a 56-year-old grandmother from Minnesota who allegedly murdered two people, stole a woman's identity, and dropped off the grid, kicking off a nationwide manhunt for her arrest.
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But quirky beyond words — and any GPS for that matter — is 15-year-old Jeneve Rose Mitchell, the wide-eyed doily with a side-braid whom Idol tapped from "off the grid" somewhere in the Rockies.
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Narrator: But even for the region's legal farmers, not only is there still the very real threat of federal prosecution, companies are now swooping in to make a profit from the once-off-the-grid farmers.
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Members of an off-the-grid economy, the salespeople go from house to house pushing subscriptions on unsuspecting families that are, more and more, likely to be wielding an iPad when they come to the door.
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The basic setup, devised by Mark Mauriello, is that a gang of gender-queer outcasts has holed up at the Crown, an off-the-grid nightclub, in order to escape some dystopian bad stuff happening outside.
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That off-the-grid meeting is a key focal point for the Trump-Russia investigation, as it could offer answers about any potential deals or informal understandings between Trump and Russia right before he took office.
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Perhaps the most off-the-grid installation was the Todd Merrill booth, a Hollywood fantasia: chromed branches of a chandelier floated over demi-settees and a tufted sofa, arranged symmetrically as in a Busby Berkeley musical.
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The earliest reports of Swift dating Alwyn didn't surface until 2017, when there were rumors she was hiding out in London, attempting to date him off the grid, but conventional wisdom suggests they met before that.
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Of course, those EVs will be coming on and off the grid at different times, with different capacities, so the total storage will never be available at once, but it's still a potentially huge flexibility resource.
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After disappearing off the grid -- during which time she was "training," one detective explains in the preview -- Riley resurfaces on the five-year anniversary of the killings as a ruthless vigilante out to avenge her loved ones.
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Release date: June 29 What makes it great: Ben Foster stars as a father with PTSD after serving in the military who is raising his teenage daughter off the grid in a state park — until they're found.
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For some of the reported 180,000 American families who are doing it, being off the grid means living in a 265-square-foot home not connected to a sewer system, a city's electrical grid or gas utilities.
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And to all my liberal friends out there talking tough about packing up and moving if a certain candidate becomes the next president, just know you aren't truly off the map until you are off the grid.
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The film is set in 1995, and it takes most of its drama from an era where "going off the grid" was as simple as going outside and neglecting to pay 290 cents to check your voicemail.
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International Real Estate 11 Photos View Slide Show ' AN 'OFF THE GRID' TREEHOUSE IN WESTERN BELIZE $1.499 MILLION This elevated two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath wood house wraps around a 100-year-old bullet tree.
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They decided to use their extra day in Ventura to take a photograph for one of their newest sponsors, "Outsiders," a WGN show about an Appalachian family living off the grid and battling a greedy coal company.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — We gravitate toward the second Sunday puzzle for a challenge that breaks the standard crossword mold; sometimes the differences aren't readily apparent, but Split Decisions is one that's completely off the grid, if you will.
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Because investigative reporters are often looking for those who don't want to be found, we'd also keep an eye out for weird sites that promised to unearth off-the-grid cellphone numbers or scrape the deep web.
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In the three previous matchups between Tanaka and Keuchel, Tanaka had allowed six runs over 16⅔ innings for a 4.86 earned run average Keuchel had a 0.90 E.R.A., and the Yankees' frustration quotient was off the grid.
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That it's taken this long for a new Granik film to hit theaters is a shame, so here's hoping this tale of a hardcore survivalist and his daughter living way off the grid is worth the wait.
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A city person like myself has very little in common with someone who lives off the grid, eating what they kill, drying what they forage, warming themselves through the interminable winter with wood downed in a storm.
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I've been two weeks off the grid in Carhartts and XtraTufs, stained fishing shirts and a ragged ball cap, cutting firewood in the forest for the cookstove, collecting water, fishing hard for striped bass off the rocks.
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They go off the grid as it relates to the things that generally make for a healthy society, like creating families and operating their lives with the sense of purpose that leads people to serve their communities.
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Perry asked his staff to examine whether renewable power sources like wind and solar are harming baseload power like coal and nuclear by pushing them off the grid, and whether government support like tax credits is contributing.
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Amirpour said the movie was shot in the Californian desert and she spent a year visiting a local community called Slab City, whose inhabitants, living in trailers and off the grid, eventually became extras on the set.
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Off the grid on the Mesa More unconventional than the Earthship-dwellers, several locals said, are the people who make their home in the flat-topped mountains west of Taos, in the area known as the Mesa.
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The school exists completely off the grid, powered by more than 200 solar panels and two wind generators to foster a healthy relationship between the school and the environment, which is vital for the community the school serves.
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But now I think we've reached the point where they've become opt-out technologies, where you're going to have to do something radical or unusual like go off the grid or throw away your smartphone to escape it.
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Since Ravitz was totally off the grid during that time — more on that in a second — it was up to his brother-in-law to monitor the acceptance letters and respond according to a spreadsheet Ravitz had provided.
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But the savviest of San Franciscans know that you get the most bang for your queuing buck at Off the Grid, a 1503-strong collection of food trucks that rumbles to Fort Mason—near Fisherman's Wharf—every Friday.
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A New Mexico man who lived near a makeshift compound that authorities raided in search of a missing Georgia boy believed the group had moved to the area to live off the grid, just as he had done.
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But the savviest of San Franciscans know that you get the most bang for your queuing buck at Off the Grid, a 30-strong collection of food trucks that rumbles to Fort Mason—near Fisherman's Wharf—every Friday.
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Following the theme of the desire to run away — of breaking with society and trying to live a detached life — Soth became obsessed with the challenging objective of locating people who have determined to live off the grid.
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Monica Drake, the editor of the Travel section, said her team had always meant to create a list that could appeal to the entire range between city-slicker cosmopolites and those who prefer to get off the grid.
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In late September and early October, shortly before the sanctions took effect, the ship went off the grid for 10 days in the same stretch of the Strait of Hormuz where the Sino Energy 1 disappeared last week.
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The recent killing of an American missionary by members of an isolated tribe on a small island in the Indian Ocean has reignited questions about the fate of the last few groups of people living off the grid.
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Russian photographer Max Avdeev set off in late February for a journey that had become somewhat of a tradition: roaming the wilderness in Russia's far north with a group of reindeer herders on snowmobiles, completely off the grid.
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The youngest of seven children, she grew up in Idaho, in a survivalist family who lived so far off the grid that she lacked even a birth certificate and did not attend school until she went to college.
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I used the article as a jumping off point to challenge my students to design their own off-the-grid power system (merely from an electrical viewpoint) that can provide electricity to a cabin in a remote area.
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The connecting thread is a woman named Catherine, who has an undisclosed surname and an agency that provides high-end off-the-grid protection services to people who, for various urgent reasons, do not want to be found.
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Efron, 228, will go off the grid in Killing Zac Efron, which follows the heartthrob and his brother in the jungle of a remote island as they attempt to survive without food, water and technology for several days.
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Jobs here of any sort are hard to come by, much less ones that give them the flexibility to go herd cattle, or care for ailing family, or work from an off-the-grid house miles from town.
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But anticipating limits on his free power now that the authority is struggling for solvency, he recently put a solar power system on the roof of the skating rink that he hopes will eventually get it off the grid.
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They get relocated to sponsors senator and we&aposre trying to check on them, the sponsors Senator are going off the grid because they do not want to be deported, they don&apost want the kids to be deported.
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Maybe you've always wished you'd become an astronaut, or been raised in a traveling circus, or dropped out of college to travel the world off the grid, sending your loved ones postcards from places they'd never even heard of.
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The manifesto shares the arcadian vision of other movements that have married environmental and queer activism, like the Radical Faeries, a community-focused counterculture group that sought to establish queer consciousness through off-the-grid living and pagan spirituality.
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These escapes, which vary in length from a few days to more than a year, have a pastoral bent: They often involve going off the grid, living off the land, or at the very least turning off the smartphone.
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With that in mind, Tim and Hannah started out with 20 acres of land and no blueprints, and built one of the most impressive houses I've ever seen in my life — not to mention it's fully off the grid.
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Hydro-Pro Hydration Backpack — $5503 See Details You can't really bring your Keurig when you go off the grid, but you can tote around this coffee kit that's comprised of a café espresso brewer, water bottle, and insulated cups.
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" Viale Francesco Crispi, 5b — D.F. Massimo Piombo "A bit off the grid from the main shopping area in Milan, this small men's wear shop located in the Brera neighborhood still seems to be the best-kept secret in town.
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It had been two weeks since law enforcement raided lot 21970 in Costilla Meadows, a rural subdivision in Amalia, New Mexico, where homes are off the grid and you can see your nearest neighbor miles over the dry grassland.
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Eventually, Facebook hopes Aquila will fly between 60,000 and 90,000 feet in the air for months at a time in order to beam wireless internet down to rural areas of the world where that are currently off the grid.
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Over recent months, thousands of people have settled in this off-the-grid community, united in their mission to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from snaking through nearby treaty land and under the Missouri River that serves millions of people.
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That leads investigators to believe one of two things: "Either they're off the grid in a very rural area, or they are outside the Southeast, where this has been getting an awful lot of attention in the public," DeVine said.
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The button will also act as a data shredder, and provide geo-location updates in case an activist is brought to a black site (one that's off the grid and not officially sanctioned, but where security forces typically disappear political agitators).
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And the things it is based on—subsidies for investment, very little spending on fuel, and moving electricity generation to the edge of, or off, the grid—are anathema to electricity markets and business models developed for the fossil-fuel age.
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Mcdodo Lightning Bolt 3.0 Lightning Cable — $19.99 See Details Perfect for when you're going off the grid, this portable charger is solar-powered, waterproof, and shockproof, and offers both wireless and several wired charging outputs for your slew of devices.
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Granik lets the story play out with quiet intensity, taking in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest as she goes, and letting the audience feel the relaxation that comes with living off the grid, free of society and demands.
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Before the acquisition, MapData had been a partner of Mapbox's providing engineering support on open source projects for the past 18 months, but — ironically for a mapping startup — it was largely off the grid as far as startups are concerned.
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Adani has argued the mine is needed for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to keep his promise to bring electricity to hundreds of millions of people living off the grid, but opponents say it is not a done deal.
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"One of the key objectives at the beginning was to create a city that could live off the grid, so if it could sustain itself it would be amazing, it would produce all the energy that it requires," De Andres said.
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Let's look at two features that are part of this new update that both address real issues with the way I use email, and explain why sometimes thinking about email makes me want to become an off-the-grid subsistence farmer.
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Though their device was just a prototype—it was able to connect phones no more than 60 feet apart—the design shows that it's possible to build a functional, portable tower of your own for completely off-the-grid communications.
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Kardashian and Bendjima's rustic hangout is also off the grid — meaning power comes from a solar battery outside and they could charge their phones off the stereo, though there's not really a need because there's no cell service at the site.
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Optics If Ken Kesey and Alessandro Michele of Gucci had a passel of kids, their offspring might look something like the high-spirited ménage of "Captain Fantastic," about a family living off the grid in the densely wooded Pacific Northwest.
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Formerly a simple surf hotel thanks to the area's legendary swell and left-hand breaks, it was recently turned into a luxurious off-the-grid resort and spa featuring private villas with private pools as well as empty, untouched beaches.
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"The captain has decided to turn off the A.I.S." Another possible clue that Iran-bound ships are disabling their reporting systems is that ships making trips to countries on the western part of the gulf are not going off the grid.
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" As he leads me through the forest to a treehouse called the "Pyramid," he pauses and says, "The thing with the off the grid, or hippie life, is at the end of the day, you're still going to get old.
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When your home is your office, you can steal a few quiet moments off the grid -- and catch up with that book you've been reading -- as Harry S Truman loved to do on the balcony that now bears his name.
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The point of the cabins isn't to enact the now-clichéd off-the-grid adventure, but to exist just a few steps outside real life, in a stripped-down but completely functional environment — to re-examine, even relearn, everyday activities.
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Buy the Noso Puffy Patch Lil' Bits Gear Repair Kit for $7 ($3 off) Good To-Go New England Clam Chowder for $5 ($2 off): I recommended Good To-Go's gourmet, dehydrated meals in last summer's off-the-grid gear roundup.
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The answer to the latter would look like this: Many of my favorite crosswords are ones that break the rules in some way, whether they use one-letter answers, answers that extend off the grid, asymmetrical grids or other crazy variations.
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Best reusable water bottle Best eco-friendly suitcase Best reusable snack bags Best eco-friendly toiletries Best for bringing products from home Best for off-the-grid travel Best reef-safe sunscreen Best eco-friendly bugspray Best eco-friendly toothbrush
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It will debut officially at the Fort Mason food market in March, and will rent for a daily fee (yet to be determined) to Bay Area vendors who participate in food markets run by Mr. Cohen's company, Off the Grid.
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You might be able to rely on Wi-Fi for much of your trip, but if you're traveling alone or to a place more off the grid, it could be worth investing in an international data plan for your cell phone.
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Current available payment methods to China for Kenyan businesses are less secure and more expensive options, such as traditional money transmitters (Western Union), SWIFT and off the grid services, according to Sagini and Family Bank Chief Operation Officer (COO) Godfrey Kamau Kariuki.
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Art fans and gadget-lovers in the West buy the items at a premium, helping to supply them to those living off the grid; to date, more than 500,000 lamps have been distributed to people without electricity, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Business Insider spoke with the family about their low carbon lifestyle, the cost advantages (and hidden costs) that come with living off the grid, and what it's like to live on the property that draws Led Zeppelin fans from all over the world:
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Gin, who lives alone and off the grid, has a deep connection to the earth and its herbal resources, but she is an outsider, reviled; she is working against a system of rigid, often masculine, scientific thought that labels her as a witch.
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For more than a decade, Mr. Gray was a fugitive hiding in plain sight, never leaving the compound even after the power was cut off and living off the grid there with his wife and an extended family that includes several children.
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In fact, she planned on retiring from acting after Lost ended in 2010, and for two years enjoyed life off the grid, moving to Hawaii with her partner, Norman Kali, who worked in film production and is now a stay-at-home dad.
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In fact, she planned on retiring from acting after Lost ended in 2010, and for two years enjoyed life off the grid, moving to Hawaii with her partner, Norman Kali, who worked in film production and is now a stay-at-home dad.
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More than nine out of every ten Revolutionary Realty clients either buy a home off the grid or plan to sever the connection and instead use firewood, propane and solar panels, often storing the photovoltaic power in big forklift batteries bought second-hand.
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He added that Hernandez's tattoos could prove particularly difficult to conceal, but the agency still has a number of options available — whether that be removing some tattoos, adding more to cover up the existing ones, or simply moving Hernandez "off the grid" entirely.
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Read more: Canadian authorities are winding down their manhunt for 2 teen murder suspects amid theories that they died in the wildernessAfter he disappeared, US Marshals discovered that Chadwick had read about how to change one's identity and live off the grid.
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Our biggest splurge (and savings) of the month was on a three-day, two-night Amazon jungle tour — one of the highlights of our whole trip because of how immersed we became, almost completely off the grid — which we found online for $1,020.
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"I've always been drawn to pickles, sauerkraut, and other lactic acid-flavored foods," he says, but adds that it wasn't until his mid-20s that he began making fermented foods himself, after moving to an off-the-grid community in rural Tennessee.
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As industrialization forced plantation owners to downsize post-World War II, the families of the primarily Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese and Japanese workers who remained were joined in the 2000s and '245s by a wave of mainland hippies looking to get off the grid.
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Our fiction selections also consider the romance and the dangers of old-fashioned privacy, with a feminist dystopia about three sisters raised off the grid ("The Water Cure") and two novels about tumultuous emotions beneath placid surfaces ("Unquiet" and "Late in the Day").
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In a hyper-connected world, where people find it hard to put down their cellphones much less totally drop off the grid, there was immediate fascination with the strange tale of how a "doomsday family" could manage to go unnoticed for so long.
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Mr. Paul's David and Ms. Wallis's Claire appear to enjoy an idyllic life in the hipster-heavy Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock (the production design, by Tink, is outstanding in this respect), until one day, when Claire drops off the grid.
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It is just as silly for a renter to invest in moving a home off the grid as it is for a landlord to make major efficiency investments in a home where the tenant, and not the home's owner, will experience those savings.
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Trump has not yet addressed the issue, nor the irony (Trump said he'd lock up Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while in government service) of one of his own top aides using an off-the-grid address.
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Such is life for one of Australia's leading environmentalists, who decades ago encouraged homeowners to turn their forgotten backyards into sustainable gardens and is now calling for suburbanites to go further off the grid and make the whole of their lives green.
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The case has split the Taos County community between those who believe the group was involved in a failed attempt to live "off the grid," and others who fear they were hatching a plot to attack schools, banks and police, as prosecutors alleged.
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Almanacs and encyclopedias are frequently requested, and an Amazon wish list outlines their latest needs: books about drawing, Westerns, sci-fi novels, books of Wiccan spells, how-to manuals for surviving off the grid, Spanish-English guides, and Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul.
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One solution to the problem is to go "off the grid," mimicking the rapid distribution of mobile phones: over 22020 percent of Africans have access to cell phone service -- more than have access to clean water -- but only a fraction of them owns a landline.
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Aiming to provide sustainable energy to those billions of people worldwide who live off the grid is at the heart of Gravity Light's creation, which uses the force of gravity and a bag of rocks to bring affordable light to those who need it.
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In a top secret, off the grid farmhouse, a woman who identifies only as the author whose literary work she has memorized, Toni Morrison (Khandi Alexander, who also played Maya Pope in Scandal) is the leader of the core group of eels protecting OMNIS.
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The High School Musical actor, 30, posted a photo on social media Tuesday of him and his younger brother each cradling a tiny goat to let fans know that he's escaping Los Angeles and "going off the grid … for a few days" to film.
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She wanted to make it easier for farmers, ranchers and fledgling food companies to find information and harness new technology, and to break down the divide between those still partly off the grid (and distrustful of it) and those who wouldn't exist without it.
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The app has shortcomings — off-the-grid private messaging may not always be instantaneous and massive anonymous group chats can quickly get unruly — but the app has proven particularly useful for activists who can stay in touch when other messaging apps can't be relied upon.
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The show follows several two-person teams as they attempt to get off the grid and stay on the run for 28 days, as a team of highly trained law enforcement experts use every trick in the book to try and track the "fugitives" down.
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He was the first on the Street to write about digital currency bitcoin, was well ahead of his peers in recognizing the importance that exchange-traded funds would be playing in investor portfolios, and devised multiple "off the grid" indicators for the economy and markets.
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I constantly found myself laughing, then feeling guilty for laughing, then giving into the absurdity of the world we live in and laughing again—laughing to avoid just giving up and moving to a cabin off the grid, away from the hellscape we call society.
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Advocates for renewable energy believe that, based on Perry's request for the study and how it is being conducted, DOE is looking to prove that wind and solar are pushing baseload power sources like coal and nuclear off the grid, threatening reliability and security.
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In the new film "Captain Fantastic," Viggo Mortensen plays Ben, an off-the-grid patriarch raising his six children to be intellectuals and survivalists in equal measure — "philosopher kings" as adept at discussing Marxist theory and speaking Esperanto as they are at hunting game.
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With the news that the virus has spread to 60 countries and counting, economic elites have begun making arrangements for concierge medical care, VIP access to early vaccines, and private jets to Idaho to hibernate off the grid until the threat of infection dissipates.
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THE STORY In this feature by Debra Granik ("Winter's Bone"), a military veteran and his adolescent daughter (Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) are discovered living off the grid, but institutional efforts to integrate them back into society forever change them in different ways.
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So if you'll indulge me once more, a few lessons from the wilderness: Escape is O.K. So much is happening at home and abroad that it can be traumatic to leave the news behind, get off the grid and become untethered from email and cellphones.
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Coach Dalcio Giovagnolli was also offered a new gig elsewhere, but instead ended up leaving Salvador and going off the grid, saying that he had done all he could do: he believed that he had reached the pinnacle, and didn't want to face a comedown.
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But there's a moment in the series where Guggenheim and Gates talk about the latter's periodic "think weeks" where he goes off the grid with a stack of books and tries to open himself up to new ideas, largely unrelated to his daily work.
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There's a hardware angle to this as well: Using a device like the goTenna Mesh (yours for $179) you can create your own off-the-grid, peer-to-peer network and have your phone connect to that rather than wifi or a cell network.
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Mr. Cohen, who founded Off the Grid in 2010 to revitalize the city's mobile food scene and stage private and corporate events, will use Fort Mason as a Cubert showroom: Fifteen vendors who previously used tented stalls will get to rent a Cubert instead.
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For the fall test drive, an Off the Grid employee drove the Cubert to Fort Mason on a flatbed truck, unfolded it, extended the flap that shields customers from inclement weather and made sure that the self-contained sinks and refrigeration unit were working.
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With PG&E threatening to cut power to some neighborhoods for days at a time during periods of high fire danger, he is planning on going off the grid — solar power during the day and a turbine in the creek behind his house at night.
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Amendment 21 contains language that sounds supportive of solar power but could lead to Florida's power utilities levying fees on solar users, even when they aren't pulling power off the grid, and prevent them from earning credit for feeding unused solar power back onto it.
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Amendment 1 contains language that sounds supportive of solar power but could lead to Florida's power utilities levying fees on solar users, even when they aren't pulling power off the grid, and prevent them from earning credit for feeding unused solar power back onto it.
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"We had way too many animals in the house and around the house so we really couldn't go ... we decided we were going to stay and fight," Wilson told Reuters, at the couple's off-the-grid home, now surrounded by scorched earth and burnt-out vehicles.
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"We had way too many animals in the house and around the house so we really couldn't go ... we decided we were going to stay and fight," Wilson told Reuters, at the couple's off-the-grid home, now surrounded by scorched earth and burnt-out vehicles.
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Eight years later, Granik's Leave No Trace — her first feature since Winter's Bone — promises to do the same for its young star, Thomasin McKenzie, whose role as a young girl living off the grid with her Army veteran father (Ben Foster) is already getting major critical acclaim.
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But you can quit your job, excommunicate yourself from your family, go completely off the grid, and join a nudist colony — and once that's all said and done, you'll still have to wear sunscreen, provided it's not a subterranean mole colony you've actually signed yourself up for.
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When Barlow set out to do that on the unsettled electronic horizon, he perhaps didn't realize that he was about to find all the others, give or take those who might stay off the grid altogether (and he might run into them at Dead shows anyway).
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About off-the-path destinations, I think the safest thing you can do is always make sure someone knows where you are: the innkeeper, plus a parent or a close friend who will know to sound the alarm if you go off the grid for too long.
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But instead of the blissed-out evening I expected, I spent the night acutely aware of my being alone in the off-the-grid camper on a high-alert adrenaline rush, spinning around in the small bed at every noise that pricked out of the silence.
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This is especially true when you consider how areas like farms and wildernesses are being outfitted with sensors to monitor soil, warn of poachers or lost hikers and otherwise provide some basic data on the huge swathes of land that are more or less off the grid.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Model, presenter-turned-designer Alexa Chung went back in time for her second catwalk show in London on Saturday, showing a collection inspired by the idea of a group of women escaping to California's Big Sur in the 1980s to go "off the grid".
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But as the first episode jumps into the future, we see that just a few years later, everything has gone wrong: Homecoming is closed and classified; Heidi is waitressing at a crab shack, having lost all recollection of the project; and Walter has gone off the grid.
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If new technologies can take energy produced in, say, a sun-filled summer in Whitehorse (where Cooke lives, off the grid) and use it between the long, dark winter months when his solar panels aren't very useful, it would vastly improve the efficiency of the system.
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In this week's edition of First-Person Shooter we gave two cameras to Eve, a member of an Oregon-based sustainable community whose dozen or so residents exist off-the-grid and survive using only materials readily available to them on their 40-acre land trust.
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"In situations like DRC and Gabon where the whole country (was) off the grid, there aren't many things the community can do to get people back online unless we organize and provide alternative infrastructure before the shutdowns come into effect," Access Now said in a statement.
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"I don't really want to be in the whole rat race thing, and I can escape that here," said Clinton, 58, who moved to Kapoho in 2006 with his family and built an off-the-grid house - not hooked up to utilities - and started a garden.
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This past year our studio has been filled with oceanographers, marine biologists, people building research submarines here at the studio, and that's so far off the grid from aesthetic art-making, and the idea of making something designed to be viewed by someone in a room.
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He himself was recently hit by a foam-tipped bullet at a protest against the demolition of an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev desert, in southern Israel, one of 36 such villages that have existed for decades off the grid, without government-provided water or electricity.
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In this corner, all of us walking around with more computing power in our pockets than the entire federal government had at its disposal just a generation ago; in that corner, those rural or impoverished or underdeveloped communities doomed forever to live off the grid without Twitter.
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By January of this year, the Abkhazian government was forced to order the state electricity company Chernomorenergo RUE to cut 15 crypto-mining farms off the grid, claiming they were using as much electricity as 1,63 households and had caused power outages that were blighting the region.
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The scientists, hailing from 25 countries, had to venture far off the grid, at times making their way on horseback, canoe and even atop elephants to bring back wild versions of crops such as rice, barley, beans and potatoes, all of which feed millions, the Guardian reports.
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AMALIA, N.M. (Reuters) - One of the leading members of a group prosecutors accused of abusing children at a New Mexico compound struggled with his plan to live off the grid after he underestimated a harsh mountain desert climate and settled on the wrong plot of land.
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For IKEA, in addition to the cache of being able to promote products designed by an internationally recognized artist, there is perhaps the potential to grab some untapped market share among off-the-grid types looking to decorate their apocalypse bunkers and stylishly outfit their go-bags.
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No need to pack up your long-distance bike and head for your local IKEA just yet — the first products will not be revealed until 2019 — but with this fascinating partnership, the future of sustainable design for off-the-grid living just got a little bit brighter!
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She quietly becomes the heart of the film, a wise-beyond-her-years young woman who comes to understand the difficulty her PTSD-stricken father has with living in society, but also begins to wonder if she's willing to continue accompanying him in his off-the-grid existence. —A.W.
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The technology is similar to what you'll find in apps like FireChat, the off-the-grid mobile messenger that's been used at protests, and Occupy Wall Street, as well as in the teen-focused messaging app Jott that can work without a data plan or Wi-Fi connection.
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Get the ZeroLemon ToughJuice Power Bank See Details The SolarJuice is ideal for all the off-the-grid adventurers out there: Using solar technology, it converts and stores the sun's energy in a huge 26,800mAh-capacity battery that can charge your smartphone and power its own built-in flashlight.
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They are the vanguard of communal living and child rearing, contemporary-style, where a dusty, off-the-grid farm in the middle of nowhere gives way to a sprawling $2 million house with endless views and vaulted ceilings, a Viking kitchen and multiple terraces, 20 minutes from Santa Monica.
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Whether he is quizzing networking pioneers — men around his own age who still marvel at having been present at the creation — or listening to the testimony of "modern-day hermits" living off the grid and away from pervasive electromagnetic radiation, Mr. Herzog communicates compassion and astonishment in equal measure.
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In all, 10.223 nonbank lenders that Credit Suisse tracks sent out 210.22 million pieces during May, a volume increase of 23.9 percent over April and a jump of 225 percent from the same period a year ago, according to Credit Suisse, which tracks the somewhat off-the-grid indicator.
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But while the headlines proclaim Domino's is coming to you at the beach or park, don't expect the delivery driver to traipse across the hot sand to your towel or down a walking path into the woods — there are limits to how off-the-grid these deliveries will go.
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Instead, it flashes repeatedly in and out of three distinct timelines in which Sidney (played throughout by Logan Lerman) is first a precociously talented teenager, then a celebrated but imploding novelist married to his high school sweetheart (Elle Fanning) and last a hirsute hobo living off the grid.
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More recently, scaffolding has also permitted emergency construction, as in the viewing platform at the World Trade Center site in 2001 or off-the-grid infrastructure: A school in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, comprises metal tubes, color-coded for easy construction, that support panels of polycarbonate plastic.
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Exploring them usually means renting a car in the capital, Montevideo, and cruising northeast to discover peaceful hippie communities, chic fish restaurants by the sand dunes, a newly lively water-sports scene and off-the-grid villages where you can sleep in a hammock and commune with sea lions.
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So far, the fund has approved just $168 million for eight projects, including a venture fund to support off-the-grid energy in Africa, energy-efficiency bonds for Latin America, an adaptation effort in Bangladesh, and protection for the clean water supply on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji.
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While "Moon Arrow" was initially designed to be battery operated for off-the-grid places such as Brooklyn's Calvert Vaux Park for a horseshoe crab monitoring session, or Rockaway Beach when it joined the Urban Park Rangers for new moon stargazing, she's working on a version which could be installed longterm.
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After all my travels through the NBA Playoffs and the Bay Area, I can tell you that the worst place in the world to be for Game 7 of the NBA Finals is sitting around a campfire, surrounded by children dressed as bears and fairies, somewhere way off the grid.
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His subjects here are off-the-grid types; tasked by the High Museum in Atlanta to contribute to their Picturing the South series, Soth started thinking about the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph, and how he had escaped capture as a fugitive in the Appalachian wilderness for some five years.
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The coal company has also appealed to government officials in Australia on a humanitarian level by citing claims that Carmichael coal power will be a necessarily evil if Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to bring electricity to the hundreds of millions of Indians who are currently living off the grid.
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The summertime blues come to the fore in a variety of teen-centered movies, including "Leave No Trace" (June 29), the director Debra Granik's drama about a teen-age girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who clash with the authorities while living off the grid in rural Oregon.
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Directed by Michael Bay, whose name is associated with sleek-but-stupid commercial action hits like the "Bad Boys" and "Transformers" franchises, the film stars Ryan Reynolds as the leader of a vigilante squad composed of men and women who have faked their own deaths to stay off the grid.
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Photo: UnsplashWhile you can never be 100 percent safe from hackers, viruses, and other nasties lurking on the internet without going completely off the grid, you can at least cut out the dumbest security mistakes you keep making—seriously, now's the time to address these, before you have a chance to regret it.
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Zumas's narrative moves between a chorus of women quietly grappling with their terrifying new reality — a single 40-something craving a baby of her own, an exhausted mother trapped in a loveless marriage, a freshly-pregnant teenager facing her fate alone, and the subversive, off-the-grid healer who binds them all together.
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If you want to truly go off the grid, you can disable location services to prevent your phone from collecting any location data at all: If you have an iPhone 11 or iPhone 11 Pro and have disabled location services for specific apps, you may find that you still sometimes see the arrow.
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LULLABY ROAD (Crown, $26), James Anderson's second novel (after "The Never-Open Desert Diner"), introduces us to more of the "desert rats, hardscrabble ranchers and other assorted exiles" who choose to live off the grid and depend on Ben's Desert Moon Delivery Service for food and water and the occasional luxury, like soap.
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As a writer (first life obstacle), who makes her living being "in the know" (second life obstacle), I couldn't help but panic at the thought of going off the grid after a pregnancy, later to be disappointed by missed opportunities and pop culture references, and oblivious to how many new iPhones had been released.
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"Most members are scattered all over the western nations so we need some propaganda for recruitment first, then we can safely go off the grid knowing that at least each cell has more than one member ," he wrote under a video warning of upcoming terror attacks by the group with the ominous title "Soon".
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It would be absurd to expect people to suddenly opt out of all the apps that mediate modern life and go live off the grid because of Pokémon Go, but perhaps this can have the effect of making people a little less complacent about stuff we take for granted everyday, and a bit more careful.
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Ami Brown, 55, and her husband, Billy, 66, had lived with their children—sons Matt, 36, Bam, 34, Bear, 31, Gabe, 29, and Noah, 93, and daughters Bird, 24, and Rain, 16 — in the remote state, weathering brutal winters and even bear attacks but relishing the freedom that came from living off the grid.
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In the season premiere, which picks up the story about a year after the events of the first season, viewers learn that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) has been living off the grid with Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour), safe from anyone who might want to harm her and even those who don't, including her friends.
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In our documentary Growing Up off the Grid, sponsored by Amazon Prime's new series Hanna, VICE meets Maddie and her father Nathan to learn what off-grid living looks like, see how it's shaped Maddie as she enters adulthood, and find out how it helped prepare her to solo hike the Appalachian trail this year.
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You need to look to indie movies for more complex, narratively pivotal representations of women, like those in "Support the Girls," in which Regina Hall plays den mother to a group of waitresses, and "Leave No Trace," about a teenage girl who, while living off the grid with her damaged dad, becomes its hero.
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But to make it work, I had to break the rule about not sectioning off the grid with a single pair of blocks, and I had to let in some bits of fill I wish I could have avoided (ESSO, YEO, ANSE, ARTE, ANIS and SECY), some of which pile up in the middle bottom.
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The actress went off the grid in recent years due to issues with mental health and drug use, but emerged in November 2018 on the cover of Paper Magazine and in an accompanying interview, in which she broke down the timeline of her struggles and credited FIDM as one of the things helping her get back on track.
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The fact that bin Laden went off the grid around the time of The Washington Times story is more than likely because the day before it appeared, bin Laden was on the receiving end of a barrage of US cruise missile strikes because al Qaeda had recently bombed two US embassies in Africa, killing more than 200 people.
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There's a big difference between Perry's crude coal bailout and the use of MOPRs in capacity markets, but both are animated by the same concern: the idea that state clean-energy policies are suppressing prices in capacity markets, which is pushing older coal and natural gas plants off the grid, and reliability is going to suffer as a result.
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And BattlBox isn't alone: though subscription boxes like Trunk Club and Birchbox started by shipping swank clothing and skincare supplies, there are now a striking number that instead cater to rugged survivalists—which is striking, since a subscription box relies on the internet, payment processors, the postal system and many other things that don't exist off the grid.
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All these were in evidence again at this year's festival, where some of the strongest, most memorable titles included "Leave No Trace," a deeply affecting story from Debra Granik ("Winter's Bone") about a veteran and his teenage daughter — movingly played by Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie — living precariously off the grid in the Pacific Northwest.
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"Baghdadi has remained off the grid for so long that his sudden appearance will very likely serve as both a morale boost for ISIS supporters and remaining militants and as a catalyst for individuals or small groups to act," said Colin P. Clarke, a senior fellow at the Soufan Center, a research organization for global security issues.
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I'm headed north and off the grid, bound for a wood stove and water pulled from a well, for fish if I'm lucky, for blackberries and sea beans and mussels and lobster, for goat and venison meat frozen from last year's harvest, for fresh eggs and hippie-made cheese, for sourdough bread and rose-hip jelly. Vacation!
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In the late 1990s, a Dutch couple, Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool, post-hippie types looking to carve out a place for themselves far from the modern-day rat race — to get off the grid, as some say today — found an isolated village there whose name, Santa Eulalia, has over the years been compressed to Santoalla.
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These include her time running the CIA's secret "black site" prison in Thailand in 2002 called "Cat's Eye," the first secret detention facility created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks designed to allow the CIA to interrogate suspects off the grid, and her later role in the CIA's destruction of tapes from interrogation sessions of terrorism detainees.
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People cycle in and out, and people have reasons for being here, and it's a nice place to live so it's fine, but yeah, I remember actually pitching someone out west and they said, "Yay, Susan's back from Chicago," and I was like, "Oh, Chicago," Washington, it's just off the grid for that sort of thing.
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Carlos Méndez Martínez, the mayor of the town, has kept his 17-year-old promise not to raise taxes, but even he is anticipating limits on his free power now that the authority is struggling for solvency and recently put a solar power system on the roof of the town's ice skating rink that he hopes will eventually get it off the grid.
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Whether it's going off the grid for five years only to re-emerge and drop one of the biggest albums of all time, stunning audiences night after night with her powerhouse voice, or rolling up to the red carpet in a statement-making Giambattista Valli gown unlike any we've seen on her so far this awards season, she never does things halfway.
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The SF locale is not just a visual treat, however; Watch Dogs 2 is set in and around Silicon Valley because it's a tale of tech company overreach, in which a team of rag tag hackers including yourself do their best to remain off the grid and reverse the trend of exchanging anything resembling privacy in the name of convenience and connectivity.
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Your off-the-grid weekends out of town turn into catch-up brunches with your girls right around the corner; your cold-brew addiction makes way for the seasonal return of the hot latte; and, seemingly overnight, the temps on your weather app look a heck of a lot different, which means one thing — your closet needs a refresh, too.
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As you'll be able to tell if you actually read through any of the privacy policies that appear when you sign up for a new website, install a new app, or boot up a new device, it's just about impossible to stay completely untracked unless you're going to retreat to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods to see out your final days.
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As one man who claims he was duped by her tells it, her message went a little something like this: She apparently dropped off the grid for a few weeks, then resurfaced, asking every dude she messaged if they wanted to meet at Union Square in New York City to catch a DJ set and get a drink—which, ostensibly, would've been a one-on-one date.
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So, they're beating-- because they're sourcing clean energy off the grid in the middle of the day at 2 cents or what have you, and they put it into a tank and are storing it and the trucks off take all night long, you know, with an eight-minute charge to go 500 miles, because that energy is so cheap, they're beating diesel handedly today on a per mile basis.
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Cohen's former lawyer, David Schwartz (does anyone remember him?) once publicly labeled Cohen as Trump's "fixer," Although Schwartz fell off the grid, probably for having made that comment, the public now will be able to hear the verbiage Trump used when directing Cohen to "fix" things that potentially might get in his way — talkative women, questions about tax returns, his business dealings in Russia, those intending to charge Trump with fraud.
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John is all of the following: a queer liberal conspiracist who socializes with neighborhood racists; a manic depressive consumed by predictions of cataclysmic global catastrophe; an off-the-grid hoarder of gold who takes in stray dogs; a genius with a photographic memory who's spent his whole life caring for his mother while designing a massive and elaborate hedge maze in his backyard; and one of the most skilled antique clock restorers in the world.
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"It's about being able to dance and reach some sort of physical, spiritual consensus with the people around you, even for just a few moments, which is more than enough to understand that peace and equality and harmony can exist," said Jack (who asked to be identified by a pseudonym, given the nature of his work), explaining what he contributes to New York City, and society at large, by throwing monthly raves in "off-the-grid" spaces.
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" Myke Cole on going off the grid: "Not just me, but other people on this show, spent years tracking really, really skilled terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, who had been hiding from the Soviets and Americans and their allies for decades, who had perfect communications security, perfect operational security, carried no electronic devices of any kind, ever, and were always living in a harsh and forbidding wilderness that didn't even have running water, and we still managed to find them.
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Vox's Aja Romano sums him up aptly in her review of the podcast: John is all of the following: a queer liberal conspiracist who socializes with neighborhood racists; a manic depressive consumed by predictions of cataclysmic global catastrophe; an off-the-grid hoarder of gold who takes in stray dogs; a genius with a photographic memory who's spent his whole life caring for his mother while designing a massive and elaborate hedge maze in his backyard; and one of the most skilled antique clock restorers in the world.
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