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    Living off the Grid: How You Can Go Off-Grid in Number of Ways and Live a Self Sustainable Lifestyle: Sustainable Living
    Living off the Grid: How You Can Go Off-Grid in Number of Ways and Live a Self Sustainable Lifestyle: Sustainable Living
    Living off the Grid: How You Can Go Off-Grid in Number of Ways and Live a Self Sustainable Lifestyle: Sustainable Living
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    Living off the Grid: How You Can Go Off-Grid in Number of Ways and Live a Self Sustainable Lifestyle: Sustainable Living

    By Calvin Hale

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    For those of you already living off the grid, you may be experiencing the first kind of pleasant daydream.

    No matter what your fears for our society ... no matter what your fears for our material world infrastructure … no matter what your fears about your true ability to take care of all your material needs in a crisis … there really is action you can take now to care for the basic material needs of yourself and your family.  And who knows?  In the end, with enough people doing this same thing, our institutionalized services of water distribution, electricity generation and supply, food production and distribution channels – still working on processes and systems created “back when the dinosaurs were alive”, may finally get their act together and realize that the infrastructures they created so long ago don’t really work well anymore in our societies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateFeb 2, 2017
    ISBN9781386614449
    Living off the Grid: How You Can Go Off-Grid in Number of Ways and Live a Self Sustainable Lifestyle: Sustainable Living

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      Living off the Grid - Calvin Hale

      Introduction

      You have dozed off in your armchair. You float around and start having a wonderful dream. You have no more electric or water bills because you don’t need those services – oh, you use electricity and water alright, but it’s your own now. Those noisy trash-hauling companies don't charge you anymore because you don’t need them – you haven’t produced even a handful of trash in a year. You wake up every morning to birds singing, rather than machinery humming and vehicles charging down the street. You walk out your door and breathe in the clean air of the great outdoors. You wander down the rows of your large flourishing kitchen garden. You hear bees buzzing away in your plantation and smell the sweet smells. You cannot help but notice how all of the vegetables, spices and herbs are thriving. You keep on going into your food tree orchard. You have several types of nut trees. You have the gamut of fruit trees that are known to thrive in your climate and region. You wish you lived in a region where avocado trees thrived, but you feel blessed by what you do have. And then, just before you can wander down to the lively creek cutting through your property, you are rudely awakened from your pleasant dream a nap by a loudly ringing telephone!

      You have finally dozed off in the dark of the night into a fitful sleep. And you are having a terrible nightmare! You have no more electric or water bills - but no more electric power or running water in your home either. No one is hauling your trash anymore – no matter what you try to do, these services are defunct. You wake up every morning to crowds of people going past your window, grumbling for hours as they hike or bike to their jobs, as there is no more gasoline or diesel fuel for their vehicles. And there hasn't been for months and years. You see yourself walking outside your door, and you gag from the pollution of the air around your residence. It's not just the trash that has been piling up, either. You cannot help but notice how all the yards are barren of plantation, because there is no water to irrigate any hedge, or flower plot, much less any vegetable kitchen garden. You had a gamut of trees in your neighborhood, which have all dried up, as if burned to a crisp. No shade. No restful green leaves for your eyes. No colorful, fragrant flowers. You wish you lived in a region where it rained, but it hasn't rained across the land for years now. And you are jolted by the fear that you no longer are able to purchase drinking water, as expensive as it has been – and wouldn’t that be disastrous? You wake up with a pounding heart, panting with panic.

      People have one of these types of dreams all the time! For those who believe that the direction our respective governments are taking our societies will lead us to the second type of nightmare circumstances, you may be wishing you lived off the grid right now.

      For those of you already living off the grid, you may be experiencing the first kind of pleasant daydream.

      No matter what your fears for our society ... no matter what your fears for our material world infrastructure ... no matter what your fears about your true ability to take care of all your material needs in a crisis ... there really is action you can take now to care for the basic material needs of yourself and your family. And who knows? In the end, with enough people doing this same thing, our institutionalized services of water distribution, electricity generation and supply, food production and distribution channels – still working on processes and systems created back when the dinosaurs were alive, may finally get their act together

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