Canadian Off The Grid

A Community for an Off The Grid Lifestyle

Paradoxical Undressing

Growing interest in Winter Survival – Hypothermia Effects Every year, I find myself thinking of different seasonal activities (like hunting and fishing), that will help with future off the grid living situations to provide food or entertainment for family and…
Best Way To Remove a Tick

Helpful Tips on How to Remove a Tick In my mind ticks, and tick bites can be one of the worse forms of insect related nuisance and transmitters of disease while in the forest, woods or bush. There are numerous…
Transmitted Tick Diseases

List of Tick Transferred Diseases The following is a List of Diseases that can be transferred via a single tick bite. In the United States, some ticks carry pathogens that can cause human disease, including: Anaplasmosis is transmitted to humans…
Quick Guide to Shooting Fundamentals

Quick Guide to Shooting Fundamentals Becoming a competent shooter requires mastering the basics—to the point that they become practically instinct. With the help of the NRA, we’ve detailed six shooting fundamentals below. Whether you’re a beginner looking for an introduction…
Canadian Conservation Land Tax Incentive

Property Tax Relief if you are a Landowner How to get property tax relief if you are a landowner and agree to protect ‘provincially important’ natural heritage features on your property. This sounds like a great idea, but is it…

Checking for Electrical Damage after Ice Storm

December 23, 2013

The Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) is cautioning all Ontarians affected by the ice storm to check around and in their home for potential electrical damage and to take safety precautions. Residents are advised that if there is serious damage to a home’s connection to the electricity system, the utility may not be able to safely […]

Solar Power Growing Pains: How Will Hawaii And Germany Cope With The Boom In Alternative Energy?

Matthew Juras

December 23, 2013

Power and Heating, Solar

Is clean energy a victim of its own success, or is the transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy just going through some natural growing pains? However you spin it, in places like Hawaii and Germany, rooftop solar panels are popping up like weeds – but at a rate that might be too fast for […]

Developing Microgrid & Grid Energy Storage Systems

Matthew Juras

October 1, 2013

Power and Heating

Aquion & Siemens Industry Integrate Technologies for Developing Microgrid & Grid Energy Storage Systems PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, October 1, 2013 – Aquion Energy, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) batteries and energy storage systems, today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Siemens Industry, Inc., under which both parties will test […]

Solar Power Project for Peru

Matthew Juras

July 10, 2013

Solar

Peru To Provide Solar Power to 2 Million of its Poorest Residents for Free. Peru unveils a plan to use PV solar panels to provide electricity to two million people currently living without electricity. Peru last week initiated a new program that will provide electricity to more than two million of its poorest residents using […]

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