Life Off Grid

A film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results.

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New articles in The Tyee and the Huffington Post

December 29, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

Santa delivered two very nice presents this week. First the Huffington Post published this article inspired by an interview with off-grid BC resident Kurt Cehak and with myself. Kurt had some fantastic insights into off-grid living and Rhianna Schmunk from the Huffington Post was kind enough to embed our film trailer and post lots of Jonathan’s […]

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Our trailer + Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

December 17, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

As of today have a great trailer available for Life off grid. You can see it on our website or enjoy it on Vimeo, where you can also grab the embed code to replay it from your website. Our film and book have also found a few new homes on the internet. You can follow […]

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Nanaimo press coverage

December 8, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

This morning the Nanaimo Daily News posted this wonderful story on its front cover, WOW!  

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The first book review

December 2, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

This morning I found the very first review of our book, which I am delighted about. The fact such a positive review comes not from an academic but a member of the general public (strange expression, but you know what I mean) makes it all the more special. It can be found here, but I’ll […]

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Latest media coverage

November 30, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

This weekend CBC.ca and the Victoria Times Colonist wrote a couple of stories about our research, which were then picked up by another few websites around Canada. On friday night CBC.ca posted a podcast of last week’s interview on BC Almanac and half a dozen photos to accompany a short written story. And on Sunday morning […]

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Life off grid in the media

November 25, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

It’s been a busy week for media coverage of our work. First, the “mother of all back-to-the-land” magazines, Mother Earth News, gave me and Jon a corner to blog about our book and film. We’re both delighted about that. Next, a couple of local radio stations–CFAX (Victoria) and CKNW (Vancouver)–interviewed me live to talk about the […]

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Book release date announced

October 29, 2014 By Phillip Vannini

November 18, 2014 has been announced by Routledge as the release date of our book. And the following day the book can be ordered through Amazon as well. Here is the link for Amazon.ca  I’m happy to see the price is good ($35 for the paperback). I don’t have information for the cost of the […]

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