Off-grid isn t a state of mind. It isn t about someone being out
of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend
spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a
home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the
electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore,
means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it,
and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who
have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite
old, way of life.
This ethnography explores the day-to-day lives of people in each
of Canada s provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini
and Taggart demonstrate how a variety of people, all with different
environmental constraints, live away from contemporary
civilization. The authors also raise important questions about our
social future and whether off-grid living creates an
environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice.
These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an
intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call
to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take
for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and
sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and
introduction to cultural anthropology courses. "
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