Off The Grid Living: What Can We Learn?
THE FOOD MATTERS TEAM
Could you rebuild the life you have to use only renewable energy?
“Life Off Grid” is a two-year journey exploring the lives of Canadians in every province and territory who have made the choice to disconnect. “Life Off Grid” is a film and book about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results. Watch the first 10 minutes of “Life Off Grid” below:
Off-grid is not a state of mind. It is not about being out of touch, living in a remote place, or turning off your mobile phone. Off-grid simply means living without a connection to the electric and natural gas infrastructure. From 2011 to 2013,
Jonathan Taggart and Phillip Vannini spent two years traveling across Canada to find 200 off-gridders and visit them in their homes. They met off-gridders in every single province and territory and through their film, they narrated the travels and chronicled in depth the experiences, challenges, inventions, aspirations, and ways of life of people who have chosen to radically re-invent daily life in a dramatically innovative, but also quite traditional, way.
The Food Matters Team is made up of foodies that love getting in the kitchen and experimenting! When we aren't spreading our message with the world, that's where you will find us and just like you, we don't always succeed with our recipes, but that's part of the fun, right?