People who have extra funds, suitable homes and a desire to be self-sufficient may consider disconnecting from the grid.
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Economic self-sufficiency can bring higher costs and higher inflation. Instead, countries need to be nimble, rather than isolated, to survive economic uncertainty.
Emphasizing self-sufficiency in fundraising pitches can increase charitable donations, a marketing scholar has found.
Though entrepreneurship of any kind is not easy, it can instil tenacity in the face of adversity. There are lessons here for trainee teachers.
Allotments and repairing old clothes are just aspects of 1970s life that are making a comeback.
The cost of land and, in turn, housing forces people to buy into the rules of market capitalism, making it very hard to ‘downshift’ from consumer lifestyles. But what if we rethink public housing?
Long before 70s hippies and hipster artisans, Australians were seeking solace by going back to the land. They ranged from anarchists to suffragists to Catholic agrarians.
We spoke at length with a series of self-identified preppers. It became clear that most aren’t so out of the ordinary.
Australians love cooking with gas, but what if you could make your own supply, using leftover food waste? It may be time for more households to embrace home biogas – and stop paying gas bills.
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