Off-grid living
148 videos • 175,981 views • by Kirsten Dirksen
From earthships to underground shipping container homes, there are many ways to live off-grid.
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A Dust Bowl chicken coop became Aldo Leopold's beloved house
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How the Mississippi shantyboats helped build a culture
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Automated container home on a budget obeys voice commands
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Old windmill home pumps water & could inspire future dwellings
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He transformed old waterline war bunker into minimalist home
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Tracks of an old Frontier shepherd life: Great Basin Basques
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Kristie Wolfe builds underground home & sets rural WA hamlet
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Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with 2 containers
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Tiny huts to enjoy the basics in Swedish spartan rural lodge
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Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K
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Real Goods homestead eco-pioneer shares experience/lifestyle
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On life, work & leisure in first Swedish tiny house allotment
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Arctic ancestral survivalism: on extreme weather Sami wisdom
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Abandoned turf house becomes remote cabin getaway in Norway
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Dan Price’s underground home, art & philosophy on $5,000/year
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Yuichi's slim treehouse sways as a nest in Japanese cypress
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Idaho modern oldtimer builds underground & solar $50 houses
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Building €1,000 small home in 100 hours from open source design
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Building your own Hawaii minimal house for a vacation's cost
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From Gotham to isolated, code & debt-free West Texas estate
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Survivalist tiny dorms at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin architecture school
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Containertopia: cargo container tiny home town on Oakland lot
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Earthships: self-sustaining homes for a post-apocalyptic land?
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Teen converts bus into off-grid $5600 photovoltaic tiny home
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NorCal veteran coder customizes off-grid home with sensors
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French carpenters craft off-grid hamlet of tiny dwellings
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Converted toolshed as uncluttered tiny home on Oregon farm
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Tiny home packs storage stairs, 2 lofts, tub in 136 sq ft
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Colorado portable tiny house + Airstream-ish portable office
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Off-grid, handcrafted life on Oregon farm & workshop
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Zen forest house: 11K, handcrafted, small home in Oregon
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Oregon "teens + dad" team build barge home and workshop
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Micro-homesteading in WA with 10K microhome (84 sq ft) in friends' yard
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Off-grid self-reliance & survivalism in Australia's outback
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School bus renovated as bachelor's off-grid tiny home
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Simple living on a narrowboat home in West End London
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Nomadic tiny home: Mongolian yurt moves in 1 day, DIY-style
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Teen tiny house builder Austin Hay finishes dorm on wheels
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Fully-customized, modular solar house is CNC cut prefab
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Buys 14th-C. Pyrenees home, builds treehouse village around
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Heating Seattle backyard studio with soda cans as solar panels
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Off-grid float cabin: retirement tiny dream home in BC wilderness
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Coder's 96-sq-ft, handbuilt zen microhome from the '70s
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Thoreauvian simple living: unelectrified, timeless tiny home
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Medieval Spanish ghost town becomes self-sufficient ecovillage
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C++ programmer builds off-grid home with sunroom & DC lighting
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Abandoned stable becomes off-grid, luxurious family dream home
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Earth-built passive solar home: cob (south), strawbale (north)
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Grid Beam modular system builds anything, furniture to bikes
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Designer builds efficient off-grid Passive House in Colorado
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Couple makes garage home + campervan a consistent life combo
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Old silo now spaceship-esque tiny home in Berlin
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Side-door container 2nd life as WA's ski town outdoorsy home
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Bauhaus to tiny "haus": micro-home village in Modernist Berlin
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Aussie overlander's own travels inspire rugged 4WD campervan
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Wyoming students make custom micro-campers to live & sell
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Snowboarder's 1950s fire truck as a cozy place to call Home
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Couple's own Paris-Dakar using Land Rover transformer-camper
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On building your dream (floating) home-studio, the Dutch way
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Boatmaker blends math & craft in his hanging treehouse spheres
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Rogue deployable shelters for off-grid living in OR desert
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Tiny cabins in VA's woods to slow down & resync inner clock
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Vina Lustado's home-office using 2 tiny houses in "L" + deck
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Young vets avoid student debt going vanlife in San Francisco
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RV park as NorCal’s first legal tiny house village?
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Intersection of rurex & philosophy: visiting Heidegger's hut
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Boeing retiree finds meaning inventing micro homes & high speed trikes
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Wind turbine cars, whimsical houseboats & bikes of Oskar de Kiefte
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Family fixes home in ghost-town lab & tells others to follow
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West Texas ghost town experimental construction & revival
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Bottom-up urbanism solves urgent housing needs in CA vicinity
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Modern home in Mexican plateau revives ancient water harvest
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Retired engineer builds transforming, off-grid, stealth campervan
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Can vanlife family of 5 find home where they park?
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Going to the woods to live deliberately (not leaving Berlin)
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Custom van makes case for seasonal West Coast nomadism
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Bunkie prefab cabin uses joinery & assembly of furniture design
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$700 mechanical micro-A-frame blends with Montana wilderness
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Woman tows off-grid, wood-clad tiny home to restart life
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Woman tows off-grid, wood-clad tiny home to restart life
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Joy of rebuilding a settler cabin log-by-log on MN homestead
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Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock on remote kayakers' lake
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Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock on remote kayakers' lake
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Brothers build boreal utopia of open-roof cube cabins in nature
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Kristie Wolfe turns 1950s fire lookout into off-grid shelter
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Kristie Wolfe turns 1950s fire lookout into off-grid shelter
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Kristie Wolfe turns 1950s fire lookout into off-grid shelter
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Old West train depot revives as home near Roosevelt's Medora
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Simple cabin clicks together without nails in 32 hours
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MN tiny home pioneer turns containers into airtight wee homes
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Sunken greenhouse wraps home & feeds suburban antifragile co-op
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Found a derelict Portuguese hamlet. Settled in to revive it
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Water-only access lake cabin & vacuum-flush compost toilets
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The world from our window: seclusion as introspection opportunity?
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How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders
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Nautilus houseboat: German functionalism, golden ratio shape
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How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum
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Valldaura Labs culls restored forest for tiny home & biomass
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DIY redwood estate: home + yurt + cottage + micro winery
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Sheep wagons as timeless campervan: the Airstream of pioneers
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New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
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Towable, off-grid Ecocapsule gathers energy/water anywhere
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Thrifty couple builds self-reliant, $60K homestead & workshop
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Got to the Rockies, settled to build rugged Mountain tiny homes
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Outdoor voluntary simplicity & survivalism in Santa Fe hills
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Spartan Alpine cabin conceals back-to-basics building tips
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Built Bill Gates’ home, then his own dream bunk-studio
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Sewed own popup dome-home for need, been selling them since
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Mad scientist's homestead is parking size, off-grid system
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Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit
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Off-grid container home uses pulleys to lower/raise bed & deck
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Kristie Wolfe restores boat-shaped cabin in forsaken lake
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Built a backyard Yome (yurt + dome) to stay in San Francisco
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Mountaintop building was banned. Pulled off epic off-grid
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Old delivery truck outside, fast-transformer homestudio inside
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30 years self-reliant: family $10K/year homestead & dugout
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Oldtimer got wild rocky land, started NorCal off-grid Watertopia
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Clever microhome perches over compact food forest outside Barcelona
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Tall Microsoft retirees build semi-truck "penthouse on wheels"
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Arctic Homestead: 10 years living off the Alaskan wilderness
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Homeless shepherd shares hunter-gatherer diet & survival tips
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CA artist-farmer builds $25K quiet home to savor simple life
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Samara Backyard ADU by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia: full review
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Rebuilds $8K remote ruin by hand alone: best water/solar so far
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Couple builds off-grid ecovillage with friends & leftovers 🐎
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Homeless shepherd starts world's smallest farm. Fits in DIY wagon
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Builds Quonset bunkers for a living. Lives in Dome Home in the woods
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L.A. med student turns small van into ideal dorm on wheels, $14K total
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His Velomobile RV is a bicycle-camper to live (bed, kitchen, WC included)
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Full village living off land & craft like modern Amish: 350 families & growing
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Turns stone barn into minimal hideaway with stealth furniture-rooms
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Tiny Texas Houses pioneer digs personal lake & crafts village around it
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Guide to the Good Life from architect-farmer amid redwoods: 55 years off-grid
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How entire villages lived in just 1 building in remote Far North
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He quit his job to build dream cliffside hamlet in Appalachia
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Building ecovillage of storm-proof homes made of bone-like biomaterial
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How entire village runs fully off-grid on small hydropower & solar
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Veteran's underground home in Maine Homestead is affordable little marvel
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Special Operations vet commutes by Flying Car from rural off-grid home
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Couple builds own home & farm paradise with little money + inspiring work
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Tetris founder's family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia
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Went homeless. Done Guerrilla Grazing by choice ever since
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Modern home hideout sits on forsaken volcano like Star Wars rebel ship
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Left BBC's Planet Earth to start dream family homestead (full tour)
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He quit all to build off-grid village, mountain-long Earthship
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Young couple self-builds hempcrete home with innovative compost toilet
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Family-style ecovillage is co-housing at heart of huge food-forest 🥗
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Expandable home with loop-filtered water is indoor/outdoor game changer
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