Living off the Main Grid !

Caveat emptor /ˌkævɛɑːt ˈɛmptɔr/ is Latin for "Let the buyer beware"

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Please be careful, not to invest in a Commune (Money) unless you get real property (Title and resalable) or registered (FTC) stock with voting rights. Your time and labor, well you must put it somewhere anyway!

TDK.<<

Intentional Communities  and Communes::

Historys:

The Success of American Communes.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Success+of+American+Communes.-a064077690



Legal aspects of Communes:

Legal Structures for Intentional Communities in the United State

http://everything2.com/title/Legal+Structures+for+Intentional+Communities+in+the+United+States

http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/commune_land.html (nice mission statement)

Fellowship for Intentional Community (Interesting Site)
http://www.ic.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Egalitarian_Communitieshttp://www.thefec.org/


Examples:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/05/06/the-250-acre-church-nurturing-faith-and-free-spirits-in-the-foothills-of-pennsylvania/

http://www.twinoakscommunity.org/about-twinoaks-community/welcome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia

Bullet Proof Commune, is it possible in America?

• There is really only one solution, I believe. And that is to find a very low population "Country" quietly have people buy homes, land . Start businesses and rental apartments. At some point you may reach a . Voting majority and take over, but be sure and Hire the Locals and politicians back as assistants at their old salaries to keep the peace!

  
  Buy out all the Utility companies, Water, Power, Telecom, Bank, Trash Sewer etc. And then you can build a real hybrid legal Commune within that structure. That if you keep a low profile is safe from Legal attacks.

Solar / Wind Power storage:

 I have researched this type of battery while a Telecommunication R&D engineer with Siemens and Nokia for use in third world Cell sites. And fell in love with it.

Anyone looking at some or full Solar Photovoltaic power sound give a close study of The nickel–iron battery (NiFe battery) . The battery was developed by Thomas Edison in 1901, and used as the energy source for electric vehicles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery

Great Site:
http://www.nickel-iron-battery.com/

How Zoning Laws will kill you:

I.C.C.

International Code Council

http://www.nchh.org/Policy/NationalPolicy/InternationalCodeCouncil.aspxJanice Scott-Reeder King I ran across this snag because a woman in the middle of state was set up completely off the grid and collected rain water for her house. The city came in and demanded she connect to city water. They are trying to do the same thing to us out here and install sewers rather than the septic systems we have. We have super septic systems designed for environmentally sensitive areas by Water Management. Anyway, she ended up in court and that is when this minimum housing standards thing came up as the law. I then started research to find out who set these standards that even HUD has adopted. I hit a brick wall. No names on anything. Anyway, she lost, had to hook up to city water and even though she uses no city water, she has to pay the minimum fee per month. Down here, that can be at least 100.00. In other not so nice news, building and zoning in many cities has made it impossible to have solar by outlawing putting it on your roof or in your yard even though it is proven it keeps your roof on the house in a hurricane. You must remember those nifty utility taxes that go directly to your local, county and state government and you never hear a peep about how much is collected or how it is spent. They don't want to lose their slush fund.

Free Help books:


PermaCulture Gardening etc

https://resurgentcircles.wordpress.com/ebooks/

A Permaculture Design Course Handbook

https://treeyopermacultureedu.wordpress.com/

http://www.permaculture.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/permaculturelibrary/

What is PFAF? Permaculture News: Permaculture International Research Network (PIRN) and Free Research Handbook Recommended this month

http://www.pfaf.org/user/Default.aspx

https://www.permaculture.org.uk/sites/default/files/page/document/research_handbook_version_1.5_-_printer_friendly.pdf

http://www.apothecarylodge.com/


Machines:

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/


Water:

http://solutions2worldproblems.blogspot.com/2011/08/introduction-to-project-free-tap.html

What a great and stealth rain water harvesting system:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/pathsthroughtheforests/2015/05/11/saegoah-pursuits-gardening-with-rainwater-harvesting-earthworks-a-photo-essay/



Resources Links:

 Center for Rural Affairshttp://www.cfra.org/