As of 2013, current estimates are that 1.7 billion people in the world live off the grid. According to Home Power Magazine, at least 180,000 families are living off the grid in the United States and that number increases each year.
180,000 families translates into how many people? The"grid" was born just about 100 years ago. With the birth of the grid, came an end to clean air, water and lands. In 100 years we have made the US a place where living your life and basic survival is heavily regulated and dispensed to subscribers. Subject to acceptance of terms and conditions. |