Leading the charge
he off-grid mentality becomes pervasive. You realize you don’t have to pay for — or maintain — stuff that you don’t use. Which leads to purging the unnecessary. After 15 years of no power bill, we’d purged most of the fat in our household energy use, but one thing stood out — the car. It has always annoyed me that we’ve lugged a tonne of metal for 20 minutes each way, climbing and dropping 500m twice in the process, just to bring a few bags of groceries home. So I talked myself into
