Becoming responsible for our own water and energy was more than saving on utility bills. Here's what motivated us, what we learned and how we made it happen. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor ...

By all means investigate the "electrify everything" approach, but don’t ignore the possibility of a much cheaper and easier ...

What exactly is off grid electricity? Of course, many people have different ideas about this. For the purpose of this article, it's electricity that you generate on your own property. Generating off ...

Living off of the grid typically comes with some serious challenges. The Living Vehicle CyberTrailer aims to solve just about all of them, albeit with one caveat: its price tag will likely dwarf even ...

Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to ...