cool.
My sophmore year of college i seriously was looking into self-sustained living places in areas like Missouri and elswhere. Pretty interesting concept, small group of folks, cultivate food, and make products to sell online(hamocks I think). So they weren't entirely off the grid, but I think in today's world that is almost impossible.
Unless you bought a remote island somewhere, and even then....
But then I got off track with trying to finish school first and other things, and the main thought of that would be a MAJOR leap, going from PC-head suburbanite chained down by all the habits of Western Civilization, and trasitionining to this primarily agrarian lifestyle. Just wasn't ready for it. We will see in a few years.
I also recently got reinvigorated with the environmentalist ideas, and was just about to go work for a fundraising campaign this summer before I found out some nasty things, and was denied entry(aka I shot myself in the foot because I was a "whistleblower" before I even got the job lol).
Oh well...
And my buddy from HS just graduated from St. Marys and plans to go into Environmental law. I really think our whole environmental crisis is the ULTIMATE elephant in the room-and a huge agenda for my generation to deal with, not unlike the Great Depression was for our grandparents.
Good thing now is we have a rather popularizing movement to curb stuff like global warming etc. Freaking MTV ran this little special in conjuction with Al Gore's recent film, and while pretty lame, it's better than nothing.
It is just f**king digusting how we basically screwed up our one and only planet in a little less than 200 years. And I am also to blame by going along with this direction. I do the little things like recycle and try and conserve, but when push comes to shove, I just fall back in line with the rest of society.
How old is the Earth? 300 billion?
200 years and it's falling apart.
Course we are just a freaking blip on the time scale of the universe, an insiginifigant speck of life one tiny corner of space.