Going Off Grid Festival
Event description
The Going Off Grid Festival (GOG Festival) is a festival based on a system and lifestyle designed to help people function without the support of infrastructure, such as an Electricity Grid. Electricity, for example, can be a stand-alone system or a microgrid which is typically used to provide a smaller community with electricity.
The term Going Off Grid (GOG) refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more utilities, Off-the-grid homes aim to achieve autonomy; they do not rely on one or more of municipal water supply, sewer, gas electrical power grid, or similar utility services. Our festival will showcase a diverse array sustainable, living off-grid ideas such as:
Emerging Technologies such as BioFuel, making oil from basically anything, the removal of salt from water, planting gardens on roofs, Bioremediation, etc
Renewable Energies such as Green, Solar, Wind, Thermal, Biomass, TidalHouse and Home such as Tiny Houses, Earthships, Hempcrete, Straw Bale Houses, Green Homes, Eco-Friendly Houses and Sustainable Houses.
Neighbourhood / CommunityLocal Exchange Trading Systems, Landcare, Wilderness Society, No More Plastic, Recycling, Community creation (centres)
Traditional Crafts, Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, Woodworking, Spinners and weavers, Textiles (fleece etc.), so Knitting, Lacemaking, quilting tapestry, weaving, Pottery, Glass, Papercraft
Healing Yourself Naturally Traditional methods and new methods on how to heal yourself naturally
AlternativesPermaculture, Aquaculture, Hydroponics, animal husbandry, butchering, fish, Seeds and Seed Saving, Bees, Agroecology, Game meats, plant nursery, fruit and nuts, Biofuel, food grains
The Festival is an open door for supporters to meet individuals with tremendous experience from an assortment of off-framework living zones – from the most recent manageable innovation masters to the low effect customary craftspeople. Patrons will leave this Festival feeling elevated and enlivened to make positive, reasonable changes in their own lives, with new abilities, items, data and contacts to help.
Regardless of whether you're somebody who needs to sell all that you own and live in the shrubbery, redesign your home to sunlight based one, purchase a ranch and become independent, downscale to a low-sway way of life, adapt new handcrafts and strength abilities, develop your very own sustenance, reconnect with nature, fabricate your own regular home, extinguish your interest about off-framework living or just have a great time day out with the entire family – there's something at the celebration for you.