- It’s Earth Hour today, if you’ve got an imaginative way to use an hour of darkness at 8:30 tonight.
- Check out d’Arcy Lunn’s new home, an off grid mini-house in New Zealand that puts his simple living philosophy into practice.
- The wholesale price of gas hit a record high this week.
- Global Dashboard has a self-effacing post this week on ten things they got wrong or missed during the financial crisis. Seeing them all together, it’s remarkable how our predicament has evolved in such unpredictable ways over the last few years.
The Earthbound Report 
I have an even better example of a small off grid house right here, it’s absolutely beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDbrUk2xYBo&list=PL4FF849F4B02D138F&index=35
Very nice, though much harder to live in without any electricity at all! Lunny is a reader of this blog and I’ve been keeping an eye on his project, so it got a special mention. Thanks for the link.