Why Living Off-Grid Is Now Much More Economical

This is a collaborative post. One of the most interesting questions in the current environmental debate is the so-called “carrying capacity” of planet Earth. It refers to the number of people that the planet can sustain, given current trends and consumption habits. If people continue to use transport, energy, food, water, minerals, and plastics at the rate that they do today, then experts pin the carrying capacity at somewhere between two and eleven billion people.  Two billion is approximately the population of Europe, meaning that the rest of the world would need to disappear if we are to achieve sustainability …