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Nick Rosen
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, and Author of Off the Grid
Nick Rosen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and broadcaster. He specializes in covering subjects shortly before they become the next big thing. Nick is an off-grid expert, editing the website www.off-grid.net, and writing for newspapers and TV programs.
Born and based in London, he has often lived and worked in the U.S. Over the past two decades he has been a teaching assistant at the Georgetown University Philosophy Department, a journalist in San Francisco, and a documentary filmmaker in New York.
Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America was published by Penguin in 2010.
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"The grid debate: Decentralize or expand infrastructure"
Public Radio International
"One in a Billion"
BBC News
"Inside the World of China's Super-rich"
BBC News
"Off the Grid, But Plugged In"
The New York Times
Off the Grid Review
The Washington Post
"Could You Live Off-grid? More Americans Give It a Try"
The Los Angeles Times
"Off the Grid: The Lonely Freedom of Living an Unplugged Life"
The Seattle Times
Off the Grid Review
Newsweek
"Living Off the Grid"
New Hampshire Public Radio
"How to Live Off the Grid"
Wired UK
"The Growing Appeal of Going Off the Grid"
Salon
"There's Never Been a Better Time to Go Off the Grid"
The Huffington Post
"New Book Investigates Why People Live Off-grid"
Green Magazine
"Off-grid Campaigner: Inspiring Today's US Pioneers"
New Scientist
"In the City or Off the Grid: Which is Greener? Nick Rosen and Lloyd Alter Debate"
Tree Hugger
Nick Rosen Interview
KSOF's Green is Good
Nick Rosen Interview, Part One
Red Ice Radio
Nick Rosen Interview, Part Two
Red Ice Radio
Nick Rosen's Article Archive
Off-Grid.net
Featured Book
Off the Grid
"A timely and gripping read with an entertaining, often inspiring cast of misfits and visionaries, Off the Grid offers a peephole view into the future of apocalyptic America."
—Lydia Millet, author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Speaking Topics
- Living Off the Grid
- Urban Survivalists: How to Live a Self-Sufficient Life in the City
- How Advertising and Marketing Can Reach the Off-Grid Generation
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The Economic Recession
The Early History of GE and the Rise of the American Corporation - The History and Legalization of Marijuana
- Eco-Architecture and Eco-Design
- The Internet and Social Media
- Social Trends
- The Anglo-American Relationship
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Speaking Topics — Nick Rosen
Living Off the Grid
- Where: the top seven places to live off the grid in America
- How: energy and water technologies plus practical advice
- Why: the seven reasons people give for moving off the grid—swapping a modern American home for a self-powered, self-sufficient existence
- Who: the seven types of off-gridder—from the part-time vacation to the full-fledged survivalist
Urban Survivalists: How to Live a Self-Sufficient Life in the City
How Advertising and Marketing Can Reach the Off-Grid Generation
The Economic Recession
- The housing and foreclosure crisis
- Public anger at the economic predicament
- Why we all hate the bankers and how they can make us love them again
The Early History of GE and the Rise of the American Corporation
The History and Legalization of Marijuana
Eco-Architecture and Eco-Design
The Internet and Social Media
Social Trends
The Anglo-American Relationship
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