Your Guide to Living Off the Grid
Like Duolingo, but for Your Guide to Living Off the Grid. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Setting Up Your Power and Water, Feeding Yourself from the Land, and Staying Safe and Comfortable. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Your Guide to Living Off the Grid
- Solar aspect for power
- Reliable water sources
- Arable soil for food
- Zoning laws for dwellings
- Health codes and waste
- Evaluating homestead resources
- Legal and survival essentials
- Grid-tie mandates can exist even in rural areas
- Critical natural resources for off-grid self-sufficiency
- Minimum square footage requirements can outlaw tiny homes
- Legal constraints on off-grid infrastructure
- Solar panels generate DC power that must be regulated by a charge controller
- Energy consumption is calculated by multiplying power (Watts) by time (Hours)
- Batteries store energy before it is converted to AC for household use
- Daily energy needs are measured in Watt-hours or Kilowatt-hours
- The flow of energy through the essential components of an off-grid solar system
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Your Guide to Living Off the Grid the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When scouting for a homestead, why is the 'solar aspect' of the property considered a non-negotiable resource?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Your Guide to Living Off the Grid takes you
Learn how to break free from the city and build a self-sufficient life. We will cover everything from catching your own power to growing your own dinner.
- 1
Setting Up Your Power and Water
- Choosing the Right Spot to Live
- Catching Sunlight for Electricity
- How to Collect and Clean Rainwater
- Dealing with Waste Without a Sewer
- 2
Feeding Yourself from the Land
- Starting Your First Vegetable Garden
- Keeping Chickens for Fresh Eggs
- Preserving Food for the Winter
- Finding Wild Plants You Can Eat
- Cooking Meals Without a Modern Stove
- Storing Food Without a Fridge
- 3
Staying Safe and Comfortable
- Keeping Your Home Warm in Winter
- Basic Tools Every Off-Gridder Needs
- What to Do in an Emergency
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Your Guide to Living Off the Grid is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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