21 years on a remote island with no power grid, no building codes, and no regrets

Lasqueti Island sits in British Columbia's Strait of Georgia, about 50 miles northwest of Vancouver. It's roughly the size of Manhattan but home to fewer than 500 people, and it has no connection to BC Hydro's power grid — residents generate their own electricity from solar panels, wind turbines, and micro-hydro systems, or they just go without. — Read the rest The post 21 years on a remote island with no power grid, no building codes, and no regrets appeared first on Boing Boing.