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30 Days :: Off the Grid (01x05)
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| Title: | Off the Grid |
| Episode #: | 01x05 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday July 13th, 2005 |
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May 31, 2009 |
| Episode Crew | | Director: | (Unknown) | | Writer: | (Unknown) |
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Two 30-year-old "typical Americans" – i.e., ravenous consumers of fossil fuels -- learn to live without natural resources. Vito, a club bouncer, and Jahari, an event planner, get a tough lesson in taking things for granted. To do this, they'll move to Dancing Rabbits, an 'eco village' in Missouri that is 100% OFF THE GRID as they have no access to the power that comes from the usual grid of power and phone lines that run above our heads. As they set up house in a former 3,000-bushel grain bin, they will sustain themselves on clean power such as solar and wind. There are only 3 rules that they must follow: 1) say goodbye to fossil fuels, 2) work as members of the community helping out with everything from the backbreaking work in the farm to cooking vegan meals and 3) recycling everything, including their own waste! To follow these rules they will have live in a mostly car-free culture, grow and eat only organic foods and conserve their water use with solar showers and rain-catch systems. The only cars they drive are run on natural diesel they get from vegetable oil that must be hand cranked to fill the tank. Life takes a drastic change for these two partying New Yorkers.
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Morgan: (During the introduction) As a country we're using more then 6 times our share of the earths dwindling resources and are -- by far -- the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world.
| Jaime Cloud: (calculating what their geological footprint is by shadowing them for a day) If every one lived like you guys it would take 12.5 planets to power everybody's life styles.
| Vito Summa: I really don't see how they do it. But again this is all the sacrifices that they give because they look at it like a big picture, that the culture that we are living in is unsustainable. You know what I'm a part of it, so I'll just be that member of American culture that is going to ride this bike till the wheels fall off.
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