Henry Hill's guide to a off the grid living provides an eye-opening and intuitive insight into the financial and social pressures of today's society while providing an all-encompassing method to alleviate such demands on your life by what he calls, "Living Off the Grid." Hill stresses the importance of being in financial peace while maintaining a productive lifestyle. This book is a guide for everything from household alternatives to public utilities to growing your own produce and raising livestock. Hill provides enough of an understanding behind modern day utilities to further inform you how to go without them. This starts as simple as using solar panels to reduce dependence on the power "grid" to providing detailed instructions on how to make ethanol to cook with. The book even begins to provide even the least knowledgeable gardeners to grow sufficient enough sustenance to fully immerse themselves in self dependence. This map truly does include how to get started in all parts of everyday life and goes on to mature with the audience reading this book. The book literally teaches you how to grow, while growing your own food! Even though the goal of this book is financial freedom in the long-term, there are significant amount of start-up costs but options are provided for those that are on the tightest of budgets to begin with. If you are looking to go "Off the Grid" yourself or are just curious in how this lifestyle is manageable, this is a must-have book to better familiarize yourself with the subject. This eye-opening experience will almost undoubtedly either make you want to follow this lifestyle or change your consumption patterns indefinitely.