Nick Rosen is an off-grid energy pioneer, author, and award-winning documentary maker
An environmental campaigner and off-grid energy expert, Nick is author of two books on off-grid living and founder of off-grid.net, a blueprint for off-grid living which has helped over 80,000 users explore off-grid solutions and develop large-scale natural resource projects.
Nick has made films for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, PBS, CBS and others. He also appears frequently on radio shows and podcasts, and has written for The Guardian, The Times, The Spectator, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Reuters and many others, commenting on government energy policy and legislation. For much of the noughties he wrote a column in Revolution Magazine (Haymarket) – about latest developments in mobile internet. He now covers Grid Energy, Net Zero, Clean Energy , Microgrids, Battery technology, Data Centres, Renewables, Electric Vehicles, Local and Community energy, and notably Off-Grid Technology.
In the 1980s he was part of the Undercurrents Collective - a group of writers who brought out an early eco magazine. Thanks to a collaboration with Vodafone in 2005, he is possibly the first of what we now call 'digital nomads' - individuals who work online from anywhere they want in the world - at first running his website from a mountaintop in Majorca, then adopting the slogan “the world is my office”, as he made documentaries and wrote articles in the USA, Russia, China and Europe.
Nick's two books on the plusses, positives and practicalities of living off grid are: “Off the Grid – Inside the Movement for more Space, less Government and true Independence in modern America” (Penguin 2010) and “How to Live Off-grid” (Doubleday 2008).
In 2006 Nick pioneered off-grid.net aiming to revolutionise how off-grid living is perceived and manifested. This off-grid living blueprint also curates a global community of ‘off-gridders’ and aims to realise large-scale naturally resourced developments in both urban and rural environments, offering its users a support network to lobby local councils and governments, to fight for the right to create our own energy where we need it.
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Dimitris Mavrokefalidis
"I have been part of the eco movement ever since the 1980s, and in a way we failed - because the global environment is more fragile than ever. Today 's movement is still struggling to connect with the silent majority - we have to find the right language and right issues to campaign on."
Nick’s ground breaking interactive map, hosted on off-grid.net, allows users to add their location to the network and meet other like-minded users. Groups can form online to create new off-grid communities. The off-grid map also allows users to collaborate on community energy initiatives in their areas. For those seeking an allotment in the UK , it offers a service where a local council is automatically informed once the demand for allotments in their area reaches a legal threshold.
His first journalism credit was an interview with singer Gil Scott Heron published in The Times.
Together with designer Katharine Hamnett, Nick launched the short-lived “Tomorrow” Eco-Magazine, which foundered in 1985 due to lack of advertiser support. “Bringing together top creatives and writers to highlight environmental issues was a radical move. Maybe now is the time to relaunch the idea!”
