For Francis Ford Coppola, Armageddon was the Vietnam war. My personal apocalypse showed up last Sunday week. My computer system crashed - literally gave up the ghost. Each time I changed it on, I got a blue screen and after that it infuria…

Going off the grid is not just for the survivalist in the wilderness of Alaska, or the increasingly independent family that left the huge city for the more remote (and easier) life in Wyoming. Going green, and living off the grid is no lon…