{"id":1001,"date":"2005-04-02T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/02\/island-living\/"},"modified":"2005-04-02T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T14:02:00","slug":"island-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/island-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Living"},"content":{"rendered":"
I certainly dream of living like this<\/a>, especially when the papers start to pile up:<\/p>\n Here’s an example of island living with all the amenities, but completely off-grid. This house, owned by Monica and Jack McVickers, is on Keewaydin Island in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Southwest Florida. There are no full-time residents on the island, no roads, no utilities, and access is by boat only. All fifteen of the homes on the island rely on off-grid electrical systems.<\/p>\n The McVickers house is equipped with a power system large enough to power the appliances in the house, plus tennis court lights and hot tubs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Treehugger post author Justin Thomas notes that while the McVickers’ house has lots of green features, a few more would scale down the electrical load and eliminate the need for their propane back-up generator.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: green building<\/a>, off-grid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I certainly dream of living like this, especially when the papers start to pile up: Here’s an example of island living with all the amenities, but completely off-grid. This house, [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n