Well, hello there, my friends, and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to

episode 563 of Sustainable Minimalists. This is a listener-supported show about intentional and

eco-friendly minimalist living. And yes, it is listener-supported, which means you all are keeping

it in existence. Thank you so much to my subscribers. This episode is for

everybody and we are discussing living off grid but in an incremental way today. So I'm plugging

from society's systems. I'm talking about those public utilities like electric and water and sewer, that is stressful and overwhelming

for an awful lot of us. So how can we take a step back, especially from the fossil fuels,

and not move and not build a house in the mountains from the ground up? How can we just step back

from our reliance on fossil fuels? That's really what

we're talking about today. First part of today's conversation is about the importance of

stepping back from fossil fuels and stepping into reclaiming our self-sufficient skills.

That's part one. Then in part two, we're talking about making our

existing homes a bit more off-grid, a bit more sufficient, self-sufficient. And we're talking

specifically in part two about installing solar panels. Clean energy tax credits for solar panels

are expiring on December 31st of this year. And that's quite

unfortunate because clean energy tax credits made solar panels and other forms of clean energy

accessible, financially accessible for many Americans. And they are disappearing. So is now the

time to go incrementally off-grid by

installing solar panels? My guest today is here to answer that question for all of us, myself

included. My guest today is Ryan Mitchell. He is a proud off-gritter. He is also the author of a new

book which just came out and it's so good. It's titled

Living Off Grid, 50 Steps to Unplug, Become Self-Sufficient, and Build the Homestead of Your Dreams.

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