What This Book Is About
Offgrid and On Purpose is more than just a guide to off-grid living, it’s a blueprint for creating a life of freedom, sustainability, and self-reliance. Whether you’re dreaming of going fully off-grid or simply looking for ways to live more intentionally, this book provides the insights, lessons, and practical tools to help you get there.


Why I Wrote This Book
After years of working in the climate space, I realized that true sustainability starts with how we live our daily lives. I wanted to bridge the gap between climate action and personal transformation, showing people that a more connected, independent, and fulfilling way of life is possible.


What You’ll Learn in This Book

• The Mindset Shift: Why off-grid living is more about intention than isolation.
• Building Resilience: How to create a lifestyle that thrives in any environment.
• Sustainable Systems: The essentials of off-grid power, water, and food security.
• Balancing Tech & Nature: How to integrate modern tools while staying connected to the natural world.
• The Emotional Journey: What it really feels like to step away from the grid - and why it’s worth it.

Who This Book Is For

This book is perfect for:

• Eco-conscious professionals looking to align their lifestyle with their values.
• Sustainability advocates wanting to take personal climate action beyond the workplace
• Aspiring off-gridders preparing for a self-sufficient life.
• Anyone seeking more freedom, simplicity, and purpose.

Why This Matters Now
With increasing global uncertainty… climate shifts, economic instability, and energy concerns… more people are searching for ways to take control of their lives. Offgrid and On Purpose provides a roadmap to doing just that, whether you want to go fully off-grid or just adopt a few key practices to increase your independence.


Get Your Copy Today!
Offgrid and On Purpose is available now at EarthriseGuide.com.​

Order now and start your journey to a more sustainable, intentional life.

P.S. Have questions or want guidance? I offer off-grid coaching to help you make the transition. Click here to learn more —> EarthriseGuide.com.​

Live will epic views on a mountaintop for 6 months - be our caretaker, host, and help us with a little marketing magic. 

We have other plans/obligations this summer so we’re looking for the right person or two to live and thrive on our 100+ mountaintop property in southern Oregon. There are 360 degree views, native habitats, and old growth forests. It is magical and spiritual - there is a labyrinth and the home faces Mount Shasta.

This is the right opportunity for the right person. 

We’re offering it for FREE if you help us book the rentals on the property with some marketing… we have lots of pictures and content and not so good at posting and getting the word out. Could you help us with that? 

Let’s figure something out that would be win-win. For example, you get a % of the bookings over a certain amount. Win-WIN. 

We’re located in a really interesting area - we’re next to a wildlife refuge that is a breeding habitat for bald eagles, the largest habitat in the lower 48. The oldest evidence of humans in the Americas is two hours away. Five-thousand year old petroglyphs are less than a hour away. Mt Shasta is about an hour away. Two hours to hot springs in Ashland. Crater Lake is a little over an hour away. 

Find out more here: 
https://earthriseranch.com/index.php/work-with-us/
​The property has an off-grid home, and a few campsites. 

More pictures here.

We’re near a dark sky preserve, so you can see so many stars!
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We’re looking for a caretaker for out 100+ acre property on a mountaintop, that has 360 degree views and faces Mount Shasta. 

As I’m writing this, I’m watching adolescent bald eagles play on air currents. It’s magical. 

We have other obligations for the next six months - and so we’re looking for someone to be a caretaker/host in exchange for discounted rent ($500). Or if you’re up for it, you could have FREE RENT if you want to help us book the rental on the property. 

​If you need really great internet, we could plug in the starlink for an extra $120/month. 

It’s really important to us that we find the RIGHT person. Is that YOU? 

• You may need some time away from your “day to day”
• You’re ready to connect with nature more
• You’re ready for change
• You’re in between jobs 
• You’re burnout and need to get away
• You ready to explore who you are
• You’re ready to grow as a human

Just a few ideas…


Interested? Find out more here: 
https://earthriseranch.com/index.php/work-with-us/
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We are close to a dark sky sanctuary: 

I’ve found these four books to be wonderfully helpful. They share stories and climate solutions. 

I recommend these books to EVERYONE, and especially anyone interested in working on climate and anyone who is currently doing climate work. 

Sometimes climate dread or doom can get you down, and these books pick me up. They let me know that I’m not alone in caring and working on climate. 

I hope you find them useful, too.

*Note: I “read” all of these books via their audiobook form, through the library app Libby.

Using a library card, you have access to the entire digital collection of the library. Smaller libraries have generally formed consortiums with other libraries, so they have extensive collections, sometimes bigger than major city libraries. You’ve already funded libraries, use them! 

Regeneration by Paul Hawken
This book lists and explains dozens of climate solutions that regenerate the planet. It’s the most hopeful and practical book for addressing the climate crisis. The audio book has several narrators. 

All We Can Save by a lot of women, Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
Each chapter of this book is written by a different expert, and they all are women. This book touches on climate justice more than most, and it’s perspectives are fresh and welcome. Plus Julia Louis-Dreyfus reads some of the chapters in the audio book. It’s fantastic. 

To Speak for the Trees - Diana Beresford-Kroeger 
This book is a memoir, but also reminds us of the wonder of nature. The author shares insights and benefits of trees that we are only beginning to understand in modern medicine. 

The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary by Clark Strand, Perdita Finn
It’s a beautiful book that is medicine for the soul. The authors feel the pressure of climate change, and find that turning to the divine feminine and all of her forms brings peace to anyone troubled by our times. The audio book is read by the authors and their daughter.

We support the position of The Klamath Tribes.

Klamath County is evaluating a proposed 806 acre private regional landfill adjacent to the Klamath Marsh, a culturally significant and environmentally sensitive area. The proposed landfill is likely to damage the marsh, which is already greatly degraded from modern human activity. 


The Klamath Marsh is part of the Klamath River watershed, which is currently being transformed by the deconstruction of 4 dams along the river, which has been covered by national news outlets. It would be counterproductive to establish a landfill next to an ecosystem that is currently being rehabilitated. 


Not only is the site and the surrounding land/water environmentally sensitive, but it is also of great cultural value to the Klamath Tribes and citizens of the Klamath Basin.


More info:
Here is the link from the county regarding the proposal and the recording of the previous relevant meeting: 
https://klamathcounty.org/1139/Planning-Commission-Meeting


The formal letter from the Klamath Tribes is below as a pdf and as screenshots of the pdf.

If you would like to learn more about the Klamath Tribes, Gabriann Hall recently gave an excellent presentation about the Tribes to the Deschutes Land Trust. Available here.


About me:
I am a concerned resident of Klamath County. After learning about the proposed landfill, I didn’t see anything online, so I worked with the person who shared the news, and the Tribal Council Secretary, to obtain a copy of their letter and to identify deadlines and ways to get involved. 

Going off-grid and living off-grid take a change in mindset. It’s about being more present. 

Inevitably, being off-grid is perceived as more peaceful. 

It WON’T be more peaceful if you don’t work on your mind.

Maybe you’re thinking about getting away from it all because you’re stressed and fed up with the fussiness of life and work and family. Neighbors. Noise. 

Even if you did get off-grid, you’ll carry your feelings, behaviors, and tendencies off-grid. If you get stressed about the little things at home now, you’ll just get stressed at the little things when you’re off-grid. 

To start your off-grid journey now, and to generally improve you life, start your off-grid journey in your mind. Being off-grid means more nature and quiet. Start to seek that now.

A GREAT place to START is forest bathing. Forest bathing is the concept of being present with trees and nature. Office workers in Tokyo successfully participated in “forest bathing” by going to a tiny park, and their mental state was much improved. So, no matter where you are, you can start to forest bathe. 

I listened to the book Forest Bathing, but there are plenty of resources online, or in any media that you enjoy consuming, like podcasts or YouTube videos. 

If you can’t even make it outside, you can still do a forest bathing guided meditation. 

I use Insight Timer for guided meditations and music for meditating. They have loads of free meditations, and membership based tracks and courses. I have the premium version so I can download tracks so I always have them, even when I’m out of service. 

If you like, please use my referral link to download the app:
Insig.ht/tQjYrVAmaEb