Danish island of Samsø, carbon free, livin' large off the grid

When asked in my business information school I said, oddly enough, that my goal was "to get off the Grid"? here's an entire community doing that -
The Danish island of Samsø

Pretty pictures:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/sep/21/samso.windfarms?picture=337762443

Article and vids:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/08/eveningnews/main2549273.shtml


Costs:
http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200702/samso-denmark-3.html

Images of Samso, Denmark, courtesy Roberto Pastor, Creative Commons License: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertopastor/

Or if those sites are dead by the time you reach this article - query "Samsø" in a warm and friendly nearby Search Engine.

Cheers from 20 stories high in a black glass steel tower, Financial District, San Francisco, California

Introduction to Geeksville

We are nerds. Welcome to the peculiar world of the generalized yet detailed global technologist.

Here we chat with our cohorts - who are coding television-on-demand security in Lisbon, attending class via video working on the open ocean in a research vessel while preparing to win an international martial arts competition in Tokyo, contemplating how to re-engineer a 100+ year old trucking company supply chain and communications system, traveling to Nepal to photograph and document a 1000 year old secret ritual and publish it on the Internet and in academia, establishing new standards for antiquated backwards thinking medical staff because we care.



Where the words 'I want to get off the grid' are more shocking than anything about sex or drugs. Here we have different standards than most people, and when it comes to technology sometimes our expectations of ourselves and the tech - well they are very high.

Here you find us where the belief that technology can help make the world a better place is not just a dream, it is a shared goal.

It is not a gentle ride.