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Steve Backshall Goes Off Grid

Costing the Earth by BBC

May 23, 202327:23Religion & Spirituality

Steve Backshall lives in a new build house which is very energy efficient and almost totally off-grid. However, achieving this has been extremely time consuming, expensive and pretty stressful. For this episode of Costin...

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