Long before I used string on stakes to mark the site of my cabin – on a hill on the edge of a forest in Skagway, Alaska – I thought about its surroundings and how the building would blend in ...

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For electricity, I have a small solar setup: two 100-watt panels and a solar battery that’s good enough to charge things and for basic lighting.

Aaron Monson, 46, spent the past five winters building an off-grid cabin in Hawaii. Monson, who is from Minnesota, bought a three-acre plot of land on the Big Island for $16,000 in 2019. He says ...