Nick Rosen is an author, campaigner and documentary film-maker. His book ''Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America'' is published by Penguin Books and was released July 27, 2010. His book ''How To Live Off-Grid'', published by Doubleday June 2007, is a guide to escaping the rat race; part of an ecological campaign to change the rules on planning permission via his websit
Off-Grid.net
started in 1996. In the early nineties, Nick became a freelance journalist, primarily writing for ''

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''. It was during this period that he met Katharine Hamnett and co-founded the short lived eco magazine ''TOMORROW''. In 1992, Rosen formed a TV production company, Vivum, and began to make documentaries for the ITV ''First Tuesday'' series. In 1992-3 he produced ''Brezhnev's Daughter'', a documentary about the way the Nomenklatura were coming to terms with the new order in Russia. It won Best International Production prize at the NY Film and TV Festival. Rosen wrote " The Durlacher Report" which became the base document in many of the early Internet IPOs, such as Demon, Pipex and Easynet, and followed this with '' The Net-Head Handbook'', a satire about the dawning of the internet. In 2004, Rosen produced ''Sacred Ground, the fight for Ground Zero'', for PBS and Channel 4 – a film about the battle to build a meaningful memorial at

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, and in 2006 he produced Britain’s '' Commuter Nightmare'', a one-hour documentary for

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Dispatches. His other ventures as start-ups was Online Research Agency which in its short life produced one considerable work "Business.eu" - a report focused on online business in Europe. Online Research Agency was wound up in an orderly manner in 2001. In 1999 he met his wife, artist Fiona Banner. They married in 2005 and have a young daughter. He is the son of scientist Dennis Rosen.

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