Rather than wade through this bureaucratic minefield, some simply choose to fly "off the grid" and not submit flight plans or check in with nearby air-traffic controllers before taking off.

与其经受官僚机构的严苛考验，有些人干脆选择“离网飞行”，并且在起飞前不提交飞行计划，也不在当地的空中交通管理部门登记。

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I do feel like there are a lot of small alternatives out there: community agriculture, people living by barter, people living off the grid.

我确实觉得好像出现了很多可能的小小机会：社区农业、人们通过物物交换过日子、不使用电。

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Defiantly off the grid, Ambue Ari has no telephone, no television, no Internet, no air-conditioning, no flush toilets.

这里没有通电，因此没有电话，没有电视，没有互联网，没有空调，也没有水冲式厕所。

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With its tree-lined dirt roads, whitewashed cottages and vintage signposts giving distances in miles (South Africa converted to metric in the 1970s), Nieu Bethesda is an off-the-grid destination.

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And if you've got what it takes to look after yourself, with a little help from some earthy friends, here are a few off-the-grid destinations that will take you in.

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Chowdhury, who formerly headed up IT for the Grameen Bank, describes what happened in off-the-grid Bangladeshi villages when her team put solar power and mobile technology into the hands of illiterate women.

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