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Thousands of people around the world live 'off-the-grid'. See how this community does it

Driven by concerns about personal environmental impact, many of us might try to live more sustainably. But some people take it a step further - aiming to become self-sufficient by going ‘off-the-grid,’ and living communally. First emerging in the 1940s then popularized in the 1960s by the hippy movement, commune living is on the rise. CNN went to one such intentional community in Wales, UK, to find out what it’s like.

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