gradual transition

[Jim Morash <jmorash at MIT dot EDU>]

Hi folks,
I'm currently living in an apartment in cambridge, MA. I'd like to start
making a gradual transition to semi-autonomous living, and some ideas I
had included

-buy a solar panel and a car battery and try and rig up a solar-based,
 off-grid lighting system preferably using LED-based lights

-put together a small greenhouse/garden on the flat roof above my top
 floor apartment

-do some at-home composting

any web resources, offhand, for such projects?

jmorash at mit dot edu
http://web.mit.edu/jmorash/www
MIT Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory