[1] His book How To Live Off-Grid,[2] 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 website Off-Grid.net started in 1996.
In the early nineties, Nick became a freelance journalist, primarily writing for The Times and The Guardian.
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.