Adventures in Sustainable Living
Episodes
276 episodes
176_A Green Foot Forward: Overcoming the Roadblocks to Sustainable Living Part II
During the time that humans have existed on this planet, we have gone through multiple transitions. Each of those transitions have changed the course of humanity and ultimately improved our standard of living. It has also made our lives just a ...
175_A Green Foot Forward: Overcoming the Roadblocks to Sustainable Living Part I
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 175A Green Foot Forward: Overcoming the Roadblocks to Sustainable LivingIf you happen to have in-depth training or knowledge in a particular area it is ea...
174-Tips for Success: The Little Things Make the Difference
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 174Habits for Success: The Little Things Make a DifferenceHave you ever wondered why people spend so much time on social media and then get depres...
#173 How to Vote with Your Dollars
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 173How to Vote with Your DollarsYou have likely heard me say that our choices make changes. This is because our choices drive the market place....
172 Would We Be Naked Without Synthetic Fabrics?
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 172Would We Be Naked Without Synthetic Fabrics?What exactly is a Spinning Jennie? Have you even heard of it? Few people these days own a sewing...
171 Simple Rules Are All We Need
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 171Simple Rules Are All We NeedI so often marvel at the complexity of our society. It seems as if things were so much simple...
170 The Cost of Convenience
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 170The Cost of ConvenienceFew people would believe that I lived without running water and electricity for over 15 years. But I can tell you fro...
#169 To Whom Much Is Given
We live in a culture of over abundance. Unless you travel abroad, most of us have no concept of the level of poverty in the world. Yet 9.2% of the worlds population live on $2.15 a day. On a global basis 1.1 billion people live in poverty and i...
#168 Can We Live Without Trees?
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 168Can We Live Without TreesHow many times per day do you walk by a tree and never give it any thought. It is almost as if we take t...
#167 Fourteen Tips on How to Go Paperless
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 167How to Go PaperlessMost people never realize that paper usage is directly related to a nation’s wealth. The US and mos...
#166 The Disconnect Between Justice and Sustainability
The three pillars of sustainability are environment, economic and social. Less formally these pillars are known as people, planet and profits. Knowing this, I do think that we fail at supporting a vital part of these three pillars.
#165 14 Things You Never Knew About Grocery Store Produce
As you likely know by now I am a big fan of having a garden and producing as much of my own food as possible. It is the best way to be certain I am consuming fresh organic produce. Not to mention it saves me a considerable amount of money. ...
#164 How to Detox Your Home
Did you know that there are now approximately 150 chemicals in our homes that are connected to allergies, birth defects, psychological disorders as well as cancer. And this is actually old news. I have now met three different people...
#163 How Self Reliance Builds Self Confidence
If so often hear the question “What is the world coming to these days?” And while I would contend that the world is not coming to anything other than what the world has always been coming to, I do think that people are more fearful today than e...
#162 Tips and Tricks for Container Gardening
Being sustainable often means providing a certain amount of things for yourself. Providing for yourself also has the added benefit of increasing your personal independence. A certain amount of independence also means more personal security. And...
#161 Don't Pitch It Out! Plant It!
There was a time when I went to the supermarket three to four times per week. Now I go maybe twice a month. It is astounding how much I used to spend on groceries compared to what I spend now. So how exactly did I drastically reduce my su...
#160_How We Are Losing Our Self Reliance and How We Can Get It Back
With working farms in my family self-reliance was not something we talked about because it was just how we lived. Presently because the homestead is somewhat isolated, a certain degree of self reliance is mandatory simply because help is not in...
#159 The Rising Demand in Sustainable Food
As you have likely heard me say before, I do not tend to pay a lot of attention to the trends of society and public opinion. This is because such things swing like a pendulum right along with our values. Additionally most of the time I t...
#158 One Nature One Future: The Five Biggest Threats to Our Natural World
Most likely you do not know that it was the discovery and manipulation of fire that was the first step in humanity’s separation from nature. Among many other things fire enabled humans to use biomass as a source of fuel. Eventually our comfort ...
#157_A Cultural Transition: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 157A Cultural Transition: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to KnowThroughout human existence there have been several significant transitions which have truly defined ...
#156 Ten Steps to Net Zero: Can We Do It?
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 156 Ten Steps to Net Zero: Can We Do It?In the last two episodes I talked a lot about how as a global community we are over stepping the planetary boundaries that are ...
#155_Nine Planetary Boundaries Part Two: Living Beyond the Brink
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 155The Nine Planetary Boundaries Part TwoLiving on the BrinkWelcome back everyone to the Nine Planetary Boundaries Part Two. In l...
#154: The Nine Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humans
Adventures in Sustainable Living PodcastEpisode 154Nine Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humans Over the period of 5 decades we have added 4 billion people to our planet. By 2020 ou...
