Adventures in Sustainable Living
Episodes
276 episodes
#101 Mindfulness and Sustainability
In our modern culture we are at the point to where we cannot focus on any one thing without being distracted. Constant emails, text messages, notifications, phone calls, instagram, Facebook, coworkers, family, and friends. We no longer know how...
#100 Sustainability Summit
It is hard for me to believe that this is episode 100. It has taken me almost 2 years to get to this point and I am still going strong. Over the last 99 episodes I have covered a wide variety of topics. In this episode...
#099 Earth Overshoot Day
Years ago I used to work in a small veterinary practice in Conifer, Colorado. At the time this community was a very small and at lunch time I would walk up on the hill side and sit in a groove of old growth forest. It was quiet, very gree...
#098 Sustainable Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From Animals
If you focus at all on sustainability then you already know that the 3 pillars of sustainability are economic, environmental, and social, less formally referred to as people, planet, and profits. But in order for any of this to be f...
097 Climate Adaptation: Can We Do It?
As talks about climate change become increasingly serious, many of us are either weary of hearing about it, we are anxious about it, or we just do not know what to do. More and more often we hear this term “climate emergency” knowing very wel...
#096 How to Start a Homestead Part Two
In my first episode about homesteading I covered a variety of topics to help point you in the right direction. I did not talk much about the specifics of homesteading but I did lay the basic foundation for success. In this episode ...
#95 How to Start a Homestead Part One
I find it interesting that humanity has grown into a global community that is so interdependent that if one country suffers an environmental disaster, a financial collapse, massive crop failure, a water crises, or even a foreign invasion that i...
#094 Can the Entire World Thrive on Renewable Energy?
As you may well know, talks of climate change are becoming increasingly serious. Updates are in the news almost daily so it is difficult to ignore. Furthermore, there are some new books soon to be published on the topic that paint a pretty grim...
#093 Tips and Tricks for Eco-Friendly Camping
Spending time in the outdoors is by far one of my favorite things to do. That is why I love living in the middle of the forest. I can walk out my door and enjoy nature without ever leaving home. But, there are times when I do want to leav...
#092 The Science of Climate Change: Are We There Yet?
As most of you may know by now the discussions and concerns about climate change are becoming increasingly serious. Additionally, recent surveys in the United States and United Kingdom reveal that approximately 75% of us are concerned about it....
#091 Eco-Anxiety and How to Cope With It
You have likely heard me say before that we are in fact living in unprecedented times. We now live in a world that is changing so rapidly that even the most sound minded person is likely having trouble feeling some sense of security. <...
#090 Carbon Paw Prints: Sustainable Pet Ownership Part Two
Welcome back folks to the second episode on sustainable pet ownership. In part one I tried to get you prepared for the fact that the dogs and cats that we keep as pets do in many ways have a significant environmental impact. Mostly I talked abo...
#089 Carbon Paw Prints: Sustainable Pet Ownership Part One
For months now I’ve been focusing on the environmental impact of human activity, our lifestyles and our diet. But so far I have failed in one respect. I have failed to include the furry friends that we have and how they impact the environment a...
#88 Ten Myths and Misconceptions of Sustainable Living
By far the most common reaction I get when I talk about my off grid lifestyle is “You are crazy. How is it even possible to do that?” When I discuss sustainable living I get similar reactions such as it’s too difficult, it’s too expensive, or I...
#087 From Local to Global: Is Simplicity a Thing of the Past?
Truly there are few things simpler and more satisfying than walking out to your garden to pick the fresh produce that will be a part of your dinner. What is even better is picking fresh herbs from your garden that are packed with a tremendous f...
#086 Sustainability Trends for 2022
We now live in a world that is changing so rapidly that even the most sound minded person is certainly having trouble feeling some sense of security. And while that may be true, not all of the changes are necessarily bad. You have ...
#085 What Happened to Our Energy Security?
As you have likely heard me say before, sustainability is your best security blanket. But part of being sustainable is managing as many of your personal resources as possible. After all, as long as someone else is in control of your resources, ...
#084 The True Cost of Sustainable Living
For years I’ve heard complaints about how expensive it is to live off the grid. Now I hear all about how expensive it is to live sustainably. But is this really true? And even if it is, no matter what the cost, is our convenience really worth c...
#083 Thinking Upstream
I often marvel at the complexity and enormity of the natural world. Consider for a moment the Mississippi River. This river discharges almost 4.5 million gallons of water per second. But it doesn’t start out that way. I got to wonde...
#82 Walls, Weapons, and Wisdom
We pay our federal income taxes every year as a “price of civilization” and then we sit back and watch our government spend our tax dollars like an irresponsible teenager with a credit card. Furthermore I sit back and observe this m...
#081 Apathy, Optimism Bias, and Fossil of the Day
From time to time we have all been apathetic about something. meaning we are simply indifferent to what is going on around us. If left unaddressed, apathy can lead to significant consequences in our lives. But sometimes we are even informed of ...
#080 Household Hazardous Waste and How to Avoid It
Whenever someone mentions hazardous waste, you most likely think of big industry, or perhaps even radioactive material that is stored in some unknown place out of harms way. But unfortunately we commonly have numerous hazardous materials in our...
#079 Recycling Part Three: 6 Common Household Items and How to Recycle Them
Recycling is all about reducing the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. If you talk about recycling, most people instantly think about paper, plastic, glass, aluminum, and vegetable cans. However, there are a number of other things in ou...
#78 Recycling Part Two: We Need to Ditch Performative Environmentalism
With all the talk about going green, I look at some of the things we do and question if we are doing more harm than good. Now more than ever we use every “R” word in the book: reuse, recycle, regenerate, reclaim, reabsorb, recreate, and even mo...
#077 Recycling Part One: Recycling is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
In today’s world you would think that recycling would be one of those no brainers. But then again you would think that climate action would be a no brainer as well especially since we have known about climate change for over 125 years. But yet ...
