Adventures in Sustainable Living
Episodes
276 episodes
#076 How to Thrive Outside of Mainstream
Living sustainably is really truly nothing new. Yet because our modern culture has warped our way of thinking and sense of values, most people think of it as an “alternative lifestyle”. When the reality is that living sustainably should be cons...
#075 Can We Change Human Instincts?
My niece, who by the way is wickedly intelligent and artistic, recently pointed something out to me that I’d never thought of before. Her observation of humanity is that we are nothing more than a huge evolutionary experiment. Not only that, bu...
#074 Growing the Next World Wonder
Unless you are particularly interested in Earth’s history, most people do not think in terms of a geological time scale. This is because geological time is measured in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. This corresponds to anything from 1 bi...
#073 Tips and Tricks for Living Small
I mentioned in E67 that our homes account for approximately 30% of our ecological impact. I have also mentioned before that most of us can live on much less than what we do. Helping you to accomplish just that is the focus of this three part se...
#072 What No One Tells You About Living Small
In my last episode I spoke about the pros and cons of living small. I talked about how it is more affordable, how you can live without a mortgage, how you can simplify your life, how it is possible to be debt free. While all of that may sound a...
#071 The Pros and Cons of Living Small
Part of the focus of sustainable living is being mindful of the impact you have on the world around you. As you have no doubt heard me say, every single thing we do has some sort of impact. But there are numerous ways to reduce our individual e...
#070 Life Without Plastic Part Two/ Homemade Products
Despite our best efforts to rid our lives of plastic and reduce plastic pollution, there is the possibility that we may loose, meaning plastics may actually win out and we have to deal with this problem forever. But we have to remind ourselves ...
#069 Life Without Plastic Part One/The No Brainers
We are often told to reduce our waste production, conserve water, recycle, eat less meat, drive less, convert to renewable energy, and thus be more sustainable. The challenge is that a great deal of the time we are not given easily accessible, ...
#068 It All Starts At Home: How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Part III
One of the most common questions I hear is "How to I reduce my carbon footprint?" In the first two episodes of this three part series I covered how we travel and how we live. In this episode I am going to focus on what we eat. Our a...
#67 It All Starts at Home: How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Part II
One of the most common questions I hear regarding sustainability is “How can I reduce my carbon footprint?” The answer to that question is not the same for everyone. For example, a sherpa in Nepal that spends his time taking people up Mount Eve...
#066 It All Starts At Home: How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Part I
As the result of my association with several groups and forums focused on sustainability I have begun to see trends in the types of questions that people ask. One of the most common questions that comes up is “How do I reduce my carbon footprin...
#065 Blue Foods May Be the Green Future
There is no doubt that our daily diet plays a major role in our environmental impact. Our choices of the food that we consume on a daily basis does make a difference. But the good news is that even small changes can add up to significant enviro...
#064 What's Cookin' With Synthetic Meat
We already know that agricultural activities produce some of our greatest environmental impact. Yet some sort of agriculture is needed in order to produce food because we are beyond the point of hunting and gathering. World population is expect...
#63 One Simple Thing Can Change the World
There are several things that I can look back on and definitively say that those things changed the course of my life. For example decisions and choices I made, unexpected events, simply being in the right place at the right time, and sometimes...
#062 Pick One
I think we can all agree that we truly live in unprecedented times. We now live in a world that is changing so rapidly that it is difficult for even the most sound minded person to feel some since of security. But that can change b...
#061 Twelve Tips for Sustainable Travel
Over the past year or so, many of our normal activities have been put on hold. But that is starting to change, albeit slowly. If you are at all like me, you want to simply get out of the house and go do something, possibly even travel. But as t...
#060 The Value of Reconnecting with Nature
In 1950 less than 65 percent of Americans lived in cities. But presently nearly 83% of us live in or around a major city. And this trend is remarkably similar on a global scale. By 2050, it is projected that nearly 70% of the global population ...
#059 Climate Migration Has Begun
Since the founding of St. Augustine, Florida by Spanish colonist in 1565, and the establishment of the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, America has always been viewed as the land of opportunity.Economic opportunit...
#058 Twelve Unexpected Consequences of Climate Change
Did you know there is a direct link between our melting polar ice caps and increased volcanic activity? There is also a link between shrinking buffalo, faster growing trees, and fewer tasty beers coming out of Belgium. And why is the King Crab ...
#057 Life According to the Weather
Did you know that you can calculate the atmospheric temperature by using a cricket? Yes it is true and I can even give you the formula if you like. But did you also know that dogs can sense a coming storm? Did you know that sharks can sense an ...
#56 Stop Eating C.R.A.P.
I actually have no memory of eating store bought meat until I was 18 years old. This is because there were two working farms in my family. We had a large garden and raised a lot of animals. There were numerous fruit and nut trees on the f...
#055 Faith in Humanity
Since this is the holiday season, I want to diverge a little bit from my usual format but still of course focus on the principles of sustainability.The three pillars of sustainability are economy, society and environment, which can also ...
#054 How to Have a Sustainable Christmas
Some of my best childhood memories revolve around holiday celebrations. The holidays were always a time of great excitement and anticipation. They were about family, fun, lots of good food and, of course, Santa Claus. But as I have ...
#053 The Dirty Details of Paper Towels
As Americans, we use more paper towels than any country in the world. In fact, in 2017 we spent $5.7 billion on paper towels. But, we do this as simply a matter of convenience. But this is a habit that is enormously detrimental to t...
#052 Your Carbon Footprint is Just a Sham
If you have listened to some of my previous episodes, then you have heard me say more than once that preventing a single piece of trash from going to the landfill is not going to save the planet. But, a lifetime of sustainable habits will. ...
