Patrick Keith

Adventures in Sustainable Living

Science EN ↓ 274 episodes

There is one thing you will hear me say again and again. As long as someone else is in control of your resources, they are in fact in control of your life. Consequently, my solution to that problem was to develop a sustainable, self reliant lifestyle. Not only that, but I’ve lived off the grid for more than 20 years. This podcast is not only about sustainable living it is also about teaching you to take more control over your life by being in control of many of your resources. It is possible to live a life without debt, produce much of your own food, have much more personal freedom, as well as...

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Patrick Keith

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#024 Never Cry Wolf 23.05.2021 29:07

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 24   Never Cry Wolf     Hello everyone and welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #23 title Never Cry Wolf   In this episode I want to talk about how, as humans we have the tendency to destroy things that are in the way of what we view as “progress”. Firs...

#023 Waste Not, Want Not, Pollute Not 16.05.2021 31:27

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 23   Waste Not, Want Not, Pollute Not     Hello everyone and welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #23 titled Waste Not, Want Not, Pollute Not   In the United States, as much as 40% of the food we produce actually goes to waste. Now that is an astounding...

Are We Recycling or Wishcycling: Who is to Blame. 09.05.2021 26:02

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 22   Are We Recycling of Wishcycling?   Hello everyone and welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode # 22 called Are We Recycling or Wish-cycling: Who is to Blame   I want to start this episode by asking a simple question. Have you ever taken the blame for someth...

Is Sustainable Air Travel Just an Illusion 02.05.2021 35:47

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 21   Is Sustainable Air Travel An Illusion?     Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode number 21 called Is Sustainable Air Travel an Illusion?   The first commercial airline flight took off on January 1, 1914. It flew from St Petersburg, Fl to Ta...

A Good Country 25.04.2021 29:27

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 20   A Good Country   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #20 title A Good Country.     I want to start this episode by asking a simple question. If you were told you had to live in a different country from now until the rest of your life, whe...

The True Impact of Fair Trade 18.04.2021 28:48

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 19   The True Impact of Fair Trade     Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #19 called   The True Impact of Fair Trade     After my last episode titled Choices Make Changes; What is a Sustainable Product and How to Find Them, I though...

Choices Make Changes: What is a Sustainable Product and How to Find Them 05.04.2021 29:28

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 18   Choices Make Changes/What is a Sustainable Product and How to Find Them   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #18 which is titled Choices Make Changes: What is a Sustainable Product and How to Find Them.     First out of the gate, I have...

Take Extinction Off Your Plate 05.04.2021 30:16

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 17   Take Extinction Off Your Plate   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #17 which is called Take Extinction Off Your Plate.     You may find it interesting that scientist have a better understanding of how many stars there are in our galaxy...

Back From the Land 22.03.2021 26:57

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 15   Back From the Land   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcasts. This is your host Patrick and this is Episode #15 titled Back From the Land.     I guess a more appropriate title would be Back from the Land: Why the Back TO the Land Movement Failed and What Are the Important Lessons Learned...

Don't Grow Up-It's a Trap 20.03.2021 20:14

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 16   Don’t Grow Up, It’s a Trap   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is Episode #16 titled Don’t Grow Up It’s a Trap.     Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you had stayed a child? What would it be like if you could go back to having no res...

The New Self Sufficiency-Doing Without 07.03.2021 33:35

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 14   The New Self Sufficiency-Doing Without   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures is Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #14 titled The New Self Sufficiency-Doing Without.     In this episode, I want to share with you how over a 5 year period of time I went from $295K in deb...

Fast and Fatal 02.03.2021 36:45

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 13   Fast and Fatal   Welcome back everyone to the Adventures in Sustainable Living podcast. This is your host Patrick, this is episode number 13, titled Fast and Fatal.     Unfortunately, I think we are all familiar, at least from a historical prospective, with the term genocide. And if you are listening to this episode a...

Self Sufficiency is Impossible-and Essential 27.02.2021 29:24

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 12   Self Sufficiency is Impossible-And Essential     True self sufficiency is impossible-yet it is essential. In many ways self sufficiency is directly connected to sustainability. But again, true self sufficiency is also impossible to attain. So, how do we get around that?     When I was growing up in north Georgia...

#011 A Simple Act of Kindness 22.02.2021 27:19

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 11   A Simple Act of Kindness   Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is Episode #11 titled A Simple Act of Kindness.   In this episode, I am going to tell you up front that I may hurt your feelings. I may get under your skin. I may make you really angry...

A Bottle of Deception 17.02.2021 34:48

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 10   A Bottle of Deception   Hello everyone and welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living podcast. This is your host Patrick and this is episode #10 which is called A Bottle of Deception.     For those of you that know me, you know very well that I spend a lot of time outdoors. I go hiking, camping, backpacking,...

#009 Nature is Worthless 08.02.2021 32:44

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 9   Nature is Worthless   Hello everyone and welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick. The title of this episode is “Nature is Worthless”.   I want to start this episode with a story about a 7 year old boy that used to shine shoes in a small airport in Ecuador. He lived in the Amaz...

008 Our Off Grid Sustainable Family 25.01.2021 27:20

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 8   Our Off Grid Sustainable Family   Hello everyone. And welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is episode number eight, which is titled Our Off-Grid Sustainable Family.   Now, I just wanted to start this episode by telling you a story about how I actually built my first log cabin when I was...

A Culture of Change 12.01.2021 28:40

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 07   A Culture of Change   Okay folks, welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is Episode 7, which is called A Culture of Change.     Now you may be wondering where the heck I am going with the podcast.   And if you are still with me up to this point, that is fantastic. I greatly appreciate...

The One Basic Principle of Sustainability 27.12.2020 31:36

    Adventures in Sustainable Living   Episode 6   The One Basic Principle of Sustainability   Hello everyone. This is your host Patrick Keith. This is the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast and this is Episode #6. This episode is called The One Basic Principle of Sustainability.       Now if you listen in long enough, I will give you one simple princi...

12 Steps to a Zero Waste Lifestyle. 14.12.2020 31:49

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 5 Twelve Steps to a Zero Waste Lifestyle   Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast. This is your host Patrick Keith and this is episode #5 called 12 Steps to a Zero Waste Lifestyle. And I have to say that I am particularly excited to bring you this episode because once again, during my research I truly l...

Alternatives to a Consumer Society 08.12.2020 33:42

Adventures in Sustainable Living   Episode 4   Alternatives to a Consumer Society   Hello everyone Welcome back to the Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   This is your host Patrick and this is Episode #4   Which is called Alternatives to a Consumer Society or Maybe it should be called How to Break Away from a Consumer Society.     Now, just for a quick rec...

How Much Should One Person Be Allowed to Use 29.11.2020 50:09

This episode is focused on our consumer culture, the affects that it has on all of us  , as well as the environment.  In the end I point out how this type of culture is just not sustainable.  In summary, here is what will be discussed: 1) The rise of consumerism 2) The pros and cons of a consumer society 3) How the consumer culture got us where we are today 4) How the consumer cultu...

The Most Sustainable Countries 16.09.2020 1:04:35

002-The Most Sustainable Countries_FINAL - 9-13-20 5.12 PM [00:00:00] Welcome to the adventures and sustainable living podcast. Your host has lived an off-grid sustainable lifestyle for over 20 years. His homestead is run on solar energy. It has an earth shelter, greenhouse and produces much of his own food. And all of this takes place in the middle of the forest and Colorado. Now let's join Patri...

Introductory Episode to Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast 29.07.2020 21:12

This episode is an introduction to the podcast. I introduce myself and discuss how I practice what I teach. I grew up with two working farms and presently live a sustainable off  the grid life on a full time basis. This means I not only discuss sustainable living, it is how I live every day. I also discuss what my listeners have to look forward to in up coming episodes. The topic of sustainab...