Adventures in Sustainable Living

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast E224 Can AI Put Us on the Path to Sustainability?   New things, the unexpected, circumstances out of our control and any sort of change are all things than can make us a bit uneasy. Perhaps it is nothing more than fear of the unknown. We feel as if we will lose something or maybe we will lose our present lifestyle all together. One thing is certain. Ch...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 223 Incorporating Renewable Energy in Your Everyday Life   When we sit in a beautiful, quiet place to watch the sunrise most people are taking in the beauty and perhaps having a meditative moment and appreciating nature. Then we go about our day never really thinking much about the power of the sun. Maybe we’re just thankful it comes up everyda...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 222 Ready Made Meals: A Fresh, Convenient Approach to Meal Prep   In today’s world most people want everything fast and convenient. That includes the food we eat and especially how we prepare it. Such a desire for convenience is exactly what gave rise to prepackaged and microwave foods. Unfortunately, most of these foods are highly processed an...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 221 Can We Save the Planet By Planting Trees?   More and more frequently these days we are reaching for ways to reduce and reverse the effects of climate change. Perhaps this is because talks of climate change are becoming increasingly serious. Although we have known about this for over 100 years, the inevitable is finally getting our attention...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 220 My Homestead Do-Over: How Would I Do Things Differently? Certainly most of us have looked back on specific accomplishments in our lives and asked the question “If I had to do this all over again, how would I do it differently?, or Knowing what I know today, how would I have done this differently? Having the personality that I do, I am always que...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 219 Redefining the Modern Homestead   Self sufficiency, tiny homes, sustainability, renewable energy, or simple self reliance, are all things we hear about more and more these days. Personally I am happy to see this level of interest in self reliant living because it is the focus of so much of my life. While its exciting to talk about theses th...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 218 Finding Your Personal Path to Self Reliance   Certainly we all remember the time in our lives when we were kids and told our parents how we couldn’t wait until we were all grown up. We thought all about being independent, making our own decisions, going where we wanted when we wanted. We just couldn’t wait to be independent, self reliant, a...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast E217 How to Choose a Sustainable Place to Live   Given the world we live in today, you may be having thoughts of living in some remote place to get away from it all. But as romantic as it may sound, running off into the wilderness and living off the land may not be the best option. You simply may not be able to sustain yourself long-term unless you are...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 216  The Sustainability Question: Urban vs Rural Living   How and where we live are some of the biggest and most important choices that we all have to make in our adult lives. When choosing a place to live we have to consider availability of amenities, how far we have to travel for work and school, entertainment options and even the availa...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 215 Eight Lifestyle Changes with the Biggest Impact. Skipping the plastic straw may make you feel good about yourself, but its not enough. While every small change we make is truly a contribution to the big picture, we need to make substantial changes in how we live and what we do if we are going to truly reduce our personal impact on the planet. Wh...

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 214 Twelve Single Use Plastics You Can Eliminate From Your Life Right Now   There is no doubt that we often find ourselves swimming in a sea of information about the questionable future of our planet. Big business and big government, while suppling us with most of our basic resources, continue to destroy the planet. More and more people...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 213 Should We Really Ban Plastic Straws?   Public opinion swings back and forth like a pendulum. That is why I never pay attention to it. But occasionally I see something that gets my attention because I get curious as to why people are suddenly so concerned about that one particular thing. This is the case with the plastic straw. Depending on...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 212 Is Choice Overload the Bane of Our Existence?   The only chips I purchase on a regular basis is tortilla chips. It is because I make my own salsa. But when I go to the supermarket, there are literally 15 different brands of tortilla chips. But the same is true with so many other things that we deal with everyday.   From supermarket foo...

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 211 Nine Actions You Can Take to Benefit the Global Community   Like it or not our lives are now a product of globalization. The cost of our fuel, the food on our tables, the clothes we wear, and even our household gadgets are subject to the conditions of the world market. It is now possible for a drought, a natural disaster, a financial...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 210 Ten Ways to Grow Your Own Food   As you well know one of my favorite topics is self sufficiency. Most likely this is because I am a strongly independent person and very motivated to take care of myself. I truly do not want to depend too heavily on any societal system to provide me with my personal needs. Additionally I grew up in a rural ar...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 209 Avoiding the Trappings of Modern Society   Someone said to me once that you should never forget the power of a good conversation. Yet in our fast-paced hyper-connected world we are losing touch with this vital part of human communication. We are also losing our focus on the things that really matter because we are constantly distracted. We...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 208 The 30 Year Mortgage is Not Your Friend   In today’s culture, borrowing money and making purchases on credit is a way of life. It is the only way most of us are able to afford the “big ticket” items. In fact, many of us could not fathom how our lives would function if we were not able to utilize the credit system.  We borrow money, mak...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 208 The Most Sustainable Workplace: Your Home   It can literally be overwhelming when you consider the concept and scope of our current global problems. The far reaching effects of our environmental changes and the challenges we face seem insurmountable. One of the biggest challenges we face of course is climate change. While I do we believe we...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 206 How to Be the Best Version of Yourself   There are many aspects to the concept of sustainability and having a regenerative lifestyle. As you could most likely guess, the planet would be just fine without people. But without people there is no culture and no economy. However, our modern economy has largely lead us down the wrong path. Consum...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 205 Rethinking Society: Are You a Consumer or a Citizen?   All the head lines we hear and see these days are about disasters, wars, new diseases, climate change, ecological decline, and anything else that has to do with how the world is coming to an end. And guess what? They are all true. Truly we are facing some rather complex global challenge...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 204 What Can We Do to Phase Out Fossil Fuels?   We already know that our planet is in trouble due to the indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels. Climate change is obvious. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. Due to warming temperatures Arctic regions are now greening. Shifts in rainfall is even greening massive areas of the Sahar...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 203 Do We Even Know if the World Worth Saving? Under normal circumstances, life can be over whelming at times. Managing time, money, family, work, the daily commute, and the mortgage, all takes its toll. And on top of that the world seems to be falling apart around us.   But how can we possibly worry about that when the roof needs to be fixed?...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 202 Change Yourself and Change the World   By now it should be no surprise that our world is facing significant challenges. Climate change, widespread pollution, forever chemicals, biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline is just the tip of our melting icebergs. Numerous people from scientists to scholars and even individuals have been sounding...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 201 Food Recalls and How to Avoid Them Despite the fact that it’s been years since I’ve watched network television, I pursue the new once a week. It is the only way I keep track of what is going on in the world. Over the last year, whenever I sit to review world events, there seems to be yet another food recall in the news. And all of these recalls...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 200 Sustainability Summit 102 After covering quite a variety of topics over the last 100 episodes there are several things that clearly stand out. Sustainability is about people, planet and profits. It   has a lot to do with being mindful about how you live as well as having the right mindset.   I truly think we humans have a moral obligat...