Adventures in Sustainable Living

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 174 Habits for Success: The Little Things Make a Difference   Have you ever wondered why people spend so much time on social media and then get depressed because they compare and despair? Have you ever wondered why 75% of our population feels that it is important to focus on living a sustainable life but they never take the time or put out the...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 173 How to Vote with Your Dollars   You have likely heard me say that our choices make changes. This is because our choices drive the market place. Now you may not think that your individual choices can make a difference. But, it is the cumulative results of the individual choices of the 7.8 billion people on this planet that has gotten us to w...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 172 Would 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 machine but surely we all have a concept of what it is and what it does. And even though not all of us have taken a chemistry class, we have some concept of a chemical concoction? But do you know wh...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 171 Simple Rules Are All We Need    I so often marvel at the complexity of our society.   It seems as if things were so much simpler when I was a kid. Even when I first moved to Colorado and was working a construction job, life was pretty simple. Now it seems as if there are rules, rules, rules and so many other things that complicate...

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 170 The Cost of Convenience   Few people would believe that I lived without running water and electricity for over 15 years. But I can tell you from first hand experience when you live that way it changes how you think.   But the same is true with our modern conveniences. It changes how we think, or should I say don’t think. We no l...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast     Episode 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 in some countries as much as 80% of the populat...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 168 Can We Live Without Trees     How many times per day do you walk by a tree and never give it any thought. It is almost as if we take trees for granted. They have always been there and we never think that there may come a time when they are gone.   From my previous episode you may remember how many trees we use versus how many we p...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 167   How to Go Paperless   Most people never realize that paper usage is directly related to a nation’s wealth. The US and most European countries rank the highest in the world for paper usage. And this of course has a significant impact on the environment. Although it is impossible to calculate just how many trees are cut down eac...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 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.     It is so easy to speak of fair...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 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.     Despite the many advantage...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 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 who had numerous health problems, w...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 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 ever before. And there are several reasons for this. &nb...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 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 few things provide more security t...

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 supermarket trips and how do I now save so much money. My success is a matter of growing a lot of things at home, having access to organic game meat, and being very...

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 instantly accessible.    But in our modern culture the average person is no longer self reliant nor do they see the need to live that way. But I wou...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 159 The Rising Demand for 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 tend to focus my attention on entirely different things th...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 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...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 157 A Cultural Transition: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know     Throughout human existence there have been several significant transitions which have truly defined our history. Although these transitions have often improved our standard of living such things have always been met with resistance. This is because typica...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 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 responsible for our very survival. Hopefully by now we all realize the need to change a lot of the basic things in our lives that we take for granted. In other wo...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 155 The Nine Planetary Boundaries Part Two Living on the Brink   Welcome back everyone to the Nine Planetary Boundaries Part Two. In last week’s episode we discussed the nine boundaries that we as humans need to operate within in order to live sustainably and thrive.     It is becoming painfully obvious that due to our rapid populatio...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 153 The Road to Seven Billion: Should We Limit Human Population?     I bet you never really thought of an animal as being a consumer? And yet they are. They graze or hunt on a place, eat and consume what they need or what is available and then they move on. But the key word here is available resources because that is an important factor th...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 153 The Road to Seven Billion: Should We Limit Human Population?     I bet you never really thought of an animal as being a consumer? And yet they are. They graze or hunt on a place, eat and consume what they need or what is available and then they move on. But the key word here is available resources because that is an important factor th...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 152   Regenerative Agriculture Explained   Did you ever think that maybe we should have left things alone? Surely you have heard the phrase, “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”   These are the sorts of things I think about and the sorts of questions I ask when I look at many things going on in our modern world. Granted our advances in...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 151 Meat Money: Why Do We Still Have Factory Farming?     In last weeks episode I discussed how important it is for us to know the origin of our food. Such knowledge empowers us to not only make healthier choices about what we eat but also to make choices that supports a sustainable food supply.   That said, far too many of us are sti...

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 150 Have You Ever Heard a Cow Moo?   Self sufficiency and sustainability are hot topics these days. But when I was growing up in Tennessee and Georgia there were two working farms in my family. We never really spoke about self sufficiency or sustainability because it was simply how we lived day to day. In fact, I have no memory of eating...