Adventures in Sustainable Living

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 124 How to Start Your Food Storage Plan     In this weeks episode I want to discuss a very important principle involving personal sustainability and self sufficiency. It is something very easy to do and it will give you a great deal of personal security. Yet this is something that most people over look especially in our modern cultu...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 123   Mastering the Sustainability Mindset       One to the fundamental principles related to being self sufficient is that first and foremost you have to accept that you are ultimately responsible for everything that you choose to do and everything that you choose not to do. The same is true when it comes to being sustain...

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 122   Working Together The Fastest Way to Our Green Transition     In the last few episodes I have discussed several topics relating to how our transition to a more sustainable economy will have a direct impact on everyone. These topics have included electric vehicles, an environmentally friendly economy, renewable energ...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 121   How Decarbonizing Will Affect Everyone of Us     Certainly by now we are all very familiar with the subject of climate change. We hear about it everyday. We witness extreme weather events on a regular basis. We see the devastation and loss of life and property.     I think we can all agree that climate change is...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 120   Why Do We Not Use More Renewable Energy?       The cost of solar energy has declined by more than 80% over the last 15 years. This is the very reason that my entire homestead has operated solely on solar energy for the last 6 years. Based on what my friends pay for electricity on a monthly basis, my solar electric sy...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 119   The Challenges of Transitioning to a Green Economy     It is one thing to say that we need to transition to a green economy and quite another to actually make it happen. While it seems as if everyone on the planet knows it needs to happen why is more not being done? Why is everyone still sitting on their hands.   &nb...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 118   Are Electric Vehicles All Their Cracked Up to Be       Every single thing we do produces some sort of environmental impact. The one area in our day to day lives that produces our largest footprint is how we travel. Personal vehicle ownership is common place around the world and vehicle travel has increased substantia...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 117 Are Carbon Offsets a Scam?     It makes me happy when I   hear more and more about the principles of zero waste, reducing carbon emissions, expansion of renewable energy, and the world moving toward a circular, sustainable economy.   While this is encouraging, I also think we need to once again pay close attention and not acc...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 116 Will Greening Ourselves Result in Extinction?   It always seems as if someone is out to make a profit at our expense. We are repeatedly told we need this product or that one. We are told the more we have the better. The more we buy the better because it is the source of our happiness.     Over the last two years our society and in...

  Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 115   Consumer Beware     Have you ever known a person that seemed to have a conspiracy theory about almost everything? Every little thing that happens, they jump to the conclusion that some government plot or sinister group is responsible.     But what if it turns out that some of these theories are true? What...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Episode 114 Sustainability Means Being a Better Star Thrower     From the deck of my cabin I have a nice view of the mountains to the north and the east. This is the most common direction from which storms will move in toward the cabin. As we watch the distant ridges slowly disappear into the clouds we often jokingly say “Here comes the dark cloud of doom...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 113 Clean, Green and Simple: Give Veggies a Chance     In todays world it is almost impossible for anyone to escape the impact of environmental issues, the possibility of resource depletion, climate change, and skyrocketing inflation. Most of us likely feel helpless to do anything about all that is going on in our world.   But the fir...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 112   The Sustainability Happiness Challenge     In my opinion underneath all the chaos of our modern life, many people crave a simpler existence. Yet our modern version of the good life is robbing us of our money, free time, personal security and even our underlying happiness.     I have long believed that a sustaina...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 111   The Way Forward: Redefining Progress and Prosperity     Our Earth is about 4 1/2 billion years old. After all this time, suddenly the Earth is under a tremendous amount of pressure, and it is us. This is because over the past century we have witnessed astounding growth in the human population.   Partially due to this...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 110 The Benefits of Slow Food     There is no doubt that the fast food industry has transformed the world. It affects how we eat, what we eat, our nutrition, and even our average body weight. The average American spends $2,375 per year on restaurant food. The global value of the fast food market in 2022 was $881 billion.   It is sad t...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 109 Fifteen Reasons to Go Solar     Did you know that solar power is the most abundant resource on Earth. Covering only 4% of the world’s desert areas with solar panels would produce enough electricity to power the entire planet. Yet it is still difficult for me to believe that anyone would malign a global transition to renewable energy. &...

There are many ways to live more sustainably, some easier than others. But one of the most valuable things you can do from the perspective of sustainability is composting. Many people are put off by this thought because they have this ill conceived idea that composting is a big mystery. Furthermore, people make all kinds of excuses as to why they do not compost such as “I don’t have room.” “It is...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 107 Adventures with Bears   Homestead living is just not for everyone, especially if you sort of live on the edge of the world so to speak. Just like anything else in life, there are good days and bad days, successes and failures.   But if you enjoy the privacy, semi-isolation, and general lack of people, it is fantastic. If you are afraid...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 106 Real World Ecological Recovery   In my last episode I talked a lot about the progress of humanity and how our own cleverness has placed our planetary life support system in jeopardy. While we were moving along in life congratulating ourselves on our achievements, we forgot to balance the budget. Fortunately there are a lot of very smart peo...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 105   Moral Ecology     Progress, progress, progress. So many things are justified in the name of progress. All too often we hail the forward motion of progress because it improves our lives somehow. Things are easier, services are less expensive, anything we want is at our fingertips any time we want.   But I would conten...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 103 Mother Nature is Weaponizing Water   There are now 8 billion people on planet Earth. Due to our varied interests, cultures, belief systems, and politics, it is obviously necessary to have rules and laws in order to keep the peace and ensure mutual cooperation. But regardless of this there is a very effective weapon that can be used to accom...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 103   Nature Finds a Way: Life Without Humans       On several occasions I have pointed out that the environment would be just fine without people but people would not be okay without the environment. This begs the question of whether or not humanity is actually beneficial to the planet or are we just another invasive spec...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 102   Building with Nature     What if I told you that sometimes the sand on the beach is nothing more than piles of fish poop and dead animals. I wonder if that would reduce the statistics on how many people enjoy using the beach.     Another thing that most people do not know is that due to several factors, there is...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 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 to actually be present in our own lives. We...

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast   Episode 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 I want to simply review some of the more popular episodes...