Ray Lovegrove

Radical Simple Living

Education EN ↓ 70 episodes

This is not a podcast about "how" to live simply, but "why" live simply. My aim is to show how the act of simple living can make your life, and the environment we all live in much better! We can all be homesteaders if we live in an appartement, a suburban house, or a rural plot!

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Ray Lovegrove

Episodes

Episode 20: Ten Stepping Stones to help you on your way to Simpler Living! 27.02.2023 34:19

Making your life more simple may involve you in making small steps in the right direction. These ten points are the stepping stones that will help you on your way to that personal revolution!

Episode 19: Simple Eating - it's much more important than you think! 23.02.2023 34:29

Why discuss eating when we live in such a troubled world? Because only by eating in the calm are we ready to face the storms!

Episode 18: You can't always get what you want - so how do we do things now? 19.02.2023 35:04

In these difficult times it's hard to know how to make ends meet, and how to get what we need. In considering this dilemma we need to develop a little stoicism, and have some practical solutions! (We might even save some money.)

Episode 17: Remember, you don't have to do what everyone else is doing! 14.02.2023 34:30

How do you define a nonconformist? Do you consider yourself to be one? Do you have to be a nonconformist to embrace radical simple living?

Episode 16: Growing food outdoors - some big ideas about small places! 08.02.2023 34:06

Whatever, and wherever you have the use of some land you can grow some food. Help feed your family, help reduce the stress on your pocket, help save the planet! Advice for large rural plots and urban homesteads. https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/

Episode 15: Joining up the Dots - Using the parts of your life to reveal the complete picture. 03.02.2023 31:12

Living a simple life is much easier when we join up the components into a full, and more rewarding whole. If your life feels more 'Jekyll and Hyde' than 'Little House on the Prairie', here is how to make that change!

Episode 14: Producing Food with no Land! (Or if you have land and want to produce even more!) 30.01.2023 41:44

Even if you live in an apartment with no garden you can still produce a lot of food! if you do have a garden this episode has ideas about producing even more! https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/2022/09/growing-food-with-no-land.html

Episode 13: Limiting Factors - some of the things that are stopping you from living a simple life. 27.01.2023 40:10

We all want to do things, but obstacles get in the way and stop us from making progress. In this episode we explore some of the circumstances that are stopping you from living a radically simple life.

Episode 12: Heritage Skills - things that your grandparents could do, but you can not ! 23.01.2023 32:54

We all use skills every day, but radical simple living needs us to reach back in time and pick up some of those skills from the past. We don't know what the future holds, so we need to be ready for anything!

Episode 11: Shopping II - your money, your power, your choice! 19.01.2023 33:09

The real power of your money lies in what you choose to do with it! Buying secondhand clothing, furniture, crockery, cutlery, computers, phones and tools. You can help the planet in four ways when you buy secondhand! https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/

Episode 10: Shopping I - Can a trip to the supermarket really be a radical act? 15.01.2023 35:49

However self-sufficient, or not, we may be, all of us need to do some shopping, possibly a lot of shopping over time. How can we ensure that our aim of simplicity in reflected in what we put in our trolley? Shopping, part one, focusses on food. Stay simple and save money! https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/

Episode 9: Personal Revolution - what is it and have you had one yet? 11.01.2023 3:00

Before you build a pyramid you need to have a strong base. Your simple life needs a strong base, that's where the personal revolution comes in.

Episode 8: Homesteading, time to make that term more inclusive! 08.01.2023 33:15

If your home is not only the place you live, but also the place you might grow some food, keep animals, cook from scratch, make some of your own clothing, do carpentry or maybe work on arts and crafts, then you are a homesteader already!

Episode 7: Only Connect, or is that the right thing to do? 02.01.2023 33:25

We will come into contact with others following the simple living path, but do they believe in the same things as us? Why was Susan B Anthony wrong, and what about her sniffing dogs?

Episode 6: Living in harmony with clock and calendar. Time is on your side. 26.12.2022 36:49

To live a simple life, you need to be in harmony with time. Days, weeks, months, seasons, and years, work with them and simplicity follows. Find out what Tages taught us!

Episode 5: Putting ourselves in context, and being honest about it. 19.12.2022 36:43

We discuss why people are tuning to simple living, and ask, has this hapened before? Talk of Diggers, kings, cats, crofters and Mennonites. Are we being honest about simple living? Can you improve your skills?

Episode 4: How can you move forward if you don't know which direction you're heading in? 12.12.2022 31:29

The first thing to explore in any simple life is not what you do, but who you are!

Episode 3: Technology, should we embrace it or reject it for a simple life? 05.12.2022 38:26

Technology can help us in working towards a more simple life. But, how do we decide when to use technology, and when to avoid it. My needs in the forest are examined, so are lessons from the Amish and Arthur the Ardvark! https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/

Episode 2: Is simple living really going to have any effect? Am I making any difference? 29.11.2022 33:54

A little more about the man in the woods. Two words we use, but what do we mean by them, radical and minimalist. Do they mean what we thinḳ̣? The main part of the podcast looks at if simple living really has an effect, or is it just time wasting. Examples given of life in the city and life in the countryside, can simply living really work in all situations?

Episode 1: Where did all these ideas about simple living come from? 25.11.2022 35:13

Discussion of radical simple living, what is it, why should we consider it as a lifestyle option. Where did it all come from and will it help us?