Adventures in Sustainable Living
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 increased personal security and peace of mind. So join me as I discuss diverse topics associated with sustainable living, off grid living, and share some of my hilarious and sometimes incredible adventures. My goal is to make you realize that you can also have a wonderful sustainable life that is adventurous, enjoyable, challenging, and rewarding. I will also make you question why you live the way you do now. Besides this podcast, I have a companion blog at www.offgridlivingnews.com Enjoy!!!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 247
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#167 Fourteen Tips on How to Go Paperless
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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 …
#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 vi…
#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 …
#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 ha…
#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 th…
#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 indepe…
#161 Don't Pitch It Out! Plant It!
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 ho…
#160_How We Are Losing Our Self Reliance and How We Can Get It Back
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 relian…
#159 The Rising Demand in 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 val…
#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…
#157_A Cultural Transition: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
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Episode 157
A Cultural Transition: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
Throughout human existence there have been several significant transiti…
#156 Ten Steps to Net Zero: Can We Do It?
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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 boun…
#155_Nine Planetary Boundaries Part Two: Living Beyond the Brink
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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 …
#154: The Nine Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humans
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Episode 154
Nine Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humans
Over the period of 5 decades we have added 4 billion people to our planet. By 2020 our …
#153 The Road to 7 Billion: Should We Limit Human Population?
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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…
#152 Regenerative Farming Explained
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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 br…
#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 t…
#150 Have You Ever Heard a Cow Moo?
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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 ther…
#149 A Time of Gratitude
After the last two episodes where I gave you nothing but good news about our world, I have decided to continue on that trend. I have often said that if everyone in the world could come home to a plac…
#148 Ten More Stores of Good News About Our World
In last weeks episode I gave you ten different stories of good new about our world. The reason I did that is because we are constantly bombarded by bad news. And because of that people are developing…