198: How to Maximize Your Outdoor Life While Creating a Minimalist Lifestyle (Meg Carney)

If you spend time with nature you might start to feel like the great outdoors is a friend that you want to take extra care of. Even if you’ve been interested in conservation before, it might now seem more personal, more important. But spending time outside also means you’re using nature more than you used to. So how can you maximize your time in nature while also creating a minimalist lifestyle? Today’s guest, Meg Carney, offers help for environmentally-minded outdoor uses through her podcast Outdoor Minimalist and upcoming book of the same title.

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Some of the good stuff:

[2:51] Meg Carney’s favorite outdoor space [4:01] How Meg learned to love to go outside [5:54] Why people get into conservation [7:15] What is “minimalism?” [11:45] Meg’s book and podcast [13:55] How to be a minimalist without also living in a tiny house [23:40] Does one person’s minimalism matter in the big picture? [30:00] How should the outdoor industry fit into this? [36:34] Simple steps you can take towards minimalism right now [40:00] Meg’s favorite outdoor gear [44:30] Meg’s favorite outdoor moment