The Building a Better World Podcast
Join Shawn Klassen-Koop, co-author of "Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys", for short episodes introducing ideas you can use to make a huge, positive, global difference from your own home! Prioritize comfort over sacrifice while saving thousands of dollars!
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2020
Episode 06: Super-Efficient Sustainable Wood Heat
In a cold climate, heat is almost 2/3 of home energy use. Rocket mass heaters are super efficient wood-fired heaters that are pretty much smokeless and use one tenth of the wood of a conventional woo…
00:12:54 |
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Episode 05: How to Drastically Reduce Your Home Heating Bill
Most of us heat our homes by heating all of the air in the whole house and then blowing it around in the hopes that it will eventually heat some people. Why not just heat the people instead? By focus…
00:11:41 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Episode 04: A Tool for Helping Us Understand the Eco Journey
Having conversations with others about environmentalism can be extremely frustrating – even with other environmentalists. It's important to remember that life is a journey, and different people are a…
00:10:43 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Episode 02: The Biggest Environmental Problems… and Some Solutions
The list of global problems is huge. But a lot of them are related. This episode covers 5 problems that are holding us back from living a happy, healthy, life on a sustainable planet. And since Shawn…
00:15:39 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Episode 03: The Most Effective Way to Make Your Voice Heard
The most effective way to make your voice heard is not writing letters, signing petitions, or going to a protest. It's making the right choices each and every day. Angry about the impacts of fracking…
00:11:08 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Episode 01: Introduction to Building a Better World in Your Backyard
The world's problems are massive and overwhelming. Fortunately, for nearly every global problem there are solutions we can implement in our backyard that, at the same time, save us money and help pro…
00:11:15 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
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