Adventures in Sustainable Living

Hosted by: Patrick Keith

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...

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Thinking Upstream

Episode #83 July 13, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 83 Thinking Upstream I often marvel at the complexity and enormity of the natural world. Consider for a moment the Mississippi River. This river discharges...

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Walls, Weapons, and Wisdom

Episode #82 July 06, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 82 Walls, Weapons and Wisdom We pay our federal income taxes every year as a “price of civilization” and then we sit back and watch our government spend our tax...

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Apathy, Optimism Bias, and Fossil of the Day

Episode #81 June 29, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 81 Apathy, Optimism Bias, and Fossil of the Day From time to time we have all been apathetic about something. meaning we are simply indifferent to what is going...

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Household Hazardous Waste and How to Avoid It

Episode #80 June 22, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 80 Household Hazardous Waste and How to Avoid It Whenever someone mentions hazardous waste, you most likely think of big industry, or perhaps even radioactive...

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Recycling Part Three: 6 Common Household Items and How to Recycle Them

Episode #79 June 15, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 79 Recycling Part Three Six Common Household Items and How to Recycle Them Recycling is all about reducing the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. If...

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Recycling Part Two: We Need to Ditch Performative Environmentalism

Episode #78 June 08, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 78 Recycling Part Two We Need to Ditch Performative Environmentalism With all the talk about going green, I look at some of the things we do and question if...

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Recycling Part One: Recycling is Broken. How Do We Fix It?

Episode #77 June 01, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 77 Recycling Part One Recycling is Broken. How Do We Fix It? In today’s world you would think that recycling would be one of those no brainers. But then...

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How to Thrive Outside of Mainstream

Episode #76 May 25, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 76How to Thrive Outside of Mainstream Living sustainably is really truly nothing new. Yet because our modern culture has warped our way of thinking and sense of...

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Can We Change Human Instincts?

Episode #75 May 18, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 075 Can We Change Human Instincts? My niece, who by the way is wickedly intelligent and artistic, recently pointed something out to me that I’d never thought of...

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Growing the Next World Wonder

Episode #74 May 11, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 074 Growing the Next World Wonder Unless you are particularly interested in Earth’s history, most people do not think in terms of a geological time scale. This is...

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Tips and Tricks for Living Small

Episode #73 May 04, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 73 Tips and Tricks for Living in Small Spaces I mentioned in E67 that our homes account for approximately 30% of our ecological impact. I have also mentioned...

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What No One Tells You About Living Small

Episode #72 April 27, 2022

Adventures in Sustainable Living Podcast Episode 72 What No One Tells You About Living Small In my last episode I spoke about the pros and cons of living small. I talked about how it is more affordable, how...

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