Sustainable Living Skills You Need to Survive
It might not seem so serious to the average consumer in the First World, but the future of the world as we know hangs in the balance. The media is full of bad news that can make changing things for the better seem hopeless, but there are simple and radical things you can do to reduce your impact and set an example for others. It's not just a choice, our survival depends on it.
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Permaculture in an Organic Vineyard at a Radical Ecovillage
I live in what is probably North America’s most radical ecovillage, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. I moved here over 15 years ago to live in the country closer to the land, and to devote my life to reducing my impact on the planet.
Spring is the time for getting the garden in. Part of my garden is in my organic vineyard. I don’t just grow grapes. I grow cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, and melons between my grape vines. And in the past few years I’ve also been growing perennial flowers to provide an additional cash crop from the space. I use comfrey within the rows of grapes to smother the grasses and other weeds that would otherwise rob the grapevines of water and nutrients. Most vineyards would just spray herbicide to control the weeds. Permaculture is possible even in a vineyard.
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Early Spring Self Sufficiency On an Ecovillage Homestead
Living sustainably and self sufficiently is a lot of hard work. You have to take the opportunities to get work done when the weather allows, but you also have to take time to appreciate the natural world around you when you have the chance. This is early spring for me in the ecovillage where I live.
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Amazing Off-grid Kitchen in My Tiny House
I’ve done videos on parts of my kitchen before, but I’ve never given a tour of my whole off-grid kitchen and all the things about that make it more eco than other kitchens. So many resources are channeled through our kitchens…all the things we depend on to feed ourselves nutritious food. I’ll take you on a tour of every little feature of my off-grid kitchen at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, one of the world’s most radical ecovillages.
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Building a Community Building From Sand, Clay, and Straw
Subhub is one of the newer buildings being constructed at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. The building is being built using natural materials like clay, sand, and straw. Like many natural buildings at Dancing Rabbit, it is insulated with strawbales and uses earthen plasters to protect the bale walls from the elements. It’s intended to be a community building with shared resources and infrastructure so that people in the ecovillage don’t have to build all their systems in their own houses. In this video, Liz, the builder takes us through the construction site and explains the different building methods, the design elements, and the systems she has planned for this shared resource.
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5 Tips from 30 Years of Sustainable Living
Many people get into sustainable living when they are young and idealistic, but as they age, the mainstream culture pressures them into conforming to the typical wasteful American lifestyle. I’ve been living sustainably for over 30 years now and I have yet to be dragged into a typical wasteful American dream. I’ve learned a lot over the years and in this video I share 5 secrets for maintaining a sustainable lifestyle over the long haul. The world needs everyone to live sustainably for their entire lives, not just for a short time.
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What Chic STRAWBALE LIVING in an ECOVILLAGE is Like
Last time I toured this strawbale house at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, it was half done, and it was pretty impressive then. Now I’m back again with a tour of the finished house and there’s a new owner, Cat, to tell us about what it’s like to live in the house. Cat’s Cradle, as the house is known, provides examples of just about every method of natural building imaginable: cob, strawbale, earthen plaster, wattle and daub, cordwood walls, earthen plaster mosaics, bottle walls, lime plaster, passive solar design, and earthen floors. It’s a work of art with many artistic and aesthetic flares. As well, its passive solar design and round shape make it efficient as well as practical for its semiretired owner, Cat.
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