A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living

Peak Moment 160: Rather than follow the customary American dream, Tammy and Logan sold their home and car, and moved to a bikeable/walkable neighborhood in Sacramento, California. After reading Derrick Jensen's writings, this couple used Your Money or Your Life as a means to get out of debt and, they feel, regain their lives and their future. While they recount the psychological challenges of facing a future of declining resources, the catalyst that continues to move them forward is a dream of living in an affordable tiny house within a supportive community.

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[soggieshorts1]

its to bad i so thought this was a good video but then you had to tell us a bucha crap about somthing that isent real if global warming was real why are we at 210% above annual snow fall here in colorado look it up its really funny how this could happen if we are in a global warming situation ??????????????????????????????­?

[peakmoment]

@soggieshorts1, the effects of global climate change shows up in increasingly violent and erratic weather patterns like your snowfall. The tornadoes in the midwest. Floods in the Mississippi. The wildfires in a drier southwest. Flooding over 20% of Pakistan. The melting polar ice caps. The melting continental glaciers. 100-year floods in England every 10 years (approx). Something like 7 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record (global temps). Ocean temps rising, plankton dying.

[peakmoment]

@soggieshorts1. Just in from Bloomberg: "Parts of China, the biggest grower, had the least rain in a century, some European regions are the driest in 50 years and almost half the winter-wheat crop in the U.S., the largest exporter, is rated poor or worse." Hmm, maybe it is warming a bit too much in other places than where you live.

[peakmoment]

@soggieshorts1 NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record: The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.

Extreme weather is what Global climate change brings -- not just warming. Heavy snowfall one year, barely any the next.

[ogicabp4u]

all the furniture in my apartment I got out the trash. Bought the few tools needed (and disinfectant/cleaning materials etc...) to fix it and now its you'd never have guessed my apartment was once trash. I'm writing this on a once broken laptop (screen and keyboard mashed) that I plugged into a large screen and keyboard and external DVD/RW drive. Not only cheaper uses less electricity even with a 32inch screen!!! use it 4 everything DVD movies, internet, CD Player, Games, YT, ebooks, radio.

[peakmoment]

@ogicabp4u, what a great story of your self-reliance and fix-it skills. Keep it up and teach others, too!

[peakmoment]

@erinquintia1

[gonephishin77]

@soggieshorts1 Its actually a global climate change, this can affect the weather in different ways and cycles not necessarily a warming change.

[jack2121]

@soggieshorts1 it should be called global "weirding". the overall net effect is higher temps, but that means that in certain areas, there's more rainfall, more snow, etc.



[doompadoo]

@soggieshorts1 I truly cant believe in this day of information I still see comments such as these. Must be a republican because those are the only people I have heard spew such uninformed crap. I am not going to try to inform you only because people such as yourself are not interested in learning but I truly hope the upcoming generations of people use you as an example of the wrong way to be

[ogicabp4u]

@MrRobertGulabo the man speaks the truth. Listen to this guy.

[MrRobertGulabo]

@ogicabp4u I'm the same way. All my furnishings are just out of cast offs from neighbors. The key is just keeping an eye out for items with potential all the time. I have never even considered debt or credit cards. People always ask my how I am going to buy a car.... well, you just save until you can afford it. The house is the last thing. but like always, I am already working around those rules. the fact is, this society is engineered to suck money from you one way or another.