 Oh Okay, someone very rudely asked me how I am environmentally friendly and even though they were rude This is a topic that's important. So I'm gonna answer it And I've gotten this question a bunch of times and lots of criticism around this kind of stuff So let me let me just tell you what the way I think about it And I did come from a very disposable culture and I've come a long way and I still have a long way to go So I do not have any definitive final word here But this is where I am right now basically, I've got it boiled down to I Want to get as much as I can out of the resources I use So whether it's fuel or building materials or whatever whatever resources I'm using I want to get I want to get the most value out of those So use true resources get more value. That's basically it And this manifests itself in a lot of different ways So for instance if I Drive to town In a boat. That's one horsepower and my neighbor drives to town in a boat. That's 60 horsepower I'm using a lot less energy than them to do the same thing I'm also I also have pedals on my boat so, you know, I'm using my own human power and Human power is the one Resource that I don't worry about using it all I'm just basically like hey, body if you can do it. Let's do it and yes I eat more food, but I also poop out plant food and I I breathe in air and I also exhale plant air So I don't really worry about using this this machine I will use this machine as much as I as much as as much as it wants to do even even more than it wants to do most of the time And it's also good for this machine. I mean this this body thing is the only Is the only piece of equipment I have that operates better the more I use it so I Guess that's one one way of looking at the situation is is Is the resource I'm using is it creating a lot of waste is it hard to reproduce or whatever? Like what's the what's the cost of the resource while using my body the cost is very low and I get a lot of benefits From whatever work I'm doing and just for my my own health Another low cost resource is sticks so I cook on a fire fairly regularly and I cook in a you know a pretty efficient stove thing and I easily can find enough sticks just in dead stuff that's fallen off trees or You know just sitting on the ground or put pulled dead branches off stick off trees sometimes Which I think is good for the tree thing. Anyway, it's a it's a resource that's renewing itself way faster than I'm using So I don't worry too much about using that now another way to look at it is Trying to get as much as possible out of the resources. So for instance, okay here This is my tomato bag. I take it to the store and I put tomatoes in it instead of using the little disposable plastic bags. They have a store and anytime I go grocery shopping and I feel like I really could have used an extra bag I'll just make another one of these of whatever size or shape or whatever I need and I'll take that or And you know, it takes more resources to make this bag that it does to make the little plastic bag in the store However, this one I can use so many more times like 10,000 times versus one. So even though this uses more resources It gets so much more. It's so much more value that it's worth doing this and That's the same thing with my nylon shorts I've gotten a fair amount of criticism about making nylon clothes because it's not natural fibers and I'm you know Just making garbage and blah blah blah. Well, I Have two pairs of Shorts that I wear today not not counting just hanging around short This is work shorts that you know take a lot of the juice and stuff. I Did have a whole bunch of cotton shorts. They're all done. They're all right. Then I made myself a pair of nylon shorts and They were lasting really well So I made another pair and now these are the only two pairs of shorts These than the ones over there that I wear when I go out and I get them snagged on branches. They don't rip I I Spent two weeks up to my waist in mud in these Working just digging stuff and they look like they're brand new other than some wrinkles and stuff so It it probably and I'm not even totally sure about this but it probably takes more resources to produce and dispose of A pair of nylon shorts than a pair of cotton shorts However, when you consider it's more like one pair of nylon shorts versus like 20 pairs of nylon shorts Got backwards one pair of nylon shorts versus 20 pairs of cotton shorts The cotton shorts kind of start winning by a lot in that in that case So You know the same kind of thing Happens with building a house with concrete versus wood It takes more energy and a lot more. It's more difficult to build a concrete house than it is to build a wood house But the concrete house lasts so much longer if you do it right you don't have all the maintenance of a wood house and To get a wood house to last as long as a concrete house need to be rebuilt at like 20 times Because the concrete house is gonna last a thousand years, right? I hope I'm not being drowned out by the pouring rain that just started. Anyway, that's that's the basic gist of how I think about How to try to be more environmentally friendly and not be a destructive force in the world. It's basically Minimize the resources I'm using and the garbage I'm producing to maximize the amount of value I'm creating And a bunch more examples are all the stainless tools, I mean, you know stainless pliers Screwdrivers and stainless wheelbarrow, you know, if I if I bought a wheelbarrow it would last a few years And I'd have to replace it. I probably go through 20 wheelbarrow But I've got a stainless steel one that my grandkids are gonna be able to use and stainless steel shovels and You know just a lot of things I'm always trying to build things that are gonna last Wait longer than me All right, so that's that's basically how I think about it. I know that it's not always super clear and You know the whole environmental thing gets very complicated sometimes But if you just break it down to try to get as much as you can out of the few resources as possible It covers all the other stuff. Oh another point I should make I wake up with the Sun and After the Sun goes down. It's it's pretty dark in my house like minimal lighting Which one helps with sleep cycles, but also, you know Making use of the light that's there anyway instead of sleeping till noon just just make sense So there's there's tons of things like that little things that you can do during your day, but I try to do And here's my environmentally friendly laundry being rinsed. I should also say I'm not trying to rip on cotton I made this cotton shirt like 20 years ago still in great shape. I just don't take it out, you know heavy working Hacking through the jungle and we get shredded And really the only real way to to solve the the clothing Issue this is just do it all yourself or all within a small community You know throw the fibers process the fibers make them in a cloth make them in a clothes all In a place where you know what's going on and there's no huge long transportation or anything There's no packaging necessary. I mean, that's that's the real solution to that stuff And I I'm working toward that. I don't know if I'm ever gonna get to that point. I hope so, though There is one more thing I want to say about this which is that Technology's not gonna save us. We're not gonna Come up with some invention that suddenly makes garbage obsolete Because whatever we do we can waste it and abuse it. We need to fix ourselves. That's what we need to fix You