Biologist Ranks Sustainability Trends // Van life, tiny house movement, minimalism

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024

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  • @christinabutterfield1801
    @christinabutterfield1801 3 года назад +87

    Legends say that you've finally fully evolved into a true RUclipsr when you make a tier list video

  • @suu5006
    @suu5006 3 года назад +10

    I hope this channel blows up one day!

  • @Libertarian_Neighbor
    @Libertarian_Neighbor 3 года назад +26

    When I was in college my housemates and I had dumpster diving parties. Many places would double wrap their wasted food for us. We ate like kings and queens and fed others. We also bought and sold all our clothes at thrift stores. One time I bought a $20 coat with a $20 bill in a small pocket. The more I watch this the more I miss living in Berkeley. Lol

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад +4

      I’ve always wanted to dumpster dive lol, I do it for little things like boxes and packing supplies and just to take a look but not truly for food 🙈

  • @irfansafi865
    @irfansafi865 3 года назад +6

    I love environment. And I try my best to improve the environment

  • @megaraynumber7
    @megaraynumber7 3 года назад +35

    Is there a possibility of expanding on this video in the future? Maybe finding some trends you think fit into the "nah" category?

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад +5

      Good idea, I’m sure I could find something in the nah category tbh

    • @lindafuskova7057
      @lindafuskova7057 3 года назад +1

      I would love to see that as well

  • @MDobri-sy1ce
    @MDobri-sy1ce 3 года назад +18

    I did a study in my Global Environmental Issues class years ago where I did some research if downloading software is better for the environment or the physical disc? It turns out the virtual download costs more energy but I put I was in favor of it over the disc because as technology develops fewer emissions will be put out whereas those plastic discs are just going to sit in a landfill for the next 10,000 years trying to degrade.

  • @stinkygrunkie
    @stinkygrunkie 3 года назад +34

    Im not a minimalist, but ive been trying more and more to stop buying so much crap. It pains me sometimes to watch my friends with so much merch it lines every surface.
    Thats so much plastic, my dudes!

  • @theoriginalmilji
    @theoriginalmilji 3 года назад +1

    This was very insightful. I watch all these different kinds of videos, van life, zero waste, etc., so it’s really cool to see from a scientist’s point of view how environmentally friendly they actually are.

  • @andreea.cristina.popescu
    @andreea.cristina.popescu 3 года назад +9

    Veganism as mother earth herself is what I needed to see today ❤❤❤ new subscriber here. Love your content!!

  • @CanadianPermacultureLegacy
    @CanadianPermacultureLegacy 3 года назад +3

    I really enjoyed this one. What a fun idea for a video. I should do a tier list of my favorite food forest plants. I'm also completely agreed with all of your rankings. And I appreciate the sentiment that at least all these people are trying. We really need action now. The time for talking about this stuff is 50 years past, we need DO'ers, and we need an army of them! Okay, I'm off to watch another one of your videos, I'm really enjoying your stuff 😄

  • @willjohnson2205
    @willjohnson2205 2 года назад

    Great video, very informative and helpful! This is an important topic that can be so confusing to otherwise understand.

  • @MDobri-sy1ce
    @MDobri-sy1ce 3 года назад +6

    I am trying to be more conscious about stuff I buy and if I can't/do not need it give it too a family member or friend if the item is still good. I use to work at a store, I won't mention their name but we had to get rid of damaged products and I asked why don't we send that stuff back to the manufacture to get fixed and they told me, "It would cost too much money." In other words it was cheaper to throw the damaged products out.

    • @constantchange1145
      @constantchange1145 3 года назад

      Most companies do this noe days. At least in "1st world" countries where its cheaper to buy more from the exploited developing countries labour and manufactoring industries than to fix anything.
      I know a guy in my town who repairs bicycles and sells them for cheap, he has a good network now and so a lot of people bring him trashed old rusty bikes that they find on the street or in a pile of junk in someones yard. He doesnt have the time or the demand to be repairing all these and selling them to locals. So he has to hundreads of them off to Africa or middleeast where there are folks who will repair them and sell them.
      Here in australia its cheaper to go buy another shitty bike from K-mart or Aldi etc than to get it repaired.
      It simply should be iligal to manufacture these low quality bikes that never last more than a year or two and never get repaired, ending up in landfill.

  • @__-zv8fw
    @__-zv8fw 3 года назад

    I like how this is informational and just a nice perspective on things.

  • @Libertarian_Neighbor
    @Libertarian_Neighbor 3 года назад +4

    Quinoa is my favorite meat alternative super food. Thanks for the video.

  • @social3ngin33rin
    @social3ngin33rin 3 года назад +2

    This is a nice brief video :)
    Also, I agree with these ratings with the given parameter rating system.

  • @MDobri-sy1ce
    @MDobri-sy1ce 3 года назад +12

    If I get a chance near the end of the semester I want to do my final report on if recycling is really worth it or the Tiny House Movement. Not too say recycling is not worth it but how much actually, gets recycled. I think I watched on Marketplace a lot of out garbage gets shipped to third party companies in South East Asia and they just salvage the 5% that can be used or re-sold while most of it just sits there. It stuck in my mind and made me angry because all these years I thought I was doing something good!

    • @rawmilkd
      @rawmilkd 3 года назад

      I think a lot of it does just sit there for sure. Not to mention many people don't properly recycle. There is a lot of rules or restrictions to it. For examples, you have to remove labels, recyclables need to be cleaned before recycling and some lids aren't recyclable even though the container can be recycled. It's more complicated than just placing plastic in a recycling bin.

    • @MDobri-sy1ce
      @MDobri-sy1ce 3 года назад

      @@rawmilkd I just discovered a bit about the whole of recycling. I did not do a paper on it because I decided not to take a writing class this semester at the last second but had to do research in response to a discussion for Environmental Citizenship. A lot of it is because of time and money. Recycling plants don’t want to spend time on more cleaning, sorting, and breaking down products people either.

  • @melusine826
    @melusine826 4 дня назад

    Do your best, advocate for the rest

  • @wolfgangamadeusmozart6057
    @wolfgangamadeusmozart6057 3 года назад

    Another thing to add to the living off grid: If you use solar panels to produce your energy rather than diesel generators, along with growing your own crop and gathering water locally like from a spring, it could be a REALLY good thing for the environment.

  • @melusine826
    @melusine826 4 дня назад

    Love a LCA video!!

  • @ingframin
    @ingframin 3 года назад +1

    I would like to comment about the use of solar panels. Each 1kW panel uses ~1.5kg of electronic grade silicon. In order to make 1g of electronic grade silicon, you need about 1kg of oil (or equivalent in energy) + a ton of other extremely polluting materials such as Indium, Gallium, Germanium, hydrofluoric acid and metals such as gold and silver. The less polluting solution is to use thermal solar panels for heating and warm water and just use electricity from the grid. Big generators have a much higher efficiency than small generators due to their lower surface to volume ratio. Speaking of which... There are big solar generators that heat up a salt solution as energy storage and are connected to steam generators. These plants are extremely efficient and very very ecological. There are prototypes in California, Australia (I believe), Spain and Italy (one in Sicily and one in Calabria as far as I know).

  • @dinabina3551
    @dinabina3551 3 года назад

    neature walks!! thats pretty neat

  • @carlota1513
    @carlota1513 3 года назад +1

    loved this video! thanks :)

  • @MichaelM.Jonson
    @MichaelM.Jonson 5 месяцев назад

    Hi Kristina,
    I hope this message finds you well. I have been thoroughly enjoying your videos and find them incredibly inspiring. As a senior biology student, I’m curious about your academic journey. Could you share whether you pursued a Master's or a PhD?
    Thank you for your time and insights!

  • @coreymetzker2521
    @coreymetzker2521 3 года назад +1

    I've watched enough chubbyemu to know that incorporating Dumpster Diving into your lifestyle will have someone presenting to the emergency room before long.

  • @hanks_backyard
    @hanks_backyard 2 года назад

    Great video - nice way to make things digestible. You may have talked about this and I missed it, but what are your thoughts about backyard chickens? I'm mostly vegan, but do eat the eggs they provide. I do tend to give them a lot of "treats" like mealworms and soldier fly larva and I purchase chicken food and scratch from the store - aside from that, it feels like they have a pretty light footprint, but I would love to hear your thoughts.

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  2 года назад +1

      Just my personal view, everyone has different thoughts about them. I personally love having chickens (i grew up with them) and they're such characters. I plan on building a coup soon and using them for fertilizer and as pampered pets. I will likely give the eggs to my boyfriend who eats eggs, or the neighbours. But I think they have very light footprints as well. Especially when you can build a coup from reclaimed wood and when their manure is used to regenerate the soil and grow veggies. I do know some people who don't take care of their chickens very well and slaughter them if they don't produce well which isn't what I would personally want to do.

  • @Blue-pb7kz
    @Blue-pb7kz 3 года назад +2

    I wonder if appartment living isn't over looked as an eco friendly thing just because it isn't cool. When it comes down to it, it's basically stacking a bunch of tiny houses together. If people have similar, even just slightly more, square footage in appartments, I think that that would work out to a net positive? You have shared insulation, which reduces energy consumption (my studio only has one wall exposed to the elements - I never need to turn on the heating before december, and I stay fairly cool in summer). It allows people to live closer together, which reduces urban sprawl, concentrated the negative effects of human presence in a smaller area, allows for the use of shared ressources (eg laudromats, also the costs of transporting goods because everything can be centralised, etc) and allows people to go car-free because they have access to public transit. Of course this is dependant on the city providing necessary ressources (one big downside is you can't go off the grid if your city is using fossile fuels for energy, but on the other hand using renewables is going to be more efficient if managed collectively and not individually). The biggest downside it the mental health effects of living in many urban environments, which matter! And I dream of living in a tiny house. But from a purely environmental perspective, for the same number people having to live in the same country, it seems like it'd have a smaller footprint. But it's not as cool or alternative. It feels very much like people are focusing on reducing their own individual footprints rather than how we can collectively work together to reduce our society's footprint. Would you have any thoughts on this? Thanks!

    • @Blue-pb7kz
      @Blue-pb7kz 3 года назад

      (I think this is at least a little similar to factory farming vs small scale operations. I know lots of people say you can get animal products ethically and sustainably from local, small scale farms, but (I may be totally wrong here though!) I remember reading that, though factory farms are an ethical and environmental disaster, small scale operations also create MORE greenhouse gasses if you count it per pound or per calorie of food, because they are less efficient/streamlined (and also treating animals more ethically comes with more CO2 production too - eg the eggs where they don't kill chickens when they stop laying, but then you have the environmental cost of feeding those chickens for 6+ years more so you're producing more CO2 per egg than factory farming. Same with cows needing more time to gain mass while grazing vs feedlots). Um, to be clear, I'm not defending factory farming, they're an ethical nightmare, I'm all for veganism and for generally reducing our consumption of all animal products, just also was curious about an envirnomental scientist view on this because I think it's a myth that buying local meat is more eco-friendly. I know there's been a LOT of criticism of regenerative grazing, too, so. Anyways, sorry for the long comments, I'm just very curious about these things!

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад

      I totally agree with you on the apartments! I think it's completely overlooked by many - we need more DENSE urban housing, build up not out, all that. Building up reduces the footprint of housing which reduces the amount of wildlife habitat and sensitive environments turned to housing. Building apartments in ways that encourage bike and foot traffic, or public transit, reduces the amount people need to drive. I live in a high rise apartment next to a bike trail and I almost never drive. I think it's real though that most people aren't super keen to live in an apartment, it's hard to do for the long term. But developers building new apartments and condos should focus on incorporating green space, large outdoor balcony, amenities on site and other perks that outweigh the downsides of living in a small space. Honestly with the cost of living in many cities (including my city), home ownership is only for the very wealthy - homes in my area sell for over 800k typically. Most young people will forever be in apartments

    • @Blue-pb7kz
      @Blue-pb7kz 3 года назад

      @@kristina_lynn Yes, definitely! I heva no idea how I could ever afford a house where I live - most of my friends that want houses are planning on moving way out to more rural areas. Appartment living being eco-friendly is a bit of a consolation prize I guess. So long as I get enough of a balcony, or maybe one of those parcels of gardening space, plus time to go on hiking holidays, I think I can make myself be ok with it.

    • @robbierisque
      @robbierisque 3 года назад

      You're totally right, I remember reading somewhere that most New Yorkers had much smaller carbon footprints just because of the apartment living they all had to do out of necessity. It's a shame that it has to come at the cost of paying all your money to a landlord instead of getting to invest those payments into a mortgage, which you will eventually have as a chunk of value at the end. Buying a condo is an option but you end up paying out a lot of money to random building costs in the end. The economics of conventional living choices are really driving some seriously big environmental consequences, time for some new ideas!

  • @emmatheenigma6939
    @emmatheenigma6939 3 года назад +1

    Great video, although slightly misleading thumbnail. (Some people might see it, guess what the photos are of and assume those are the rankings). Very informative video though :)

  • @TheAmazinRaven1
    @TheAmazinRaven1 3 года назад

    73%!! Not me wanting to cut out meat & dairy bc it’s healthy for my body but bc it’s healthy for the earth

  • @jacksgapy
    @jacksgapy 3 года назад

    Loved this!

  • @moortje26
    @moortje26 3 года назад

    Hey I was wondering. About off grid living and tiny houses. I'm in a facebook group about it where people have beeb saying "you're taking a piece of nature and build on it, taking in space on land that could've been pure nature." Their opinion is, by buying land and going off grid on it, we people inhabit more and more sq km. What's your opinion on that? Because tiny houses etc do take more space than for example an apartment in a flat. The houses are small, but they do take up more space like the land you actually put it on.

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад +1

      There are environmental damages from clearing land to use for a house, whether it's in a city or a more rural area. Some off grid houses combat this by minimizing the footprint and clearing and building the house to fit within a natural space, rather than bulldozing everything and planting turf grass like a suburban home build might involve. Tucking away homes within forests and purposely trying to maintain as much natural habitat as possible.
      High density apartments are also a great choice environmentally, but that might make you more reliant on resources that can be harmful environmentally, like purchasing conventionally-grown/raised food at the grocery store because you don't have a space to grow it yourself. Or using electricity from coal or natural gas because you don't have the ability to be off grid in an apartment. But high density apartments in areas that are already cleared of their natural habitat is a really efficient way to house a LOT of people. It's not black or white, nor is one option so superior to the other in my opinion. Some people debate "if everyone did X, then there'd be no space" but the reality is that not everyone is going to live in an off grid cabin, so maybe a mix of different types of sustainable housing for different personalities/regions is best.

    • @moortje26
      @moortje26 3 года назад

      @@kristina_lynn thank youuu! And p.s. after two years of being sick I am seriously considering studying something. Ran into your channel and getting really inspired! Bit scared still tho for uni/college, scared that I can't study so many hours/years and stay kind of excited about life 😅

  • @consumerwatch7479
    @consumerwatch7479 3 года назад

    What about upcycling

  • @IamNimajneb
    @IamNimajneb 2 года назад

    What I (a sustainability scholar) have understood living in a city in a small apartment is the most sustainable option in terms of land and energy use. The biggest issue with city living is that it tends to increase consumption compared to living in the countryside. So low consumption city living is what I see as the only option for the masses to achieve a sustainable future. To be clear, a city does not need to be a megacity. It can be a small but compact provincial town as well. Also, there is only so much you can do on an individual basis to live sustainably in a city or town, so this shifts the focus on the political leaders to provide sustainable transportation, food, and energy.

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  2 года назад +1

      Yea I agree with a lot of your thoughts. There are a few other lens you can look at it from besides land and energy use -what if that rural person is re-wilding their land, building a small house that blends in with the landscape, providing wildlife habitat, growing their own food and fully off-grid etc. but the reality is that most rural folks aren't living that lifestyle. maybe its easier as a city person to "accidentally" live a low footprint lifestyle just due to expensive housing and not a lot of money to spend.

  • @Luis-yy2fs
    @Luis-yy2fs 3 года назад

    What’s a better degree to get a job in conservation/ working with animals. Ecology and environmental science or zoology?

  • @robbierisque
    @robbierisque 3 года назад +1

    Good video, but dumpster diving below veganism and off grid living? I know the other two are more trendy but the impact of diverting waste and demand for new products should not be underestimated. Veganism and growing your own food still has an impact like everything else, but the net impact of dumpster diving is more positive than it seems if it's measured properly. The impact is two-fold: Everything being diverted from the landfill and into our tummies is offsetting not only the impact of any kind of new food production we would have bought instead (whether you grow it yourself or buy it from the grocery store), but also the demand signal for that food that gets sent back up the supply chain to producers. You can think of it as "every banana you buy means the grocery store will buy another one to replace it for the next customer, and the banana producer will grow another one with all the fossil fuel and agriculture inputs of the one you bought". I consider dumpster diving as net positive since you're diverting food that already has spent it's carbon footprint being grown and transported to the store, so the impact has already been created whether it's going into the landfill or our tummies, and also reducing the consumer demand that drives the carbon producing agriculture in the first place. The big difference is now the whole food producing system is more efficient for every banana you save from the landfill, and that 1/3 chunk of wasted food mentioned in the video starts to decrease along with the average carbon footprint of all the bananas. Can you tell I'm passionate about food waste yet? :) Great job and keep putting out the vids!

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад +1

      This is all very true! It's a bit of a silly video ranking, but I totally agree with everything that you said!

    • @robbierisque
      @robbierisque 3 года назад

      @@kristina_lynn It must be tricky engaging people and keeping the youtube gods happy so I get the ranking thing, and after all I did click on it. Hopefully some burgeoning food waste problem solvers will read way down in the comments and see this

  • @sergel02
    @sergel02 3 года назад

    The fast fashion thing always was a bit odd to me. It takes a while for me to find clothes that fit well, look nice, and I like, so I’ll gladly spend more and wear it for much longer.
    The housing topic I feel like could be a whole video or series on itself, as city planners in RUclips have entire channels dedicated to how it is.
    My house is a 2000 square feet ranch style so not tiny, a good size, but one of the smaller ones in my area. However, they are making houses closer together and many two story so it seems to reduce the urban sprawl. Newer homes tend to be more energy efficient but it gets negated if they’re too big. Finding a balance is important, and that’s why I don’t want a huge one unless the situation warrants it like my parents need to live with us.

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад

      That blows my mind that 2000 sq ft is one of the smallest ones in your area! Where I live 1000-1500 is fairly common for single family homes. You're right a balance is important. It does cost money to heat bigger areas and takes up more habitat etc. Where I live we have a big density problem which has just skyrocketed the prices too. Like you said....we could go on and on about housing

  • @juliaisagoodwitch
    @juliaisagoodwitch 3 года назад

    Very interesting video 😀

  • @leaveamericayouwont7869
    @leaveamericayouwont7869 3 года назад

    I really wanna live in a van but I don’t wanna hurt the environment is there any way I could live in a van ans be environmentally friendly 😅

  • @GreenDolphinProject
    @GreenDolphinProject 3 года назад

    Great job!

  • @gdibenedetto9877
    @gdibenedetto9877 3 года назад

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your understanding of actual science facts with us. So thank you for that, number 1.
    I need some help to understand things on a long term scale.Can you help me to understand some more of this? I am
    not using any plastic. I am not consuming any commercially produced products at all.... that includes anything to do with the horrors animals experience in this caveman process. I am learning that those "shooting stars" in the sky are stars.... just like our star, our sun..... and that a star's life consists of getting hotter and hotter, until it fries anything within its reach, and then burns out and dies...... so, our sun/star is getting hotter and eventually it will turn our planet to dust before it burns out completely...... cuz I think about this in my head, it makes me wonder, why are we doing all of this? Why are we so desperately trying to save everything and do good by the planet when we're just going to be burned up by the very star that feeds us anyway? How much time do we have? According to some of the stories I've heard of my XM radio, we maybe have a few hundred million years..... So is that what we are trying to do? Is make just a measly handful of a few hundred million years tolerable for everyone? It almost makes me just want to give up because it doesn't sound like there's going to be much time for this planet anyway just by virtue of the fact that all living things are designed to burn and die including our star that we know as the Sun and this planet. How many suns and planets have burned up and are dying Already? Was there anybody on any of these spaces that were concerned about anything like this? Perhaps this is too deep of a conversation to be Having on RUclips. But it does make me wonder why the hell are we even giving a shit right now? why not blow ourselves up now... as we're going to eventually all die anyway because our Sun will burn up and die.... I am absolutely genuinely interested in what you have to say. Believe me when I say to you I am a person that loves what your doing and I just want someone that has an education like you do ....with young eyes....and a young mind like you do, to tell me why we should keep on trying when eventually none of this is gonna be here anyway. I am not being a cynic or sarcastic. I am 100% genuinely interested in your answer. As I am getting a little bit discouraged when I hear about the fate of this planet due to the fate of our sun. So depressing. What are your thoughts? And thank you again for putting yourself out there. Good job....thank you again for your videos.

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад +1

      I know what you mean and it can be easy to go down that path of thinking. I can't really answer definitively as this is kind of a philosophical question. For some reason I always find a lot of comfort in this quote from Lord of the Rings:
      “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
      “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
      We might not be able to stop anything and it might be too much for us to face as earthlings, but at the end of my life I want to at least find comfort in the fact that I did the best I could with the time I was given on this planet

  • @dynamosaurusimperious6341
    @dynamosaurusimperious6341 3 года назад

    Aint this lovely

  • @floofcorgi
    @floofcorgi 3 года назад +3

    are you vegan yourself ?

    • @kristina_lynn
      @kristina_lynn  3 года назад +3

      Yup

    • @floofcorgi
      @floofcorgi 3 года назад +1

      @@kristina_lynn wow so cool! i’ve always strived to become vegan but my town and lifestyle is a challenge. our town makes it profits of local cattle and crops.

  • @isabellam8915
    @isabellam8915 3 года назад

    I got a new tv from a dumster

  • @shawnbenn
    @shawnbenn 3 года назад

    Hi, Just stumbled on your RUclips channel, and this is the first video that I was suggested. Nice video concept, but I feel that some lifestyles that you are more related to get a higher ranking. I think that no one of these lifestyles by itself is deserved the "Mother Earth Herself" ranking. Let's talk about the vegetarian family that doesn't manage or compost their waste and uses plastic and disposable tools or the minimalist vegetarian business owner that flies all over the world and represents brands like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and BP and live in a penthouse on the 5th avenue and drives a Hummer or a tiny house\off the grid social media influencer that has livestock farm that also flies all over the world and has a huge truck... I don't think that you rank their lifestyle as "Mother Earth Herself". I believe that it's all about balancing more than one of these lifestyles. From my point of view, there is no stand-alone lifestyle that is "Mother Earth Herself".

  • @thorwuttudal1440
    @thorwuttudal1440 3 года назад

    Not having children is the best thing anyone can do

    • @DiegoIvanchavez
      @DiegoIvanchavez 3 года назад +3

      off-ing oneself has a bigger impact

    • @aspenram3885
      @aspenram3885 3 года назад

      Ah yes, the world will be better if all the responsible people stop reproducing lol.