Simple and Sustainable Living in a Tiny House!
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2021
- Robin Greenfield shares his lessons in simple and sustainable living in a tiny house. This video was filmed as a class in the Wild Abundance Tiny House Academy. It was filmed summer of 2021 at Wild Abundance, a permaculture and homesteading school nestled in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. It’s also a home, a hub, and a dream of a more interconnected and sustainable world. Their campus is a living example of everything they teach with beautiful handcrafted buildings, abundant gardens, and a community of passionate people.
Wild Abundance is here to help people nurture a lifestyle in alignment with the natural world. They offer classes that cover subjects foundational to human culture for millennia. You can sign up for their Tiny House Academy, get your permaculture design certificate or learn things like survival skills and basic carpentry, and much more! They offer classes both in person and online.
Rob highly recommends education at Wild Abundance!
Check out their Tiny House Academy at: www.wildabundance.net/classes...
Check out their Online Gardening School:
www.wildabundance.net/classes...
Filmed by Art Before Comfort Films www.artbeforecomfort.com
Edited by Connor Revely www.connorreveley.com
Robin Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer and servant to Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives. He lives simply and sustainably to be the change he wishes to see in the world. Through living closely connected to Earth, he rejects the status quo of consumerism and demonstrates a way of being in gratitude, mindfulness and presence. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity.
Robin’s public activism involves dramatic actions designed to provoke critical thought, self-reflection and positive change. His activism creates nuanced conversations on the critical issues of our time, with a focus on solutions for living in harmony.
His life’s work has been covered by media worldwide and he has been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV and “The Forrest Gump of Ecology”.
Robin has committed to earning below the federal poverty threshold for life and donates 100% of his media earnings to grassroots nonprofits, with a focus on supporting Black and Indigenous women-led organizations.
This channel is a resource for all who seek to liberate themselves, to live in truth and integrity, and to live in harmony with Earth, humanity and the plants and animals we share this home with.
Robin Greenfield and Dear Friends share means of achieving liberation and harmony through sustainable living, simple living, tiny house living, foraging, growing food and medicine, minimalism, zero waste, earth-skills, food sovereignty, community resilience, compassionate communication, activism, Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty and living in service.
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Wild Abundance is here to help people nurture a lifestyle in alignment with the natural world. They offer classes that cover subjects foundational to human culture for millennia.
You can sign up for their Tiny House Academy, get your permaculture design certificate or learn things like survival skills and basic carpentry, and much more! They offer classes both in person and online.
I highly recommend education at Wild Abundance!
Check out their Tiny House Academy:
www.wildabundance.net/classes/online-tiny-house-building-class/
Check out their Online Gardening School:
www.wildabundance.net/classes/online-gardening-school/
My family thinks I'm crazy because I'd truly love to move into my motorhome eventually. I want to live a minimalist life with my children. I want to teach them the value of lost skills.
Same, what Rob is discussing and sharing are goals for me too.
cool thing is that as you put effort into that, your kids learn on their own and eventually start teaching you things! It was like that just from gardening with my mom who worked in the city and I went to school all on the grid but just from the effort planted that seed. I think you have a golden future ahead for you as a parent. :) god bless
You're not crazy, THEY are crazy. What sane person wants to keep living the 9-5 drudgery?
This man is a legend with a brilliant mindset
Rob is so wholesome. He is like chicken soup for the soul. 🙏🌻
I also try to live a simple life. Like you
'The less you want the more you have' really does encapsulate how to make tiny living work, I started getting rid of my things in stages over 3 years and by the time I moved into my tiny I missed nothing whatsoever with room to spare. I cut my living expenses about 80% and with it all the pressures that come with modern life.
Rob is that archetypal teacher, he’s knowledgable, passionate and cares. Hope your academy does well!
I truly Love you and your mission in life. I just started down the minimalism / eco friendly path and your videos suddenly appeared on my RUclips suggestions feed. Synchronicity never fails to bring birds of a feather together. May you continue to succeed in making this Earth a better home for us all. Count me in to do my part 🌲✌🧙♂️👍🌲
Welcome my friend! I look forward to the years ahead together!
I just found out about you, Rob, but I absolutely love what you are doing and teaching about! You are an inspiration! Wishing you all the best! I'll keep watching you and learn!
Welcome Anastasiia!
He speaks like a saint, who knows the eternity of this universe.
Earth is our home 🏡
Gaia, the mother of all.
I Really appreciate Rob Greenfield. Living in Haiti, I find that sustainable living is natures choice. And is a vision of mine to initiate a model eco community here. To much pressure on the grid. Once I can gather some friends in the world that would love to find peace on a small piece of the earth for a awhile, we'll just do it. Thanks, Rob.
How is it to live in Haiti ?
@@HueNarcisWorld in the countryside of northwest Haiti; it's a refreshing getaway from the grid. The best part is food from the tree and meals are prepared in no time. No artificial or chemical preservatives. A healthy adventure for the outdoors type. I would love to be the pioneer of showing my people a model of sustainable living. You think we got friends who would like the idea of being an eco-tourist for a couple weeks. I can just imagine someone like rob greenfield or Kirsten Dirksen roamimg around our thick forestry 80 acres of semi mountain land, building homes with earth and some waste materials. Solar energy, rain water harvesting, compost making.. Wow the life I've dreamt of all my life. Can someone please help me find my place in this world???. Sorry, but it's an emotional subject for me.
@@HueNarcisWorld it’s nice when you live on the tourist side of the island. My family moved to the US when I was 7. I miss it
That's a beautiful intention. I'm sure there are other people who think like you in Haiti, it's just a matter of connecting with them.
Thank you for this video. I have enjoyed watching your videos and very much agree with you. I love you touched on the green washing with energy because it does take so much input for those green technologies. We are a family of five that have a homestead. We use fallen wood in an outdoor wood boiler to heat our 1850s home(1500 sq feet) and hot water. Our grey water gets minimal treatment and we have a cesspool so it’s like a giant compost toilet feeding the surrounding trees/bushes. We grow a lot of our own food as well. Eat foods and use herbal remedies in season. Keep making great videos!
Wood burning will create way more pollution than solar panels do over their lifespan.
@@puggirl415 It sounded to me like they were saying what they were doing was better than using solar, wind, etc.
Great video. Thank you Rob.
Our local library rents tools, toys, cameras, computers and so much more! Imagine if this was done everywhere?!
I wish ours offered tools and such!
This guy is what we call .... spiritually aware ... the ultimate of what makes us human and different to other species. It would be an honour to meet such an enlightened being. The ultimate sign of an enlightened being is one who does NOT cause harm on to any living being and one who understands why it is wrong to consciously or unconsciously bring a human being into this world. Only the buddhist monks and nuns truly understand this. Yep. figured out all that he says and i'm trying to move myself in that direction. i'm already somewhat there.
You are such a positive person, I like to listen to your wise words! Living simply in Germany really causes problems, you need a lot of strength! When we wanted to implement a composting toilet back in 1989 it was a really hard task convincing the officials! After a lot of exchange of arguments we got the permission! Also getting permission to use our rainwater for the washing machine, a second toilet on the upper floor and the garden took some extra time and effort! Needless to say I never owned a car, BUT: I was able to retire at the age of 57 after having worked only parttime for most of my "career"!
Living frugally is much more fulfilling than following the mainstream consumerism. Quality of life is not acchieved by doing what your neighbors do. I love to watch and smell and feel and taste nature, that is fulfillment for me! I get my best food from my own garden, almost all year round. I am planning on growing more at a communal place, but that is to be seen...
it is indeed sad that many times we are not allowed to live the life we want, and many times you need to move someplace else just so you are allowed to do the right thing. I'm happy you are striving do do what can be done and not finding excuses !
THIS GUY IS THE BEST!!!!!!
IVE LEARNED SO MUCH. THANK YOU SIR.
This talk was so inspiring.
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❤❤❤❤ from Colorado
Thanks for sharing
Love your actions to care about the earth and humans.
Great inspiration to people to live on the earth sustainably together in community like we used to live in tribal communities together.
I'm so tired of explaining myself to people who don't really want to listen. I mean, they ask about why am I doing this or that, but have no patience for actually listening, probably because they don't really care. Since I don't want to waste my own time and energy, I'll just forward them this video and stay hopeful :-)
Sharing resources such as tools etc., is always a great idea. Many extended family members I know do that. With older adults, healthcare is always a concern before Medicare kicks in. High blood pressure issues etc. are often genetic and patients must take daily medication to keep it under control. No matter where we are, or what we have in life, there is always something we CAN change to be more environmentally friendly and use less resources. Getting out of debt and cutting the cable bill for example, is something everyone can strive for to keep more money in their pocket and eliminate the stress of monthly bills. I cut the cable bill years ago, and use a small cheap antenna next to my TV to catch local weather. I live in tornado country, so weather can be a concern at time. I enjoy your channel and your life mission. Keep up the great work!
I love Wild Abundance. So excited about this new class
I enjoy everything you say and do- and it's inspired me to start the process of simplifying.... and it is a process! But now I break things and feel grateful. I can't wait until my phone stops working!
Next time I break something I will think of you!
I have a 10,000 gallon catchment tank, all of my food scraps go to the pigs and chickens. Cesspool handles the waste. I chose where I live based on the climate so I never need heating or air conditioning and minimum clothing. Great fishing and hunting and outdoor activities that are free.
AMAZING VIDEO!! Thank you for sharing you're knowledge and wisdom with us. Living tiny has changed my perspective on life in so many ways. Peace and Love ✌❤
This guy would be a great neighbor.
IF I'M SINGLE AND LIVE BY MYSELF THEN LITTLE HOUSE IS PERFECT. LESS IS MORE.
Love You Man!
Amazing lecture Rob! Thank you for sharing! I’ve been following you for a while and I have watched a lot of your videos and I absolutely love your content. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about simple living and sustainable living. I went back to my country about two years ago and I bought a piece of land and I have great plans to create something like you created in Orlando. You are a great inspiration Rob, I have learned so much from you just from this video, thank you again and I wish you great success always.
Always looking forward for your videos
Much more to come in the months ahead!
I love that you've lived this life as an example 🥰 thank you for all that you do! Much gratitude 🤗
We utilize catchment tanks here in Hawaii/Big Island due tot he amount of rain on the island. There's an UV filtration in place for this rainwater. Some of the residents live off-grid and sustainably especially, due to the land space on the Big Island. Love your simple lifestyle!
Rob, you are true yogi living according to the dharma (natures laws):
You are simple yet you have inspired me with your great insights about the world that we want to live in:
1. Minimalizing our needs and increasing our responsibilities :) gives us more power.
2. Demonetization and sharing/exchanging our skills and resources.
3. Building community - and empowering others to become more aligned with nature.
4. Our Current situation dictates that whatever we choose we will be faced with hardships, so face it with forbearance (taps) is the right attitude and of course being on the nature side gives us the power to live happily and eventually will die with peaceful, contented mind, instead of passively accepting the current greedy selfish capitalism, consumerism and exploitation of nature and people and later suffering the consequences of this global egoistic karma.
Jai Gurudev ( victory to the big mind )
Very inspiring! Thank you so much 💖!!!!!
To have free energy one day will simplify life for SO many.
to need less energy is what we can start doing right now !
Love your video. Thanks so much. We are not living in a tiny house right now but we went from all most 2000sq ft house to 1000sq ft for 5 of us. We are trying to simplify things and did alot more gardening and our fruit and berry bushes are growing. Please keep sharing your videos We may get there some day.
Be proud of yourself, 1000sqft for five is an example to follow ! "tiny house" has become too much of way to categorize things. We need to use the minimum resources that we can, this applies to housing and other everything else as well
Thanks for this Rob!
Awesome information ! Thank you so much for sharing it.
Xoxo 😘
Knowing what you believe in and believe what you know...
Even my dog Miller loves watching your videos I’ve just taken a photo of him watching this video but can’t upload to show you
Thanks Rob
I saw you at Balboa park san diego with one of your dumpster food exhibits. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love my Berkey 😭💜 It's to the point where I'd rather drink no water than drink out of a faucet. Gives me chills thinking of all the gunk in tap water...
It's very simple to build your own filter.
@@frantzsaintil3624 Yes I've seen many videos of simple versions using two 5 gallon buckets one inside the other with the Berkey filters installed in the top one and a spigot installed in the bottom one.
To take it one step further I imagine you could gather and stratify all the filter mediums, sand, activated charcoal and several more types of materials and build an outdoor water filter which would be helpful in lots of different circumstances for outdoor water filtration.
Yay love that you talked about composting!
Living in a tiny boat. 🙏
Nice simple life..
Very cool
Thank you!
Bro you have been eating well good 👍🏽 welcome to the dad bod club,
Much love from DownUnder 👊🏽
For me the number one concern that i can not not deal with beyond exercise and eating healthy is healthcare. I live off of $200 month after leaving a corporate based job, but am planning to grow enough food and maybe trade for meat so that I can even cut these expenses. I am living communally right now with my family and we share with each other.
much easier to achieve your goals if you give up on meat. this is is one of the best things to do for your health as well. do a little research, get out of the biases. we are apes
@@HueNarcisWorld Gotta get those amino acids for mental health.
@@logiconlyzone nice one, but if logic is what you're after, go research the protein requirement of humans. Start by pondering where gorillas, rhinos, elephants, horses etc get their aminos
@@HueNarcisWorld If it was an exact science we would all be eating less meat. Athletes such as myself eat a lot of protein, its necessary for building muscle. If you know the research i welcome you to lay it out instead of sending me on a research expedition. Now, off to do pushups and eat meat…
Watch a documentary called The Game Changers 💪🏻
I want a simple life in nature too
Good on you 😘
I been watching your videos since before it was cool
it was always cool
Thanks Rob, I loved the video! Thank you ❤️
So inspiring, thank you Rob for all you do!
I love what you said about adjusting to who you are. Some years ago I found a 160sq ft tiny house I loved. I purchased it used so as to not create any more construction trash for landfill. I've lived in it a few times since then but have had a lot of problems finding land I could live on legally that is safe because of yearly fires where I am. Now I'm 60 and starting to feel like all this is passing me by even though I still want to homestead and live tiny. After this video I'm sure I can solve this problem and I'm inspired to think about it. I was going to sell my tiny house but now I may have to think about how to make things work for who I am now.
Thank you Robin ❤❤
Thankyou Rob that was just so good as always listening to you teach about that lifestyle. Even though you said it’s not easy, we can make it as simple as we need to. Your experiences and knowledge that you have gained is great to start us on our way to simple and sustainable.👍🏼👏🏻😃
Thanks for this amazing video
Thanks for the lecture. It's informative and useful.
Thank you ! you are very eloquent
This video is so Great! I'm really amazed with Rob.
Thank you for that, this is it, how we aspire to live. Soon we will have our own tiny house and these are the ways we definitely gonna implement and modify for temperate zone conditions in Estonia.
This was of such value, thank you Rob :) I took notes through the whole video.
Great to hear Sandra! Put them to good use!
Greetings from Beautiful Strasbourg France 🇫🇷
i love that live life
I just started following your channel after seeing a video on fb about your front yard garden. It’s so inspiring and I would move back to the US in a heartbeat if I could live like that!! Definitely made a list of your survival crops as well, thank you
You’re not a lone 👍
I like that Rob mentions solar and wind ,& where these tools are put. In western southern AZ , Chinese families own vast amounts farm land & lease it out to the public utilities, where you see miles and miles of solar panels. I cried the first time I saw them
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This is cool a men from Wisconsin like me
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Thank you Rob
Excellent video
I like my large house! Tiny house can be good for a single person or for a vacation house
I think here you'll meet more of the people who take action about the problems of our societies. In any change, there will always be the first adopters, them the others follow
Could you please provide with a link to the water filter you mentioned. Thank you, keep the good work of helping Mother Earth and all of us. God blessed
It is a Berkey filter. :)
@@Robin.Greenfield 🙏🤗
Hi
What's growing in that glass jar? Looks pretty cool.
It's my mint water. Probably my favorite beverage. :)
Thanks, Rob. I'll give that a try. My mint plant is taking over my yard, so I'll give that a try.
Another great video! You are always so inspiring to listen to! 💚 I love the work you do and taking steps to live more simple and sustainable. 🙌
The compost toilet is still a little scary to me. Especially emptying the bin seems a little gross. Do you have a separate compostpile for your toilet?
Might need to take a look at the book you mentioned 😅
biodynamic is powerful and is the future ..shalom to you all ..bring back the garden is heaven on earth , thank you
Hello again
chia sẻ hay
thank you for this video, I love what you are talking about. I guess a question on the compost toilet is, if someone is in treatment for a medical problem, for example going through chemo treatment, I would be concerned about them using a compost toilet because residual of their treatment could still persist in their poop/output, I would be concerned about using that compost, thoughts? thank you for your work.
You are welcome!
Here is my resource to learn more about composting human poop. Information is addressed on this in the Humanure Handbook which I have included in this resource: robgreenfield.org/humanure
I just watched your video on body odor. I want to stop using deodorants and am wondering if white vinegar would work? I eat a simple diet but eat raw garlic that's been soak in honey.
I and many others like me no longer have bad b.o. and don't need deodorant.
We follow strict carnivore .
I haven't use any soap or deodorants for about 2 years (expect for when I work with automotive lubricants). I keep really actives, spending most of my time outdoor in texas or florida. there is some armpit smell, but nothing to worrisome. clean water is enough for me to wash with(same for my hair). I am vegan which probably contributes to reducing odors
Every body is different. I have never felt a need for vinegar and don't use anything on my armpits, including soap.
I have heard of people using vinegar. Plenty of online resources you can look into!
Brillant
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I would be interested in knowing what has happened to those tiny homes you have left behind. Were they passed on to others or did the homeowners of the properties tear them down and send them to landfills?
I hope that we can do that where I can help develop where I live north of Atlanta motor speedway
Would love to construct my own tiny house in Uganda probably I will be the first 😂🤣😂🤣
Catching rainwater is quite impossible when you live in an appartement, en no rain water hose on my balcony. I suppose a bucket will do too?
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Where did you stay in France? I'm looking for a nice sustainable community there.
Rob- how can I find someone to help me build a sustainable garden in exchange for room? Is there a site for this?
Hi Rob! I share the same opinion about "zooming out", "alignment between values and lifestyle", and also the benefits of demonetizing. But on this last point, how can one deals with the necessity to have a medical treatment an pay for it? This can be a constraint to keep us working for corporations.
Here is an article and video where I discuss this: robgreenfield.org/healthinsurance
LATE posting on purpose..... TINY HOMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN a part of American history. They were called 'shotgun houses', where the slaves and their families lived, while working the fields on large plantations. Sooooooooooooooooooo for me tiny home movement is NOT A NEW ISSUE TO ME Arkansas and Louisiana still have many shotgun houses, where folks still live in them!!!!!!........................................................... a woman of color in the Ozarks
also people have been living in trailer homes for so long; nothing is really that new, just people have short memories
Rob, how were you able to travel to and around France without having a credit or debit card?
This is the lifestyle that I wish to lead. Would love to build a tiny house. Live in Michigan. Seems like its almost impossible
to find communities where it is allowed. thoughts or options ?
it would seem that in many states you are allowed to build a small cabin without permits, it think it needs to be under 250 sqft. also in rural areas you can usually get away with building anything you want without fear of authorities.
Can you recommend any ideas for using a bike safely in rural areas?
Use helmet, lights at dark and go only side roads - never main roads if possible.
Could any one share the name/website of the over the counter water filter he uses? Thanks so much!
Berkey filters