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Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:03 am
by jacob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e47NMAsv ... 2563119249
Journal of the Yurt Playlist (the playlist only gets to episode 39, but there are more episodes available)
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:21 pm
by Felix
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:56 am
by Felix
Lots of reasons not to be a consumer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYXKSy2fb8
Brilliant Australian TV show. Amazing that this stuff gets airtime.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:35 pm
by theanimal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSQ0W2l ... LgnW-7v-cQ
This video discusses Brian, a polymath living in northwest Oregon. Brian has constructed 5 tiny homes on his completely off-grid property with all kinds of unique technologies that he created or adapted to his structures. He also owns and operates the organic farm on his property as well as a business building traditional kayaks.
YouTube Description
Brian is an "obsessive craftsman" who believes he can build most anything in his life. On his Oregon farm he has built, or renovated, 5 tiny structures. After being told by the county that he couldn't erect a yurt, he built a code-approved main house "to give us a place to legally stay".
Once the main house was built, he created several smaller structures (less than 200 square feet) on the property from 90% local materials.
The farm is completely off the grid and Schulz points out that this doesn't mean they rely on propane or lots of photovoltaics. Nearly all their tools for living have been adapted to fit the off-grid lifestyle. For his prototype solar-powered bathhouse Schulz used recycled solar hot water panels, salvaged hot water tanks (from the dump), a solar thermal window and a recycled soaking tub. Indoors, Schulz has adapted a chest freezer to create a low-consuming refrigerator (using a tenth of the electricity of a regular fridge) and a 1940s wood-fired cookstove to cook, heat and as a heat-exchanger, harvesting waste heat and thermo-syphoning water to heat up the home's hot water.
They do have a limited number of photovoltaic panels which produce about 1000 watts of electricity when the sun is shining (for the entire farm), as well as a micro hydro generator in the creek and solar thermal panels.
Schulz models much of what he builds on the Japanese aesthetic and tries to make everything in his life not just functional, but beautiful (e.g. his bathhouse was designed not just as a shower, but as a way to de-stress).
Schulz is an avid kayaker and for his day job, he builds skin-on-frame kayaks (as well as teach others to build their own).
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 5:48 pm
by stand@desk
Amazing Resource. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 3:33 pm
by Dragline
Here's a nice discussion of the applicability of stoicism to modern life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJZKFWPnY4
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 5:30 pm
by stand@desk
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 5:38 pm
by jacob
This is a video only thread.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:47 pm
by stand@desk
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/12/t ... um=twitter
On looking at life.. (this one is a video, sorry about my last post JLF)
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:56 am
by 1taskaday
Hi Stand@desk,
Keep standing at that desk and showing us great links and information.
I will have loads of reading to catch up on over Christmas holidays.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 6:48 pm
by stand@desk
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:52 pm
by jennypenny
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:48 pm
by Ego
The Long Now Foundation is now publishing their dozen most recent Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) on their website for free:
http://blog.longnow.org/02014/01/06/lon ... -everyone/
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 3:31 pm
by Felix
Charles Eisenstein: Money, Values and Trust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScOgao-tRwU
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:43 pm
by jennypenny
The movie is about an hour. Interesting watching him try and live without money by a combination of homesteading and bartering with parishioners.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/201401 ... imple-life
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 9:49 pm
by stand@desk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iti4JU5ObU
Family Road Trip on the West Coast USA, thoughts on philosophy, simple living, meeting others who live similar along the way..
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 11:18 pm
by theanimal
I've watched a few videos featuring Russell Brand lately and he has a very similar mindset to ERE. Anti-advertisements, news, destruction of the planet, celebrity worshiping etc.
"I'm glad that I have these heroes (Ghandi, Che Guevara, Malcom X, Jesus) that represent values outside of our popular culture and I urge all of you to choose heroes as well. Because if you don't choose heroes they will be chosen for you and they will not represent values that empower you but powers that enslave you. Ideas that enslave you."
The whole thing is good IMO but here's a great section related to ERE from his new comedy program Messiah Complex. From 50:30 to 1:27:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8PbxaCer4#t=3030
WARNING Highly graphic content. Fair amount of sexual and profane language. If you tend to get offended by either, you probably shouldn't watch.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:24 pm
by jennypenny
Frontier House: Follow the lives of three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did on the American frontier in 1883.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL872C99D9FA0E253E
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:57 pm
by theanimal
@jennypenny Thanks for posting. I've watched a couple episodes so far..great stuff. The Klune family is pathetic. Makes me think that a lot of people today wouldn't be able to handle living under these conditions.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:36 pm
by oldbeyond
Man builds a house out of his woodland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08jnUX-prfs
Ben seems like true EREr. Not only has he built his own house, he grows his own food and runs a business selling wood/charcoal.