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Eco-Friendly Communities & Why We Need Each Other

Eco-Friendly Communities & Why We Need Each Other


Eco-friendly communities drive big ideas

 

Few would object: Kinship is important. Humans are evolutionarily designed to live alongside others; eco-friendly communities facilitate the sharing of resources, too.

Still, many of us have minimal – (if any!) – contact with our neighbors. And although we may quite physically live within a community, so many of us feel isolated.

My guest today argues that close-knit groups are important for another reason: When it comes to sustainability, eco-friendly communities share ideas, encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and drive innovation.

Today’s guest is Waylon Jepsen. Waylon grew up in an off-the-grid environment that offered a unique perspective on why, exactly, humans need each other. He’s on the show to explain how community matters; he offers ideas for engaging green-leaning neighbors, too.

 

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Fossil fuels power our modern lives, and yet fossil fuels are also powering global warming. Because many of us lack the self-sufficient skills necessary to survive an extended power outage event, we are one thing and one thing only: vulnerable.

We have become over-reliant on the very thing that's destroying our planet. On today's show: Imagining the ways in which modern life, interpersonal connections, well-being and more would change in a hypothetical, fossil fuel-free world.

 

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[6:00] We are so reliant on electricity that we are incapacitated without it. This is a problem!

[11:00] In the event of a 2-weeks plus outage, modernity would look a lot different

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