Another purpose of this is trying not to use much carbon
but obviously that's not sustainable. So, I'm gonna boil
some eggs.
It's early but we are on a beautiful retreat out in sea ranch.
We're gonna do a morning run, some yoga, go to the
beach, meditate for an hour so this mindful running kind of
retreat. This is just everything I've been wanting to
do and more.
Something I've been thinking
about a lot lately is how I can revitalize my lifestyle. I know
I've picked up some bad habits along the way in lockdown and
I'm trying to make more deliberate choices across all
my life's touch points. Before working on this project,
I really didn't understand the carbon cost of my daily
activities. Here's some sizing for contacts. An average
balloon weighs about one gram. And if we were to look at the
average and daily carbon emissions per person, it
equates to an average of 20 thousand balloons. Lately, just
traveling to far off places has caught off the access of
temptations to consume. Comforting hot water, baths, to
to consume processed foods, to consume takeout, electricity,
shopping.
Now that I'm home, I wanna take everything I've been exposed to
in the last few weeks to ground myself back to earth.
You wanna go on a run? Yeah? Ok come on!
The only way I can take a cold shower is to go on a really
long run. A quick one. I just did 15 minutes and now I'm
ready for a cold shower. To appreciate a brisk cold shower
to offset the carbon cost of a long hot one. Oh yeah, actually
now that you're out of it, it does feel good. I want to go to
an estate sale. I think it's maybe like the easiest way to
to absolutely stay carbon neutral is to buy things second
hand and it's fun. My friend is coming over and we're gonna go
hit it up together. I'm hungry. I'm gonna eat really quick
before my friend gets here. I made this really good soup with
just like napa cabbage and tofu. Oh, it has oyster
mushroom that I picked up from the farmer's market. It's
really good cold too. Filling meal that's just gonna cool me
from the inside out. If you wanna reduce carbon footprint,
try to make big batches. You don't have to cook as much. Eat
things cold so you're cooking less. Be a good boy like that.
This is my quick little whip. - Wow, this is a spaceship. - I know.
Cuz it's like a completely carbon neutral car like it only
uses hydrogen gas. Um so like it emits water. And if I'm
going to enjoy consumption to really make an effort to always
keep it second hand. This? I need, I need this. I think this
is coming home with me. Alright, thank you. Oh my god,
I love it. Thank you. This is Paula's second estate
sale of her life. - I'm having so much fun. I haven't bought
anything yet but I'm having a great time. - Maybe today. For
this one, hopefully.
She got things.
Maybe even spend more time with my dog and
actively paying attention to him. Um to entertaining myself
by logging off and and food. I mean, the thing that we have to
consume every single day. This car is like a dream to vlog in
because it's so quiet. Farmers Market on this beautiful
evening. Also, I'm gonna try not to buy too much products
because I am gonna go out of town. So, I need to be
conscious of how much I'm gonna buy. So nothing goes to waste.
Isn't that funny? Okay, I have one bag, two bag,
How do we have a better relationship with that? We can
buy locally from our farmers markets to save on food miles
and to support the farmers that do have a regenerative farm and
produce so maybe you can meet carbon neutral there.
Oh, I love how late the sun stays out. Right now. Oh, yeah. I'm
gonna make myself a salad. Maybe going a little bit more
plant based. We're also making a salad because it requires
less energy on a lot of levels. I got this beautiful lettuce at
the farmer's market. So cheap too. It's like $2 a head. I feel
like this is a little bit more at the grocery store and not as
fresh, not as local, and not as delicious and organic.
The snap peas are almost going bad. So I am gonna use them up.
It's a pretty meek salad. Another purpose of this is
trying not to use much carbon but obviously that's not
sustainable. So, I'm gonna boil some eggs. I get my eggs from
a specific farmer in my local farmers market, I'm gonna do
one brown and one kind of light bluish.
Okay. Up up. Good boy. Still throws me off how quiet this
car is. Still don't like it? No? If anyone has any
suggestions to make her like more comfortable in a moving
vehicle, please send him my way because he still does not love it.
Are we at the dog park? To think now, off lining is like
the status luxury. It's the modern curse of our lives that
we're almost exclusively processed through some sort of
institutionalized consumption but It doesn't have to be that
way. I'm allowing myself to start presently playing in
nature. To challenge myself to not have to consume something
and just be present and still with whatever activity I
choose. Even if it's just sitting down.