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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

219) Rob Greenfield: Seeing past our socially constructed normalcy to find health and happiness

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Rob Greenfield (previously featured in episode 98) is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to sustainability, equality, and justice. He just spent an entire year growing and foraging all of his own food, so we invited him back to tell us how his experience went!

In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on the key motivations behind his bold decisions to voluntarily earn no more than the federal poverty threshold each year; why he challenges the conventional wisdom of needing to accumulate monetary wealth to gain 'security'; and more.

Featured music: Mining for Steal by Fuchsia

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donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so

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0:54.3

Green Dreamer is supported by our listener patrons.

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And to be honest, my goal is to have at least 10% or just one in 10 of our regular listeners

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supporting the show.

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And we have ways to go until we reach that point.

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So if you've been finding our work valuable and you're able to support the

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show starting at just $2 per month, like a simple morning's cup of tea, you can head to

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greendreamer.com slash support to learn more. And thank you so much if you're already a supporter of the

1:23.5

show. A lot of people think that security is in money. And that's what I used to think, too. My

1:28.6

goal was to be a millionaire by the time I was 30. I'm 33 now and I've got $5,000 in an envelope.

1:34.8

That's all the money that I have, literally. I have no retirement fund, no Roth IRAs, no life

1:41.9

insurance, like literally no financial savings beyond this envelope of cash. But I feel

1:48.8

extremely secure. That was Rob Greenfield, an activist and humanitarian dedicated to

1:57.9

sustainability, equality, and justice. We had Rob back on episode 98 on Green Dreamer podcast, and last year he spent an entire year

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