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🗓️ 17 March 2022
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The Minimalists and environmentalist Claire Potter discuss the most important considerations for a minimalist when creating a more sustainable life. Listen to full episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists
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0:00.0 | What are three things that every minimalist must consider to create a more sustainable life? |
0:12.9 | Well, you have the three hours in the book and you expand it. |
0:16.1 | I think there's like nine of them or ten or I agree with the file. |
0:19.6 | Twelve hours. |
0:20.6 | Twelve hours. |
0:21.6 | And so I don't like this sort of overly simplistic level of thinking. |
0:29.0 | If I just do these three things, but then of course there is sort of the 80-20 rule, |
0:33.4 | whereas like what is the low-hanging fruit here? |
0:36.7 | And so maybe you could talk about three things for your average person or handful of things |
0:42.1 | that would make sense to live a more environmentally friendly life. |
0:46.6 | Oh, oh, wow, that's a big question. |
0:50.0 | The first thing I would say to people is do an audit of the way that you live. |
0:55.3 | Because what I talk about in the book, yeah, there's twelve different hours, eleven and |
0:58.5 | twelve are kind of together and yeah, a lot of us can sign kind of work away through that. |
1:02.9 | But I've also had conversation with people that have said, what things do I need to buy |
1:07.8 | to become more environmentally friendly? |
1:09.9 | Or what do I need to do to become more environmentally friendly? |
1:12.6 | And the first thing I sort of say is, well, how do you live your life? |
1:16.6 | You don't need to buy a reusable coffee cup if you never get take out coffee. |
1:21.2 | Right. |
1:22.2 | The people look at the Instagram and the Pinterest and like, oh, you know, all of those shopping |
1:28.1 | guides, ten things you need. |
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