344: Rob Greenfield - Living A Simple & Sustainable Life
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Rob Greenfield (IG: @robjgreenfield) is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues and inspire positive change. Rob's life is an embodiment of Gandhi’s philosophy, “Be the change you wish to see in the world."
In this episode, we discuss:
- Growing up in Wisconsin, in a low income family
- As a child, Rob became an avid collector of things
- After college, Rob backpacked around the world
- Heading to San Diego with only a car full of possessions
- Rob’s epiphany to “wake up”
- Learning about other ways of living
- Asking yourself what you need vs. want
- Making a list of all the changes you want to make
- Keep assessing your possessions every 6-12 months
- Healthy ways to purge your items
- Sharing resources with your neighbours
- Living a more connected life
- The dark side of donating to thrift stores
- Downsizing to 111 possessions
- Less stuff = more time
- Goodbye drivers license, social security card, and bank card
- Not being attached to money
- Life with no bills & no cellphone
- Being mindful means having balance
- The trash suit experiment
- Growing and forging food for a year
- Impact the people around you
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Goodbye drivers license, social security card, and bank card (YouTube)
Growing and Foraging 100% of My Food - No Grocery Stores for a Year! (YouTube)
30 Days of Wearing My Trash (YouTube)
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| 0:00.0 | I started to realize that almost everything that I was doing, the food that I was eating, |
| 0:04.1 | the car that I was driving and the gas that I was pumping into it, the trash that I was creating, |
| 0:08.8 | all the cheap junk that I was buying, even the water that I was drinking in San Diego was being pumped |
| 0:14.4 | across the desert where half of it was soaking into the desert and evaporating |
| 0:18.4 | before even getting to us and the Colorado River was running dry. So I learned that even the water that I was drinking was causing destruction. |
| 0:26.6 | And so I realized that basically everything that I was doing was causing destruction |
| 0:31.4 | to other people, to other species, to the earth as a whole, and I wasn't |
| 0:37.2 | okay with that because that's not the life that I thought I was living. Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 344. |
| 0:51.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:55.5 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness |
| 1:00.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, |
| 1:03.0 | fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 1:05.0 | And this week we are speaking with Rob Greenfield. |
| 1:08.0 | He's an activist and humanitarian |
| 1:10.0 | dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. |
| 1:13.6 | He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues |
| 1:17.7 | and inspire positive change. And we get into a couple of his experiments in today's chat, |
| 1:23.2 | one of them being wearing a suit made from his trash throughout New York City, |
| 1:27.2 | and another was growing and forging all of his food for a year in Orlando, Florida. |
| 1:32.2 | So this was a really interesting conversation. |
| 1:34.0 | And Rob's life is an embodiment of Gandhi's philosophy. |
| 1:38.0 | Be the change you wish to see in the world. |
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