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SuperLife with Darin Olien

How To Become Self-Sufficient With Zero-Waste Homes | Joost Bakker

SuperLife with Darin Olien

Darin Olien

Activism, Motivation, Environment, Education, Self-improvement, Fitness, Wellness, Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Is your home currently operating in a way that allows you to be self-sufficient?
In this episode of The Darin Olien Show, I chat with Joost Bakker about his vision of what a zero-waste world would look like. While we produce a lot of waste in our homes, we don’t have a solution as to what to do with the waste at this moment. However, we have the technology to use our waste and our homes to transform them into a powerhouse and source of energy and food for ourselves, all while being as green as possible.
Joost also shares how our food system is broken. The systems we have in place to feed our people aren’t sustainable and it is only a question of time until it breaks. He proposes alternatives to some of the problems he notices in our food system, such as the milk system.
Joost Bakker has been called a visionary, disruptor, environmental activist, and ahead of his time. Over the last 25 years, Joost has highlighted the world’s wasteful ways using multiple platforms from art installations, floristry, design, and architecture to bars and restaurants.
What we discuss:
01:05: What progress are the greenhouses experiencing?
08:00: What other places in the world is soil mined?
12:17: How did the fuel we have today was born?
18:22: Is our current food system hurting us?
21:37: How is the system failing us?
23:24: Why do we keep creating synthetic materials?
28:55: Why was Joost threatened to go to jail?
40:18: Can we make naturally-made houses?
49:33: How many opportunities are there in Los Angeles?
52:55: What did Joost do after each filming?
01:02:55: What is the #1 problem on earth?
01:06:00: Where to learn more from Joost?
Key takeaways:
  • We create a lot of waste and we don’t know what to do with it. Most of it is simply fermented and will further contribute to our environmental crisis as it emits gas into our atmosphere. We need to pay attention to this problem and look for ways to minimize the impact we all individually have on the environment. Our homes should be the first place we look at.
  • Our homes are currently being built in a way where they become waste at some point in time. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There is a way to build a self-sustaining, zero-waste, productive house. We can and must build homes that provide shelter, produce food and generate energy. We must build our homes in the future to be self-sufficient.
  • Our food system is broken. When we look at all the waste that is produced throughout the supply chain to post-consumption, there is so much that can be done to be more efficient with our resources. We need to challenge the way we cultivate our food in first-world countries so that we can sustainably feed ourselves.
Find more from Joost:
Instagram: @joostbakker
Find more from Darin:
More links:
Shop Bite and use code DARIN20 to save 20% on your Bite subscription: https://trybite.com/darin
Shop Therasage and use code DARIN to save 15% on your purchase: https://therasage.com/pages/shop

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. This is Dernolene. This is the Dernolene show, my show.

0:10.8

And I'm grateful for you for listening. Make sure to like and subscribe. Please pass this

0:17.3

along as information is power. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than my next guest.

0:24.0

Is your home currently operating in a way that allows you to be self-sufficient? Do you have water?

0:30.8

Do you have power? Do you have food? Do you have shelter? Do you have waste? Annihilation?

0:36.5

Probably not. This is what we are going to explore in this episode of the Dernolene show

0:43.8

with my great friend from Australia and featured in season two of Down to Earth,

0:50.1

Yost Baker. I love this guy. We chat about our vision and his vision of a zero-waste world,

1:00.5

what that would look like, how we could get there. While we produce a lot of waste in our homes,

1:06.9

we don't have a solution as to what to do with the waste at this moment. We don't have,

1:16.0

but there's many options. What Yost knows, people we both know. However, we have the technology

1:24.0

to use our waste and our homes to transform them into power and a source of energy and food

1:33.8

for ourselves all while being green as possible and living in a first-class kind of way. Yost also

1:43.9

shares how our food system is absolutely, and I agree, broken. The systems we have in place to

1:52.2

feed our people aren't at all sustainable. They're under threat even more. They're chemicalized

2:00.9

way beyond into oblivion, and it is only a question of time until it utterly breaks. Sorry to

2:10.7

Yost Baker, my buddy, has been called a visionary disruptor, environmental activist, and way

2:18.8

ahead of his time. Over the last 25 years, Yost has highlighted the world's wasteful ways

2:27.2

using multiple platforms from art installations, the floral industry, a design architecture to bars

2:37.8

and restaurants, had one of the first amazing zero waste restaurants. Because we dive into this

2:46.9

in this episode, I first want to thank my sponsor, Therosage. If you want a great sauna in a bunch

2:54.7

of other amazing tech that has been thought out way more than most products out there,

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