Living a Regenerative Lifestyle
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Eddy Garcia has lived off-grid since he was 7, so he has a wealth of knowledge to share about what living a truly regenerative lifestyle means.
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Eddy Garcia has been living off-grid since he was 7 years old. He’s the lead designer of Living Earth Systems, and the Founder and Executive Director of Regenerative Education Centers.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:16.1 | podcast. We're joined again by Eddie Garcia, who is the lead designer of |
| 0:20.2 | Living Earth Systems and the founder and executive director of Regenerative Education |
| 0:24.4 | Centers. You can find that at our e centers.org but Eddie also has been living off |
| 0:28.9 | grid since he was seven years old which I think is in today society that's definitely more uncommon |
| 0:35.5 | than it is common Eddie so I would love to start there when we're talking about |
| 0:39.6 | living a regenerative lifestyle how did just how did that play out? |
| 0:43.9 | How did that come to be the case and what was that like? |
| 0:47.4 | Yeah, so that it sounds a little odd when someone would tell you someone's |
| 0:51.3 | been living off-grid since they were seven years old. |
| 0:54.6 | So technically I've been actually living on my own and mostly off-grid since I was about |
| 0:59.5 | 12. |
| 1:00.5 | I've been experimenting with turning light bulbs and old batteries to light my room and |
| 1:09.4 | making different things wiring up solar panels before solar panels were really known about. |
| 1:14.2 | I'm in my 50s now. |
| 1:15.7 | So it wasn't a real thing there, but I didn't want to have electricity, so I wanted my room to be |
| 1:20.9 | the tail light out of the car that was going to the dump and the battery |
| 1:24.8 | that still had enough energy with it where we found a solar panel. |
| 1:28.1 | Wow, a solar panel was like $500 back then for a 50 watt panel. |
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