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Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

These days, dry cleaners press shirts, industrialized farms grow monocrops, and factories churn out single-use varieties of (nearly) everything. And when a possession looks a little worn or a little torn? Many Americans trash it and buy new without a second thought. Life can be simpler, more affordable, and downright sweeter when you do things yourself and maintain what you already own. On today's show: Calling on the timeless wisdom of our great grandparents to re-learn specific, self-sufficient skills for the long haul. Here's a preview of the skills we are re-learning today: [5:30] How to season your cast iron skillet [9:30] How to buy local food every week [21:00] How to best care for your leather footwear Resources mentioned: Episode #468: Cooking With Cast Iron Episode #494: Streamlining Non-Negotiables localharvest.org This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists

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0:00.0	Live on the zone October 19th,
0:02.0	Francis Inganu returns to the cage
0:04.0	versus Heena Fijera.
0:06.0	When Giants collide, the Earth shakes.
0:08.0	The Professional Fighters League presents
0:10.0	Battle of the Giants.
0:11.0	The two most feared MMA fighters clash in the cage for the world heavyweight title.
0:15.0	Plus, MMA legend Chris Cybal faces two-time PFL champion, Larissa Pacheco, in one of the biggest women's
0:22.0	MMA fights ever. Battle of the Giants.
0:25.0	And Garnu versus The Heera, October 19th live on the zone by now at the zone dot com.
0:29.6	Well hello there and welcome my name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to
0:35.0	episode 503 of the sustainable minimalist podcast. This is a listener supported show
0:41.4	about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.
0:45.6	On today's show, we're discussing stuff you should know.
0:50.6	Now I've been thinking an awful lot lately about our cultural transition towards single use
0:57.9	disposable items.
1:00.3	Clothing is rapidly on that journey towards becoming a single use disposable item.
1:06.0	Food made out of the home wrapped in that single use packaging.
1:11.0	Tools, you name it, there's a cheaper and therefore disposable
1:16.4	option on the market. If you ask me, we Americans, we have taken this reverence for disposability way too far and we took
1:27.4	it too far decades ago but I do wonder how much further are we going to take it? Disposable bedsheets perhaps? Is some
1:36.7	company going to make sheets for our beds that we just throw out in the trash after sleeping on them for one week and these sheets will be
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