Welcome back to another episode of the “Weird Is Great” podcast! Today I won’t be focusing on one particular topic. I will camp around our homestead update for a few minutes, but the bulk of this show is going to be “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” What will I be telling about? The joy of [...]
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Why green cleaning? Are conventional cleaners really that bad? Well, let me ask you this question: Say you have a three-year-old who wants to help you clean the toilet. Would you let him or her do it with the toilet bowl cleaner you have on hand? No? Well, why not? Chances are, you don’t have [...]
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Is there an eco-friendly laundry solution that really gets things clean? Tune in to hear my journey, as well as my opinion on the subject. This episode includes a surprising admission and confession from The Crunchy Coach.
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Do you live in a green house? Wish that you did? Me, too! And Jerry, Benjamin and I will eventually. So to find out what truly constitutes “green”, I’ve done a lot of digging in the area of alternative building during the past year or so. This Weird Is Great episode is a culmination of [...]
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Okay, so I don’t exactly reveal every single personal detail of my life in this episode. But I do begin a new segment for the Weird Is Great podcast entitled, “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” And in the main section I explain why I live the lifestyle that I do. So, why do I live [...]
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Healthy living is essential to living a full, happy life. But what exactly does it mean? Many people think of it in terms of right diet and enough exercise. But even that is vague and a source of great controversy. Is eating meat essential to health, or is it a sure path to cancer and [...]
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In this post, I expressed my great hope at soon being able to build and move into the most energy-efficient home on earth: the earthship. But that was before I knew about the Monolithic Dome. As you can see by the video, the Monolithic Dome is not nearly as energy efficient as an earthship. It [...]
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Most Americans’ idea of a dream home is something like a large mini-mansion with six bedrooms, six full baths and four living areas. (What a way to save money!) Not mine. I want to live in an earthship. An earthship is made of rammed earth tires (tires filled with packed dirt) with solar panels on [...]
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For those of us who are really into the level of healthy living known as “green”, finding an eco-friendly pillow can be a challenge. One of the biggest challenges is that not only do we want it to be free of unsustainable materials, but comfortable as well. The greatest ideal for such a pillow is [...]
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Under the heading of ways to save money…I have a laundry quandry. A few years ago, before I was really into green and trying to buy only natural and/or sustainable materials, I bought this nylon laundry basket from a home department store. It isn’t your typical plastic basket, but a deep nylon cylinder held up [...]
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