Simple and Sustainable Living in a Tiny House!
Simple and Sustainable Living in a Tiny House!
Robin Greenfield shares his lessons in simple and sustainable living in a tiny house. This video was filmed as a class in the Wild Abundance Tiny House Academy. It was filmed summer of 2021 at Wild Abundance, a permaculture and homesteading school nestled in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. It’s also a home, a hub, and a dream of a more interconnected and sustainable world. Their campus is a living example of everything they teach with beautiful handcrafted buildings, abundant gardens, and a community of passionate people.
Wild Abundance is here to help people nurture a lifestyle in alignment with the natural world. They offer classes that cover subjects foundational to human culture for millennia. You can sign up for their Tiny House Academy, get your permaculture design certificate or learn things like survival skills and basic carpentry, and much more! They offer classes both in person and online.
Rob highly recommends education at Wild Abundance!
Check out their Tiny House Academy at: https://www.wildabundance.net/classes/online-tiny-house-building-class
Check out their Online Gardening School:
https://www.wildabundance.net/classes/online-gardening-school
Filmed by Art Before Comfort Films https://www.artbeforecomfort.com
Edited by Connor Revely https://www.connorreveley.com
Robin Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer and servant to Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives. He lives simply and sustainably to be the change he wishes to see in the world. Through living closely connected to Earth, he rejects the status quo of consumerism and demonstrates a way of being in gratitude, mindfulness and presence. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity.
Robin’s public activism involves dramatic actions designed to provoke critical thought, self-reflection and positive change. His activism creates nuanced conversations on the critical issues of our time, with a focus on solutions for living in harmony.
His life’s work has been covered by media worldwide and he has been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV and “The Forrest Gump of Ecology”.
Robin has committed to earning below the federal poverty threshold for life and donates 100% of his media earnings to grassroots nonprofits, with a focus on supporting Black and Indigenous women-led organizations.
This channel is a resource for all who seek to liberate themselves, to live in truth and integrity, and to live in harmony with Earth, humanity and the plants and animals we share this home with.
Robin Greenfield and Dear Friends share means of achieving liberation and harmony through sustainable living, simple living, tiny house living, foraging, growing food and medicine, minimalism, zero waste, earth-skills, food sovereignty, community resilience, compassionate communication, activism, Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty and living in service.
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This guy would be a great neighbor.
After following Rob, advertisements for stuff and shopping malls are eww.
No shoes?!😮😳
Greetings from Beautiful Strasbourg France 🇫🇷
So inspiring, thank you Rob for all you do!
Rob, can we get rid of all corporations and all professionals? For example, we need doctors, we need those that make tires for bicycles, those that make the solar panels, etc…
One simple Q, how do you wash your clothes without electricity?
This talk was so inspiring.
I would be interested in knowing what has happened to those tiny homes you have left behind. Were they passed on to others or did the homeowners of the properties tear them down and send them to landfills?
biodynamic is powerful and is the future ..shalom to you all ..bring back the garden is heaven on earth , thank you
Thank you so much Robin, very informative. I went from living in 28 foot caravan for 3 years to having a larger one bedroom flat. I have found that now I have accumulated far to much stuff from living in this flat. My remedy moving my bed into the lounge/dining/kitchen open plan space and reducing my stuff so it fits only into that space and without looking cluttered, even my bathroom is empty, I will just take what I need to the bathroom as I did when living in the caravan at the camping ground. After I have completed this shift and sort into my lounge my goal is to continue and reduce my stuff further. My dream is to live as much as possible outside and only have
a small indoor space to sleep and shelter from the rain.
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Thank you!
We utilize catchment tanks here in Hawaii/Big Island due tot he amount of rain on the island. There’s an UV filtration in place for this rainwater. Some of the residents live off-grid and sustainably especially, due to the land space on the Big Island. Love your simple lifestyle!
Thanks for this Rob!
Thank you Robin ❤❤
OF when? u cute
Wild Abundance is here to help people nurture a lifestyle in alignment with the natural world. They offer classes that cover subjects foundational to human culture for millennia.
You can sign up for their Tiny House Academy, get your permaculture design certificate or learn things like survival skills and basic carpentry, and much more! They offer classes both in person and online.
I highly recommend education at Wild Abundance!
Check out their Tiny House Academy:
https://www.wildabundance.net/classes/online-tiny-house-building-class/
Check out their Online Gardening School:
https://www.wildabundance.net/classes/online-gardening-school/
Another great video! You are always so inspiring to listen to! 💚 I love the work you do and taking steps to live more simple and sustainable. 🙌
The compost toilet is still a little scary to me. Especially emptying the bin seems a little gross. Do you have a separate compostpile for your toilet?
Might need to take a look at the book you mentioned 😅
I love that you’ve lived this life as an example 🥰 thank you for all that you do! Much gratitude 🤗
Can you recommend any ideas for using a bike safely in rural areas?
Nature worship leads to human sacrifice over and over again in history.
Would love to construct my own tiny house in Uganda probably I will be the first 😂🤣😂🤣
I love what you said about adjusting to who you are. Some years ago I found a 160sq ft tiny house I loved. I purchased it used so as to not create any more construction trash for landfill. I’ve lived in it a few times since then but have had a lot of problems finding land I could live on legally that is safe because of yearly fires where I am. Now I’m 60 and starting to feel like all this is passing me by even though I still want to homestead and live tiny. After this video I’m sure I can solve this problem and I’m inspired to think about it. I was going to sell my tiny house but now I may have to think about how to make things work for who I am now.
Brillant
Yes using human waste compost for fertilizer to the plants, the vegetables are organic and taste best❤ nothing like the cardboard plastic taste these days from the typical grocery store. When we were kids, parents in that generation practice these human waste and cow manures compost as fertilizer in the rural area. ❤
Awesome information ! Thank you so much for sharing it.
Xoxo 😘
Amazing lecture Rob! Thank you for sharing! I’ve been following you for a while and I have watched a lot of your videos and I absolutely love your content. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about simple living and sustainable living. I went back to my country about two years ago and I bought a piece of land and I have great plans to create something like you created in Orlando. You are a great inspiration Rob, I have learned so much from you just from this video, thank you again and I wish you great success always.
This video is so Great! I’m really amazed with Rob.
Catching rainwater is quite impossible when you live in an appartement, en no rain water hose on my balcony. I suppose a bucket will do too?
Rob, you are true yogi living according to the dharma (natures laws):
You are simple yet you have inspired me with your great insights about the world that we want to live in:
1. Minimalizing our needs and increasing our responsibilities 🙂 gives us more power.
2. Demonetization and sharing/exchanging our skills and resources.
3. Building community – and empowering others to become more aligned with nature.
4. Our Current situation dictates that whatever we choose we will be faced with hardships, so face it with forbearance (taps) is the right attitude and of course being on the nature side gives us the power to live happily and eventually will die with peaceful, contented mind, instead of passively accepting the current greedy selfish capitalism, consumerism and exploitation of nature and people and later suffering the consequences of this global egoistic karma.
Jai Gurudev ( victory to the big mind )
Thanks for the lecture. It’s informative and useful.
Just collect your kitchen waste, dig a hole in the garden and bury them. That’ll turn to gardener gold.
If I ever achieve my goal of finding or establishing a place locally for communal living, expect a message from me to pick your brain.
I hope that we can do that where I can help develop where I live north of Atlanta motor speedway
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I saw you at Balboa park san diego with one of your dumpster food exhibits. Thanks for the inspiration.
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I just started following your channel after seeing a video on fb about your front yard garden. It’s so inspiring and I would move back to the US in a heartbeat if I could live like that!! Definitely made a list of your survival crops as well, thank you
My family thinks I’m crazy because I’d truly love to move into my motorhome eventually. I want to live a minimalist life with my children. I want to teach them the value of lost skills.
I like that Rob mentions solar and wind ,& where these tools are put. In western southern AZ , Chinese families own vast amounts farm land & lease it out to the public utilities, where you see miles and miles of solar panels. I cried the first time I saw them
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Excellent video
Rob, how were you able to travel to and around France without having a credit or debit card?
Thank you for that, this is it, how we aspire to live. Soon we will have our own tiny house and these are the ways we definitely gonna implement and modify for temperate zone conditions in Estonia.
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I want a simple life in nature too
THIS GUY IS THE BEST!!!!!!
IVE LEARNED SO MUCH. THANK YOU SIR.
Where did you stay in France? I’m looking for a nice sustainable community there.