Eco-Friendly Products | The Minimalists Ep. 421

[@TheMinimalists]

What’s your favorite eco-friendly product?

[@kamloopscruiser874]

The laundry strips

[@nicB7777]

Cleaning cloths from our old COTTON t-shirts and pillowcases

[@cmburns2606]

The ones I can make myself

[@catmandoo3735]

Packing peanuts made out of corn starch that disolve in water. Just received a box with them surrounding my fragile order. I always test one in water to see if it really is one of the disolving ones.

[@paigelouise1177]

Blueland refillable products

[@dragonfly4water]

I LOVE drinking coffee barefoot in the yard with the kitties in the morning. It's the ultimate solitude to start my day. No matter the weather.

[@ronnie-lynn]

Would love to know where you live? Don’t think you would be doing that in my local weather.

[@di_kid00]

Dr. Zach Bush! Spearheading the revolution on regenerative farming and soil health and I’m here for it. An awesome episode with TK, JFM and Alex.

[@slane_design]

@ZachBushMD the voice of wisdom!!! Thanks for having him on!!

[@eldigitom9680]

32:02 A deer eats tomato off the vine because it has hoofs. Humans have hands so we don't need to do that. There are many other differences between humans and animals--starting with the digestive system--which eliminates the need to emulate other species food consumption. We are able to pick, peel, pack, preserve (when necessary), plant, and produce our own food, and have many other advantages over animals--and some disadvantages--but no use pretending we need to live like them. I did very much enjoy the story though👍

[@clairejackson1865]

The most eco friendly items are those you choose to refuse. If you refuse it , there will be less demand for it so less will be made causing a lower impact on the environment!

[@HazelPierreManuelDurufle]

That's true, but I think the questioner wanted to know about essential items, probably diapers and cleaning stuffs and that kind of thing. Shame no info was given.

[@protectionassociation698]

How relaxing to hear the truth for a change...the part about Carbon...was perfect

[@TruthQuest4700]

Although I like my new "eco-friendly" mattress, I've wished so many times that I had kept the mattress I had and a product already within the environment instead of spending more money on a product that doesn't induce sleep nor improve my allergies any better. Hindsight is 20/20.

[@Yannispawn]

‘There’s no animal in nature that eats fruit picked off the vine? It only eats fruit on the vine’. WHAT? 🤪 I watch deer eat apples, and nuts off the ground all the time. Also, birds, raccoons, squirrels, possums etc. If they want the ripe stuff and it falls first, that’s what they eat. And yes, there is still fruit on the tree they could choose instead.

[@julieheppe6252]

I think this has been the best podcast you guys have ever produced. Thank you ❤

[@northernlassie2755]

Excellent information! 👍 Processed foods create pollution and unfriendly waste. Soil is very important for nutrients. You are what you eat...

[@GregorVDub]

Probably one of the best episodes yet

[@paigelouise1177]

Start going eco friendly slowly helps. Use what you have of X "bad quality" thing and next time you go to buy it get the better option. It will be less overwhelming to you and your bank account. Also there is no shame if you cannot afford something its okay to wait until you can.

[@Iquey]

This podcast episode reminds me of when i saw a video about vegans asking people "imagine if all the meat you ate from the grocery store was labeled with the slaughter date! How would that affect sales?" And many people in the comments were like "good. That's important to know actually"😂

[@brianamarie1859]

Happiness is a byproduct, not a product you buy. THAT should’ve been your quote for the episode 😂

[@maggieborek8499]

What if the blueberry is frozen? I've heard in the past that frozen, organic summer fruit has the nutrients locked in. Is there any truth to that?

[@cassiemurphy4851]

Poor Mandy! You all had an interesting conversation but unfortunately didn’t answer her question. At a minimum DIY cleaning products in reusable containers. How about some practical help instead of philosophizing?

[@HazelPierreManuelDurufle]

Totally agree

[@broomhag]

Thank you gentlemen. I have learned SO much with this show.

[@magdalenabrett3645]

Amazing episode! Thank you.

[@therealjenniferrr]

Say yes to real food!

[@jammyers8165]

Happiness is not a BUY product

[@stephanierausch7758]

OMG Dr, organic chemistry for a year was hell for me too!

[@shirleyburnham2782]

Loved this x

[@angelikabronner1220]

Plastic bottles and glass is easy to recycle but some people don't do it

[@pragmaticpoet]

Funny I was revisiting Tom Robbins quote from Jitterbug Perfume recently 'Breath properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.' 😎

[@KatherineKuehn-Bao]

Amazing book!

[@FisherOfMen705]

Maybe "buy product" is a by-product! Also, side note, TK looks great with the facial hair.

[@Vista384]

Love your show. However, animals are not food, they are individuals.

[@ronnie-lynn]

I live in Alberta, Canada. We just had a cold snap of -51 there are no fruits or vegetables that can be grown for probably 9 months. So are you saying due to where i live I should strictly be eating say beef from a local butcher that has just recently been slaughtered? And then local produce from farmers for the 3 months nature provides us?

[@gloiraingle136]

Whatabout frozen veggies and fruit healthy or not?

[@nicB7777]

Who is the clip around 28:00? I want to see more!

[@suzannesearcyjohnson]

👍

[@depe7946]

WHERE DO THESE GUYS SHOP? WHERE ARE THE BLACK SHIRTS FROM.. I SEE ALL THE MINIMALIST DRESSD IN BLACK. MINIMALISTS IN BLACK

[@RoyalRiverRefinishedFurnitureb]

The eco guy sounds like hes on drunk history slurring

[@jwatkins672012]

I have to push back on your guest. Overall, I agree with most of what is being said, however, your guest makes a fundamental, but understandable mistake when talking about atmospheric CO2 levels. Understandable because climate scientists never really talk about this, they always focus on total CO2 rather than the more important number, rate of CO2 increase. I wanted to yell, wrong, wrong, wrong, it's all about rate, rate, rate! All life has adjusted to the level of CO2, but these are on huge timescales, not 10's or 100's of years. Go look at the rate of change of CO2 from 1 million to 150 year ago and compare it to 150 years ago to today. It's dramatic and really burns me that the guest states that higher level is somehow good without looking at rate and whose responsible for that far higher rate increase.

[@HazelPierreManuelDurufle]

So in response to a question about eco-friendly products, your guest suggests driving to a different country to look at 'indigenous people' like they're some kind of zoo animals. ('It's only a couple of tanks of gas,' he says!) That's probably the least eco-friendly and most disrespectful response you could have aired. Come on Minimalists, you can do better.

[@da4levi]

Maybe you need to listen better

[@jwatkins672012]

I confess on my first comment to responding after hearing that segment. I continued on to about minute 42 and have to stop. Your guest is just making claims again and again that need caveats mentioned. Deer eat directly off plants because they don't have hands, not because of some connection with a micro biome. How many primates do you see eating like deer? And uhm, though most of our nutrition comes from plants directly or indirectly, humans do manufacturer a few nutrients like Vitamin D, K and a couple Bs. Yes, these require external inputs, but that is true for every organism. No organism can synthesize all of its nutrition without external inputs. I'm stopping here. Moving onto a different episode.

[@phylissh365]

Blue zone is a myth.

[@Reinierquarles]

Why?

[@MichaelBiebersWorld]

​@@Reinierquarles... The guy that did the study, and it was a good study, surveyed dozens of countries and diets, but ended up cherry-picking only the handful that supported his narrative and financial benefactors.