Don't Need Much Money is exactly what it sounds like: a site about needing less, so you have more. More time. More freedom. More room to actually live. The idea is simple. The less money you need to survive, the more time you have to thrive. Lower your living costs, live a healthy lifestyle focused on longevity and mobility, stay out of debt, and build a little savings, and you buy yourself something far more valuable than money: time. Time to do what you actually love, spend with people you care about, and put toward things that matter. This site is my own real life running that experiment. Most of what you'll find here are recipes and day-to-day habits. They aren't filler posts, it's intentional. Cooking from scratch, buying smart, wasting less, eating well, and staying healhty, fit, and limber all without spending much are some of the most direct ways I practice this philosophy day to day. This blog doubles as my own recipe box and exercise notes, and I share it b...
Some really interesting stuff. First it shows Michael isn't just out to get the GOP. He's going to shine a light on anything that should be questioned whether from the right or the left. Even still, the infamous Koch Brothers can't help but get involved in the green energy profit machine.
Second, it highlights how the renewable energy movement isn't as green as it is marketed to be. I knew about the solar and wind intermittent power issues and the fact that building out a renewable energy infrastructure requires massive amounts of environmental resources, chemicals, and mining.
What was new to me was the part about biomass power plants. I had no idea there were so many plants already in the U.S. thanks to government grant money. And that we are deforesting on such a massive global scale (not just Brazil) to create biomass power considered to be "renewable" in an effort to come off coal. It's not renewable if it destroys ecosystems that take centuries to build.
Reminds me of Easter Island whose inhabitants used up all the island's resources to create large sculptures and in so doing stripped the island of its entire life supporting ecosystem which lead to the extinction of the inhabitants. Now humans are doing the same thing but on a global scale just so we can continue our consumption worshiping.
You can't solve an energy crisis with more energy just like you can't solve a debt crisis with more debt or a flood with more water. We have to find balance with the environment as a species. And it starts with individuals changing their habits to reduce personal consumption including energy.
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