Legends say that you've finally fully evolved into a true KZfaqr when you make a tier list video

Im not a minimalist, but ive been trying more and more to stop buying so much crap. It pains me sometimes to watch my friends with so much merch it lines every surface. Thats so much plastic, my dudes!

When I was in college my housemates and I had dumpster diving parties. Many places would double wrap their wasted food for us. We ate like kings and queens and fed others. We also bought and sold all our clothes at thrift stores. One time I bought a $20 coat with a $20 bill in a small pocket. The more I watch this the more I miss living in Berkeley. Lol

I hope this channel blows up one day!

I did a study in my Global Environmental Issues class years ago where I did some research if downloading software is better for the environment or the physical disc? It turns out the virtual download costs more energy but I put I was in favor of it over the disc because as technology develops fewer emissions will be put out whereas those plastic discs are just going to sit in a landfill for the next 10,000 years trying to degrade.

I love environment. And I try my best to improve the environment

Veganism as mother earth herself is what I needed to see today ❤❤❤ new subscriber here. Love your content!!

Is there a possibility of expanding on this video in the future? Maybe finding some trends you think fit into the "nah" category?

I really enjoyed this one. What a fun idea for a video. I should do a tier list of my favorite food forest plants. I'm also completely agreed with all of your rankings. And I appreciate the sentiment that at least all these people are trying. We really need action now. The time for talking about this stuff is 50 years past, we need DO'ers, and we need an army of them! Okay, I'm off to watch another one of your videos, I'm really enjoying your stuff 😄

I am trying to be more conscious about stuff I buy and if I can't/do not need it give it too a family member or friend if the item is still good. I use to work at a store, I won't mention their name but we had to get rid of damaged products and I asked why don't we send that stuff back to the manufacture to get fixed and they told me, "It would cost too much money." In other words it was cheaper to throw the damaged products out.

HEYYY!! That's the spirit! No "nah" exactly!! At least they are things people are trying! Thank you!! So, I am a long time thrifter, always thrifted for my clothes and things. I did watch a sad video called "Dead White Man's Clothes" that did make it seem like it was a thrift problem because thrift stores like Goodwill were sending their terrible rejected clothes to African villages and the huge mounds of clothes that get everywhere and cause problems. Really I think it is the fast fashion that keeps producing these clothes so that there is wayyy too many. We don't need that much. Maybe even have more of a way to recycle these clothes even by cutting out stains and using the materials again. Just going on here. I can't do much in the way of tiny houses or the off grid life since I can't afford land of my own. Same with a van, never had a vehicle, but just got my driver's license for the first time in my life. So, I haven't contributed to fossil fuel use that much. Dumpster diving was quite a way of life for me for awhile got a lot of goods that way til most of them got locked. I wonder about those that live homeless like I use to that way of life, but that is considered illegal. I use to be homeless and cops were always mean to me and threatening. But anyways, decent video. Glad your explanation on veganism didn't come off militant and pointed out more of the overall agricultural issues with huge factory farms. Hey, I try veganism for some days just can't do it all the time. I do praise those who can do veganism. Of course, the vegans will argue up and down that I can be vegan if I can do it one day I can do it all the time, of course. I am anticipating running into those sort-of gatekeepers in the environmentalist world. The ones that claim if you are not a vegan than you are not helping at all I find to be very discouraging and negative. Ok, I have gone down the rabbit hole enough today with your videos. Thank you for them!

Great video, very informative and helpful! This is an important topic that can be so confusing to otherwise understand.

This was very insightful. I watch all these different kinds of videos, van life, zero waste, etc., so it’s really cool to see from a scientist’s point of view how environmentally friendly they actually are.

I like how this is informational and just a nice perspective on things.

This is a nice brief video :) Also, I agree with these ratings with the given parameter rating system.

Quinoa is my favorite meat alternative super food. Thanks for the video.

Loved this!

loved this video! thanks :)

If I get a chance near the end of the semester I want to do my final report on if recycling is really worth it or the Tiny House Movement. Not too say recycling is not worth it but how much actually, gets recycled. I think I watched on Marketplace a lot of out garbage gets shipped to third party companies in South East Asia and they just salvage the 5% that can be used or re-sold while most of it just sits there. It stuck in my mind and made me angry because all these years I thought I was doing something good!

Great job!

neature walks!! thats pretty neat

Another thing to add to the living off grid: If you use solar panels to produce your energy rather than diesel generators, along with growing your own crop and gathering water locally like from a spring, it could be a REALLY good thing for the environment.

Very interesting video 😀

I would like to comment about the use of solar panels. Each 1kW panel uses ~1.5kg of electronic grade silicon. In order to make 1g of electronic grade silicon, you need about 1kg of oil (or equivalent in energy) + a ton of other extremely polluting materials such as Indium, Gallium, Germanium, hydrofluoric acid and metals such as gold and silver. The less polluting solution is to use thermal solar panels for heating and warm water and just use electricity from the grid. Big generators have a much higher efficiency than small generators due to their lower surface to volume ratio. Speaking of which... There are big solar generators that heat up a salt solution as energy storage and are connected to steam generators. These plants are extremely efficient and very very ecological. There are prototypes in California, Australia (I believe), Spain and Italy (one in Sicily and one in Calabria as far as I know).

73%!! Not me wanting to cut out meat & dairy bc it’s healthy for my body but bc it’s healthy for the earth

I've watched enough chubbyemu to know that incorporating Dumpster Diving into your lifestyle will have someone presenting to the emergency room before long.

Hi Kristina, I hope this message finds you well. I have been thoroughly enjoying your videos and find them incredibly inspiring. As a senior biology student, I’m curious about your academic journey. Could you share whether you pursued a Master's or a PhD? Thank you for your time and insights!

Great video, although slightly misleading thumbnail. (Some people might see it, guess what the photos are of and assume those are the rankings). Very informative video though :)

What I (a sustainability scholar) have understood living in a city in a small apartment is the most sustainable option in terms of land and energy use. The biggest issue with city living is that it tends to increase consumption compared to living in the countryside. So low consumption city living is what I see as the only option for the masses to achieve a sustainable future. To be clear, a city does not need to be a megacity. It can be a small but compact provincial town as well. Also, there is only so much you can do on an individual basis to live sustainably in a city or town, so this shifts the focus on the political leaders to provide sustainable transportation, food, and energy.

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Great video - nice way to make things digestible. You may have talked about this and I missed it, but what are your thoughts about backyard chickens? I'm mostly vegan, but do eat the eggs they provide. I do tend to give them a lot of "treats" like mealworms and soldier fly larva and I purchase chicken food and scratch from the store - aside from that, it feels like they have a pretty light footprint, but I would love to hear your thoughts.

Good video, but dumpster diving below veganism and off grid living? I know the other two are more trendy but the impact of diverting waste and demand for new products should not be underestimated. Veganism and growing your own food still has an impact like everything else, but the net impact of dumpster diving is more positive than it seems if it's measured properly. The impact is two-fold: Everything being diverted from the landfill and into our tummies is offsetting not only the impact of any kind of new food production we would have bought instead (whether you grow it yourself or buy it from the grocery store), but also the demand signal for that food that gets sent back up the supply chain to producers. You can think of it as "every banana you buy means the grocery store will buy another one to replace it for the next customer, and the banana producer will grow another one with all the fossil fuel and agriculture inputs of the one you bought". I consider dumpster diving as net positive since you're diverting food that already has spent it's carbon footprint being grown and transported to the store, so the impact has already been created whether it's going into the landfill or our tummies, and also reducing the consumer demand that drives the carbon producing agriculture in the first place. The big difference is now the whole food producing system is more efficient for every banana you save from the landfill, and that 1/3 chunk of wasted food mentioned in the video starts to decrease along with the average carbon footprint of all the bananas. Can you tell I'm passionate about food waste yet? :) Great job and keep putting out the vids!

I wonder if appartment living isn't over looked as an eco friendly thing just because it isn't cool. When it comes down to it, it's basically stacking a bunch of tiny houses together. If people have similar, even just slightly more, square footage in appartments, I think that that would work out to a net positive? You have shared insulation, which reduces energy consumption (my studio only has one wall exposed to the elements - I never need to turn on the heating before december, and I stay fairly cool in summer). It allows people to live closer together, which reduces urban sprawl, concentrated the negative effects of human presence in a smaller area, allows for the use of shared ressources (eg laudromats, also the costs of transporting goods because everything can be centralised, etc) and allows people to go car-free because they have access to public transit. Of course this is dependant on the city providing necessary ressources (one big downside is you can't go off the grid if your city is using fossile fuels for energy, but on the other hand using renewables is going to be more efficient if managed collectively and not individually). The biggest downside it the mental health effects of living in many urban environments, which matter! And I dream of living in a tiny house. But from a purely environmental perspective, for the same number people having to live in the same country, it seems like it'd have a smaller footprint. But it's not as cool or alternative. It feels very much like people are focusing on reducing their own individual footprints rather than how we can collectively work together to reduce our society's footprint. Would you have any thoughts on this? Thanks!

What’s a better degree to get a job in conservation/ working with animals. Ecology and environmental science or zoology?

The fast fashion thing always was a bit odd to me. It takes a while for me to find clothes that fit well, look nice, and I like, so I’ll gladly spend more and wear it for much longer. The housing topic I feel like could be a whole video or series on itself, as city planners in KZfaq have entire channels dedicated to how it is. My house is a 2000 square feet ranch style so not tiny, a good size, but one of the smaller ones in my area. However, they are making houses closer together and many two story so it seems to reduce the urban sprawl. Newer homes tend to be more energy efficient but it gets negated if they’re too big. Finding a balance is important, and that’s why I don’t want a huge one unless the situation warrants it like my parents need to live with us.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your understanding of actual science facts with us. So thank you for that, number 1. I need some help to understand things on a long term scale.Can you help me to understand some more of this? I am not using any plastic. I am not consuming any commercially produced products at all.... that includes anything to do with the horrors animals experience in this caveman process. I am learning that those "shooting stars" in the sky are stars.... just like our star, our sun..... and that a star's life consists of getting hotter and hotter, until it fries anything within its reach, and then burns out and dies...... so, our sun/star is getting hotter and eventually it will turn our planet to dust before it burns out completely...... cuz I think about this in my head, it makes me wonder, why are we doing all of this? Why are we so desperately trying to save everything and do good by the planet when we're just going to be burned up by the very star that feeds us anyway? How much time do we have? According to some of the stories I've heard of my XM radio, we maybe have a few hundred million years..... So is that what we are trying to do? Is make just a measly handful of a few hundred million years tolerable for everyone? It almost makes me just want to give up because it doesn't sound like there's going to be much time for this planet anyway just by virtue of the fact that all living things are designed to burn and die including our star that we know as the Sun and this planet. How many suns and planets have burned up and are dying Already? Was there anybody on any of these spaces that were concerned about anything like this? Perhaps this is too deep of a conversation to be Having on KZfaq. But it does make me wonder why the hell are we even giving a shit right now? why not blow ourselves up now... as we're going to eventually all die anyway because our Sun will burn up and die.... I am absolutely genuinely interested in what you have to say. Believe me when I say to you I am a person that loves what your doing and I just want someone that has an education like you do ....with young eyes....and a young mind like you do, to tell me why we should keep on trying when eventually none of this is gonna be here anyway. I am not being a cynic or sarcastic. I am 100% genuinely interested in your answer. As I am getting a little bit discouraged when I hear about the fate of this planet due to the fate of our sun. So depressing. What are your thoughts? And thank you again for putting yourself out there. Good job....thank you again for your videos.

Hey I was wondering. About off grid living and tiny houses. I'm in a facebook group about it where people have beeb saying "you're taking a piece of nature and build on it, taking in space on land that could've been pure nature." Their opinion is, by buying land and going off grid on it, we people inhabit more and more sq km. What's your opinion on that? Because tiny houses etc do take more space than for example an apartment in a flat. The houses are small, but they do take up more space like the land you actually put it on.

What about upcycling

I really wanna live in a van but I don’t wanna hurt the environment is there any way I could live in a van ans be environmentally friendly 😅

are you vegan yourself ?

Hi, Just stumbled on your KZfaq channel, and this is the first video that I was suggested. Nice video concept, but I feel that some lifestyles that you are more related to get a higher ranking. I think that no one of these lifestyles by itself is deserved the "Mother Earth Herself" ranking. Let's talk about the vegetarian family that doesn't manage or compost their waste and uses plastic and disposable tools or the minimalist vegetarian business owner that flies all over the world and represents brands like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and BP and live in a penthouse on the 5th avenue and drives a Hummer or a tiny house\off the grid social media influencer that has livestock farm that also flies all over the world and has a huge truck... I don't think that you rank their lifestyle as "Mother Earth Herself". I believe that it's all about balancing more than one of these lifestyles. From my point of view, there is no stand-alone lifestyle that is "Mother Earth Herself".

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