201: Outdoor Diary: Why Going Outside Makes Me Care About Nature, and What I Do About It

Spending a lot of time outdoors? You might find that you’ve started caring about the environment more than you used to. While Amy was a kid, “environmentalism” was seen by her family as a bad thing. But today she knows loving nature means taking care of it. And so she’s started doing some simple tasks to put those feelings into action.

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Some of the good stuff:

[:50] What environmentalism was to Amy growing up

[1:58] How she thinks about environmentalism now

[2:14] Why spending time outside makes you care about the environment

[3:00] The selfishness of loving the environment

[3:22] What this has to do with “leave no trace”

[3:45] What it has to do with buying used stuff

[4:00] What it has to do with how you spend your time