293 Outdoor Diary: How Try to Be Earth-Friendly While Using Nature Every Day

Is it possible to lean into preservation and conservation while also spending a ton of time outside? And if you want to be earth-friendly while also being an avid earth-user, how can you balance a desire to leave no trace while still getting out there?

In this episode of the Humans Outside Outdoor Diary, I talk about a few simple steps I take to be earth-friendly while still using nature daily. And they’re steps you can take, too. Listen now.

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Episode 198: How to Maximize Your Outdoor Life While Creating a Minimalist Lifestyle (Meg Carney, outdoor minimalist)
Episode 149: How a Pee Cloth Is Making One Small Step for Inclusivity (Anastasia Allison, Kula Cloth founder)
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Some of the good stuff:

[:45] How do you balance use and not making it look like you use it?

[1:25] A change in my thinking

[2:27] “Outdoor minimalism”

[2:45] A few basic “leave no trace” ideas

[3:30] What “reduce, reuse, recycle” has to do with it

[3:55] The art of reusing in the outdoor industry world

[4:35] A few tips for reusing that are wallet and earth-friendly

[5:20] I will now talk about a pee cloth