VALUES

The ideals we try to live up to, at home and on the road.

Minimize

Reduce our needs and wants.

Buy fewer things, repair what breaks.

Take Responsibility

For the resources we need to survive.

For our waste stream (and reduce it as much as possible).

Aggressively avoid single use items.

Choose simple backyard compostable materials for consumables and shorter lifecycle items.

It’s impossible to be perfect, but a little better makes a difference.

Leave It Better

First: Leave No Trace.

Remove matter out of place when possible.

Beautify and create art if it can be done sustainably and respectfully.

Vote With Our Wallets

Make it clear when we’re not buying something because of packaging or practices.

Choose not to patronize places that conflict with our values.

Make suggestions for improvements to places we frequent.

real talk

A lot of energy, space, and resources were consumed to produce this box we live inside of. Also, traveling around in a vehicle consumes fuel and dumps motor exhaust and microplastics from our tires into the environment.

This truly sucks and we’d prefer if we could avoid it. It’s part of the reality we’ve accepted by choosing this lifestyle and something that we keep in mind when planning for the future.

We try to compensate for this in other ways. But the reality remains.