The Greening of Gavin | Sustainable Living in the Suburbs

Gavin Webber
The Greening of Gavin | Sustainable Living in the Suburbs Podcast

Want to learn more about Sustainable Living in the Suburbs? Search no more because this is the podcast for you. From backyard chickens to renewable energy and everything in between! Regular interviews with ordinary people who endeavour to live more sustainable/simple lives.

  1. 24/08/2016

    All Good Things Come to an End

    Yes, dear reader, the time has come.  Everything in life has a beginning and an ending, and I believe that it’s time to wrap up The Greening of Gavin blog and podcast.  All good things come to an end (to quote a very famous Star Trek series)! All Good Things… With no major greening projects on the horizon or further lifestyle enhancements planned, I’ve essentially run out of things to say, which after 1,870 posts and 132 podcast episodes is quite understandable. I’m officially passing the baton to a younger generation of bloggers and influencers who may have better luck convincing the masses further to live a more sustainable lifestyle. I know that I’ve played my part in the rebirth of the simple living revolution judging from the amount of feedback and emails I receive every day, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.  I, like you, can make a big difference in the world. What have we achieved? During the journey, we’ve retrofitted the house with many green features, renovated the gardens into an organic food farm, and transformed the way we think and live.  All that, as well as starting a green business teaching others some simple living skills. When I reflect back to that crazy day when my whole world was turned upside-down, I would never in a million years have thought that the blog would have come this far and how it would eventually have impacted our lifestyle for the better. And to you, the reader.  I thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting and following my family’s journey and antics since February 2008 when I penned the very first post.  It’s been a wild ride, sometimes controversial, but always interesting and fun. So where to from here? Well, the blog posts and podcast episodes will remain online until either the internet is destroyed or peak oil begins to impact us all.  Just joking, it will still be here as a valuable resource for as long as there are bits and bytes.  Check out my archive for all the posts. Also, I will still have a strong online presence as I will be maintaining the associated Facebook page and YouTube channel for The Greening of Gavin.  If anything exciting happens around here then that is where I will be posting this type of update. Additionally, the YouTube channel, CheeseMan.tv, will continue to release a weekly cheese making video, as well as my cheese making blog and associated podcast at Little Green Cheese. To cap it all off, our home business, Little Green Workshops, is still growing strongly and will more than compensate for any time I gain from ending the blog and the podcast.  We are still running cheese, soap, soy candle, and bath soak & scrub workshops each school term if anyone wants to learn these dying skills.  You can find all the details of these courses on our workshops calendar. Adieu So dear reader, this is it.  Once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support, and I hope to see you on my other blogs and YouTube channels in the very near future. Goodbye, my friends and keep on striving for a more sustainable world.

    6 min
  2. 08/10/2015

    TGoG 128 – Major Events Around the Yard

    Some major events around the place this week so this week’s episode is a bit of a round-up. We had to remove the greenhouse due to catastrophic failure of the polycarbonate sheeting.  Its being replaced with a storage shed for soap making supplies for Little Green Workshops.  I will make some trellis against the new shed to espalier a couple of dwarf fruit trees, so all is not lost. We just past 30 megawatt hours of electricity generated by our 2.8kw solar PV system! Solar hot water has been free this month and will be until late March Our garden got scorched from 4 days over 30°C.  In fact we had a day of 37°C which turned all our apple blossom brown.  I think we may lose the entire crop. Next Wednesday we join get the National Broadband Network hooked up to the house and will be able to provide more video content.  Currently on our ADSL2+ connection, it takes me 5 hours to upload a 20 minute YouTube video.  Think of all the extra time I will have to produce more video content instead of waiting for uploads! Oh, and lastly, check out the “My Videos” menu item on the blog.  You will find a gallery of selected sustainable living videos that I’ve uploaded over the years, including my four national television appearances! If you have a question that you would like either Kim or I to answer on the podcast, leave us a voicemail via the SpeakPipe widget below.  Just remember to play the recording back to yourself before sending it to ensure that we will be able to hear your question.   Looking forward to hearing from you!

    18 min
  3. 23/09/2015

    TGoG 126 – Why We’re Passionate about Little Green Workshops

    Today I had a revelation.  I realised that if Kim hadn’t gone along with me at the beginning of my green epiphany, we wouldn’t have started our sustainable living journey nor started our small green business, Little Green Workshops! And you know what?  I gave her a big hug, a loving kiss, and thanked her from the bottom of my heart.  I love what we do and am glad we are both excited about where this journey is taking us. During this episode we talk about why we are passionate about Little Green Workshops with our friend Emma Sutcliffe, and also discuss how we believe we are converting consumers into home producers one simple living kit at a time. You know, it wasn’t until I’d listened to this episode a few times that it clicked. It dawned on me that this is exactly what we have been doing over the last couple of years. We’re changing people’s behaviours from consumers of goods, to that of producers of goods in a more sustainable way with far less waste. That can only be a good thing for the planet, right? Don’t forget that you can subscribe to the show using the buttons above, and if you have the time we would love to hear what you think of the show via an iTunes review and rating. If you have a passion about green living too, don’t forget to head on over to Little Green Workshops and check out what we talked about during the episode! You might just find something that turns you into a home producer as well.

    21 min
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