Back to nature with environmental activist Rob Greenfield's

No debit card, no rent to pay, no toilet paper...  Here is how Rob Greenfield managed to move away from consumerism.  Footage by Babel Doc.

Transcript

00:00No shoes, no shirt, you know, to the average person I look like a naked wild man in the bush.

00:12So this is my toilet paper. I haven't bought toilet paper for about five years.

00:17It's nice and soft, it's as soft as can be, and it even has a really nice smell to it.

00:31I'm very much a minimalist. I like to keep things really simple.

00:37So the clothes kind of represent that.

00:40It's getting rid of all the frivolous in life, and all that's unnecessary

00:45and doesn't serve me and everyone else to a higher purpose.

00:49And that's this example here, just simplifying life so that I can do what I want

00:54rather than make a new life.

00:57It doesn't feel right to me. While there's so many people in the world who don't have enough,

01:02it doesn't feel right to me to have too much.

01:05It doesn't feel right to me. While there's so many people in the world who don't have enough,

01:18it doesn't feel right to me to have too much.

01:22We live in a time that's very visually oriented, I believe.

01:28Whether it's photo or video, people tend to get their messages through something that's visual,

01:36for things to click in their mind.

01:38We live in a time that's very visually oriented, I believe.

01:43Whether it's photo or video, people tend to get their messages through something that's visual,

01:51for things to click in their mind.

02:09It's about creating community. It's about bringing people closer together.

02:13It's not me, me, me, me, you, you, you, you.

02:18It's working together.

02:29Here, there's not a single thing from the supermarket.

02:33This is 100% food that I actually grew in my garden.

02:37This summer, or that I foraged from fruit trees,

02:42growing in basically urban foraging, abandoned lots and parks and such.

02:48I'm doing this because it's an extreme thing that will get people thinking,

02:53that will inspire people.

02:55And my hope is not that other people are going to go out and want to grow and forage 100% of their food.

03:01My goal is just to get people to want to grow one thing.

03:05To start with just a tomato plant and a basil on their balcony.

03:09Or to have a little front yard raised bed garden.

03:13To start somewhere and help people start this path of feeling just a little bit more connected

03:21with our food source, with what gives us life, and with the earth as a whole.