My guest today is Joel Meadows, a phenomenal human who happens to be a permaculture teacher, rocket oven engineer, energy geek, green tech sceptic, sculptor, illustrator, musician and composting ninja.This is one epic episode that encompasses:🌟Are renewables really all that?🌟Why we're using more fossil fuels than ever *cry*.🌟Smart phone free life.🌟Being deliberately abnormal.🌟ROCKET OVENS.🌟Why everyone is practical + can learn shit.🌟Three steps to household energy resilience.We recorded this convo at Joel's kitchen table, in his majestic solar passive strawbale home after gorging ourselves on a garden omelette and roasted wattleseeds.I wrote about the experience in neurotic detail over on Substack and included masses of photos of Joel's home + garden for your voyeuristic needs. [https://catiepayne.substack.com/p/everything-that-happened-before-joel] Here it is. [https://catiepayne.substack.com/p/everything-that-happened-before-joel?r=8sgjs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true]🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS[video] Joel's intro to hot composting [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQH0OQT2tzo][video] A little explanatory video about YIMBY [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6XT4cSY6k0][website] YIMBY [https://www.yimbycompost.com/](note all the tasty resources including the 'Compost Conversation' articles [https://www.yimbycompost.com/compostconversation] published each week in the Midland Express)[video] Joe's Permaqueer talk on appropriate technology [https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/468910133][video] Take a virtual tour of Joel's house [https://vimeo.com/508232728?share=copy][eBook] Joel + Tim Barker's Rocket Oven how-to book [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/rocket-powered-oven/]***Join the not-culty-at-all Reskillience community on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/Reskillience]***