He believes in the importance of grounding oneself in physical work and learning practical skills, such as farming, to be closer to nature.

“What I wanted to do was just do the work. Like be learn the skills to actually support the earth like right here right now. You know, and I realized how much I didn't respect and appreciate what farmers do and I was like I want them to make all these changes for the environment but I don't even unde”

Ryan Nicodemus states that he prefers to avoid companies with poor ethics, though he acknowledges that one-off purchases for essential needs might occasionally occur.

“I will avoid places that don't have good ethics”

Joshua Fields Milburn asserts that by consuming less, one inherently acts more sustainably and becomes more intentional about the quality of the items they do choose to acquire.

“if I am going to make a purchase because I'm buying far fewer things than I did Once Upon a Time those those purchases are inherently more intentional because I don't want to have to repurchase the thing 6 months from now a year from now because it was poor quality or or whatever”