Joan Pick hasn’t driven a car since 1973 and has only been in a car twice since then. She hasn’t flown on an airplane since 1971.
She eats only raw food, thus using no energy for cooking, and she runs everywhere. She uses electricity only for a single low-energy light and her kettle, which Pick heats water for tea and the laundry she does by hand. Pick also takes bucket baths. She doesn’t heat her home. Pick lives this way because:
I realised we have got the energy question totally wrong. I decided to imagine that the earth was a business in need of sound management. We are all members of the board, a shareholder, a trustee, a consumer and an employee. We believed that fossil fuels were infinite, but they are finite….They have to almost bribe people to use energy-efficient things. It’s terrible. I adopt a [lifestyle] that is consistent with the sustainable management of the world’s resources. Everyone knows we have to have very severe cutbacks to meet that standard.
Via: The Guardian
Image: Frank Baron
