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An Outdoor-Agriculture-Green Job and Lifestyle Guide

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The outdoor recreation industry is mostly about the manufacture and sales of outdoor equipment and clothing then it moves into education courses and adventure experiences.  It's big business.  I see canoes, boats, ATVs, RVs, dirt bikes and all kinds of other stuff in driveways and yards everywhere.

 

There are lots of outdoor activities all the way from walking to climbing, caving, water sports, etc.  There are outdoor adventure schools where you learn basic outdoor survival skills.  There are campgrounds everywhere.

 

Outdoor jobs generally cover lots of categories:

 

Outdoor recreation and outdoor guides.

Environmental, ecology, green jobs

Alternative energy

Agriculture

Gardening/ Landscaping

Parks and government natural resources.

Forestry

Fishing

Outdoor adventure and tourism

Other jobs where being outdoors is incidental to the job.

 

The pay is not extremely high in any of these jobs but if you get to be outdoors and you get paid for doing something you love doing then an outdoor job is way better than any office job.

 

Outdoor books generally go from #796 to #799 at the library.

 

796.  Outdoor sports.

797.  Water and air sports.

798.  Equestrian and animal sports.

799.  Fishing, hunting, shooting.

 

If you are an outdoors enthusiast, you might be interested in contacting/ joining an outdoors/ environmental groups for both general hiking and/ or ecology information. 

 

The local hosteling centers have hiking chapters.  Many of these national clubs have local chapters all over. 

 

The Sierra club has lots of local chapters.

 

If you plan to hike through most government preserves, you're supposed to get a permit from a ranger station or a field office.  They use this information for safety in case you don’t come back then they know they should look for you. 

 

Check out the National Park Service, Federal Forest Service, State Park Service and your State Department of Forests for information about hiking trails. 

 

Check out local continuing education classes or ask a hiking/ camping store about them.  If you're going for a long trek in the country, contact your county map office and buy an ordinance survey map of the area. 

 

Agriculture is food, much of it hidden.  We buy fruits and vegetables at the store but corn, soy and other vegetables are used to create sweeteners and food products that go into many foods that most of us don’t know about. 

 

Farming is used to create food, biofuels, alcohol and trees for pulp, lumber and furniture, etc.

 

Gardening is huge for fun and function.  Every city government and big company uses gardeners and landscapers to take care of their property.

 

Many homeowners plant a few flowers.

 

Agriculture, farming and gardening provide the food and beauty for the world.  Careers span everything from growing plants and raising livestock to selling and public relations.

 

You either love doing these activities outdoors or you don’t.  You’re either born that way, it’s in your blood or you grow up outdoors and want to live there all your life. 

 

Even with all the automation, it’s still a better lifestyle than being in a building all day long.

 

The career opportunities are there.  People all over the world need irrigation, soil science, pesticide control and even genetically modified plants to maximize their efficiency.

 

People will always need to eat no matter what else happens.

 

Landscaping is cutting lawns and planting flowers.  Landscape architecture is a fancy word for a professional gardener.

 

You may not be able to do skilled gardening work but with a truck, a lawnmower and a wheelbarrow, you can make money and get regular customers.  Offer to clean out basements too.  You could go all out, take some courses and become a landscape architect.  It's not a get rich quick business unless you get a lot of contracts and hire about 50 people to do the labor while you manage it.

 

The more knowledgeable you are, the more work you get.  You set your own hours, you're outdoors and you get plenty of exercise to stay healthy.  The business is 50% hard work, 50% knowledge. 

 

Read up on it in the #635 section of your library.  You have to be creative to design gardens with flowers, bushes and trees.  Learn about pest control and add that to your arsenal.

 

Cut tree branches.  Install irrigation systems. 

 

Get into concrete finishing with stoneware barbecues, walls, etc.

 

Take courses in gardening and business education.  Go to trade shows.  You can start out of your home with a truck and some basic tools.  Simply advertise in the local newspaper, bulletin boards and in the Yellow Pages. 

 

Smalltime farming is a way to create your own fruits, vegetables, berries, nuts, meat, etc. for yourself, sell the rest to the big ag companies or sell at farmer markets.  I still see farmers selling product on the side of the road in some places.

 

If you're a country type or entertain dreams of escaping to the country, a smalltime farmer with a few acres can earn money by growing cash crops, cutting out the middleman and selling directly to either a retailer or to the public. 

 

Current cash crops are strawberries, grapes, bush berries (black, blue and raspberries), water chestnuts, oriental persimmons (like oranges), sweet corn, watercress, soybeans, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, herbs (rosemary, basil, ginseng), kiwi fruit and mushrooms(regular, shitake). 

 

Orchard fruit like apples, plums, cherries and peaches are also good cash crops.  Offbeat poultry like ducks, geese and even ostrich sell well also.  Don't mess with hemp unless you're ready to go to jail or grow it in Canada.  Contact your state and other state cooperative extension services for their catalogs of useful books on all these topics. 

 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (Washington, DC 20250, usda.gov), National Agricultural Library (#1052, South Bldg., Washington, DC 20251, nal.usda.gov) and U.S. Forest Service (Washington, DC 20250, fs.fed.us) also offer useful information and books for sale. 

 

Books about agriculture are between #630 and #639 at the library.  They go from plants to animals.

 

There are free articles at:

 

publications.usa.gov

uaf.edu/ces/pubs

uaex.edu/publications

extension.uga.edu/publications

extension.umaine.edu/publications

extension.psu.edu/publications

 

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

nifa.usda.gov

 

Green energy is good but how much of it is just greed, the same as oil trying to protect their interests?

 

Don’t trust anybody with regards to their true intentions.

 

A job is a job.  If you work in the green industry, you’re not necessarily a happy, activist, granola-eating citizen who loves humanity and wants to save the world.  You’re someone working for the man, stuck in this capitalist matrix just like oil workers are. 

 

Green is not morally superior to anyone else.  It’s at least part scam with all those “phony” products they put out claiming they’re chemical-free or organic, charging outrageous prices for them like two dollars for one organic cookie at a farmers’ market or a hundred dollars for a chemical-free shirt.  Who’s the sucker?

 

Suppose you own green stocks or have money in a green company.  It’s in your best interests to promote green energy, climate warming, etc. because you make more money not necessarily because it’s true.

 

It’s very easy to get confused about the so-called green-sustainable-eco-environment movement or industry. 

 

When I was trying to create a sensible job book about it, I realized it was all over the place. 

 

For me, it was simple.  The Obama Administration came in acting liberal like they were going to change the world.  They gave a bunch of money to newly emerging green companies.  Al Gore and Obama got rich.  Michael Moore produced the film Planet of the Humans which shows all these green companies in tatters and the stupidity of green energy but all is forgotten.  Life goes on.  The few at the top got rich.  The taxpayers pay.

 

There are lots of words and terms for green energy like:

 

green

eco or ecology

environmental

environmental medicine

sustainability

homesteading

self-sufficiency

industrial disease

conservation

natural resources

alternative

renewable

 

You got the ecology people and the Environment Protection Agency trying to save the world and our health from global warming and the pollution caused by industry, manufacturing and mass consumption.

 

You got people in the conservation and natural resources fields working for the government in cozy, secure jobs.  Are they trying to save the planet and the environment or are they just riding the coat-tails of a bloated bureaucracy? 

 

You got the Environmental Protection Agency with its compliance act requiring companies to comply with their laws.  There are multi-thousands of jobs there. 

 

There are many seasonable jobs on the science side, going out and gathering data from plants and animals.

 

You got environmental medicine from the medical field trying to deal with diseases caused by toxic chemicals like asbestos, pesticides, poor indoor air quality, etc.

 

On the capitalist side, it’s all about creating sustainable-alternative-green products to replace or minimize existing products like:

 

green builders trying to build green houses that don’t use chemicals and don’t use much energy

 

all kinds of green, minimal-chemical products from clothes to organic food to cosmetics.

 

green cars that use alternative energy

 

alternative energy that doesn’t use oil or nuclear energy

 

Environmental careers are about:

 

protecting the environment

working in wilderness areas or national parks

Environmental science, education, policy, law, activism, journalism environmental engineers and planners

comply with environmental protection laws

environmental media

Activism

Fund Raiser for NGO

Governmental Affairs

Statistician

Survey and Mapping Technician

Transportation Planner

Water/Wastewater

pollution prevention

helping businesses comply with environmental laws either as a lawyer, consultant or green builder who can adapt buildings to new green technology

 

This book is about ideas on the ecology-conservation-environment side of the green field.

 

I read David Suzuki's Green Guide and several other books you might find at #363.7 or #640 at the library.  There is a great divide between people who care about green living and all the other people who seem indoctrinated by all the glitter on TV which tells you to keep buying junk you don’t need and keep doing meaningless stuff even if we’re polluting the planet and destroying the atmosphere.

 

Green living is a hot buzz word nowadays but I was green a long time because as a kid we had a summer cottage on a lake which helped me develop my ways close to nature.  I believe that love of nature is something inherent that you're born with but it's sucked out of us in the modern world.

 

Don't buy into the capitalist-pop culture world we've created for ourselves as in being a passive spectator-consumer hooked on junk food and don't be a greedy bastard living in extreme material excess while we're all perfectly aware of all the hunger and poverty in the world.

 

In my twenties, I dabbled in building a log cabin and a cordwood house.  Now I feel good because I stayed close to my true nature which I talk about in more depth in A Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment.  I'm not bound up in materialism or socioeconomic status. 

 

I have my health and vitality and peace of mind because I'm not a selfish show-off trying to impress others with my socioeconomic status, an artificial value that disrupts the harmony in a person's soul. 

 

The Natural Law of the Universe is be who you were born to be, take what you need and leave the rest.

 

I have two power cords, one for my computer and one for the devices near my bed.  When I finish using each, I shut the power cord off to totally shut all that electricity off.  Meanwhile I have relatives who leave their wireless modems on all the time 24/7. 

 

Nobody really knows.  Nobody ever talks about Fukashima.  Listen to rense.com or rense on youtube.  He and his guests say the Pacific Ocean is dead.  The radiation has hit California.  I believe him to a certain point.

 

I got sick from the sulphites in lemon juice then I started getting headaches from something.  I think it was aspartame in pop.

 

I got Dr. Hulda Clark's book Cure for all Cancers and when I read it, I thought she was obsessed with being pure away from all the chemicals in industrial products but she did what nobody else has done.  She catalogs almost every product in existence and tells you what's wrong with it.

 

The modern capitalist industries will not tell you if their products contain materials that are toxic to your health.  You have to learn these things for yourself then decide how dangerous all that stuff is and if it's a risk to your longevity and quality of life.

 

I don't believe in a bunch of radical activists going off to create their own utopia like Galt's Gulch in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged because that doesn't solve the problem of planetary excessive consumption of finite resources and I don’t think it’s possible anyway because everybody is really a loner who wants their own pad and their own set-up the way they like it.  Communal living always breaks down unless everybody has their own house.

 

For me, it’s healthier and spiritually peaceful to pursue a minimalist materialistic life where I don’t use much stuff and when I do, I try to go green as much as I can.

 

Writing this book gives me meaning and maybe I help a few people along the way see that excessive consumption beyond the level of basic comfort could be the most evil and destructive force on the planet.

 

For practical books about green living, try #640 or HF5413 at the library.

 

Environmental books are at #304, #333.72-99 or S930 at the library.  There may be a few at #363.700 or GE60. 

 

Try #333, #361, #613.5, #613.6, #615.9 #690.837 and RA577-RA770 at the library for books about indoor pollution and home safety.

 

Books about home health/ environmental medicine are at #613.5 at the library. 


This book covers the following subjects:

 

outdoor recreation, adventure activities

outdoor jobs

agriculture, farming gardening jobs and lifestyle

outdoor science jobs

green jobs and business

the green lifestyle

the homesteading, self-sufficiency, survivalist, prepper life

green activism

the water industry

volunteering and summer fun

 

The 66 volumes are as follows:

 

Volume 1. Outdoor Guide 1

Volume 2. Outdoor Guide 2

Volume 3. Outdoor Website Guide

Volume 4. Outdoor Website Guide from dmoz-odp.org/Recreation/Outdoors

Volume 5. An Outdoor Website Guide at feedspot

Volume 6. Summer Camp Guide

Volume 7. Outdoor Tourism/ Activist Tourism/ Green Tourism

Volume 8. Hiking, Walking and Camping Guide

Volume 9. United States Park Guide

Volume 10. Country-Style/ Dude Ranch/ Farm Stay Vacations

Volume 11. Cool Places and Things to Do Guide

Volume 12. Amusement Park-Zoo-Animal-War Games-Treasure Hunting Guide

Volume 13. Canada Outdoor Adventure Guide

Volume 14. World Park Guide

Volume 15. A Gun-Hunting Guide

Volume 16. Outdoor Job Guide 1

Volume 17. Outdoor Job Guide 2

Volume 18. Outdoor Job Guide 3

Volume 19. Outdoor Job Guide 4

Volume 20. Forest-Tree-Wood Job Guide

Volume 21. Fishing Industry-Processing-Aquaculture Job Guide

Volume 22. Bohemian–Seasonal Job Guide

Volume 23. An Agriculture Business Job Guide 1

Volume 24. An Agriculture Business-Job Guide 2

Volume 25. A Farmer Guide

Volume 26. World Farm Work Guide

Volume 27. Agriculture Websites Mostly from dmoz-odp

Volume 28. An Agriculture Website Guide by Area/ Place

Volume 29. A Livestock Guide

Volume 30. Gardening Guide/ Sustainable Agriculture Guide

Volume 31. Herbs, Plants and Natural Medicine

Volume 32. A Canada Forestry, Farm and Fishing Job Guide

Volume 33. Life Science: Biology, Botany, etc.

Volume 34. An Outdoor Science Job Guide

Volume 35. Food Career-Industry Guide

Volume 36. A Green Career Guide 1

Volume 37. A Green Career Guide 2

Volume 38. A Green Career Guide 3

Volume 39. A Green Career Guide 4

Volume 40. A Green Building Business-Job Guide

Volume 41. A Geoscience Career Guide

Volume 42. Green Energy Job Guide

Volume 43. Alternative Energy Guide

Volume 44. Car Energy/ Car Power

Volume 45. Canada Eco-Green Guide

Volume 46. Green-Environmental Law for Business

Volume 47. A Simple Life?

Volume 48. Green Life Guide

Volume 49. Homesteading Guide (Living off the Land)

Volume 50. Green Home/ Green Products

Volume 51. Green Products That You Use and Touch

Volume 52. Environmental Health-Medicine Guide

Volume 53. Eco-Environment Activist Guide

Volume 54. A Green-Eco-Environmental Website Guide 1

Volume 55. A Green-Eco-Environmental Website Guide 2

Volume 56. A Green Organization Guide 1

Volume 57. A Green Organization Guide 2

Volume 58. A Green-Ecology-Environment Website Guide at dmoz-odp.org

Volume 59. A Green-Ecology-Environment Website Guide at feedspot

Volume 60. The Socially Conscious Company

Volume 61. Water Guide

Volume 62. World Medical Information Guide

Volume 63. World’s Biggest Volunteer Guide

Volume 64. Summer Workshops and Fun Programs Mostly for Adults

Volume 65. U.S. Professional-Trade Association and Trade Magazine Guide

Volume 66. Lists of Trade-Professional and Scholarly Organizations

 

I created this book as a homage to our natural roots as a human species, living outdoors close to nature until we started creating cities.  That was the end of human freedom when people calling themselves governments and religions told us what was good and right.


 

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