Mission

Hi there! My name is Derek Wallace and the purpose of this website is to share my unique experiences as I transition into total sustainability!

I'm doing so as I feel that the vast majority of our social ills and detrimental foreign polices are rooted in the harmful methods we use to get our food and goods and can no longer morally support the status quo. So I have quit my job in the advertising/marketing field of the automobile industry, sold my car back to the dealership from which I acquired it, gave away all of my possessions except the contents of my backpack and am doing volunteer work (mainly video journalism) for organizations, companies, movements and people that promote social justice and/or sustainability.

In order to accomplish this goal, I'll be traveling the globe in environmentally-friendly vehicles and staying on organic farms to do work in exchange for room/board through a network called "World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms" ("wwoofing" for short). When I arrive and leave each new city, I'll be using the network at Couchsurfing.com, where you offer travelers a place to stay and act as a host to show them around your area - and where they can do the same when you're in their neck of the woods. It's a way to open our hearts and our homes while creating meaningful connections that cross oceans, continents and national borders.

The purpose of my traveling is two-fold: to put together a public-speaking tour about how other cultures have tackled the issue of sustainability and to bring back methods of communal gardening and generating energy off the grid that United States citizens can employ to help remove their addiction to petroleum-based produce grown on factory farms and to non-renewable resources altogether.

Now that you're here, I'd like to invite you to follow my journey through blogs, photos, videos, music, recipes, health updates and even GPS tracking!

Finally, I'd like to thank all of my generous supporters who have helped to make this endeavor possible!