Patently Obvious

Here at Patently Obvious we feel we could all learn a lot from our mothers, fathers, grandparents and aunts and uncles all around in the sixties. 

Utilising leftovers, mending clothes, growing your own are all attributes of frugal living, previously at its zenith during the Sixties, when would-be self-sufficient livers followed the instructions of the 'grandfather of the sustainability movement', the late John Seymour. 

In such books as The Fat Of The Land, he celebrated the concept of self-sufficiency, which he saw as an antidote to the waste and throw away culture of society. Has this message ever been more prevalent?