Envoyé spécial. La drôle de vie de Mister Green - 31 janvier 2019 (France 2)

it's the surprising story of a man who is looking for something to eat very far from the supermarkets oh my god it's probably the biggest yam I've found if I manage to get it out of there it's not is not much different from a potato oh my god I don't know if I'll be able to get it out it's so big hold a golf ball it looks like it's been there for a while go back to sender at 20 meters from him a golf course because we are not in the middle of nature but in an upscale area of ​​the city of Orlando in Florida in the United States I wonder if they will notice me they have n't noticed me yet but if they saw me they might be scared no shoes no t-shirt I look like a wild guy in the bush and of course I'm not wild I'm just a human being looking for yams I senses very connected to this vile and through him very connected to the earth it's at least 10 kg it took me a long time but at least I won't have to come back for a while this man is rob green fields his humility his humor inspires hundreds of thousands of people on the internet adventurer activists and environmental activists he wants to change the world and embody the complete opposite of the consumer society in the United States a green revolution at 32 he wants to save the planet from his small garden with simple and concrete solutions the small world of rob green fields begins behind a fence in a residential area of ​​orlando in florida he built a small wooden house 10 square meters the space of a bed a desk two shelves a few books and some green t-shirt he is a fan of voluntary simplicity I am very minimalist I like things to stay 5th my clothes represent this idea it is getting rid of everything that is superfluous in life everything which is not necessary and which is not useful to accomplish great things I want to simplify my life to do what I love instead of earning money to buy things I don't need [Music ] rob green fields expects to simplify his life that he hardly spends any more money he has no rent no charges end of bank account no paid work either it's his definition of freedom I expected not that [Music] wrong and the fate of a country in a few seconds here the rainwater is collected in large barrels for the whole house everything has a place and a function and even the plants have talent here is my toilet paper I haven't bought toilet paper for five years it's super soft and it smells good it's a bit like an herb live simply it's the only way to live for me if I was offered a villa I n 'I won't do that wouldn't make me happy I would be unhappy when I live in houses that are too extravagant I don't feel good I don't think it's right to put down too many things when so many people have nothing in the world despite appearances rob green field does not live cut off from the world he has not abandoned his computer half a million subscribers follow his adventures on facebook youtube and instagram he publishes everything he does [Music] b line amazon a man show I should have written it may not look appetizing on the outside but it's as good as a potato on the inside be the change you want to see in the world this sentence from ghandi stuck on his computer and the engine of his life yes we live in a world which is very centered on the image I believe whether it is photos or videos people tend to understand the messages when they are visual it clicked in their minds the most successful campaign in this sense it's trashy but three years ago Rob Green Fields made himself known through this astonishing video he carried on himself all the waste generated by an American average for a month in new york 2 kg of waste per day and per person he made this figure a strong image why I do this because the waste we never think about it we never see it we throw everything in trash cans and we don't think about it anymore and I want to know what I would look like if I carried on me all the waste that I created for a month in trash better walk in the streets of new york with waste on me and I saw that people suddenly understand as if little lights lit up in their heads they say to themselves I had never seen it like that I understand now in the same spirit rob green fields and to immerse them for months in the trash cans of major American cities to denounce the immense food waste in the United States look at the treasure that is in this trash can yogurts bread melon milk expired yesterday even bottles of water sandwiches and all these salads super bread the trash I'm going to have a great evening in the United States we throw away half of what we produce half and here is an example of what he found every day in trash cans one in sound Americans out of seven don't eat that then that the reality is that we have enough to feed twice the American population when they were going through it and finding food that was completely edible allowed people to realize that ok here's a bag of apples and they're all good there. about ten two of which only one is cracked here are boxes and boxes of cereal bars which still have three days before being expired and I put everything on the ground in public parks to make big images and make people understand people that we have a problem photos and videos that have been seen share comment imitate even all over the world and that gives him the feeling of being useful [Music] water the plants or do you want me to do lisa is the next door neighbor closer to rome greenfield saw the photo of lignum I found yet another 12 kg 12 kg to curb how you brought it home I'm going to show you a taste at the worlds it's good for making a soup that gives a good consistency I don't know how much I could make with it so you're going to cook it for our next dinner yeah we're all going to do that there [Music] this retiree hosts rob green fil for free in her garden behind her house he created it for her in exchange the vegetable garden she dreamed of [Music] ah yes I love this garden it's a dream come true I worked for fedex for ten years I was in front of a computer screen all day and the only thing what I dreamed of was to have a garden I talk to my plants they know well listen I tell them where you are so pretty is he a good neighbor yes he is a good neighbor he has a very good heart his reputation didn't even precede him so I had already been following him on Facebook for a while before he made a big deal out of it I knew his way of bringing attention to the issue of waste the fact of living in harmony with environment so when I learned that they were moving here I was so happy to benefit from his energy and his vision of things in Orlando the Belgians while waiting to change the world rob green fields is already changing the life of his neighborhood [Music] in Orlando where he has lived for barely a year, he has offered seven vegetable gardens to single mothers and planted a hundred community fruit trees with gardening friends [Music] the idea is to create a community of bring people together me me and you you you the goal is to move forward together he also gives free gardening lessons to his neighbors this is how I water during the first weeks the idea being not to disturb the earth too much ab risks and moving the seeds and destroying the young if you have questions about watering city silos and chlorinated we still use go there in an ideal world I will not use but even when we have just planted my philosophy gardening it's done a good job but don't be a perfectionist otherwise you will waste a lot of time and you will be too stressed thanks to all these gardening projects bill a retired cook found the year viii of leaving at his place I just turned 70 this year here there are people who are 20 30 40 years old we interact we all cook together we do lots of things together we are a real community which includes all ages and all genders it there are even children what was lost during previous generations and we realize now by being all together this is what we were missing even if it has not yet reached America this little green revolution is in progress changing the face of this neighborhood [Music] there are so many people who are changing that they wake up and send me messages saying keep going dress because you inspired me and thanks to you my life has changed that's what gives me the strength to get up in the morning [Music] rob green fields also plants new ideas in people's minds this morning he is invited to the primary school in his neighborhood hi everyone I am happy to be here so you are how old I was about your age in this photo who at that time I loved being outside I was passionate about nature I love animals and now I am 32 years and I try to make people think about the environment and inspire them to make positive changes and I was told that you saw my trashy video me you all saw it after ten days I couldn't anymore going nowhere without combo 10 it's the trash man it was super funny how many of you have heard of the term zero waste saravia some cool bodies that's me for a month when I was living my usual life trying to create as little waste as possible and this is when I lived like an average American for a month who can see the difference it's obvious I'm going to show you two other photos of my friend from Texas he is in primary school and he decided to play the trash man in his school that's him after two weeks with the waste he created and there it's him after two weeks of zero waste raise your hand if you think of a positive change that you would like to do cool who wants to share this with us have less waste good idea clean up all the waste on the earth yes clean up all the waste on the earth that's good but in the meantime you can already start around you because that you have to start somewhere so for those who haven't raised their hand your job is to think about a positive change that you could make for example having a reusable water bottle eating less packaged things or taking more often your bike it may seem difficult to you because you are young but in reality adults really listen to children when they talk about this [Applause] I think he is a good person because he wants to get rid of of all the waste on the earth and when I grow up I would like to be like him he is really a super hero and what he does with the waste is very useful I believe that we children can change the world because 'we can form habits more quickly, well it's easier than for adults and the discussion continues I too I'm trashy ok if you do I'll support you you're 30 and I'm 32 you loved Lyonnais don't' only ever have 1000 dollars I promised not to be a millionaire excuse me why you don't have shoes then the main reason is that I'm happy without shoes I don't need them but you never wear shoes people rarely wear when I go to whois like sin and it's freezing yes I wear shoes I think my boyfriend and I are going to stop wearing cole shoes you tell me how it goes so it's your first day on first day we're going to start by doing a month like that we've just decided [Music] ecology education a captivating subject for all these children who grow up far from the countryside in big American cities rob green fields told him grew up surrounded by nature and has not forgotten his childhood dreams I think of the little boy I was he saw me today at 32 years old a hack I can say with certainty that he would be extremely proud he would not have never could imagine the man who would become he spent his childhood near the great lakes of the northern united states in wisconsin on the other side of the country [Music] his mother walked and still lives today and yes it works so it's cold yes it's cold everything is frozen I can't imagine it looks like you forgot what it is wait I'll show you through the window what it looks like here it's below zero ah yeah it's crazy wait a second I think my meal is burning and by the way the journalist wanted to ask you a question she can ask it now hello thank you how would you describe dress what he is now us as you want when he was born he was very calm serene he looked and made sure what was happening around him rob loved going fishing and being outside so much that he had set up a tent on the frozen lake which he left overnight and he waking up in the morning before going to school to go fishing I found it rather adventurous and courageous I had never seen anyone else do this robin green fields born in the 80s in a hippie family a very close to nature but also very different from that of my American friends I grew up in a very modest family we were four children with my mother in a two-room apartment and I was ashamed of who I was happy to be poor in done and so I was clinging to the American dream a big house a great car a normal family with a mother a father and children and for the longest time I thought that's what I wanted I wanted to be a millionaire because I thought that this was success and the more I focused on being a millionaire on this American dream the more I lost the spirit of my childhood which was to love the earth and nature and not to harm it. protect on the contrary and I realized that I had to completely change my life [Music] I watched documentaries I read books I understood that all my actions the food I ate the car that I was driving the water that I was using the waste that I was producing everything is causing the destruction of the planet that I loved so I decided to change my life step by step I made a long list of what that I wanted to change I hung them in my kitchen where I could have it every day and my goal was to make one positive change per week and that's what I did it's been seven years since Rob Green Field launched bigger and bigger challenges 4 5 6 13 and that day he is about to start the new great adventure of his life they have been preparing for months what are you doing I count the weight exact food that I have I have mangoes a lot of people not a lot of little peppers from the garden pumpkin seeds a jar of honey and lots of pumpkins and there is nothing that comes from the supermarkets here everything that ago I grow them in my garden have frozen gleaned from nature in public spaces or in parks he wants to spend a year without buying anything to eat and feed exclusively on food that he harvests in his vegetable garden and that 'they glean from nature it's time to say goodbye to everything that comes from the stores ok ok then all this has to go because all this comes from the grocery stores the lentils the olive oil it's going to hurt the raisins to these are my last reason for the year unless I manage to do the same what will you miss the most chocolate I will miss chocolate most of the time but why are you doing that I do this because it is something extremely important which will allow people to think which will inspire them my hope is not that everyone does like me my goal is that people do just one thing for example planting tomatoes and basil on their balcony or making a small garden in front of their house that everyone starts with a little thing a little more concerned with the origin of the food that allows us to live and a little more connected to the earth in general corn I better get rid of it no temptation at home because popcorn is one of my favorite things I can't take the risk for me it's a human experience and also confusing to see if it is still possible in a big city in the middle of all the urban hustle and bustle to live off the land an extreme challenge but which has a lot of meaning for him his neighbor lisa supports and seems inspired by this new adventure I understand everything fact you know when the pendulum tilts too much to one side as is the case for our society at the moment where we are so focused on consumption by creating so much waste with 40% of our food which is wasted so sometimes to make tipping the scales we have to do the opposite extreme so I think that Rob by taking this opposite direction can lead us to find a happy medium instead of being so immersed in the consumer society [Music] but Lisa is still having fun concern for his dear neighbor he has never spent a single day eating only what he produces [Music] I don't know exactly what I'm going to eat next week next month sawan it's a mystery that stay whole [Music] ottawa is going to be difficult mentally and physically demanding I'm a little worried about my health but I hope that on the contrary I will be in the best shape I can I can't give up I have no choice the luck of rob green fields knows that he lives in florida the sunshine state a peninsula dominated by fertile and preserved nature so his return to nature begins with a day of fishing in a river with one of his friends terry terry do you think there are alligators around here yes of course there are alligators in this river it is the saint sebastien river which is fed by a source of salt and brackish water it is the ideal environment for the alligators but you have already seen some here yes a lot of two meters fifty three meters oh it looks good to me all that has [Music] alejo brumfield you can do it two meals depends on it it will have taken a lot of patience to be able to fish for his first meal of the day [Music] [Music] well done living from nature is not always easy and rob green fields is experiencing it I am happy and I am very tired he is undoubtedly two or three o'clock in the afternoon I didn't really have breakfast I didn't really eat enough today but yes I caught ten fish which is enough for the next two weeks to go back to town [Music] say it doesn't bother you to have fish blood and go swimming with alligators I think about it but I think there's nothing to worry about really not long ago risk if I get eaten by an alligator at least I will have a good life a very good life [Music] that night by the fire the two friends rediscover the pleasure of a life almost outside of time very far away of the contemporary world which has not made them dream for a long time I feel alive this evening I mean canoeing fishing fish the facts grilled over a wood fire contemplating the stars above my head that makes me very alive [ Music] I think that in the comfortable world in which we live we often have the opportunity to feel almost stagnant or stagnant; adventures are what makes life more intense and the adventurous is only just beginning [Music]