This Sustainable Life
763 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsDo you care about the environment but feel "I want to act but if no one else does it won't make a difference" and "But if you don't solve everything it isn't worth doing anything"?
We are the antidote! You're not alone. Hearing role models overcome the same feelings to enjoy acting on their values creates meaning, purpose, community, and emotional reward.
Want to improve as a leader? Bestselling author, 3-time TEDx speaker, leadership speaker, coach, and professor Joshua Spodek, PhD MBA, brings joy and inspiration to acting on the environment. You'll learn to lead without relying on authority.
We bring you leaders from many areas -- business, politics, sports, arts, education, and more -- to share their expertise for you to learn from. We then ask them to share and act on their environmental values. That's leadership without authority -- so they act for their reasons, not out of guilt, blame, doom, gloom, or someone telling them what to do.
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Dan Pink, 40+ million Ted talk viewsMarshall Goldsmith, #1 ranked leadership guru and authorFrances Hesselbein, Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, former CEO of the Girl ScoutsElizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize winning authorDavid Allen, author of Getting Things DoneKen Blanchard, author, The One Minute ManagerVincent Stanley, Director of PatagoniaDorie Clark, bestselling authorBryan Braman, Super Bowl champion Philadelphia EagleJohn Lee Dumas, top entrepreneurial podcasterAlisa Cohn, top 100 speaker and coachDavid Biello, Science curator for TEDHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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650: Brian Merchant: your phone's hidden environmental impact
December 13, 2022 16:24 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBThe more I learn about electronic waste, the more disgusted I feel at how huge the problem is that we are exacerbating, often in the name of increasing efficiency or reducing waste. I've watched many documentaries, but here's a short video showing the problem in just one place in Ghana. Look at the land in the background that was once verdant and lush, now poisonous. Or read The Dark Side of Congo's Cobalt Rush in the New Yorker. If your comfort and convenience come at the price of others' ...
649: Listener Questions 04: What Started Me Acting Sustainably, Kids, and What to Do If You Don't Have Time
December 11, 2022 23:25 - 17 minutes - 13.8 MBIn this episode, I answer a question a listener emailed: Can you share more details on what exactly prompted you to make the switch to acting more sustainably and if it was abrupt or gradual. And perhaps more practical ideas on what to do if you have kids, especially picky eaters, or if your schedule is just too busy to prepare meals 100% of the time. If you have questions on leadership, sustainability, sustainability leadership, doof, a guest, or anything I cover on the podcast, email me....
648: Michael Herz, part 1: The United States Constitution, Sustainability, and Pollution
December 11, 2022 02:58 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBRegular listeners know I'm thinking about applying Abraham's Lincoln solution: a constitutional amendment banning pollution. Here's an earlier episode on it: 613: Our Next Constitutional Amendment. It sounds crazy, but we'd be crazy not to consider it and learn from the idea. Even if the United States takes a long time to do it, other countries would likely do it first. It turns out others are organizing for a similar amendment, for the right to a clean environment. Michael's expertise in ...
647: Kris de Decker, part 1: Low and No Tech Magazine: We believe in progress and technology
December 08, 2022 03:41 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBKris created and runs what I consider one of the top sites online. It has influenced my behavior and expectations to enjoy living more sustainably, including unplugging my fridge, which led to unplugging my apartment, and start seeing that solar and wind aren't sustainable any more, though we could make them more so. I've looked forward to connecting with Kris for years. In our conversation, he shares his transition from reporting on new technologies for others for pay to reporting on techn...
646: Noah Gallagher Shannon, part 1: Uruguay is an environmental role model
December 04, 2022 01:37 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBI see our environmental problems and lack of effective solutions as a failure of imagination, as regular listeners of this podcast and readers of my blog know. If we can't imagine a world without pollution, we won't try. We'll resist and push back, which we do. Would-be leaders pollute as much as nearly anyone alive, more than nearly anyone who has ever lived, then say government should force them to change. Role models would help. Part of why I unplug my apartment from the electric grid an...
645: Hamilton Souther, part 1: Living Among the Matsés in the Peruvian Amazon
November 29, 2022 03:41 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBSuggest to people in our culture that we consider not growing the GDP nonstop and most react with fear at what they see as the inevitability of recession leading to depression leading to the tax base declining, infrastructure crumbling, hospitals closing, mothers dying in childbirth, thirty become old age, and reverting to the Stone Age. Yet there remain many cultures that don't buy into our culture at all. Despite our culture invading their lands, what many of us consider the pinnacle of h...
644: Janet Allacker, part 1.5: Joy first
November 20, 2022 02:35 - 47 minutes - 27.8 MBIn our second conversation, Janet reveals that she did part of her commitment, but found traveling not by car took longer than she expected and didn't do it often. At one point in this conversation, she shares she felt she had to reduce pollution. I point out I didn't say she had to reduce pollution. I invited her to manifest emotions she liked. Our society burdens us with thinking we have to ACT BIG! SCALE! SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS!, which create obstacles to starting and prime us to expect ...
643: Gaya Herrington, part 3: Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse
November 16, 2022 02:20 - 1 hour - 36 MBAt the end of our second conversation, Gaya was finishing her book, leaving KPMG, and soon starting at Schneider Electric. The book just came out, Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse: What a 50-Year-Old Model of the World Taught Me About a Way Forward for Us Today (a free download), and she's worked at Schneider a while. We talk about the book, how the world has tracked two of the Limits to Growth simulations, and how working at Schneider is. The book treats how to respond to a comp...
642: Listener Questions 03: Fermentation and my dream job
November 11, 2022 21:20 - 15 minutes - 12.4 MBIn this episode I answer: Have you tried making home made yoghurt from plant milk and friendly bacteria. I guess you'd want non packaged options like make from almonds or coconut although home made soya milk is possible with some work. (Using my yoghurt maker is one way I've tried to reduce packaging). Likewise have you tried making vegan cheese? and If you didn't work at NYU what would be your dream job? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
641: Listener Questions, volume 02: What Motivates Me To Care?
November 07, 2022 01:51 - 14 minutes - 10.6 MBHere is the listener's question this time: Where do you think your concern and consideration for others comes from? Is it mostly nature or nurture? (E.g. influence from up bringing). I'm thinking about your social conscience about how your pollution or lack of it has an impact on those you've never met. I like to think I care about others but the truth is I continue to do things like drive to modern jive because it suits me even though it contributes to damage for others. Hosted on Acast....
640: Mark Mills, part 2: Low cost, high availability energy creates wealth
November 02, 2022 03:05 - 57 minutes - 35.1 MBMark and I share more highly researched, thoughtful conversation on human welfare and the environment. We see things differently, but I consider our conversations the type we should have more of. This session we cover The book Limits to Growth as well as the concepts underlying limits to growth Earth's carrying capacity How much wealth is consumed by food and fuel, now and historically, and how much it's dropped How the low cost and high availability of energy has allowed us to devote m...
639: Bruce Robertson and Milad Mousavian: Carbon Capture and Storage Is Not a Climate Solution
October 26, 2022 18:12 - 49 minutes - 27.7 MBI learned of Bruce and Milad's Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) report, The Carbon Capture Crux – Lessons Learned, with fascination since I held out for carbon capture to be one of the major potential solutions to climate change. Though climate is only one of the many environmental problems risking civilization, it's one of the big ones. I contacted them to learn what could work or not. Many projections take for granted that today's unproven technologies will wo...
638: Mat Johnson: Exploring and Expressing Identity
October 24, 2022 00:17 - 41 minutes - 24.6 MBLongtime listeners know I spent some formative years in some rough neighborhoods in Philadelphia. In researching them for my upcoming book, I discovered the many-award-winning book Loving Day by Mat Johnson took place largely a block from where I lived. His Wikipedia page showed he went to grade school with my stepbrother and stepsister. I read and loved Loving Day, which not only described my neighborhood, it explored it through race, which I was looking to understand, and it was raw and v...
637: Holly Whitaker: Overcoming Addiction, Embracing Freedom
October 21, 2022 03:07 - 53 minutes - 31.2 MBI read Holly's book because I see us as a society and individuals addicted to what pollution brings. What can we learn from someone who overcame a different addiction? Holly's book is the opposite of a downer. It's spirited, researched, personal, and engaging. She reveals with infectious anger how society profited at wrecking her life, telling her poison was normal and good. Most of all, she shares how before stopping her addiction she thought sobriety looked impossible to achieve and borin...
636: Mark P. Mills, part 1: "Renewables" aren't renewable
October 19, 2022 03:02 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBMark is a physicist who went into business around the environment. There aren't many of us, so I think you'll hear a rapport we enjoyed that I think you'll enjoy too. We indulge in physicist talk. I contacted him because I found his reports on what solar and wind---what I don't see how we can call renewable, green, or clean energy sources---require in their manufacture, transportation, installation, decommissioning, and more. Many fans of such technologies gloss over their problems, which s...
635: John Biewen, part 2: Turning off screens at 8pm
October 09, 2022 00:39 - 53 minutes - 33.4 MBDo you keep your screens by your bed? Do you find yourself running in circles like: Twitter to email to latest news to Facebook to Instagram to Twitter and repeating the cycle forever? John shares his results committing to turning off his screens no matter what at 8pm a couple nights a week. Do you imagine it would affects his relationship with his wife, with whom he watched shows and movies? Would he get more anxious or less? Read more or sleep earlier? What do you think you would do? He ...
634: Donald Robertson, part 1: Thinking in Systems (a third listener episode)
October 08, 2022 03:19 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBDon regularly reads my blog. We've emailed for years so after inviting to record episodes with other listeners, I invited him. We both find a systems perspective the most effective way to understand and act on our environmental problems. I enjoyed talking to him about systems. Many people see them as technical, to the extent they get the view at all, but you don't have to work with them that long to see they are how to understand the environment and how we can act on it effectively. The al...
633: Alan Ereira, part 1: Meeting the Kogi of Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains
October 03, 2022 11:47 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBI learned of Alan soon after learning of the Kogi (see below). He lived with and made films of them, among many other documentaries and films. He also works to help preserve their culture and spread their message to help us stop wrecking our environment and selves through the Tairona Heritage Trust, which you can support. His films about them---From the Heart of the World - The Elder Brother's Warning (1990) and Aluna - An Ecological Warning by the Kogi People (2012)---tell stories and show...
632: Mitzi Perdue, part 1: Sex Trafficking in Ukraine
September 28, 2022 02:20 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBMitzi just returned from the Ukraine War, invited by General Andriy Nebytov from the Kyiv Regional Police. He invited her after reading her piece Human Trafficking on Ukraine’s Border to see this trafficking in person. She saw abductions happening, powerless to act, as traffickers controlled the region. She describes what she saw. This episode isn't graphic, but sober. We'd prefer to live in a world without what she described, but I believe if it exists, better to know about it than not. S...
631: Stephen M. R. Covey, part 1.5: To Arrive Where We Started and to Know the Place for the First Time
September 25, 2022 01:25 - 24 minutes - 14.5 MBContinuing a long trend of guests sharing partially doing their commitments but not stopping, Stephen comes back for an episode 1.5, not yet his episode 2. Stephen committed to sharing his childhood family experiences hiking on a path near a family cabin (my description doesn't do justice to his description, so listen to his first episode, 622, to hear his description drawing on his life experiences). As happens sometimes when a commitment depends on other people, their being unavailable me...
630: Simplifying Meditation Words and Meaning
September 19, 2022 23:01 - 47 minutes - 35.8 MBThe notes I read for this episode were long, so instead of including them in the podcast notes, I posted them as a separate blog post: The text from episode 630: Simplifying Meditation Words and Meaning. My book: Leadership Step by Step The Science article I mentioned: Limits to economic growth The article showing humans lived to a modal age of 72: Longevity Among Hunter- Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Examination Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning Wikipedia page The Calvin and Hobbes...
629: Michelle Nijhuis, part 2: Stopping doom scrolling
September 18, 2022 02:10 - 46 minutes - 28.6 MBWe started talking about Michelle's commitment to avoid scrolling on vacation. She did. It sounds like it was both no big deal and something worth building on. We had intended to keep the recording to under thirty minutes for scheduling reasons, but the conversation kept staying too interesting to stop. We talked about addiction, how big a difference small differences can make, the difference between Portland and Vancouver in culture, how to change culture, living off the grid, and what sta...
628: Jay Walker, part 2: Kayaking together on the Hudson
September 15, 2022 14:48 - 44 minutes - 25.9 MBI think Jay's commitment may be the first where I participated and we had a blast! You may remember he committed to kayaking on the Hudson. He invited me to join. As you can see from the picture, I did, and we kayaked together. We shared about the experience. Note the change in our conversation and relationship from last conversation to this one. By last conversation we had spoken several times to set up the call, then you could hear our recorded conversation. Then hear how things changed ...
627: Nadeem Akhtar, part 1: A Long-Time Listener from Norway
September 14, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBNadeem contacted me as a listener to suggest Abdal Hakim Murad as a guest, as I hadn't hosted any Muslims on the podcast by then. I learned a lot and enjoyed meeting Abdal, plus Nadeem and I stayed in touch. When Janet Allaker's first episode with a listener went well, I invited Nadeem to be a guest. He loved the opportunity. I think we both enjoyed the conversation. If you're a regular listener, you'll get to hear another voice from your position. You'll get to hear another listener's view...
626: Jay Walker, part 1: Organizing New York City's Queer Liberation March
September 12, 2022 01:09 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBRegular readers and listeners know my passion for cleaning my local park, Washington Square Park, and how my heart breaks at how we abuse this sliver of a vestige of nature, especially the mornings after the Queer Liberation Marches of the past two years. As an organizer, Jay didn't have to respond to my request, but he did. By the end of this recording, you'll hear us talk about reducing waste next year. We begin by talking about the evolution of the pride marches from when he started atte...
625: Listener Questions, volume 01
September 07, 2022 22:18 - 26 minutes - 19.7 MBI answer my first listener questions. If you have questions on topics I write about, like leadership, sustainability, sustainability leadership, sidchas, habits, academia, physics, podcasting, and so on, contact me. This episode's questions: Hi, Joshua, in the winter months of this year, in New York, in your flat, will you use heating or blankets? Can you describe a time when you struggled with a decision about a polluting act? To give an example of what I mean from my own life, as you kn...
624: John Biewen, part 1: Seeing Whiteness and Other Systems
September 06, 2022 02:08 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBI came across John from listening to one of his podcast's season, Seeing White, about the development of whiteness as a race. I listened to the whole series, which I found fascinating and provocative. Then I discovered another season, Men, covering another topic important to me. I invited him to be on the podcast, then I learned from him the most recent season, The Repair, is on the environment. We start this conversation talking about systems and approaching the topics above through a syst...
623: AJ Jacobs, part 1: Be Curious and Act
September 03, 2022 11:25 - 49 minutes - 27.5 MBAJ is in some ways a kindred soul, actually doing things many people hear about or even talk about, but rarely do. Regular listeners might remember our mutual friend Mike Michalowicz suggesting we talk. We start by talking about things AJ has done and written about. He read the encyclopedia cover to cover. He lived a year following biblical instructions as literally as possible. He practiced radical honesty. He shares behind the stories too, the fun and learning that came from it. I believe...
622: Stephen M. R. Covey, part 1: Trust & Inspire
September 02, 2022 01:17 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBStephen's book, Trust & Inspire, recounts today's effective way to lead, by creating trust and inspiring. He laments people still relying on the old techniques of commanding and controlling, which may have worked in more industrial times, but not today. They provoke resistance, the opposite of trust and inspire. Those familiar with my work have heard me lament what people do in sustainability: CCCSC, my shorthand for convince, cajole, coerce, and seek compliance. They rely on extrinsic rath...
621: Whitney Tilson, part 3: Talking sustainability with a Harvard-Trained Investment Advisor Who Flies Monthly
August 31, 2022 02:43 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBIn our third conversation, Whitney and I get more friendly and conversational, fun conversation. He's been picking up more garbage, which I hope is part of a journey of continual improvement. Since long before we met, he rides his bike to get around the city. Otherwise, he's focused on other things in life than sustainability. He's examined a lot of parts of his life, but not his impact on other people mediated through the environment. I'm not trying to change people who don't show they wa...
620: Nature delivers what psychedelics do, but we don't know what we're missing (feat. Sam Harris and Roland Griffiths)
August 28, 2022 01:58 - 13 minutes - 9.75 MBListening to an episode of Sam Harris's podcast featuring Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins neuroscientist researcher, on psychedelics revealed that much of their benefit sounds a lot like my guests talking about their experiences of nature. I think we don't know how much we're missing by paving over and cutting off as much as we do from nature. I'd guess people before we cut ourselves off from raw, wild nature so much would never have guessed we could deprive ourselves from forests, beaches,...
619: Dr. Michael Gurven, part 2: The Forager Population Paradox and what do we do
August 24, 2022 12:46 - 42 minutes - 26.7 MBMost second conversations on this podcast come weeks or months later, after the guest does his or her Spodek Method commitment. In Michael's case, our first conversation was so engaging, we kept talking almost two hours, so I split the conversation into two parts. The first mostly covered Michael and his research. This part covered applying his research and my leadership to sustainability. What can we learn from cultures that lived thousands of years or longer? What can we learn from cultur...
618: Dr. Michael Gurven, part 1: Our ancestors evolved to live to 72 years*, and did (not 30).
August 23, 2022 20:41 - 58 minutes - 36.2 MB*"The average modal age of adult death for hunter-gatherers is 72 with a range of 68–78 years. This range appears to be the closest functional equivalent of an 'adaptive' human life span." Would you be surprised that humans evolved to live to 72 years old? Wait, isn't one of the greatest results of our technology and progress to advance human lifespan from 30 years old? How long do humans live naturally? Of course, the question and its answers is complicated, but I found Michael through a ...
617: Janet Allaker: A long-time listener shares what This Sustainable Life means to her
August 19, 2022 02:10 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBJanet shared how she found This Sustainable Life, what kept her coming back, the guests she liked, and how it's affected her. I wish I had recorded episodes with listeners before to learn what you all like, don't like, and want more or less of. Listening to it after recording, I consider our conversation one of the most accessible for new listeners. Janet described various aspects of it that I suspect will resonate with many listeners. One thing that hit me was how the podcast restored her...
616: Michael Lombardi, part 1: Culture, Leadership, and Football
August 12, 2022 21:00 - 59 minutes - 36.1 MBLeaders who know how to lead and change culture know culture eats strategy for breakfast. This concept figures strongly in Michael's book, Gridiron Genius. When most people watch football, they see the game, maybe the game plan and strategy. We see it on the scale of a play, maybe a game involving twenty-two men on a field, maybe also the coaches and trainers. Michael sees each play in the context of the game, season, and overall culture of football as it evolves over decades. He knows the...
615: Living off the grid without solar either (as all humans once did)
August 09, 2022 12:50 - 16 minutes - 10.7 MBRegular listeners know I started an experiment disconnecting from the electric grid. I began May 22. Then on July 22, I posted an episode that the solar panel or battery broke, or both. I didn't see how I could continue so said that after I finished recording, I'd declare victory, reconnect to the grid, cook lunch, and move on. Regular listeners and readers of my blog know that I posted about keeping going. What gives? Did I stop or not? I'd meant to record an episode explaining that I kep...
614: Michelle Nijhuis, part 1: Living off the grid for 15 years
August 09, 2022 01:28 - 58 minutes - 33.7 MBWhere was Michelle Nijhuis all my life? She lived off the electric grid for fifteen years and I was about two months in, so we shared stories of the experiences. She did it much longer and her fiance had to assemble everything from scratch. I'm only two months in and can use off-the-shelf parts, but I'm in Manhattan, so can't set up a permanent system. Some similarities: connecting with nature, learning to respect power, living with less resulting in living more. Michelle shares her challen...
613: Our Next Constitutional Amendment
August 01, 2022 21:39 - 37 minutes - 29.3 MBMy proposal and rationale for the next amendment for the United States Constitution. It will sound crazy, impossible, and too hard at first, as it did with me. But the more you consider it, the more the objections will fade. It is the right tool for the right job. Nothing else is. I'll write more about it later. For now, just the audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
612: Sebastian Junger, part 1: Humans Thrive on Mutual Dependence, Feeling Needed, But Our Culture Isolates.
July 29, 2022 21:31 - 1 hour - 42 MBWhen I wrote up my experiment to live with my apartment off the grid in Manhattan for a month, I looked up what I did the morning I started. My library records show I borrowed and listened to Sebastian's book Tribe, then my browser history shows I watched a ton of videos featuring him. Soon after I read Freedom, watched Restrepo and The Last Patrol. His work makes you question your values, the values of our culture, and what you do about it. In my case, his exploration to why in a culture o...
611: Etienne Stott, part 6: Activism and Leadership
July 28, 2022 00:27 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this sixth conversation between an Extinction Rebellion Rebel and a home-grown sustainability leadership (I hope) leader, we explore more of the life of someone who has devoted himself to solving our environmental problems. We continue comparing and contrasting the approaches, learning from each other, developing friendship, sharing the challenges, and sharing why we do it. If you, listener, haven't yet decided to make sustainability your priority, I think you'll find everyone needs you...
610: Abortion and Sustainability
July 24, 2022 02:48 - 20 minutes - 15.8 MBHere are the notes I read from: 40% of pregnancies are unplanned. Overpopulation is a major problem for environment so it's a topic for this podcast. Girlfriend who pressured me into unprotected sex and got pregnant Not only women's issue. Men have as much value to add as anyone who hasn't been robbed or murdered to speak on robbery and murder. Her power, reversing her word, pressuring, irresponsibility, tear Financial abortion. If you support abortion, it's consistent and will help yo...
609: Finishing My Off-the-Grid-in-Manhattan Experiment in Month 3
July 22, 2022 19:29 - 9 minutes - 6.91 MBHaving just started month three of living off the electric grid in Manhattan, technical issues led me to stop the experiment. I'm not sure the problem, but connecting the solar panels to the power station, it doesn't charge. I don't know how to diagnose it without another power station or solar panel I know works to find the problem. Here are the notes I read from: Last use of electronics off-grid before cooking lunch with pressure cooker, which will mean reconnecting the apartment's maste...
608: Parents Just Don't Understand
July 18, 2022 01:04 - 12 minutes - 9.19 MBThe notes I read from: Yesterday my mom suggested I move away from the city if it makes me feel so bad. Last week my dad reaffirmed that he wouldn't appear on the podcast without some vague conditions he was using my invitation to cajole me into. To move away from the problem is exactly the opposite of my mission. Nearly everyone else identifies my work as helping the world, even if they don't see the underlying beauty, harmony, etc I do, but my parents get annoyed. Why the discrepancy? ...
607: Mike Michalowicz, part 2: Being the Icebreaker
July 17, 2022 02:09 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBMike committed to a year-long task. Few guests go for so long. Since we're in a writing group together, I've seen him in between, but since I want you, the listeners, to hear guests' results first, I didn't ask him if he stayed on track. To be candid, I suspected he didn't because of the year length. Regular listeners know I bring some guests on for episode 1.5s, where I help bring them back on track. Usually it happens because I didn't connect them enough to their intrinsic motivation. I c...
606: Nakisa Glover, part 3: The Joy of Gardening
July 15, 2022 02:22 - 38 minutes - 24.8 MBNakisa shared about the intersection of nature and its disappearance growing up, as well as her growing awareness of it, family, community, and a polluting cement factory appearing in her neighborhood. We recorded shortly after the Buffalo shooting of May 2022, and talking about access to fresh produce disappearing from her neighborhood touched on it. Everything led to her sharing about her plans to garden and the role of gardening in her life growing up. She hasn't made the headway she wan...
605: Etienne Stott, part 5: My Work from an Extinction Rebellion Rebel's Perspective
July 13, 2022 03:49 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBIn Etienne and my continued exploration of each other's work, we look at my leadership work from his perspective. What are the differences between leadership and protest? What's the difference between a purity test and living by your values? How do my goals, strategies, and tactics differ from theirs? How do our efforts complement each other? Our time was tighter, so it was a shorter episode. I think it may lead to collaborating some time with Extinction Rebellion. Hosted on Acast. Se...
604: Whitney Tilson, part 2: Overcoming feeling uninformed about the environment to act on it
July 11, 2022 02:46 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBWe start by my reading the emails where I invited Whitney to this podcast by cursing with a few f-bombs, showing how we started our interactions. Before recording our first episode we met in Washington Square Park and picked up litter together. Read my emails cursing at Whitney Tilson that brought him to my podcast Whitney shares how he created and maintains his following, speaking his mind, deliberately sharing provocative opinions. He shares how and why he engaged so much on the pandemic...
603: Mark Victor Hansen: Chicken Soup for the Sustainability Leadership Soul
July 09, 2022 03:04 - 56 minutes - 32.1 MBYou've heard of The Chicken Soup for the Soul book and series. I had to start this conversation by apologizing that I did the opposite of the advice everyone knows: "don't judge a book by its cover." Something about the title and cover didn't resonate with me. They seemed syrupy and palliative. To my credit, 144 publishers also passed on the book before one published it. The book evolved into a series of hundreds of titles selling hundreds of millions of copies. Still, I only read the book a...
602: Ash Beckham, part 2: How to Out-Boulder the Boulder, Colorado Crowd
July 06, 2022 02:24 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBListen to the difference between Ash's tone, her level of engagement, and her type of engagement between what she talks about in the first few minutes and about fifteen minutes later. In both cases she shows a high magnitude of emotion. At the beginning she's outraged at stuff outside her life. Later she's passionate about things in her life. Nearly everyone trying to motivate on the environment focuses on problems elsewhere, trying desperately to convince, cajole, or coerce people to act b...
601: Bill Benenson, part 3: Hadza Versus American Culture and Little Kids with Sharp Knives
July 03, 2022 02:31 - 40 minutes - 20.7 MBSince Bill visited the Hadza in modern-day Tanzania, and I've been learning about cultures that have lived for tens to hundreds of thousands of years, I asked him about how they lived. We talked about their religion, rituals, dancing, singing, fashion, textiles, and culture in general. Neither of us studies people or cultures, so we're just two people talking about our observations, but it's pretty clear when little boys learn to use bows and arrows around when they learn walking and talkin...