Episodes
July 17, 2022
607: Mike Michalowicz, part 2: Being the Icebreaker
Mike 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 stay...
July 15, 2022
606: Nakisa Glover, part 3: The Joy of Gardening
Nakisa 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 aft...
July 13, 2022
605: Etienne Stott, part 5: My Work from an Extinction Rebellion Rebel's Perspective
In 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...
July 11, 2022
604: Whitney Tilson, part 2: Overcoming feeling uninformed about the environment to act on it
We 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 ...
July 9, 2022
603: Mark Victor Hansen: Chicken Soup for the Sustainability Leadership Soul
You'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...
July 6, 2022
602: Ash Beckham, part 2: How to Out-Boulder the Boulder, Colorado Crowd
Listen 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 ...
July 3, 2022
601: Bill Benenson, part 3: Hadza Versus American Culture and Little Kids with Sharp Knives
Since 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,...
July 1, 2022
600: Etienne Stott MBE, part 4: What it's like rebelling with Extinction Rebellion
Following up last conversation with Etienne, on Extinction Rebellion's mission, strategy, and tactics, this time we talk about his path from disengagement to becoming a Rebel---that is, playing a significant role in Extinctio...
June 24, 2022
599: A Guy Forced Me to Accept a Twenty Dollar Bill for Picking Up Litter
Here are the notes I read from for this post: Walking through park 2017, pandemic "Thanks" Not thankworthy Restored faith / Nobody does / interrupting / construction worker Office Continual improvement Enjoying Fat / "Titty t...
June 24, 2022
598: Bill Benenson, part 2: Dirt! and Kiss the Ground, behind the scenes
I indulge in asking Bill about his and his wife Laurie's passions, filmmaker friends, goals, and so on. He talks about passionate peers he's worked with like Michael Pollan and Paul Stamets. The names Tom Brady and Gisele Bun...
June 23, 2022
597: Josh Martin, part 2: If at first you don't succeed . . .
Josh Martin started to do his commitment to shop at the farmers market, but it didn't connect. I think we didn't connect it to his experience of the environment. We decided to find a new commitment by connecting more intrinsi...
June 20, 2022
596: Sandra Pérez, part 1: Keeping New York's LGBTQIA+ Pride March clean
Sandra took responsibility when she didn't have to, as the Executive Director of NYC Pride, to respond to my requests to talk to an organizer. Longtime listeners and readers of my blog know that last year, I was disgusted by ...
June 17, 2022
595, Jason Slaughter, Creator of Not Just Bikes, part 1: Ending Car Dependency
Watch Jason's Not Just Bikes videos. I've watched them all. They're informative, engaging, funny, researched, provocative, and keep you coming back, but not like Netflix stuff designed to addict. After you watch a few, listen...
June 15, 2022
594: Etienne Stott, part 3: An insider's, activist's view of Extinction Rebellion
Etienne Stott is using his Olympic gold medalist status to augment his impact acting on the environment, including working with Extinction Rebellion on peaceful civil disobedience. He's been arrested, spoken publicly, and mor...
June 11, 2022
593: How I disconnected from the electric grid in Manhattan for 2 weeks (and counting)
" Your story is truly inspirational ": feedback from an attendee. The government advisory Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board invited me to speak on sustainability leadership Wednesday. I spoke on what led to my experiment g...
June 9, 2022
592: We're thinking about and using solar and wind wrong. Here's how they could work.
Including their greatest proponents, nearly everyone thinks of and uses solar, wind, and other so-called renewables wrong if their goal is to reach sustainability or to stop reducing Earth's ability to sustain life. They all ...
June 8, 2022
591: Whitney Tilson, part 1: Acting on intrinsic motivation versus feeling you have to save the world
Whitney's background and accomplishments are incredible and we start with them. He shares his beliefs and mindsets that lead to his high performance in business, philanthropy, fitness, family, and more. Then we share a fun pa...
June 8, 2022
590: Ash Beckham, part 1: Being vulnerable, supporting others, growing yourself
We started from Ash's TEDx talks, which cover vulnerability, intimacy, and support. You can listen to our conversation on its own, but it won't hurt to watch them first. She could easily say, "As a lesbian, I have it so diffi...
June 5, 2022
589: Abraham Lincoln and Sustainability, part 1: Is the US a racist nation? What should we do then?
The start of this episode's text: Regular listeners know I’ve been living with my apartment off the electric grid for two weeks, in Manhattan, not off in the woods. Most of the benefits are about connecting more with nature, ...
June 5, 2022
588: Mark DiMassimo, part 1: Leading with integrity
We start with one of the great cases of a corporation choosing to act with integrity in the face of pressure and incentive not to. Mark was part of the team that chose for CVS drug stores in rebranding to stop selling cigaret...
June 2, 2022
587: Josh Martin, part 1: How to Reach the Ivy League and the NFL When You Start Late and Unprepared
Regular listeners know I love talking with professional athletes. They open themselves to failure every time they compete. They often make incredible feats look so simple and natural, we forget the years of dedication and eff...
May 31, 2022
586: My Kitty Hawk moment, on the way to a Moon Shot
More continual improvement: the more sustainably I live, the easier each next step. Business people know about continual improvement, also knows as kaizen, the Toyota Way. How do you go from the Wright brothers' airplane to a...
May 28, 2022
585: Douglas McMaster, part2: If a restaurant can run with no trash, we can too
When a man who founded a restaurant that uses no trash cans meets a guy who doesn't fly and hasn't filled a load of trash since 2019, we start by expressing mutual appreciation. Anyone can do these things. It's a matter of do...
May 25, 2022
584: Freedom, continual improvement, fun, and curiosity: day three only solar in Manhattan
I share thoughts after two days using only solar power in Manhattan. After recording I turned off the circuit to the whole apartment. I'm on the roof now, charging the battery. The recording shares more. The main themes: free...