Episodes
Dec. 2, 2019
255: Joshua Becker, Becoming Minimalist
I've recorded a few posts about how what many people call minimalism is really more maximal . From the outside it looks like minimizing stuff.d People who practice it, as I see it, don't focus on stuff. Getting rid of it is a...
Nov. 30, 2019
254: Accidents of birth: communicating despite differences
Following up episode 253, I address race, sex, sexual preference and other difference people use as excuses to stop listening or understanding over. Here are my notes I worked from: Podcast: Race, sex, sexual preference. I me...
Nov. 29, 2019
253: My greatest triumphs, my greatest shames
Here are my notes that I read from for this post: My greatest triumphs, my greatest shames. When I share personal stuff people always write how they like it. I think it's less important than learning the joys of stewardship a...
Nov. 26, 2019
252: Tia Nelson, part 2: A lifetime of Earth Days
Tia has been active on the environment for a long time, working with government, non profits, as an individual, and since birth deeply connected with federal and state government. And of course Earth Day from the start. We co...
Nov. 23, 2019
251: Let's make overpopulation only a finance issue
Here are my notes that I read from for this episode. New comment from reading Countdown by Alan Weisman Overpopulation is major issue. Challenges are culture, religion, lack of education, lack of birth control He presented re...
Nov. 22, 2019
250: Why talk about birthrate and population so much?
Readers and listeners have commented on my writing and posting lately about population and birth rates. Why do I talk about them? Isn't America below replacement level? I recently finished reading Countdown by Alan Weisman, w...
Nov. 20, 2019
249: Florida Mayors Jerry Demings and Buddy Dyer, part 2: Humility and Action from U.S. officials
Since our first episode, I've been talking about these mayors choosing to pick up garbage. I believe that a man never stands so tall as when he bends down to pick up another person's garbage. How many U.S. politicians can you...
Nov. 19, 2019
248: Countdown, a book I recommend by Alan Weisman
I just finished an eye-opening book, Countdown , by Alan Weisman. It covers population. Weisman traveled to and reported on about a dozen places' views and practices on population and family planning. In this episode, I read ...
Nov. 18, 2019
247: Balancing jobs and junk
People resist environmental projects to protect jobs, even to keep producing products that pollute. My absurd proposal to balance jobs with junk: put factories next to landfills. Despite it being absurd, the proposal would cr...
Nov. 17, 2019
246: The Emotions Around Environmental Action
What emotions do you associate with environmental action? I find people associate shame and guilt with it. I find these emotions lead people to suppress the emotions and hide the behavior leading to it. I propose reacting to ...
Nov. 16, 2019
245: Tia Nelson, part 1: Earth Day
One of my main goals for this podcast is to bring people who love acting on one's environmental values, seeing stewardship not as an obligation but as being a part of something greater than yourself, than any of us, benefitin...
Nov. 12, 2019
244: Lessons from extinction
Learning that humans only recently developed the concept of extinction. Much of the West, for example, believed in a Great Chain of Being, spontaneous generation, and a biblical flood. That perspective suggests that many past...
Nov. 11, 2019
243: Confusing distinct modes of acting
Tired of people saying what you do doesn't matter? Or personal action in general? They're confusing different types of action. In this recording I distinguish three of them so you can feel comfortable acting by your values wi...
Nov. 10, 2019
242: Florida Mayors Jerry Demings and Buddy Dyer, part 1: United States government officials acting
I talk a lot about the lack of leadership in the area of the environment. Many people talk about change but don't lead it. Many others judge but don't support, which leads people to hold back on trying. Well, the mayors of Or...
Nov. 6, 2019
241: Lt. General Paul Van Riper USMC, part 1: Thoughtful strategy before technology
Why a military general? Isn't the US military one of the greatest polluters on the planet? My goal is to bring effective leadership to the environment and your life because spreading facts, figures, doom, and gloom isn't doin...
Oct. 31, 2019
240: Fred Krupp, part 1: Helping where it will help most
The loudest voices these days seem to come from protesters because they design their actions for attention. They aren't necessarily the most effective. Many of us are outraged. Our emotions become intense. Emotional intensity...
Oct. 30, 2019
239: The Enemy
Here are the notes I read this episode from: I see human population decreasing the Earth's ability to sustain life and human society. I have a goal of increasing that ability. Actually two goals: my other goal is for people t...
Oct. 29, 2019
238: The Worst Problem in the World and the Environment
Here are the notes I read from for this episode. I've talked about what I call The Worst Problem in the World for about ten years, so I'm used to it and worked from scarce notes. The problem Example: Germans and Jamaicans In ...
Oct. 27, 2019
237: Leadership versus Management, Systems and the Environment
The notes I wrote and read from for this episode: Leadership means changing beliefs and goals. If you're doing anything else, you're following and perpetuating the system that created the results. Greater efficiency, recyclin...
Oct. 23, 2019
236: My environmental role models
Here is the text I read from for this post: My environmental role models Why my role models? Because people keep saying what I do is inaccessible. That it's too much or extreme. That they need to balance. Well everyone believ...
Oct. 22, 2019
235: Creepiness, disgust, and the environment
People littering is creepy, like a tick or other parasite. It gets under my skin. I don't like it, but if I want to help people stop their parasitical, tick-like behavior, I feel it helps to understand them. Leadership rests ...
Oct. 19, 2019
234: A shift, not a crisis
Here are the notes I read from to make this episode, sometimes diverging from them. Why I don't call our environmental situation a crisis. People think scientists will solve something or engineers will create a solution and w...
Oct. 18, 2019
233: Future Generations and Us
I've been sharing the sentiment of how people today seem to think of our times versus how people from other times would see now. I expect they'd view us with horror, disgust, and disdain. Today's post reprises that perspectiv...
Oct. 14, 2019
232: Michael Werner, part 2: Leading Google by bike
Since recording this episode, Michael has become Google's Lead for Circular Economy. Michael took on a challenge many people consider: biking to work for a month. He challenged himself amid product releases at work and family...