Episodes
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...
Oct. 14, 2019
231: How are you justifying your polluting behavior?
When we pollute, we think we act for the reasons in our minds that justify that behavior, but those reasons generally come after we choose, motivated to justify behavior we consider wrong. Most environmental analysis looks at...
Oct. 12, 2019
230: Brad P, part 2: Change your habits, change your life
Brad identified the problem of people acting or not as our emotions and behavior, which many forces contribute to. We also talk about media and scientists. This refinement of the understanding to emotions points to what to wo...
Oct. 11, 2019
229: How might future generations view us?
I believe many people believe we live in an age of wonder and that people from any other time would envy us. I believe future generations will not look at our flying and pollution not with envy but with horror, as we look at ...
Oct. 11, 2019
228: Kicking puppies praiseworthy?
People keep describing my environmental actions as praiseworthy. I think they do it to make it seem harder and less accessible to do themselves what they expect will be hard, deprivation, sacrifice, and not what they want to ...
Oct. 10, 2019
227: Economists don't know what they're talking about on growth
A few words on growth and how people misunderstand it, especially economists. I start by talking about my window garden cherry tomato plants and how the inability of the insects eating them to regulate their growth and up des...
Oct. 7, 2019
226: Brad P, part 1: Dating coaching, leadership, and the environment
Today's episode with guest Brad P, a dating coach and guru---well, former, since he's moved on, as he'll share---partly reveal a major part of my social and emotional development as an adult. He was in a sense my boss when I ...
Oct. 1, 2019
225: My role model: Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine
Polio terrorized the world. People died and became paralyzed and there were no defenses to it. Science understood it and eventually Jonas Salk found a vaccine. Just having a vaccine wasn't enough. They needed massive global p...
Sept. 30, 2019
224: Clarifying my strategy
People commonly misunderstand the goals of this podcast. I tried in this episode to clear up two common misunderstandings: They mistakenly believe my goal is individual change---to influence one person at a time. They mistake...
Sept. 25, 2019
223: Adam Quiney, part 2: Do the Thing
This episode is two thoughtful, intelligent people sharing environmental thoughts. I think the thoughts we share are what a lot of people think but don't share enough. We cover action, leadership, motivation, caring, beliefs,...
Sept. 22, 2019
222: Why Eat Insects?
Between insects, kelp, vertical farming, lab-grown meat, and other clever options, why didn't we think of them before? Because we had better options! Few meat eaters choose crickets over steaks and hamburgers, but we've squan...
Sept. 21, 2019
221: Climate March Reflections
Here are the notes I work from for this episode: From climate march Went 3 times: Before lunch to participate in organizing group, went to Foley Square. Seemed like tens of thousands, maybe six figures. On my way to a meeting...
Sept. 18, 2019
220: Michelle Tillis Lederman, part 2: Making it habitual makes it easy
Not often do I hear something in a podcast conversation that's a new habit I'm going to try. This conversation with Michelle led to two. I recommend them both and I'll try to find a way to report back how they go. Plus she sh...
Sept. 17, 2019
219: Regretful decisions
I share thoughts in today's episode I didn't have the heart to share with family on their way to vacationing in France. In my lifetime I've seen the world change and our understanding of it change from we can't really raise s...
Sept. 16, 2019
218: To Those Who Say They Can't Stop Polluting
A friend told me the other day that while I could reduce flying, business people couldn't. It's not so easy for them, actually impossible. Did he forget that I have an MBA? That I started a business with an 8-digit valuation,...