Episodes
Dec. 21, 2022
652: Carl Erik Fisher: The Urge: Our History of Addiction
I almost couldn't believe someone could write a book like Carl Erik Fisher's The Urge: Our History of Addiction . It tells the histories of addiction in human society since antiquity and of him, addicted, including in medical...
Dec. 18, 2022
651: Noah Gallagher Shannon, part 2: Uruguay is an environmental role model
The second part of my conversation with Noah, going into more detail about Uruguay and sustainability. The first part was episode 646 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec. 13, 2022
650: Brian Merchant: your phone's hidden environmental impact
The 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...
Dec. 11, 2022
649: Listener Questions 04: What Started Me Acting Sustainably, Kids, and What to Do If You Don't Have Time
In 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 ...
Dec. 11, 2022
648: Michael Herz, part 1: The United States Constitution, Sustainability, and Pollution
Regular 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 ...
Dec. 8, 2022
647: Kris de Decker, part 1: Low and No Tech Magazine: We believe in progress and technology
Kris 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 sta...
Dec. 4, 2022
646: Noah Gallagher Shannon, part 1: Uruguay is an environmental role model
I 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'l...
Nov. 29, 2022
645: Hamilton Souther, part 1: Living Among the Matsés in the Peruvian Amazon
Suggest 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...
Nov. 20, 2022
644: Janet Allacker, part 1.5: Joy first
In 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 ha...
Nov. 16, 2022
643: Gaya Herrington, part 3: Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse
At 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 Wo...
Nov. 11, 2022
642: Listener Questions 03: Fermentation and my dream job
In 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 ...
Nov. 7, 2022
641: Listener Questions, volume 02: What Motivates Me To Care?
Here 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 ...
Nov. 2, 2022
640: Mark Mills, part 2: Low cost, high availability energy creates wealth
Mark 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 boo...
Oct. 26, 2022
639: Bruce Robertson and Milad Mousavian: Carbon Capture and Storage Is Not a Climate Solution
I 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 poten...
Oct. 24, 2022
638: Mat Johnson: Exploring and Expressing Identity
Longtime 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...
Oct. 21, 2022
637: Holly Whitaker: Overcoming Addiction, Embracing Freedom
I 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, ...
Oct. 19, 2022
636: Mark P. Mills, part 1: "Renewables" aren't renewable
Mark 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 fo...
Oct. 9, 2022
635: John Biewen, part 2: Turning off screens at 8pm
Do 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 tu...
Oct. 8, 2022
634: Donald Robertson, part 1: Thinking in Systems (a third listener episode)
Don 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 environment...
Oct. 3, 2022
633: Alan Ereira, part 1: Meeting the Kogi of Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains
I 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 s...
Sept. 28, 2022
632: Mitzi Perdue, part 1: Sex Trafficking in Ukraine
Mitzi 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 sa...
Sept. 25, 2022
631: Stephen M. R. Covey, part 1.5: To Arrive Where We Started and to Know the Place for the First Time
Continuing 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 ...
Sept. 20, 2022
630: Simplifying Meditation Words and Meaning
The 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 ...
Sept. 18, 2022
629: Michelle Nijhuis, part 2: Stopping doom scrolling
We 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...