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I met Peter in person at a local (Manhattan) event that EarthX hosted for media people. I was invited for hosting this podcast. We spoke about leadership and sustainability. We focused on crossing political boundaries. We shared about our successes in these efforts, how important we consider such tactics and strategies, and how much that success is missing in the US. He invited me to participate in this year’s conference,[…] Keep reading →

This week I finished: How to Get What You Want: Mastering the Art and Science of Persuasion, by podcast guest Josh Bandoch: This book compiles many essential building blocks of persuasion and influence into one place. Josh B. and I talk about it at length in a podcast episode (to be posted soon). I wish I’d had this book decades ago. It handles myths many people hold about persuasion that[…] Keep reading →

Longtime readers know I switched from running to plogging, which led to a bunch of media doing stories on me. I can’t help sharing the stories. The earliest I found was 2018: Then no posts on plogging for almost five years. I didn’t run for a while because somewhere around there I tore the meniscus in my left knee and the insurance company made me do a year of physical[…] Keep reading →

I keep thinking more about what I covered last month in my post Heritage Foundation promoting socialism, as usual. Charlie Kirk did too. Many factors go into how many children people have. One of them is finance: can someone afford to raise kids. I think a lot of people think it’s not fair that it should be harder for people with less money to have kids. Oddly, people also react[…] Keep reading →

Living in Greenwich Village means receiving tons of mailings from democratic politicians. For years I’ve contacted people and companies that spam me with paper mail. I’ve gotten it to near zero, except political mail. Any time there’s an election, they send me tons of their polluting, depleting mailings, unsolicited, unwanted. I don’t know how to stop it because it’s different people each time. Here are a few pieces of pollution[…] Keep reading →

Over and over, people refer to societies that were colonized as indigenous. For example, I see nearly all Native American groups referred to as indigenous. Here’s a dictionary definition of indigenous, which covers the meaning here. indigenous adjective in·​dig·​e·​nous 1 a : produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment b usually Indigenous : of, relating to, or descended from the earliest known inhabitants[…] Keep reading →

The other day I happened to watch a video on YouTube not in my usual way and saw an ad there in the video for the first time in five years or so. Besides using a browser plug-in that block ads, I use another that blocks suggested videos. When I go to watch a video, I usually just see that one, not others. Sure, others might be interesting, but there[…] Keep reading →

I just returned from another event by environmentalists. As usual, they promote climate most, mainly through emissions, but also through ESG and DEI. As usual, they promote anything but sustainability. When they talked about circular economy stuff, they talk about mining waste streams, but not ending nonrenewable inputs. When they talk about plastic, they talk about increasing recycling rates, but not that its mere production creates pollution that we have[…] Keep reading →

This week I finished: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, by Isabel Wilkerson: I don’t know if or when I’ll meet Isabel Wilkerson, but I can’t wait. Her book begins and ends with significant talk about sustainability. I think she sees her work on caste, race, and racism as relevant, but I suspect it’s far more relevant than she expects. I think we’d enjoy learning from each other. I think[…] Keep reading →