After I’ve read his recent book The Cloud Revolution, Mark and I continue our conversation on sustainability and what to do based on qualitative and quantitative understanding. I’ve also been listening to his podcast. I came to Mark for his thoughtful research…
After I shared episodes on the hazards of solar and wind, as well as my experiment disconnecting my apartment from the electric grid in Manhattan (in month 8 as I type these words), a listener pointed me to Mark Jacobs. I can’t…
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 school, jail, and recovery. I…
The second part of my conversation with Noah, going into more detail about Uruguay and sustainability. The first part was episode 646.
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 a short video showing…
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 on what…
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 be crazy not to consider it and learn from the idea.…
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 start seeing that solar and wind…
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’ll resist and push…
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 crumbling, hospitals closing, mothers…
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 had to…
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 World Taught Me About a…
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 some work. (Using…
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 about how your pollution or lack…
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 book Limits to Growth as well…
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 potential solutions to climate change.…
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 a block from where I lived. His Wikipedia…
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, researched, personal, and…
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 found…
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 environmental problems. I enjoyed talking…