Late summer means produce at peak ripeness, especially peaches and heirloom tomatoes. Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my newsletter have read of how my volunteering to bring overstock food from stores to places that give it to anyone for…
Aaron and I met after I got to see a screening of his recent short animated film Snow Bear. I knew about Aaron’s achievements from participating in some of the biggest animated movies of all time. I expected to talk about art, creativity,…
Dr. Bob worked in the heart of the US Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. He shares stories of his interactions with Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), John Lewis, and more. In earlier conversations with him, I shared what brought me to…
I can’t help but call Glenn “Dean Hubbard” since I met him as a student at Columbia Business School. That was 2005, making him one of the guests I’ve known the longest. I invited him to the podcast after seeing a talk…
We jumped in to talking about her Spodek Method commitment. She lives in a suburban area. There’s a place near her that borders on bush, which I guess is Australian for undeveloped land. This spot with a bench designed for experiencing nature…
Adam teaches leadership at Columbia Business School, where I learned there were classes in leadership, which changed the direction of my life. Regular listeners know I consider leadership the most important missing element in sustainability. To change the environmental effects we’re barreling…
When people talk about helping men, a lot of people think any and maybe every man might just have latent misogyny, so helping him risks augmenting misogyny. Richard Reeves has researched the situation extensively and for whatever advantages they (we) once had…
Sound pollution is pollution. You know it’s been growing for your whole life with little sign of decreasing. I wish I lived in a world with less sound pollution, but given that I do, I’d rather be aware and conscious of it…
Can you imagine living without money? Humans lived without money for 250,000 years, so it’s not necessary for life. Money seems like an invention on par with the big ones, like fire, the wheel, writing, and language. Right off the bat, Jo…
Ryan shares his experience approaching people to share in his joy. The task is not easy anywhere, least of all the Bronx, where he doesn’t live but was visiting. Do people in the big city want to hear why some guy is…
Rob starts by sharing his experience from leadership coaching in the context of a hospital with people in intensive care as well as their families. Situations are often emotionally intense. Treating just facts doesn’t work, or can work against you. It can…
Reading Mark’s recent piece We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition in Manhattan Institute’s City Journal prompted me to write my recent post, When they say “transition fuel,” they mean “more polluting and depleting,” not less pollution or depletion. Read them both and you’ll see…
This recording went far beyond my usual preference for recording with guests in person when I can. We met in Prospect Park on one of the peak birding days of the year. Tons of people were out with powerful binoculars and cameras.…
Rob is one of my coaching clients. I asked him to be a guest here since many people perceive leadership and learning it as different than I mean. His work in medicine may not be at the center of sustainability, but I…
Are you thinking about acting more but concerned about feeling guilty or judged that you aren’t doing enough? If so, you’ll love this conversation. I feel honored to work with people with Andy’s background and community, which you’ll hear about in our conversation.…
This last recording in the series brings together the opportunities. We can’t fix all the world’s problems or to go back in time and change history. We can’t change that people are already dying by the tens of millions annually from environmental…
Look up “Greatest of All Time” on Wikipedia and you’ll find Muhammad Ali. This lesson shares how he went from being just the heavyweight champion of the world to the greatest of all time, transcending sport to becoming a statesman. Business people say…
Sustainability has become a polarized partisan political issue, despite everyone wanting clean air, land, water, and food. In the US, neither the Democrats nor Republicans have a vision of or plan to sustainability. Both rely on purported solutions that exacerbate and accelerate…
The solution in video 3—the Spodek Method—creates a new, more effective situation than anything I know of in sustainability. People act on their own motivation that they felt before I met them. Instead of me motivating them, it was more like I…
Now that we understand our environmental problems as cultural, proposals based in technology, market incentives, and legislation don’t address the problem. They generally won’t achieve the desired outcome and will often achieve the opposite. I share my path toward discovering a solution…