Rip committed to avoid waste through coffee, which he describes as harder than he thought. Wait a minute. A three-star Marine Corps general is describing not using coffee cartridges as hard? In the Millennium Challenge we talked about in our first conversation…
Eric Orts is a tenured professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also exploring a potential race for the U.S. Senate: the seat from which two-term Senator Patrick Toomey has announced he will retire in 2022. On…
My goal in this podcast is to bring leaders from many fields and share what made them effective. I believe sustainability and stewardship would benefit from learning more effective leadership. A goal with each guest is to feature them. Everyone is unique.…
The rest of my story riding 100 miles a week and a half ago, where I gave up on myself, having lost faith in myself, but then getting lucky to force myself to finish. Only finishing strong showed I could do it.…
You’re in for a treat. Joe and I start talking business so you’ll hear things happening while we’re talking. We start by talking about his exercising while we talk, then my plans to swim across the Hudson about 48 hours from the…
Jaime and my second conversation is enjoyable and challenging. It was different than usual because for whatever reason we’re talking about views on environment, personal action, education, and so on, but I didn’t get to the personal challenge I like to. It…
People criticize environmentalists as doomsayers while celebrating futurists. This episode shares key examples where the doomsayers were the ones saying acting sustainably would ruin us. On the contrary, in these cases and many others, doomsayers said changing our polluting behavior would undermine…
Bob and I begin lightheartedly, covering mulberry trees, gingkos, and how our views of nature change when we act in stewardship of it. Then I ask him about the decision as a conservative to endorse Biden. Question to you, the listener: will…
George’s challenge involved people congregating outside, which California banned, increasing his challenge. Personally for him, Badwater got canceled for 2020, the race that starts in Death Valley and ends up, over 100 miles later on a mountaintop. Widely regarded as the hardest…
I speculate why environmentalists can be so annoying sometimes and why you’d still like to become like them, just not the annoying part. This episode will help you.
Nir and my second conversation covered how I inspired him and how he inspired me. If I’m not too presumptuous to say I inspired him, the first part is about his choosing to avoid flying. Several months into the pandemic, we’re all…
The not-flying-by-choice community is fairly small. About 80 percent of humans can’t fly because they can’t, but among people who can but choose not to, we’re limited. Still, I can’t believe I only found out about Maja recently. A few minutes into…
Everyone can lead when everyone around them agrees. How about when your conscience tells you what’s right differs from everyone around you? Bob Inglis is a former Congressman from South Carolina—the reddest district in the reddist state, as he puts it. The…
I first crossed paths with Coleman at a conference that previous guest Jonathan Haidt organized on promoting viewpoint diversity in academia. I hosted a breakfast panel discussion. Coleman spoke on a panel later that day. He shared views that sounded reasonable and…
Here are my notes that I read from for this episode: Play Thomas N. Todd recording Repeat it, explaining from ad campaign Context was civil rights—that is equal rights for blacks as for whites in the US. I don’t know context but…
Are you fatigued from pandemic defenses like wearing masks and washing your hands? Is your community, like New York City, doing well? Do you feel since we’re doing well, we can let up at last? Do you know what happens when competing…
Kelly is experienced in theory, practice, and community of W. Edwards Deming. If you don’t know Deming, you’ll hear from this conversation, but for context, growing up my top role models were Gandhi, King, and Mandela. As I practiced sustainability, I realized…
Kevin Cahill’s grandfather, W. Edwards Deming, changed nations. An emperor awarded him a medal. If you don’t know either, listen to the first few minutes when I describe him. Deming has become one of my top role models. He transformed nations in…
Matthew is friends with the guy who built the white nationalist online community, Stormfront. He is also an observant orthodox Jew. You may have heard about him because the pair made headlines and appeared on the Daily Show and shows like that.…
Do you have friends that you talk to once or twice a month—someone you can talk about important things beyond the day to day? Dan is one of those friends for me. The week before recording this conversation he told me he…