This episode describes how I train corporate and institutional leaders in environmental leadership. Here are the notes I read from: Talking with more and more corporations lately, describing how I work with them Putting it here for easy reference You’ll see among…
I understand why historical reasons lead us to look to scientists, journalists, educators, and legislators for leadership, but they don’t know how to lead. They may excel at their crafts, but sharing research however accurate, or stirring controversy, spreading facts and figures,…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg knows about lifting weights and exercising because she does it. No amount of reading, watching TED videos, debating, or analysis can match experience. People who only read, research, and academically learn about performance-based activities don’t know what they’re talking…
Vanessa’s original post said she Wanted to be a better advocate for veganism: so I trained 1.5 years and won the University of Pennsylvania body building competition. When asked why, she wrote For the animals, for health, for the environment. Never thought…
I’ve read and thought about animals going extinct. My friend and guest Lorna Davis in her TED talk talks about her love for rhinos and passion to save them. I reviewed Poached by Rachel Nuwer and I’ve spoken to her about poaching.…
1: The villain. People think nature, government, or corporations. It’s beliefs 2: The solution. People think technology, market, innovation. It’s changing beliefs. 3: Reduce, reuse, recycle. People act as if recycling helps. It only helps as part of reduce, which means not…
I recorded our second conversation the day after the September 20, 2019 climate marches. Hunter is more than well-connected. I wanted to hear and bring you the perspective of someone who has been at this longer and knew more people. Wait until…
Before we spoke, Seth implied he didn’t do as much on his challenge as I expected so I expected a short conversation. I think it’s important for listeners to hear that even people who win Nobel Prizes taking on global thermonuclear war…
My notes I read from for this post: Yesterday I posted my interview on a site that strongly supports Donald Trump. I do not. Yet I described it as one of my favorite interviews. What gives? The conversation prompted thoughts on environment…
Here are the notes I read from for this episode: Ways I was wrong I usually start my story about acting more sustainably with my personal challenge to buy no packaged food for a week. In my second TEDx talk I describe…
This episode brings you a trainer who has reached top levels of leadership and teaching leadership break down how to learn. How to learn to learn. Let that sink in. To me this episode felt like a master class by a practitioner…
I posted a few Clips from my speaking at Google to my blog. They didn’t video record the whole event, but I did get the audio, so today’s episode is my talk there on how to start a podcast on the environment.…
People talk about leadership causing ripple effects and hope that environmental action may lead to ripples. I see the potential for more. People like acting on their environmental values when they do. They just don’t like being coerced or being made to…
My perspective on personal action continues to evolve. In conversation with someone at an event this evening, I started realizing the meaning in asking what each of us can do and the meaninglessness of asking hypothetical questions, which make up a lot…
I started this podcast with the goal of creating a Mandela of the environment—a role I considered essential but saw no one remotely approaching it. Lately I’ve seen the opening for an easier but more effective role—a Muhammad Ali of the environment.
After resetting during conversation 1.5, Caspar returns with his son and wife—Columbus and Nicola—for a touching proper second episode. The three of them approached the challenge as a family, though you’ll hear how Columbus led his parents in many ways. It sounds…
After recording three episodes (248, 250, and 251) on Alan Weisman’s Countdown, I read his earlier book, The World Without Us, which I found equally tremendous. In it, he considers what would happen to the Earth if humans suddenly disappeared. How isn’t…
Do you want to reach your potential? Do you want to get past seeing your properties as limitations? Larry shares going from being what he is and we all are — regular people — to living his dream. An elite dream. My…
Why bother not flying if you’re one person out of billions? Aren’t you just missing out and suffering without meaningfully changing anything? These questions flummoxed me for a while. The longer I act, the more I realize the answer. Most people answer…
I’ve recorded a few posts about how what many people call minimalism is really more maximal. From the outside it looks like minimizing stuff.d People who practice it, as I see it, don’t focus on stuff. Getting rid of it is a…