This Sustainable Life: All Episodes

193: Tim Smit, part 2: Spirituality and Passion from the Earth

193: Tim Smit, part 2: Spirituality and Passion from the Earth

From our first conversation you know Tim’s history as a musician and founder of the Eden Project. This time you’ll hear the passion of a man who loves restoring the Earth’s ability to sustain life and human society. He talks about the…

191: Mark Metry, part 2: Farmers markets

191: Mark Metry, part 2: Farmers markets

Mark and my second conversation it about happiness, pleasure, meaning, and purpose, though it sounds like it’s about personal growth, food, and environment. In our first conversation, he didn’t really connect on the environment at the start. This time you’ll hear it…

189: Nadya Zhexembayeva, part 1: Sustainability is not enough

189: Nadya Zhexembayeva, part 1: Sustainability is not enough

Nadya and I mostly talk about business and sustainability. She describes what she saw growing up in the dissolution of Kazakhstan, where she saw the opposite of sustainability. I can’t describe what she saw, but you’ll hear the craziness of collusion, economic…

188: Steve Sikra, part 1: Passion at Proctor and Gamble

188: Steve Sikra, part 1: Passion at Proctor and Gamble

Proctor and Gamble produces a lot of plastic and waste, which makes them very interesting to me. An old me would protest. The leader me sees the opportunity to support change if they aren’t changing and help motivate it if they are.…

187: Mark Metry, part 1: To grow, put yourself out there

187: Mark Metry, part 1: To grow, put yourself out there

Mark seeks transitions—what most people avoid, certainly around leadership and the environment—and loves them. He shares them with the world. Listening to his podcast and reading his results, they’re working. Change can make for a great life, as much as most people…

186: D-Day and the Environment

186: D-Day and the Environment

Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of D-Day. This post is about being a part of something greater than yourself, than all of us, benefiting us all, and benefiting yourself — one of the great feelings and experiences available to humans. I happened…

Sammy Courtright

Sammy Courtright

Sammy is a cofounder and COO of Fitspot Wellness — a fully managed solution for companies and properties, bringing on-site and digital workplace wellness programs and amenities to engage employees and tenants through community experiences. Sammy is an attention-to-detail aficionado who brings…

Ilissa Miller

Ilissa Miller

As founder and CEO of iMiller Public Relations (iMPR), Ilissa Miller brings nearly two decades of experience in sales, marketing and product development to her clients in an effort to help them differentiate their messages and achieve notoriety within an ever expanding…

Jezzibell Gilmore

Jezzibell Gilmore

Jezzibell is a co-founder and SVP of Business Development of PacketFabric. From their web site: PacketFabric redefines how companies build and use network services. The PacketFabric network-as-a-service platform provides instant connectivity between colocation facilities, to major cloud providers, and Internet Exchanges. PacketFabric…

JV Bharathan

JV Bharathan

In his words, JV Bharathan cares about every single human being on the planet and celebrates the greatness of being human. He is an accidental author. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from India and received double masters of science degrees…

185: Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM: Nutrition and the Environment

185: Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM: Nutrition and the Environment

I subscribe to almost no newsletters or video channels, but I subscribe to Dr. Greger’s Nutritionfacts.org. More than subscribing, I promote it. Watching his videos is a highlight of my Sundays, when his newsletters go out, and I’ve watched hundreds of them.…

Aaron Price

Aaron Price

Aaron is the president & CEO of the NJ Tech Council and founder of Propelify—the Propelify Innovation Festival. Propelify empowers the community of innovators who act. He launched Propelify in 2016 to inspire the tech and innovation community and those who act—who…

Ani Manian

Ani Manian

I felt a special bond with Ani before interviewing him. He introduced himself telling me that he read my Inc article What a Year Without Flying Taught Me About Responsibility, Empathy, and Community over a year before and, agreeing with it, challenged…

Shana Yadid

Shana Yadid

Shana is the founder, CEO, and Lead Trainer at Yadid’it! Dog Training, the Executive Director at Yadid’it! Sustainable Dog Rescue and an ABCDT (Animal Behavior College Certified Dog Trainer). She is, in her words, super quirky, a loving dog-mom, an eldest sister…

183: Reusing and recycling are tactical. Reducing is strategic.

183: Reusing and recycling are tactical. Reducing is strategic.

I finally saw how to see reducing versus reusing and recycling. The distinction is subtle until you get it. Then you see that missing it leads people to counterproductive behavior and, egregiously, feeling good about that counterproductive behavior, leading them to do…

182: Dov Baron, part 3: What is your car worth?

182: Dov Baron, part 3: What is your car worth?

When last we heard from Dov, about a year ago, he had limited driving his James Bond Jaguar, enjoyed the experience beyond expectation, and said he was considering getting rid of it. For a year I’ve wondered what came of his commitment.…