—Live Better by Your Values—

358: Bald versus plastic

357: Steven Pressfield: The war of art and nature

356: I was assaulted again this morning. Can I talk about it?

355: I balance values the same as anyone

354: Harvard Global Health Institute Director Ashish Jha, part 1: Front Line Pandemic Leadership

353: I don’t want to act on the environment

352: The War of Art and Nature

351: A Rough Day in New York City

350: Jonathan Herzog, part 1: A candidate acts with genuineness and authenticity

349: The State of the Environment Is The External Manifestation of Our Beliefs

348: Dave Chappelle’s Line

347: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll, part 4: More sex

346: Julie Margretta Wilson: Covid-19 devastating education

345: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll, part 3: Drugs

344: My Race Background

343: Chad Pregracke: One River, One Piece of Garbage at a Time

342: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll, part 2: Sex

341: NFL Tight End Chris Manhertz, part 1: Making your dreams happen

340: Michael Turner, DDS, MD: On the front line of Covid-19 in New York City

339: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: Food Matters

338: Abbey Ryan, part 1: Technique and Mastery Through Practice

337: Why we feel miserable under lockdown

336: Julian Guderley: GreenPlanet BluePlanet

335: Rhonda Lamb, part 2: reversing food deserts

334: Jethro Jones, part 2: Biking in -40 degrees. Why not?

333: A racist with a heart of gold is still a racist

332: How leaders choose better

331: Rob Harper, part 2: A Pro-Trump View

330: Lockdown Inspiration from Nelson Mandela

329: John Perkins: Touching the Jaguar

328: Tony Wagner, Learning by Heart

327: Rhonda Lamb, part 1: The Bronx and farm-fresh vegetables

326: Why Should I Care About Oskar Schindler?

325: My Mom, Marie Spodek: All in the Family

324: Marina McCoy, part 1: A Waste-Free Earth Through Music

323: Steven Kotler: The Future Is Faster Than You Think

322: Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, part 1: Rock and Roll

321: Marni Kinrys, part 2: Making Stewardship Normal

320: Confronting doof

319: Avoid doof

318: Why pandemics will keep increasing and how we can reverse the trend

317: My UN and UNICEF talk on COVID-19 and leadership

316: Dr. Joel Fuhrman MD, part 2: Eat for Life

315: Diversity: Where are female deliverypeople? Or research on them?

314: Brent Suter part 2: A Major League pitcher and his farmers markets

312: Jeff Kirschner, part 1.5: Leaders Fail, and Bounce Back

313: Jeff Kirschner, part 2: Still Working On It, Still Learning

311: Jeff Kirschner, part 1: Building Community Around Cleaning Litter

310: The Start and End of Any Serious Conversation on the Environment

309: Roberta Baskin: Covid-19 Social Connection Amid Physical Distancing

308: Marni Kinrys, part 1: The Ultimate Wing Girl

307: Covid-19, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and leading through crises

306: Covid-19, avoiding people, and family

305: The greatest danger from covid-19 would be not learning from it

304: How ecotourism can work

303: The environmental results I predict versus what I work for

302: Nir Eyal, part 1: Make yourself Indistractable

301: Does It Scale? My Modified Tesla Strategy

300: Larry Yatch, part 3: Discovering New Emotions With His Sons and Wife

299: Dr. Joel Fuhrman, part 1: Eat to Live

298: Is polluting child abuse?

297: RIP James Lipton, a huge influence and inspiration

296: Solutions have to work for everyone

295: Brent Suter, part 1: Major league baseball pitcher and steward

294: Population: How Much Is Too Much?

293: Alan Weisman: My Greatest Source of Environmental Hope

292: The environment is the outward manifestation of our beliefs

291: Lorna Davis, part 2: Can an Executive Buy No Clothes for a Year?

290: On Excessive Self Interest, from Thomas Kolditz

289: Rob J. Harper, part 1: The Conservative Black Cowboy I met at Google

288: Vince Lombardi: What It Takes

287: David Katz, part 1: Stopping ocean plastic

286: Paul Smith, part 2: At the edge of my seat

285: How to take initiative, on the environment or life

284: Why not escape to nature?

283: Nadya Zhexembayeva, part 2: The Reinvention Guru

282: Vanessa Hering, part 2: Food, fitness, fun, and winning

281: People don’t want to do small things. They want to do meaningful things.

280: Paul Smith, part 1: How to tell stories to lead

279: Role model and global leader Mechai Viravaidya

278: I have an environmental dream

277: The joys and challenges of leaving addiction

276: Service. stewardship, and the huge rewards they create

275: Go Big

274: Applying Leadership and the Environment in corporations

273: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

272: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pumping iron, and the environment

271: Vanessa Hering, part 1: Champion body builder, vegan, Ivy MBA

270: Extinctions: Agriculture isn’t so peaceful

269: 7 more things that everyone gets wrong about the environment

268: Hunter Lovins, part 2: Sustainability will work. It will take work.

267: Seth Shelden, part 2: Inside the United Nations

266: Thoughts on my MAGA interview

265: I was wrong

264: Larry Yatch, part 2: Navy SEAL precision

263: My Google Talk: How to start a podcast on the environment

262: Unstable for a phase change

261: We have failed, but it’s not over. Are you giving all you’ve got?

260: Creating the Muhammad Ali of the Environment

259: Caspar Craven, part 2: with his wife and son

258: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman

257: Larry Yatch, part 1: Navy SEAL Officer precision leadership

256: Why Personal Action Matters

255: Joshua Becker, Becoming Minimalist

254: Accidents of birth: communicating despite differences

253: My greatest triumphs, my greatest shames

252: Tia Nelson, part 2: A lifetime of Earth Days

251: Let’s make overpopulation only a finance issue

250: Why talk about birthrate and population so much?

249: Florida Mayors Jerry Demings and Buddy Dyer, part 2: Humility and Action from U.S. officials

248: Countdown, a book I recommend by Alan Weisman

247: Balancing jobs and junk

246: The Emotions Around Environmental Action

245: Tia Nelson, part 1: Earth Day

244: Lessons from extinction

243: Confusing distinct modes of acting

242: Florida Mayors Jerry Demings and Buddy Dyer, part 1: United States government officials acting

241: Lt. General Paul Van Riper USMC, part 1: Thoughtful strategy before technology

240: Fred Krupp, part 1: Helping where it will help most

239: The Enemy

238: The Worst Problem in the World and the Environment

237: Leadership versus Management, Systems and the Environment

236: My environmental role models

235: Creepiness, disgust, and the environment

234: A shift, not a crisis

233: Future Generations and Us

232: Michael Werner, part 2: Leading Google by bike

231: How are you justifying your polluting behavior?

230: Brad P, part 2: Change your habits, change your life

229: How might future generations view us?

228: Kicking puppies praiseworthy?

227: Economists don’t know what they’re talking about on growth

226: Brad P, part 1: Dating coaching, leadership, and the environment

225: My role model: Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine

224: Clarifying my strategy

223: Adam Quiney, part 2: Do the Thing

222: Why Eat Insects?

221: Climate March Reflections

220: Michelle Tillis Lederman, part 2: Making it habitual makes it easy

219: Regretful decisions

218: To Those Who Say They Can’t Stop Polluting

217: Adam Quiney, part 1: Leadership for the Smartest Person in the Room

216: Brandon Voss, part 2: Negotiate Like Your Environment Depends On It

215: Jeremy Ryan Slate, part 2: How long have you gone without a phone?

214: Are we smarter than bugs?

213: Joy from disgust

212: The Amazon Burning and Us

211: Michael Werner, part 1: Dream job results from environmental leadership

210: How many children should I have?

209: Laura Coe, part 2: Practice changing habits

208: Caspar Craven, part 1.5: Back on Track

207: My Sad Fig Tragedy

206: Jeremy Ryan Slate, part 1: Leadership: Doing What Others Don’t, But Want To

205: Notes to a Future President

204: Michelle Tillis Lederman, part 1: The Connector’s Advantage

203: Hunter Lovins, part 1: A Finer Future

202: How We Choose

201: James Altucher, part 1: More Curious and Adventurous Than Almost Anyone

200: Caspar Craven, part 1: Sailing to the head of the corporation

199: Be Fruitful and Multiply: What Does It Mean?

198: Brandon Voss, part 1: Negotiate Like Your Life Depends On It

197: Polarization, communication, and education

196: Seth Shelden, part 1: Nuclear Weapons, the Environment, and the Nobel Prize

195: How it feels to live more sustainably than mainstream

194: Tom Murphy, part 2: Author of one of the best sites on the internet

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

192: Laura Coe, part 1: Emotional Obesity and Environmental Obesity

191: Mark Metry, part 2: Farmers markets

190: McKinsey’s 3-Time Global Managing Director Dominic Barton: Fundamentally about people

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

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

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

186: D-Day and the Environment

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

Shana Yadid

Sammy Courtright

Ilissa Miller

JV Bharathan

Jezzibell Gilmore

Aaron Price

Ani Manian

184: Jonas Koffler, part 1: It’s going to take all of us (plus a hippopotamus)

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

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

181: The Time I Met Mark Cuban

180: The Difference Between Me and Nearly Everyone I Know Acting on the Environment

179: Initiative, the book: Highlights from an interview

178: What parenthood teaches us about environmental action

177: The best advice on making habits last

176: The folly of chasing efficiency

175: Jack Buffington, part 1: What can we do about plastic?

174: Chase Amante, part 1B: Chase on the Environment

173: Chase Amante, part 1A: How to start and run a business giving men dating advice

172: If anything, I’m a maximalist

171: The “best kept secret in environmental leadership”

170: Colonel Mark Read, part 2: His Family’s Best Christmas Ever

169: Srini Rao: Surfing and Creativity

168: Sir Ken Robinson: Wisdom on the intersection of education, leadership, and the environment

167: Amy Aussieker, part 1: Can we transform an American City?

166: Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

165: Colonel Mark Read, part 1: Environmental Engineering at West Point

164: Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias, part 1: Olympic gold and Crossfit Fittest on Earth

163: Kevin Kruse, part 1: Great Leaders Have No Rules

162: Bob Langert: McDonald’s former head of Corporate Social Responsibility

161: Katie Pettibone, part 1: Americas Cups, 81-foot waves, and protecting the oceans

160: Sean O’Connor, part 2: Replacing coffee cups with human connection

159: Chris Schembra: Expressing Gratitude

158: Dee Caffari, part 1: Turning the Tide on Plastic

157: Tom Szaky, part 1: TerraCycle’s new initiative: Loop

156: Pale Blue Dot Today

155: Margot Machol Bisnow, part 1: Raising an Entrepreneur

154: Why You, Famous Person, Will Like Being a Guest on this Podcast

153: Sean O’Connor, part 1: From paper cups to evaluating life

152: Peter Gray, part 1: Free to Learn

151: What Al Gore Misses

150: Tom Murphy, part 1: Do the Math, the language of nature

149: Ana Rocha, part 1: Cleaning Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

147: Ron Gonen: Closed Loop Solutions

146: To Sam Harris: A preface following meeting at the Beacon

145: Rob Greenfield, part 1: Abundance without stuff

144: Nikole Beckwith, part 1: Education and leadership

143: Dune Ives, part 2: How Did Plastic Pollution Become Normal?

142: To Sam Harris, whom I hope to meet backstage Friday at the Beacon Theater

148: Dawn Riley, part 2: Minding her beeswax

141: Dune Ives, part 1: Let’s Talk Ocean Plastic

140: Joanne Wilson: Gotham Gal

139: Chris Voss, part 1: FBI Hostage negotiation through honesty and fun

138: A National Civilian Service Academy

137: Why Famous Guests

136: Nataly Kogan, part 2: Happiness Comes From Skills You Can Learn

135: Why We Want a World Without Growth

134: Tim Kopra, part 1: Seeing Earth from Space

133: At Least Try

132: Lorna Davis, part 1: C-suites and B-corps

131: Dawn Riley, part 1: After winning the Americas Cup, revitalizing sailing

130: John Lee Dumas, part 3: One year picking up beach garbage

129: Dave Gardner, part 2: “Came to relieve the burden, stayed for the joy”

127: Douglas Rushkoff, part 1: Team Human

126: Col. Everett Spain, part 2: West Point’s Head of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership

125: Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder, part 2: Balancing priorities

128: Sally Singer: Fashion and the Environment

124: Guilt Free

123: Dave Gardner: Busting the Growth Myth

122: Rosa Parks and Acting on Your Environmental Values

121: Minimalism should be called Maximalism

120: Rules for plogging in New York City

119: Heroin and the Environment

118: Beth Comstock 2: Action creates awareness

117: Jeffrey Madoff: Creative Careers: Making a Living With Your Ideas

116: Michael O’Heaney, part 2: Less plastic, less stuff, more fun, more family

115: Sandy Reisky, part 2: A Superbowl Ad to reduce consumption

114: Dave Asprey: Leading with love

113: Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder: A conservative voice

112: Bethany McLean, part 1: the Business and People of Fracking

111: Marion Nestle: Changing the food system

110: Geoffrey West, part 3: Using science to create a vision for the future

109: Flying and Polluting Helps Elect Trump

107: Beth Comstock, part 1: Inside the Fortune 5 C-Suite

108: Awareness Is A Delay Tactic, A Smokescreen

106: Exploding the Myth that Technology Will Save Us

104: Jared Angaza, part 2: Motherhood and Apple Pie

105: Evelina Utterdahl, part 2: A Month With No Plastic!

103: Geoffrey West, part 2: theoretical physics and the environment

102: Col. Everett Spain, West Point’s Head of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership

101: Seth Godin: Work that matters for people who care

100: Michael O’Heaney: Story of Stuff

099: Jethro Jones: No Excuse Stewardship

098: Would You Free Your Slaves?

097: Sir Tim Smit: Changing the World with No Special Skills

096: Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus, The New Science of Attention

095: How Would-be Leaders Are Moving Us Backward

094: Where Reason Fails and Leadership Works

093: Want to win elections? Clean your neighborhood. Be a steward.

092: Paternalism and pride: why fly to Africa to eek out minor efficiencies when we waste hundreds times more?

091: What Works That We Can Build On

090: Obesity and the Environment

089: Evelina Utterdahl, part 1: Traveling the world without flying

088: Bea Johnson: The Priestess of Waste-Free Living

087: The U.S. Constitution guides my environmental behavior

086: Awareness means nothing. Or less.

084: Geoffrey West, part 1: Simplicity beneath it all

083: Alisa Cohn, part2: Gurus are people too

082: Ben Feder, Part 1, Take off your shoes

081: Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind

085: Daniel Bauer, part 2, Going car-free is liberating

080: Nataly Kogan, Part 1, Influencing others to live happier

079: Andrew Revkin, Part 1; Global Warming, pollution, and hope for our future

078: When Did Polluting Become Normal?

077: Scott Mautz, part 2: Overcoming adversity while finding the fire

073: Jared Angaza, part 1: Sustainable resources on a global scale

072: Teaching leaders how to lead; Daniel Bauer, part 1

071: Jordan Harbinger, part 1: The value of coaching

075: RJ Khalaf, part 3: Palestine and Coffee

076: New England Patriot Marquis Flowers: You learned leadership wrong

074: Scott Mautz, part 1: Finding the Fire

070: Seth Godin: a teaser

069: Why you will follow me to fly less

066: Dorie Clark, part 2: “And that is how you make progress”

068: Tensie Whelan, part 2: “You’ve got to do what you believe in”

065: Jeff Brown, part 4: Inspiring others through action

067: John Lee Dumas, part 2: Become a person of value

064: Balint Horvath, part 3: The world has become more colorful

063: Technology won’t solve environmental issues and you know it

060: Robbie Samuels, Part 2: Consistent change creates big improvements

062: Michael Lenox, part 2: Business and systemic change

061: Tensie Whelan, part 1: The Rainforest Alliance, United Nations, and NYU-Stern

059: Balint Horvath, part 2: The domino effect of creating change

058: David Allen, part 2: Sailing, fishing, conserving, and the snap of halyards

057: Robbie Samuels, part 1: The power of relationship building

056: Jeff Brown, part 3: The joys of leading a movement

055: Our first Leadership and the Environment Panel of Experts

054: Balint Horvath , Part 1: The connection between entrepreneurship, academia, and environment

053: David Burkus, part 2: Leadership without judgement

052: Emptying my garbage for the first time in over a year

051: Jeff Brown, part 2: Changing a community through leadership

050: Vincent Stanley, part 2: Disconnecting means reconnecting

049: David Allen, conversation 1: Creating work of enduring value

048: Anisa Heming, conversation 2: I became very grateful

047: Michael Lenox, conversation 1: Can Business Save the Earth?

046: Systems, values, and learning from the military

045: Anisa Heming, conversation 1: Every day you make choices. Make them conscious.

044: Jeff Brown, Conversation 1: Leading means more than reading and writing

043: Ken Blanchard, Conversation 1: We’re here to help each other

042: More valuable than hope

041: David Burkus, Conversation 1: Flipping the mental model

040: Which is easier, freeing slaves or not using disposable bottles?

039: Vincent Stanley, conversation 1: business success through environmental support

038: RJ Khalaf, conversation 2: Making productive leaders from hopeless martyrs

037: Our first Leadership and the Environment Panel of Experts: April 3 at NYU

036: Bryan Braman, Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagle (who composts): World Championship leadership

035: RJ Khalaf, conversation 1: Leading in the West Bank with the Dalai Lama

034: Joshua Spodek: Before, Living by Others’ Values

033: David Biello, conversation 3: “It’s easier than you think”

032: David Biello, conversation 2: “Way better than I expected … and easier”

031: Frances Hesselbein, Conversation 1: Where you can make the greatest difference

030: Joel Runyon, conversation 2: Almost too easy

029: Joel Runyon, conversation 1: Discipline and resilience

028: Sandy Reisky, Conversation 1: Providing 10% of America’s New Wind Power

027: Alisa Cohn, Conversation 1: Progressive daily wins

026: The View From The Future

025: David Biello, Conversation 1: We Can Do This

024: Michael Bungay Stanier, Conversation 2: How to Create Habits

023: Dov Baron, Conversation 2: Freedom and the Jaguar

022: John Lee Dumas: Puerto Rico post hurricanes

021: Emily Ann Peterson, Conversation 2: Turn Off Your Computer

020: The Big Picture

019: Emily Ann Peterson, Conversation 1: Bare Naked Bravery

018: Enron Environmentalism

017: Dorie Clark, Conversation 1, Make Yourself Known

016: Daniel Gefen, Conversation 1, Vulnerability and Openness

015: Dov Baron, Conversation 1: Consciousness and freedom

014: A friend’s anger: why I’m doing the show

013: Dan Pink, Conversation 2: It’s easy

012: Judith Glaser, Conversation 2

011: Tanner Gers, Conversation 3, Enjoying responsibility

010: Jim Harshaw, Conversation 2: The joy of overcoming challenges

009: Tanner Gers, Conversation 2

008: Jim Harshaw, Conversation 1.5: Turning problems into solutions

007: Judith Glaser, Conversation 1: A different environment

007b: Judith Glaser, Conversation 1: A different environment (highlights)

006: Jim Harshaw, Conversation 1: Public transportation

005: Tanner Gers, Conversation 1: Reusing bags

004: Michael Bungay Stanier, Conversation 1: 100-mile food

003: Elizabeth Kolbert, Conversation 1: Honest reporting

002: Marshall Goldsmith, Conversation 1: If there’s a chance you can help, help

001: Dan Pink, Conversation 1: When to act

000: Preview of the Podcast

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