—Systemic change begins with personal change—

554: Sea walls won’t protect us from our garbage. Stopping polluting gives us our best chance.

553: Gaya Herrington, part 1: How far have we passed our limits to growth? What does that mean?

552: Hilary Link, part 2: colleges and universities talk sustainability but rarely act. This college president does.

551: Chad Foster, part 4: Flying to skiing, but not camping in the back yard

550: Rick Ridgeway: A Life Lived Wild: K2, Everest, and places no human had seen

549: Abdal Hakim Murad, part 2: High and low tech in the new green mosque in Cambridge, UK

548: Erik Bottcher, part 1: a New York City politician awesome enough to pick up litter

547: Michael Carlino, part 4: What does Christian scripture say about population?

546: Maxine Bédat, part 2: Systemic Change Begins With Personal Change

545: Jesse Eisinger: Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter for Propublica

544: Michael Carlino, part 3: What would Jesus do with an iPhone?

543: Hilary Link, part 1: a college president leading her school to carbon neutrality

542: Chad Foster, part 3: Experiencing nature, people, and sex without sight

541: My “rant” on “People want to act, Josh, but it’s hard”

540: Blake Haxton, part 3: Exploring nature from a wheelchair with a shotgun

539: Katharine Hayhoe: Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

538: How much should I reduce my pollution? How many slaves should Thomas Jefferson have freed?

537: Nate Hochman, part 1: Toward a Conservative Environmentalism

536: David Pogue: How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos

535: The best sledding hill in the world, Tommy’s Hill in Philadelphia (from my third TEDx talk)

534: Mom, part 2: Opportunity and oppression: race and religion in my childhood

533: Laura Coe, part 3: The Nature of Love

532: Michael Lenox, part 3: How to Decarbonize the Global Economy by 2050

531: Scott White, part 1: The Founder/CEO of an Energy Company on Sustainability

530: Cassiano Laureano, part 2: Burpees for the body, bonzai tree for the heart and mind

529: Katie Redford, part 2: No distractions. Keeping oil in the ground.

528: Don’t Bother With Stewardship. It Makes Your Life Worse. Especially If You’re American.

527: Mike Michalowicz, part 1: Entrepreneurship, stewardship, and engaging, compelling writing

526: A recent talk on doof, heroin, crack, and sustainability

525: Katie Redford, part 1: She beat a multinational oil company in court just getting started

524: James Rebanks, part 1: Pastoral Song

523: Dr. Warren Farrell, part 1: Listening to men, what they keep to themselves

522: Abdal Hakim Murad, part 1: Britain’s most influential Muslim thinker

521: Blake Haxton, part 2: Teamwork is crucial. How to solve that we’re divided

520: Blake Haxton, part 1: This Paralympic silver medalist shares the mindset we can all use to face our environmental crises

519: Terik Weekes, Chief Engineer for Elroy Air: The future of electric flight

518: Killing cities, gardens, and parks, New York’s cruel “Open Restaurants” overreach

517: Michael Carlino, part 2: Faith, God, the Bible, and Values

516: Geoengineering: Prologue or Epilogue for Humanity?

515: Chad Foster, part 2: A blind man overcoming the trap of feeling you have to fix the world

514: Jojo Mehta: Ecocide: why you want this law more than you’ve imagined

513: Jon Levy, part 2: Which influences, shame and guilt or support and love?

512: Perhaps our most useful lesson, from of a Paralympic athlete who endured catastrophe

511: Joe Collins, part 1.5: Can We Clean South Central Los Angeles?

510: Jonathan Hardesty, part 6: “This method of doing things is making me become a better husband and parent”

509: Joe Romm: From science to working with James Cameron, leading through story

508: Eric Orts, part 2: To the U.S. Senate, living the values he leads

507: Behind the Mic: Teamwork Versus Leadership

506: I lost $10 million on September 11, 2001. Here is what I learned from those who sacrificed and served.

505: Michael Carlino, part 1: From the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

504: Dar-Lon Chang, part 2: Activists on Exxon’s Board (and fighting a real estate developer who lied about sustainability)

503: Jonathan Hardesty, part 5: Facing and overcoming gluttony

502: Cassiano Laureano, part 1: The world record for most burpees in an hour

501: Big City Andrew, part 2: Cleaning small towns and big cities

500: This Podcast’s Next Milestone

499: What sets limits on pollution, part 2: some answers

498: What sets the limits on pollution? Why don’t we pollute less or decrease faster?

497: Don’t let judgment and criticism kill action: Gernot Wagner’s personal example.

496: Reverend Doctor Ambrose Carroll, Sr., part 1: Greening the Church

495: Alexis Stewart, part 1: Martha’s daughter’s passion for picking up litter

494: How Is Addiction to Fossil Fuels Different From Addiction to Heroin and Crack?

492: Did Steven Pinker’s Better Angels of our Nature miss why we’re less violent?

493: Sarah Wilson: Living Joyfully Sustainably (more fun than excuses)

491: Nevcan Gungor, part 1: Surviving Myanmar’s military coup

490: Karen Shragg, part 2: Reducing birth rate and raising tomatoes

489: Martin Puris, part 2: All big ideas begin in the mind of one person thinking creatively

488: Maxine Bédat, part 1: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Fashion’s Sustainability (or lack thereof)

487: Karen Shragg E.D.D., part 1: At last, simple, reasonably talk on (over)population

486: General Kip Ward, part 2: Not flying by choice, and smiling about it

485: Jonathan Hardesty, part 4: How to Lead Someone to Stewardship: The Spodek Method

484: John Sargent, part 2: Fun Transforming MacMillan, a Big 5 Publisher

483: Jane O’Sullivan: Debunking the “Aging Problem” Scam

481: Joe Collins, part 1: From a gang to Congress?

482: Florida’s Condo Collapse, Doom Psychology, and Our Environment

480: Scott Hardin-Nieri: part 1: Scripture to Mobilize Climate Action

479: Martin Puris, part 1: What’s Wrong With America?

478: Forrest Galante, part 1: Saving Zanzibar Leopards and Other Not Yet Extinct Species

477: Mechai Viravaidya: My #1 Top Role Model in the World

476: Tom Murphy, part 3: The Science Book of the Decade

475: We Can Dance Around Environmental Problems All We Want. We Eventually Reach Overpopulation and Overconsumption

474: Frederick Lane, part 2: Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Motivation

473: James Suzman: What We Can Learn From 300,000 Years of Human History

472: Big City Andrew, part 1: Traditional Conservative values and stewardship

471: 12 Sustainability Leadership Lessons Unplugging My Fridge for 6.5 Months Taught Me

470: Sustainable Activities: I’m learning singing (my mortifying “before” recording)

469: The Science Book of the Decade: Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet, by Tom Murphy

468: Alexandra Paul, part 2: How to Reduce Something (Wasteful) You Enjoy, to Improve Your Life

467: Frederick Lane, part 1: The Rise of the Digital Mob

466: Shaun Donovan: New York City Mayoral Candidate

465: Markus Pukonen, part 1: Around the World With No Motors

464: Resilience: Six months with the fridge unplugged

463: Brad Hoylman, part 1: From New York Senator to Manhattan Borough President

462: Bill Ryerson, part 3: The biggest impact you can make

461: 24 Hours With No Electrical Power (After)

460: 24 Hours With No Electrical Power (Before)

459: Jonathan Hardesty, part 3: How to Continue a Sustainability Podcast

458: The Spodek Method: How to Lead Someone to Act Joyfully Sustainably

457: Jon Levy, part 1: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence

456: Jonathan Hardesty, part 2: How to Start a Sustainability Podcast

455: J. B. MacKinnon, part 2: What happens when you pay for quality?

454: Richard Rothstein: Racial segregation in generations of U.S. law

453: Bill Ryerson, part 2: How can we talk about population? What can we do?

452: Book Update #1

451: Alexandra Paul, part 1: A Genuine Celebrity Role Model

450: Brian Keating, Losing the Nobel Prize

449: Chad E. Foster: How Do You Handle Huge Challenges? Not Big. Huge.

448: Robert Bilott: The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

447: Kathryn Garcia, part 1: Candidate for New York City Mayor

446: Wondering how you can make a difference? Action begets action.

445: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, part 2: Religion, Interpreting the Torah, and Nature

444: Dar-Lon Chang, part 1: The engineer who made headlines for quitting ExxonMobil

443: Nobody understands what’s so bad with climate change

442: Jonathan Hardesty, part 1: The Journey from Absolute Rookie to Mastery

441: John Sargent, part 1: The CEO who reduced a Big Five publisher’s footprint

440: Andrés Reséndez: The Other Slavery

439: How to Fix Texas

438: Avoiding Creating Garbage, Advanced Edition

437: Bill Ryerson, part 1: Population matters

436: You’re right, it’s not fair!

435: Etienne Stott MBE, part 1: Olympic gold medalist climate activist

434: Manisha Sinha: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

433: Adam Hochschild, part 2: Abolition then, pollution today

432: Matthew Stevenson, part 2: What can environmentalists learn from disarming racism?

431: I sang every day for two months, unplugged (still going)

430: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, part 1: The Eco Bible

429: What about jobs?

428: Vanessa Friedman: The New York Times Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic

427: Behind the Mic: Attraction and leadership

426: Why unplug?

425: General William “Kip” Ward, part 1: Security, Stability, and Sustainability Start with People

424: Brent Suter, part 3: We don’t have to steward. We get to.

423: Kelly Allan, part 2: Restoring joy to work through Deming and stewardship

422: Adam Hochschild, part 1: Abolition and Sustainability

421: Behind the Mic: Race: Why I’ve talked about it so much

420: Three Years of Leadership and the Environment!

419: Balint Horvath, part 4: Fatherhood and sustainability

418: Chester Elton, part 2: The world’s number 4 best leadership speaker, trainer, and thought leader

417: Dan McPherson, part 2: Recovering from his heart attack, cutting out water bottles

416: Rod Schoonover, part 1: Resigned in protest after White House tried to delete “basic science” from climate change report

415: Marion Nestle, conversation 2: Let’s Ask Marion

414: Nir Eyal, part 2: He committed to avoiding flying before the pandemic

413: Michael Moss, part 1.5: Maybe that was the addiction speaking

412: George Chmiel, part 2: Teamwork from garbage

411: Winston Churchill and the environment

410: Race, part 2: How do you learn when people respond to questions with criticism and judgment?

409: Kevin Cahill, part 2: Systems change, fast and effective

408: Nancy Reagan and the Environment

407: Eric Metaxas: William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace

406: J. B. MacKinnon, part 1: The Once and Future World

405: No, It’s Not Just a Piece of Cloth

404: Michael Moss, part 1: Salt, Sugar, Fat, Convenience, Addiction, and the Environment

403: Ashish Jha, part 2: Battling covid-19, leadership, and the environment

402: Faith

401: Defund the police? A proposal.

400: Race, part 1: Should whites shut up and listen?

399: Mark Tercek: Former CEO, The Nature Conservancy; Former Partner, Goldman Sachs

398: Lt. General Paul Van Riper USMC, part 2: A Marine Versus Coffee

397: Eric Orts, part 1: Exploring a Senate Race

396: Margaret Klein Salamon, part 2: Political or Personal or Political and Personal

395: A Time I Gave Up

394: Joe De Sena, part 2: The Sustainable Spartan starts here

393: Jaime Casap, part 2: If a global pandemic isn’t the end, what is?

392: The doomsayers aren’t who you think

391: Bob Inglis, part 2: Is Biden better for conservatives on climate legislation?

390: George Chmiel 1.5: Sustainability, hard even for an ultramarathoner, but he doesn’t give up

389: Why environmentalists can be so annoying

388: Nir Eyal, part 2: Another role model avoiding flying pre-pandemic

387: Maja Rosén: Leading not flying

386: Bob Inglis, part 1: the EcoRight, a balance to the Environmental Left

385: Coleman Hughes: Race and social media mobs

384: They would rather switch than fight

383: Sports, competition, and beating pandemics

382: Kelly Allan, part 1: Deming 101, community, and beyond

381: Kevin Edwards Cahill, part 1: The Deming Legacy

380: Matthew Stevenson, part 1: Why Befriend a White Nationalist?

379: Dan McPherson, part 1: A Heart Attack Last Week at Age 46

378: Libba and Gifford Pinchot III, part 1: Redefining business education

377: Chris Manhertz, part 2: Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.

376: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Stewardship

375: Vertical farms belie the false hope of fusion

374: Andreas Larsson, part 1: Leadership and the Environment Sweden

373: Jaeden Graham, Atlanta Falcon: Reaching beyond your potential

372: JFK, the moon, and missing leadership today

371: Margaret Klein Salamon, part 1: Become the Hero Humanity Needs

370: Viktor Frankl on the pandemic

369: Another Decision From My Past I Feel Ashamed Of

368: Chester Elton, part 1: Asking and listening across color lines

367: The Surprising Mantle of Leadership

366: The Cops, Jocko Willink, and Joe Rogan

365: Assaulted again and scammed

364: Joe De Sena, part 1: The Spartan Race: Resilience from effort

363: General George Patton’s Speech to the Third Army

362: Nelson Mandela: “it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

361: George Chmiel, part 1: Why run 3,000 miles? Why challenge yourself?

360: Sparta could make history

359: Jaime Casap, part 1: Google’s Global Education Evangelist

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