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December

31: Flying to a sustainability conference is like hitting a piano with a sledgehammer to learn to play music
30: 655: Donald Robertson, part 2: Seeking a Wolf
29: Another reason why an amendment banning pollution will pass and change culture
28: 654: Mark Mills, part 3: The Cloud Revolution
27: Doing What It Takes
26: Post-Christmas Christmas Tree Update
25: I started my current load of garbage on Christmas 2019 (I used to fill a load a week). Still going.
24: 653: Mark Z. Jacobson: Roadmaps for 100% clean renewable energy
23: OMG this butternut squash was amazing! . . . Why connecting to nature connects to people and motivates saving both
22: Beginning month 8 off the grid and *coincidence* year 12 of daily burpees.
21: If no one tried to live more sustainably and I knew I could change no one, I would still do what I’m doing: stopping hurting others.
20: 652: Carl Erik Fisher: The Urge: Our History of Addiction
19: Reader question: Why do I say solar and wind aren’t clean, green, or renewable?
18: Who should decide if public transit should be free? What the answer means for sustainability.
17: 651: Noah Gallagher Shannon, part 2: Uruguay is an environmental role model
16: Teaching children sustainability
15: A silly moment showing the joy in disconnecting from the grid, even when it means climbing a lot of stairs
14: Watch your wallet: examples of heavy polluters saying “we need to bring energy to the world’s poorest” so they can pollute and profit more.
13: 650: Brian Merchant: your phone’s hidden environmental impact
12: RIP Frances Hesselbein, one of my great inspirations
11: 649: Listener Questions 04: What Started Me Acting Sustainably, Kids, and What to Do If You Don’t Have Time
10: 648: Michael Herz, part 1: The United States Constitution, Sustainability, and Pollution
9: More Polluting Less: Another Zero Kilowatt-hour Bill
8: Believing our population or economy can grow forever is like believing the Earth is flat
7: 647: Kris de Decker, part 1: Low and No Tech Magazine: We believe in progress and technology
6: Proposal for a New Holidays: “Fall Unplug the Fridge Day” and “Spring Plug-in Day”
5: If Malthus was wrong, Columbus was wrong.
4: Racism, sexism, and the environment: why do people act on two but make excuses about the third?
3: 646: Noah Gallagher Shannon, part 1: Uruguay is an environmental role model
2: Population: what would you have recommended to Hawaiians on population during the centuries they lived alone?
1: Challenges with solar power in New York in the Winter

November

30: This Sustainable Life turns 5 today
29: No, they aren’t living in the stone age
28: 645: Hamilton Souther, part 1: Living Among the Matsés in the Peruvian Amazon
27: Meditation: Thoughts aren’t just ideas that arise and pass away. Each wants to hook you.
26: The Spodek Method Mindset Shift: Before and After. A World of Difference.
25: Hear me on the Carbon Sessions, from the Carbon Almanac Podcast Network, started by Seth Godin
24: When a heavy polluter says “we need to bring energy to the world’s poorest,” watch your wallet
23: Before buying a Christmas tree: A reader shares how his family celebrates Christmas without chopping down trees
22: Six Months Off the Grid in Manhattan: Admit It, You’re Living a Lie
21: Bringing the solar panels to the roof in the cold, on the verge of six months.
20: Yet another reason I don’t watch TV
19: 644: Janet Allaker, part 1.5: Joy first
18: Brief thoughts on the question/koan “who am I?”
17: Apparently I’ve Earned a Reputation Volunteering
16: Living in the 21st century means there are a million ways to connect and they all break.
15: 643: Gaya Herrington, part 3: Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse
14: Flawed By Design: UN Population Predictions Are Based on Faulty Models
13: My volunteering amounts to donating about $50,000 per year of food.
12: Why values are more important than technology: Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
11: 642: Listener Questions 03: Fermentation and my dream job
10: Our culture of addiction: someone injecting on Waverly, just off Sixth Avenue
9: Voting litter
8: New Yorkers band together to “help” struggling Ukrainians and Europeans
7: Elements of the brighter future I envision
6: The text to my answer to the listener question: What Motivates Me To Care?
6: 641: Listener Questions, volume 02: What Motivates Me To Care?
5: Another month with zero kilowatt-hours
4: Read my story in TIME Magazine: “I’ve Been Living Off-Grid In Manhattan for Half-a-Year”
3: Ela Bhatt 1933-2022
2: Waste Water: Evian Edition
1: 640: Mark Mills, part 2: Low cost, high availability energy creates wealth

October

31: How old is our culture? Could it be only about 200 years?
30: 200,000 burpees
29: Your money or your vote
28: Notes on aging, part 2
27: Vegan restaurants and doof
26: 639: Bruce Robertson and Milad Mousavian: Carbon Capture and Storage Is Not a Climate Solution
25: Poor wittle American can’t wait to buy coffee in a mug or drink water from a tap
24: You don’t think individual action works? How about any action at all?
23: 638: Mat Johnson: Exploring and Expressing Identity
22: Month Six Disconnected From the Electric Grid in Manhattan
21: On when I should stop picking up litter in Washington Square Park
21: 637: Holly Whitaker: Overcoming Addiction, Embracing Freedom
19: Thoughts climbing eleven flights of stairs twice a day to charge my battery from sunlight
18: 636: Mark P. Mills, part 1: “Renewables” aren’t renewable
17: Stood up in the rain by a homeless guy with AIDS
16: How polluters see nature versus how non-polluters do
15: Score! I found new fruit to forage in the park around the corner
14: Why do people apologize to me when they pollute?
13: I act more like Uruguay’s President than the average American, environmentally, according to the NY Times
12: Sustainability and mating
11: 634: Donald Robertson, part 1: Thinking in Systems (a third listener episode)
10: Why Abraham Lincoln said “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
9: First report: Yesterday’s Bronx Workshop on Living Off the Grid in New York City
8: 635: John Biewen, part 2: Turning off screens at 8pm
7: Another month with zero kilowatt hours to my apartment
6: A Couple Ways I Avoid Cell Phone and Other Addiction
5: Notes on aging, part 1
4: A value in spending time with junkies
3: How much single-use packaging, times 2.19 quadrillion, works?
2: 633: Alan Ereira, part 1: Meeting the Kogi of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains
1: Year 2, Day 2 with the Fridge Unplugged

September

30: “Sanitation Department” is a misnomer.
29: California is permanently on fire, island nations are being submerged, and New York restaurants are heating the outdoors
28: Trying to lead on sustainability with trying to live sustainably is like trying to play piano without practicing
27: 632: Mitzi Perdue, part 1: Sex Trafficking in Ukraine
26: The New Yorker published my letter
25: My 32-Year Relationship With The New Yorker Magazine
24: 631: Stephen M. R. Covey, part 1.5: To Arrive Where We Started and to Know the Place for the First Time
23: Join my workshop in the Bronx, October 8th, on living off the grid in NYC and enjoy some solar-power-cooked stew!
22: Month 5 Disconnected From the Electric Grid.
21: Published in the Leader to Leader Journal: “We Who Choose to Lead Are Humanity’s Best Hope to Save Civilization”
20: Why nuclear and fusion accelerate our problems, and point to the solution
19: The text from episode 630: Simplifying Meditation Words and Meaning
19: 630: Simplifying Meditation Words and Meaning
18: People who tell me I’m wasting my time versus those who encourage me
17: 629: Michelle Nijhuis, part 2: Stopping doom scrolling
16: Older Americans tell me they would rather die before taking responsibility for the environmental wreckage they helped create
15: 628: Jay Walker, part 2: Kayaking together on the Hudson
14: American electric bill insanity
13: 627: Nadeem Akhtar, part 1: A Long-Time Listener from Norway
12: Cuisine: What It Is and How We Ruin It
11: 626: Jay Walker, part 1: Organizing New York City’s Queer Liberation March
10: The Emperor’s New Cigarettes: A Parable for a Polluted World
9: See and Hear Me On the Manopause Podcast
8: Zero kilowatt-hours for the third month in a row
7: 625: Listener Questions, volume 01
6: You know who else didn’t fly? Humphrey Bogart at the end of Casablanca
5: 624: John Biewen, part 1: Seeing Whiteness and Other Systems
4: My first bike-camping trip since 1988
3: 623: AJ Jacobs, part 1: Be Curious and Act
2: Stop complaining that it’s hard and change it
1: 622: Stephen M. R. Covey, part 1: Trust & Inspire

August

31: White Men and Publishing in 2022
30: 621: Whitney Tilson, part 3: Talking sustainability with a Harvard-Trained Investment Advisor Who Flies Monthly
29: Day 100 off the electric grid in Manhattan (about 98 days longer than I thought possible). Still going.
28: Fossil fuels and slavery from a systems perspective (new diagrams)
27: 620: Nature delivers what psychedelics do, but we don’t know what we’re missing (feat. Sam Harris and Roland Griffiths)
26: Another Million-Dollar Idea: A browser add-on to channel impulse buys to donations
26: Goal isn’t to pollute “a little bit” less or even “a lot” less. It’s zero if you want to sustain human life and civilization.
25: What is right amount to pollute? Zero is the only answer that sustains human life.
24: 619: Dr. Michael Gurven, part 2: The Forager Population Paradox and what do we do
23: 618: Dr. Michael Gurven, part 1: Our ancestors evolved to live to 72 years*, and did (not 30).
22: Polluting less isn’t extreme. It’s traditional.
21: Ask Me Anything
20: More litter I find in Washington Square Park, and why I focus on it.
19: Which of these progressive Democrats filling my world with garbage claims to be for the environment?
18: 617: Janet Allaker: A long-time listener shares what This Sustainable Life means to her
17: The “Inflation Reduction Act”: Hear me speak on it with Eugene Bible of This Sustainable Life
16: “How can carbon dioxide pollute if it’s necessary for life?”
15: Hawaii is a microcosm of the world: A conversation with co-host Eugene Bible
14: Can you imagine a world without pollution?
13: The three top ways liberals and environmentalists stop themselves from thinking and acting
12: 616: Michael Lombardi, part 1: Culture, Leadership, and Football
11: Poor people throwing away food
10: My second month with zero kilowatt-hours
9: Fourteen years ago today I swam across the Hudson River for the first time
9: 615: Living off the grid without solar either (as all humans once did)
8: 614: Michelle Nijhuis, part 1: Living off the grid for 15 years
7: American culture today: “Here’s why I can’t” (especially among conservatives, liberals, and libertarians)
6: The causes inside you of our environmental problems
6: Limits to economic growth: A peer-reviewed paper by podcast guest Tom Murphy
5: On starlight and smog
4: How we kill innovation around sustainability
3: What’s the right amount of pollution? How much should you pollute?
2: Hear me live 9pm eastern on America Out Loud After Dark (conservative radio) on living off the electric grid
1: 613: Our Next Constitutional Amendment

July

31: Prove me wrong: America has abandoned “Do Unto Others” and “Leave It Better Than You Found It” on the environment
30: My pride and shame in giving blood for the first time since college
29: 612: Sebastian Junger, part 1: Humans Thrive on Mutual Dependence, Feeling Needed, But Our Culture Isolates.
28: We won’t run out of fossil fuels, why that’s a problem, and long history
27: 611: Etienne Stott, part 6: Activism and Leadership
26: Discarded Electric Vehicles
25: About two years of recycling
24: Cities aren’t loud, cars and air conditioners are
23: 610: Abortion and Sustainability
22: 609: Finishing My Off-the-Grid-in-Manhattan Experiment in Month 3
21: People are swearing off air travel because of climate anxiety
20: Fifty-one
19: Homeless: do we feed them or force them into jobs?
18: My cereal shame and recovery
17: 608: Parents Just Don’t Understand
16: 607: Mike Michalowicz, part 2: Being the Icebreaker
15: The problem isn’t capitalism. It’s capitulation.
14: 606: Nakisa Glover, part 3: The Joy of Gardening
13: Doof isn’t cheaper than food
12: 605: Etienne Stott, part 5: My Work from an Extinction Rebellion Rebel’s Perspective
11: I think I bought five or ten non-food things over the past year or two
10: 604: Whitney Tilson, part 2: Overcoming feeling uninformed about the environment to act on it
9: My First Zero Electric Bill: Off the Grid in Manhattan Over a Month
8: 603: Mark Victor Hansen: Chicken Soup for the Sustainability Leadership Soul
7: The simple explanation why offsets don’t work
6: Would you help an abusive parent get more efficient?
5: 602: Ash Beckham, part 2: How to Out-Boulder the Boulder, Colorado Crowd
4: Countering my posts on garbage: Mulberries!
3: When did they start making ice cream that doesn’t melt?
2: 601: Bill Benenson, part 3: Hadza Versus American Culture and Little Kids with Sharp Knives
1: 600: Etienne Stott MBE, part 4: What it’s like rebelling with Extinction Rebellion

June

30: Not only Pride and Queer Liberation: A Regular Day in Washington Square Park
29: How Not to Give Up
28: After the Pride and Queer Liberation Marches 2022: Washington Square Park wrecked again. I could cry.
27: Volunteering: Institutional Composting
26: Pride March Preparation: Cops and Garbage
25: Two questions nobody has ever answered and what to do about them.
24: If Exxon Knew, So Did You. Today in 1988, Climate Change made the front page in the New York Times
24: 599: A Guy Forced Me to Accept a Twenty Dollar Bill for Picking Up Litter
23: 598: Bill Benenson, part 2: Dirt! and Kiss the Ground, behind the scenes
22: 597: Josh Martin, part 2: If at first you don’t succeed . . .
21: Done: One month off the electric grid in Manhattan (still going)
20: It’s amazing how much people argue they have to pollute, especially environmentalists and do-gooders.
19: 596: Sandra Pérez, part 1: Keeping New York’s LGBTQIA+ Pride March clean
18: When did humans’ main interaction with Earth become seen as wrecking it?
17: For humanity to be sustainable, every person must live sustainably, including you. Time to quit waiting and start acting.
16: 595, Jason Slaughter, Creator of Not Just Bikes, part 1: Ending Car Dependency
16: I’ve never met a vegan vegan
14: 594: Etienne Stott, part 3: An insider’s, activist’s view of Extinction Rebellion
13: I’d rather see it so I can act than act like I don’t see it.
12: Questions about litter, following my thirtieth college reunion
11: 593: How I disconnected from the electric grid in Manhattan for 2 weeks (and counting)
10: Change my view: American culture has abandoned “Leave it better than you found it.”
10: My new record electric bill: 5 kWh (62¢ + fixed costs)
9: Read my emails cursing at Whitney Tilson that brought him to my podcast
9: 592: We’re thinking about and using solar and wind wrong. Here’s how they could work.
8: 591: Whitney Tilson, part 1: Acting on intrinsic motivation versus feeling you have to save the world
7: 590: Ash Beckham, part 1: Being vulnerable, supporting others, growing yourself
6: Some flying pollution numbers
5: 589: Abraham Lincoln and Sustainability, part 1: Is the US a racist nation? What should we do then?
4: 588: Mark DiMassimo, part 1: Leading with integrity
3: You can try to convince yourself otherwise but packaging and plastic pay rich people to impoverish poor people.
2: 587: Josh Martin, part 1: How to Reach the Ivy League and the NFL When You Start Late and Unprepared
1: Gut punch: What you mean by balance versus what I mean.

May

31: Measure your sustainability efforts by your effect on others, not how hard you felt you tried.
30: 586: My Kitty Hawk moment, on the way to a Moon Shot
29: James Bond: revolting?
28: Sustainability realizations and gut punches
27: 585: Douglas McMaster, part 2: If a restaurant can run with no trash, we can too
26: The tragic fate of democratizing technology
25: 584: Freedom, continual improvement, fun, and curiosity: day three only solar in Manhattan
24: Lies, damned lies, and excuses to keep polluting
23: My emotional job as a leader in sustainability
22: Our culture destroyed theirs, but which had better health, mental health, meaning, and purpose?
21: 583: Growthbusters called me extreme, so I responded
20: 582: Gaya Herrington, part 2: How to change systems
19: Assaulted again in broad daylight
18: The Pennsylvania Historical Commission’s odd blunder on the history of slavery
17: 581: Dr. Ambrose Carroll, senior, part 2: cultural differences on how we view the individual
16: My sledding hill in May
15: All Glory: day two riding from Princeton to Philadelphia
14: Equal parts misery and glory: today’s ride from New York to Princeton
13: One of the hardest parts of living in a culture based on addiction: seeing loved ones addicted
12: One way I admit I’m out of touch: I can’t understand why everyone doesn’t pick up litter all the time.
11: 580: How wrong your beliefs making you fear living sustainably
10: Do we live in Babylon?
9: 579: Derek Marshall, part 2: Running for Congress, sharing honest personal experiences
8: I loathe being interrupted, but here’s when to do it. I’ll thank you for it.
7: What if you believe life begins at conception? Is that belief part of diversity and inclusion?
6: I finally realized why people don’t criticize litter
5: Quotes that transformed Americans from citizens to consumers (and food to doof)
4: “Titty twister”
3: 578: Warren Farrell, part 2: Sex, race, and intimacy: How to listen and communicate
2: Health and longevity of other cultures
1: Tragic doof addiction statistics: up to 70 percent of children’s calories.
1: Why I’m writing at 3am: I’m so sore that moving wakes me up.

April

30: 577: Michael Carlino, part 6: Discussing the moral case for fossil fuels (and more)
29: The human cost of environmental degradation I want to avoid is already happening.
28: My new sleeping experiment
27: 576: Nakisa Glover, part 2: The need to feel heard and act
26: Should you get clean of an addiction even if you can’t cure all addictions globally?
25: 575: Chef Douglas McMaster, part 1: A restaurant with no trash cans because it produces no trash
24: Why I can’t post reviews on Amazon
23: 574: Frances Moore Lappé: Food, Democracy, and Taking Back Control of Our Choices
22: Transitions in the path to acting sustainably
21: Reading and listening to the Christian Bible
20: “It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
19: 573: Scott White, part 2: An energy CEO considers leading on sustainability
18: Can you distinguish addicted from stupid?
17: A New Record in Clean Living: Over 6.5 Months With the Fridge Unplugged
16: Bill Nye the Science Guy sells out to Coca-Cola
16: 572: Geoff Colvin, part 2: Are we losing humanity when we lose touch with nature?
15: Everyone says “It’s the journey, not the destination” until you suggest they consider not flying.
14: Can you imagine a vacation without burning fossil fuels to get there?
13: Do Americans buy unpackaged food? Have you, say, in 2022?
12: 571: Chef Dan Barber, part 1: Supporting the whole ecosystem and farmers at every turn
11: More Pride, Less Pollution in 2022
10: 570: Bill Benenson, part 1: Documenting and learning from the fascinating Hadza
9: 569: Stop funding Russia invading Ukraine
9: Under one dollar: My record low monthly electrical use: 10 kWh ($0.96 + fixed costs)
8: Everyone acts shocked and outraged at how much food we waste, but happily wastes.
7: 568: Etienne Stott, part 2: When you threaten the power of the establishment, it starts to kick back
6: Is “progress” net helping or hurting?
5: My brief conversation with a heroin addict thanking me
4: 567: Nakisa “Sista Sol” Glover, part 1: Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Organizing, and Action
3: 566: The CEO of Ford and Boeing, Alan Mulally: Leadership environmentalism should learn from
2: How We Reached Our Environmental Predicament so We Can Take Responsibility
1: Read about sustainability and me in a Korean-English magazine: 터치 매거진 4월호가 발행되어 보내드립니다.

March

31: Things I avoid
30: 565: Sam Quinones, part 2: Fentanyl feels worse but addicts more (like Facebook, McDonald’s, flying, etc)
29: 564: Lauren Carlisle, part 1: Dancer, psychologist, philosopher
28: Two ways you became addicted without realizing
27: Am I in an African-American / African-Diaspora dominated field?
26: The book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels; freedom, ingenuity, progress, and related books, videos, and resources.
25: Everyone is avoiding what’s hard on the environment in favor of what’s easy even when effective.
24: 563: Derek Marshall, part 1: Candidate for California’s 23rd Congressional District
23: Year 7, day 1 without flying, seeing our cultural and individual addictions
22: Where I grew up, “a national model of racial integration”: Mount Airy, Philadelphia
21: Join guest J.B. MacKinnon and the Sierra Club for a webinar, April 13: Climate Change and the Military/Industrial/Consumerist Complex
20: How much do growth industries mean addictive industries?
19: My sledding hill in March
18: Who sees the other as more racist and sexist, the left or the right?
17: More stuff isn’t less stuff
16: One of the tragedies of addiction
15: Finished book number three proposal
14: A simple proposal to reduce litter
13: My first kombucha tastes off-the-charts delicious!
12: Spring flowers
11: The “Affordable Housing” challenge
10: Would you have opposed atrocities in the past? Do you oppose them today?
9: Have we lost the imagination to improve life without fossil fuels?
8: Do addicts get less of what they think they get more of?
7: Efficiency and democratization backfiring
6: Fossil fuels and slavery from a systems perspective
5: My first solar-powered famous no-packaging vegan stew
4: How to stay not depressed when living not how society tells you to
3: If Columbus statues should be removed, what about our behavior today?
2: According to the CDC, I weigh 6% less than the average American woman. My waist is 13% smaller.
1: Sponsor my second annual fundraising ride, helping create a bike path from Maine to Florida

February

28: Cities aren’t loud, cars are.
27: Nuclear and renewables look like methadone
26: Liberals: get your stories straight, part 1: individual ability and responsibility.
25: If you think we can feed 10 billion people sustainably in 2050, why don’t we live sustainably now? Why don’t you?
24: 562: Sam Quinones, part 1: America’s addiction: opioids, meth, fentanyl (and fossil fuels)
23: When does a human life begin when we can clone?
22: A Milestone: A Quarter-Million Views to My TEDx Talks
21: Dubai: See me co-lead a sustainability and food workshop (virtually) at Dubai’s Expo2020
20: My Solar Experiment to Go Off the Electric Grid in Manhattan Continues
19: I bought my first non-food thing since Thanksgiving yesterday
18: I finally figured out why I tell you how long since I emptied my trash or flew
17: Rhythmic beauty about the stars, Sun, Moon, and Earth I bet you’ve never noticed
16: 561: Scott Hardin-Nieri, part 2: Faith and Personal Challenge
15: The time and money we spend on social media, clothes, and gaming is insane, part 2: clothes and gaming
14: The time and money we spend on social media, clothes, and gaming is insane, part 1: Social media and clothes.
13: We are long past “dominion” over the Earth
12: People don’t want to travel as much as they say they do
11: 560: Geoff Colvin, part 1: How to Become an Expert
10: One percent population growth, then and now
9: My 2022 electric bills
8: 559: The Silky Smooth Seduction of Addiction
7: The point of democracy, in my opinion
6: 558: Michael Carlino, part 5: Which is the danger, lowering or raising the human population?
5: How did King Solomon get called wise for proposing cutting a baby in half?
4: Welcome to America. I found on a park picnic table: 30 syringes, a crack pipe, and prescription opiates
3: Why bother with individual action if it doesn’t change systems and similar, ignorant questions
2: Read a provocative profile of me by Nancy Colasurdo
1: 557: Rollie Williams, part 1: Comedy and climate change

January

31: There is an ‘I’, it’s just not who you think it is.
30: A chapter of my life, in the words of a massively bestselling author
29: 556: Judith Enck: Beyond Plastic’s Founder and President
28: Challenge question: Can you use fossil fuels without polluting?
27: 555: EJ Perry, part 1: Brown’s quarterback on clutch performance
27: Coach John Wooden on sustainability
26: I blew up a jar fermenting chutney, which got all over my ceiling
25: What God meant by fruitful and dominion.
24: Why grocery stores destroy food: Serving the market versus serving people
23: 554: Sea walls won’t protect us from our garbage. Stopping polluting gives us our best chance.
22: Sweating the details: Now when I mop, I focus on the corners.
21: More places I’d be killed for just being me
20: 553: Gaya Herrington, part 1: How far have we passed our limits to growth? What does that mean?
19: Four reasons the explanation why we crave sugar and fat and store fat seems wrong
18: 552: Hilary Link, part 2: colleges and universities talk sustainability but rarely act. This college president does.
18: Sustainability basics almost everyone gets backward, twisting them up inside.
17: The Struggle of Living Sustainably in a Society That Supports It in Word But Opposes It in Deed
16: 551: Chad Foster, part 4: Flying to skiing, but not camping in the back yard
15: Challenge question (and answer): Could you pollute before fossil fuels?
14: 550: Rick Ridgeway: A Life Lived Wild: K2, Everest, and places no human had seen
13: If we are so wealthy, why do we kick people without wealth off their land and take it and its resources?
12: Conservative trickery. Do others use it too?
11: 549: Abdal Hakim Murad, part 2: High and low tech in the new green mosque in Cambridge, UK
10: Do examples of societies deliberately and successfully lowering their population or economy exist?
9: My peaceful eating sidcha for this month
8: 548: Erik Bottcher, part 1: a New York City politician awesome enough to pick up litter
7: My latest six fermentations, by reader request
6: 547: Michael Carlino, part 4: What does Christian scripture say about population?
5: “I pay taxes. Someone will clean my bottle/wrapper/litter.”
4: 546: Maxine Bédat, part 2: Systemic Change Begins With Personal Change
3: Finally, people treating Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-offender acting with independent agency, not a sidekick.
2: Hear me speak on population on the Post-Growth Australia podcast
1: Annual Christmas tree dumping
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