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2023
December
31: This week’s selected media: December 31, 2023: Drug Dealer, MD; Supernova in the East; Flags of our Fathers; Letters From Iwo Jima; Video Sales Letter Training; Urban Cycling
30: A reader message on doof and food
29: Why my evening calisthenics were harder than usual today: an extra 36 flights of stairs
28: Nelson Mandela’s daughter and granddaughter don’t get sustainability
27: Early Christmas pagan trees being sent to landfill. What represents our culture better?
26: Short post to save energy
25: Year 5, day 1 on one load of trash
25: Bonhoeffer’s last Christmas Letter
24: This week’s selected media: December 24, 2023: Dopamine Nation and Zone of Interest
23: 739: John Brooke, part 1: Deep history and how our culture formed
22: Year 13, day 1 of daily burpees
21: My Second Winter Solstice: Over 1.5 Years Unplugged From the Electric Grid (and counting). More freedom than ever.
20: What we can learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “these difficult years have forged an even closer bond between us than ever before.”
19: 738: Jacqueline Bicanic, part 2: Sustainability doesn’t cost time and energy, it gives it
18: Pleasantly surprised by my own success: People choosing to avoid flying for their own reasons
17: This week’s selected media: December 17, 2023: Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
16: Image ideas for my book cover
15: A person injecting right there on the sidewalk
14: 737: Michael Gerrard: Considering a stewardship amendment with a foremost environmental lawyer
13: Thoughts watching Bonhoeffer (2003)
12: Why We Step on the Gas, Thinking It’s the Brake, Wanting Congratulations
11: Putting Values Before Technology, Markets, and Efficiency
10: This week’s selected media: December 10, 2023: Bonhoeffer documentary and Men Who Hate Women
9: “But Won’t Fusion Create the Energy We Need, Cleanly?”
8: But Aren’t We Solving Things? How can efficiency increase pollution?
7: Jane O’Sullivan videos on population and overpopulation
6: We can’t turn off our emotional systems and we all share the same emotions.
5: 736: Mattan Griffel, part 1: Online opioid addiction treatment that (actually) works
4: Cultural Exchange Without Flying: My dinner at the Trump International Golf Club at Bedminster
3: This week’s selected media: December 3, 2023: Elinor Ostrom and The People of New York State versus Pepsico, Frito-Lay, and Frito-Lay North America
2: 735: Casey Mahoney, part 1: A Jazz Musician Lowering His Impact to 3 Tons CO2/Year in L.A.
1: More pictures from volunteering, delivering farm fresh vegetables.
1: Setting up solar panels on my roof in about a minute
November
30: Freezing on the roof, gathering energy from the sun
29: See the Daily Show’s segment on me: “Is it Possible to Live “Off the Grid” in Manhattan?”
28: The Daily Show showed my living disconnected from the electric grid in Manhattan.
28: First flurries of the season while charging on the roof today
28: 734: Alon Tal, part 1: Israel, Hamas, and overpopulation from a former Knesset member
27: I will stake my floor as clean as anyone’s, but the sponge I clean it with is nearing the end of its life
26: This week’s selected media: November 27, 2023: The Fiery Trial, by Eric Foner, My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem, and more
25: 733: Jacqueline Bicanic, part 1: Listener as Guest: Australian University Student, Very Active in Sustainability
24: The Opposite of Travel and Destruction of Culture: Under 800 Steps from NY to LA.
23: Thanksgiving, Wine, Moderation, and More Appreciation
22: Wants versus Needs: How we pay for our own misery
21: 732: Siddharth Kara, part 1: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
20: You Don’t Need a “Christmas” Tree—a pagan tradition. A reminder of the waste you can avoid.
19: This week’s selected media: November 19, 2023: Poverty, By America, by Matthew Desmond; My Octopus Teacher; First Reform
18: 731: Debate and Understanding on Population Projections with Wolfgang Lutz and Chris Bystroff
17: More precedent for expecting we can each live sustainably soon
16: Check out this review of my workshop on sustainability leadership
15: Diving into Eric Foner Talks
14: I hear young people seethe with rage at old people, especially boomers
13: Images that changed how we see the world and ourselves. Images that will change us more.
12: This week’s selected media: November 12, 2023: Pimpernel Smith, (1941)
11: Proslavery Thought in the Old South (1935) quotes, by William Sumner Jenkins
10: “But if it doesn’t change the world it’s not worth doing” Hogwash.
9: When people mean when they say “you have to make sustainability easy for people.”
8: What do you think of this person’s flying habits? (part 3)
8: What do you think of this person’s flying habits? (part 2)
8: What do you think of this person’s flying habits? (part 1)
7: 730: Tony Hansen, part 1 : McKinsey’s Director of Natural Capital and Nature
6: Today’s Environmentalists in a Nutshell and Why They Fail
5: This week’s selected media: November 5, 2023: “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” and “Climate Change and the Course of Global History”
4: 729: How to Develop a Sustainability Leadership Culture in Your Organization: a Panel I moderated
3: Why are we so myopic about politics?
2: Inspirational environmental F-bomb
1: How Environmentalists Fail (Where We Could Use Innovation)
October
31: 728: Chefs Irene and Margaret Li, part1: Winning Awards Saving Perfectly Good Food
30: The Marlboro Man versus Kool and Newport Menthol and Virginia Slims
29: Ecomodernists, techno-optimists, and closed-loop advocates: why don’t you believe your own hype?
28: Why do people apologize to me when they mention their polluting?
27: Some People Value the Invisible Hand and Devalue a Helping Hand
26: 727: Fun, liberation, freedom: How people talk after seriously acting on sustainability
25: More of: I eat food homeless people throw away
24: The coaching side-effect that may be my favorite part of coaching
23: 726: Amy Westervelt, part 1: Showing What’s Actually Happening Behind the Scenes
22: Do you feel enraged at people flying private jets to climate conferences?
21: Why do people say history books are filled with people like me when they aren’t?
20: If something is labeled “Compostable” it means it’s not compostable. If something is labeled “recyclable” or “recycled” it means it’s polluting garbage.
19: 725: Gautam Mukunda, part 3: The Spodek Method Doesn’t Always Create a Huge Mindset Shift
18: Overpopulation in Israel and Gaza
17: Are you a colonialist?
16: Focusing only on climate change or carbon today is like Kodak only focusing on film when digital started. Let’s not be Kodak.
15: This week’s selected media: October 15, 2023: The Scorpion’s Sting by James Oakes
14: Abraham Lincoln, trash-talking wrestler
13: I support population and technology, if they support human flourishing, which is why I use less than ever
12: More on integrity and sustainability leadership versus management
11: Exploring versus leading
10: 724: Dr. Michael Greger, part 2: How Not to Age
9: Attend my third annual Cooking Sustainably workshop in the Bronx THIS SATURDAY, with special guest: My Mom!
9: Watch me moderate a panel on Developing a Sustainability Leadership Culture, October 25
8: This week’s selected media: October 8, 2023: The Story of B, Vaclav Smil on Energy, Neocolonialism by Ketcham
7: I’m not leading by example by trying to live more sustainably
6: Three months: I haven’t received an electric bill since July 6
5: Efficiency means the last hauls of fish could be the most full and the last oil extracted could be cheapest
4: Foraging urban food waste
3: Free markets? Meat subsidies are insane, as is consumption in the U.S. and a few other places
3: New Vitals: 99/63 / 47 bpm / 20.2 BMI
2: Year 3, day 3 with my fridge unplugged
2: 723: David Blight, part 2: A Constitutional Amendment on Stewardship Based on the Thirteenth and John Locke
1: Watch me (in the kitchen) and Evelyn, episode 2: Cooking and living joyfully sustainably
September
30: Update: Is the greatest obstacle to sustainability people with resources, especially time and money?
29: 722: Michael Forsythe: When McKinsey Comes to Town
28: Is the greatest impediment to someone living more sustainably their resources, especially time and money?
27: My deep-sea sailing trip, part 3: the cliffs of Newport, Rhode Island
26: Reflections on my first deep-sea sailing trip, seeing many stars and almost no fish
25: My first deep-sea sailing lesson
24: This week’s selected media: September 24, 2023: Cobalt Red
23: Watch my first livecast on sustainability leadership with Evelyn Wallace
22: What Are Your Carbon Cash Footprint and Pollution Cash Footprint?
21: There Are No Adults in the Room. You Can Be the Adult. Your Skills Are Needed.
20: Do you think like a nineteenth century anthropologist?
19: More syringes in our shared world and addicted culture: Philadelphia, August 2023
18: My Sledding Hill, August 2023
17: This Week’s Selected Media: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, More Raoul Wallenberg videos, plus my book
16: Population, Energy Consumption, and how to Limit Pollution
15: The Food Coop I Grew Up With: Weaver’s Way in Mount Airy, Philadelphia
14: 721: Jim Burke, part 1: The Most Beautiful Street in New York City?
13: Pictures of recent volunteer deliveries
12: 720: Maya Van Rossum, part 2: You Don’t Have a Right to a Clean Environment. You Have to Work for It.
11: “Josh, You Can Grieve Your Loss Too”
10: This Week’s Selected Media: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman and Wallenberg: A Hero´s Story
9: 719: David Blight, part 1: From Abolitionism to Sustainability
8: Why so many cars with no mufflers?
7: 718: Albert Garcia-Romeu, part 2: Psychedelics and Appreciating Nature Where You Are
6: Solutions to Food Waste
5: If you associate managing population with racism, sexism, Nazis, eugenics, forced abortion, or government coercion, you’re part of the problem
4: Yoga pants and athliesure are popular. Are they 100 percent plastic?
3: Selected New Experiences, September 3, 2023
2: Colonialism disguised as travel
1: 717: Pamela Paul: Writing on Controversial Subjects With Confidence
August
31: Carbon offsets increase CO2 levels in the atmosphere. They do not decrease or offset them. They increase them.
30: See me on the Compassiviste videocast
29: Graffiti with my name: Who is King Joshua?
28: 716: Arnold Leitner, part 2: How much energy and power do you need to be happy?
27: This Week’s Selected Media: Tiny Habits
26: Petty Authority
25: What I ate in the last 24 hours, August 2023
24: 715: My mom, Marie Spodek, part 3: Starting a food coop and making ends meet as a single mom in a food desert with three kids
23: Why I’m stronger and more tired than ever
22: 714: Adam Hochschild, part 3: King Leopold’s Ghost
21: Which is worse, blowing smoke in a someone’s face (say, a baby) or burning tons of jet fuel?
20: This Week’s Selected Media: 13th, directed by Ava Duvernay; The Leader to Leader Journal’s special issue commemorating Frances Hesselbein
19: 713: Matthew Matern, part 3: A trial lawyer’s view
18: Blood pressure normal, pulse: 51 bpm. Old man still got it.
18: Should there be more birds or planes and helicopters, even in cities?
17: Sustainability and Making My Bed Every Morning
16: 712: Guy Spier, part 1: The Education of a Value Investor
15: The selfishness and self-centeredness of flying
14: What will plugging my apartment back in feel like?
13: This Week’s Selected Media: Common Sense, by Thomas Paine; Atlas Hugged, by David Sloane Wilson; and the latest What Is Politics? video
12: If you think food coops cost more or complain that some people don’t have access to them, you don’t know what you’re talking about and are exacerbating the problem.
11: 711: Kate Siber: “Should I Stop Flying? It’s a Difficult Decision to Make.”
10: Insouciance, colonialism, and sustainability
9: Hawaii: Microcosm of Earth
8: 710: Madeline Ostrander, part 2: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
7: 709: Madeline Ostrander, part 1: At Home on an Unruly Planet
6: This week’s selected media: The Conservative as Environmentalist: From Goldwater and the Early Reagan to the 21st Century; The Text and Context of “Enough and as Good”: John Locke as the Foundation of an Environmental Liberalism; Ayn Rand videos
5: Why we’ll prefer sustainability
3: Is this image our culture in a nutshell?
2: The UN’s three-pronged attack on sustainability
1: Only specify fixing climate and carbon if you want to wreck everything else (forests, biodiversity, rivers, etc) because that happens when you do.
July
31: 707: Arnold Leitner, part 1: The founder of YouSolar, more than off-grid living
30: This week’s selected media: The Great Dance, Atlas Shrugged, and Natural Population Decline
29: 706: What I sound like talking sustainability when I forgot I was being recorded
28: The electric company is texting me to use less electricity, but I’m using none. Stop wasting so much, people.
27: The Sacklers must be looking at social media and doof companies with envy.
26: 705: Greg Bertelsen: A bipartisan climate roadmap including a carbon tax
25: We’re replacing flowers and grass with plastic. It’s unhealthy and disgusting, not pretty, but apparently I’m the extreme one for having a problem with it.
24: 704: Gernot Wagner, part 1: Guiding Misguided Economic Forces in the Right Direction
23: This week’s selected media: July 23, 2023: Pro-slavery thought in the old South; When McKinsey Comes to Town; The Year of Less; John Locke
22: The stages of environmentalism leading to counterproductive work or capitulation (and how to avoid them)
21: 703: David Gessner, part 1: A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World
21: My last electric bill?
20: How much of history I’ve lived through
19: Why we need a constitutional amendment on environmental sustainability
18: Where Artificial Intelligence will go and why (it’s not where everyone is saying)
17: 702: Peter Singer, part 1: Calm, reflective talk considering not flying
16: This week’s selected media: July 16, 2023: The Sorrow and the Pity, by Marcel Ophuls, The Comfort Crisis, by Michael Easter, and The Perfect Storm (the movie), based on the book by Sebastian Junger
15: 701: Robert Litterman, part 2: “We need legislation, we need a price on carbon.”
14: At last, I dropped my electrical utility account
14: Looking to Silicon Valley, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Washington DC, or Academia for sustainability solutions is like looking to the Sacklers for opiate addiction solutions
13: 700: Matt Matern, part 2: Plant a Tree
13: Me singing, mortified, but how else do we improve? What else are we here for?
12: Liberate scientists to do science, not to try to lead.
11: 699: Robert Litterman, part 1: A Carbon Tax and Managing Risk
10: A new record for plastic water bottles: Disgusting and totally unnecessary. Pure pollution, no benefit.
9: This week’s selected media: July 9, 2023: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy, Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari, and Her, by Spike Jonze
8: Nature surviving: the blue jay that visits my rooftop
8: Another month, zero kilowatt-hours: June 2023
7: My six-point plan if I ran for President
6: Economists don’t know what they’re talking about needing growth but they won’t admit it.
5: 698: Chris Bystroff, part 1: Population Growth and Overpopulation
4: The reason you feel judged isn’t because environmentalists are judging you. It’s because you have a conscience.
3: 697: Dan Walsh, part 2: He sold his motorcycle and Playstation to gain freedom
2: This week’s selected media: July 2, 2023: The Fate Of Empires And Search For Survival, by Sir John Glubb and All The Wild That Remains Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West, by David Gessner
1: A Role Model for Our Times: Aristides de Sousa Mendes, fired for saving thousands of refugees from Nazis
June
30: Speed reading bedtime stories to your kids: Some things don’t benefit from making more efficient
29: What it means to want to say to your kids “I did my best”
28: 696: Anonymous executive from a fossil fuel corporation: A view from the inside
27: Another case where people see the problem as a solution, so keep stepping on the gas: Population Growth
26: LGBTQ+ People’s Garbage and Leaving It Worse Than You Found It: The Pride and Queer Liberation Marches 2023
25: This week’s selected media: June 25, 2023
24: 35 Years Ago Today: Global Warming was front page news on the New York Times. Maybe Exxon knew. From then on, YOU DID TOO.
24: What’s special about 436?
24: More syringes in our shared world and addicted culture, June 2023
23: 695: Dan Walsh, part 1: Two-time Olympian and Bronze medalist in rowing
22: Nonstop Rain Forecast. Avoiding Plugging In. Will I Make It a Week?
21: Tragic News About Flying
20: 694: Matthew Matern, part 1: Running for President on Sustainability
19: Reading Limits to Growth and learning to sail
18: This week’s selected media: June 18, 2023
17: Two ways to keep going when you want to give up or fail
16: 693: Christopher Ketcham, part 2: The Green Growth Delusion
15: The simple, obvious solution
14: I want to give up every day. That’s the value of acting in service of innocent people suffering. What motivates more?
13: The disaster that is Elon Musk
12: 692: Daniel, host of the “What Is Politics?” videocast, part 2: Is Changing CEOs Possible
11: This week’s selected media: June 11, 2023
10: Teach THIS generation, not the next one
9: Imagine a team where each teammate believed they would choke when it counted. That’s us with sustainability.
8: Another zero kilowatt-hour month: May 2023
7: If your pollution causes extreme weather, you’re extreme, not me.
6: 691: Oliver Burkeman, part 1.5: Embracing Our Inevitable Limitations on Time and Energy
5: Student reviews from teaching Leadership at NYU, spring 2023
4: This week’s selected media: June 4, 2023
3: On living your values with kids and a job
2: A North Korea compilation of video from my second trip
1: 690: Leah Rothstein: Just Action, a blueprint for concerned citizens and community leaders
May
31: 689: Workshop results: Can Learning to Lead Sustainability be fun, inspiring, and effective? Yes!
30: Sustainability lacks a human enemy, unlike most social movements. Does that difference explain why people don’t engage on it?
29: Research: Most people care about climate but think they’re doing more than others. *sigh*
28: This week’s selected media: May 28, 2023
27: 688: Maya K. van Rossum, part 1: Green Amendments for the Environment (State and Federal)
27: 687: Should We Amend the Constitution for the Environment?: A constitutional scholar (Michael Herz) and American abolition historian (James Oakes)
26: Bought two new non-food material things this year (cumulative: three things this year, I think)
25: Analects of Sustainability Leadership (words to live by)
24: Year Two With the Circuit Open Between My Apartment and the Electric Grid
23: Eight billion people behaving unsustainably will never become sustainable.
22: Love and marriage don’t cause pollution. Stop using them as excuses.
21: This week’s selected media: May 21, 2023
21: Day 365* unplugged
20: Spring 2023 pictures of my sledding hill
19: How can you oppose imperialism and live unsustainably?
18: 686: Gautam Mukunda, part 1.5: Can Humans Thrive Without Modern Technology?
17: How sustainability couldn’t be simpler
16: Why doesn’t anyone, even environmentalists, propose actually living sustainably?
15: 685: Chris Bailey, part 3: Dropping the latest iPhone for a flip phone
14: This week’s selected media: May 14, 2023
13: Finished the first draft of my next book, on sustainability leadership, this afternoon
12: More Than a Moonshot or World War II-Level Mobilization: A “Nixon Goes to China” Moment
11: 684, Simon Michaux: Do Governments Understand Energy? How Unprepared Are We?
10: One of my core messages in one minute
9: Hear me on Success Through Failure with Jim Harshaw
9: April 2023: Another month of zero kwh. Next month makes one year.
8: 683: Alan Ereira, part 3: More about Kogi life and culture, contrasting with ours
7: This week’s selected media: May 7, 2023
6: My sidchas, standard procedures, and preferences
5: A response to “more people means more problem-solvers so we should grow the population.”
4: Our World: The first I learned of addiction affecting friends of the family, Cocaine, 1985
3: Official heart rate: 47 bpm. Old man still got it.
2: Which is worse: litter, air, water, noise, or light pollution?
1: Sustainability is skills you practice a lifetime, not a checklist of “ten little things” like journalists promote.
April
30: Plug in again or work less?
29: This week’s selected media: April 29, 2023
28: A 360 degree rainbow this morning
27: My ChatGPT predictions
26: Clean, green, renewable imperialism
25: Why I focus on helping CEOs, elected officials, and other renowned, influential people
24: Sustainability: Too many Thomas Jeffersons and not enough Muhammad Alis
24: If modern technologies (flying, social media, etc) promote culture, why do they homogenize everything?
23: Overwhelming research: “Green Growth” is a scam that accelerates lowering Earth’s ability to sustain life. Following or propagating it hurts us.
22: See Reuters Video on Me. The headline: “New Yorker lives sustainable life off electric grid”
21: Profiled for Earth Day by my school: Columbia College Today
21: 682: Gautam Mukunda, part 1: Teaching Passion for Leadership at Harvard
20: First outdoor holiday of the year, filling Washington Square Park, my back yard, with garbage
19: If transported to 1850, would you rather be an abolitionist with little hope of success or a slave owner with comfort and convenience?
18: The alternative to what we call progress isn’t what you think
17: Sustainability simplified
16: People who pollute are judgmental and defensive
15: See Me for Earth Day at Union Square, Manhattan tomorrow (April 16, 2023)
15: 681: Albert Garcia-Romeu, part 1: Psychedelic Reseach and Time in Nature
14: How I answer “What’s one thing everyone can do to start acting more sustainably?”
13: Hear me on the Walk Talk Listen Podcast
13: One month without even my “cheat” of plugging in at work. Then both batteries died.
12: Impossible Burger Insanity Packaging
11: Another month, another zero kilowatt-hour electric bill: March 2023
11: Radio: Hear Me On A Climate Change with Matt Matern
10: What Addiction to Polluting and Depleting Behavior Means
9: Is this your view of sustainability versus progress?
8: Embracing and celebrating our limits makes life constructive. Otherwise you crave what you can’t get.
7: Us from their perspective
6: Corruption: when maintaining integrity and character is too hard for someone
5: If many of your trips are “of a lifetime” you’ve reached where you need your fix just to feel normal
4: Hear Me Again on America Out Loud: Living the Simple Life Off the Grid With Josh Spodek
3: The Montgomery Bus Boycott versus flying
2: Why sustainability is so hard for you and polluting so easy, from the movie Requiem For a Dream
1: Why sustainability is so hard and polluting so easy, from the moving Trainspotting
March
31: 680: Wolfgang Lutz: A Primer in Demographics and Global Population Projections
30: Top Sustainability Leadership Principles
29: What I’m doing when I act to help others
28: My silly names for fruits and vegetable when I chop them
27: The environment: everyone always says it’s important, but never enough to act themselves
26: The Source of Our Polluting Culture
25: Applying lessons from sports to sustainability
24: 679: Alan Ereira, part 2: The world through Kogis’ eyes
23: I last flew today in 2016. Starting year 7 free from most people’s greatest way of hurting innocent people.
22: I couldn’t make most people feel shame or guilt about sustainability. They’re already feeling so much, I couldn’t add more.
21: Unsustainable things that we can either face must end or keep lying to ourselves and causing suffering.
20: 678: My talk to the International Society of Sustainability Professionals
19: Why it’s hard to help an addict stop
18: Proposals for freedom and sustainability
17: Container Ship Considerations: How Much of a Container Ship’s Cargo Will Be in a Landfill Within Six Months?
16: Martin Scorcese on our relationship with pollution
15: Another way we’re losing against garbage–that is, against ourselves
14: 677: Roz Savage, part 1: It’s Doable and You Can Do It. One Oar Stroke at a Time
13: Amazon.com doesn’t save money. It addicts people to buying things they don’t need.
12: March: Another month, another zero kWh electric bill
11: 676: Paulina Porizkova, part 1: No Filter
10: How can a libertarian condone pollution?
9: See me on German Public TV describing life with my apartment disconnected from the electric grid
8: 675: Derek Sivers, part 1: Leading versus Exploring Frontiers
7: My strategies in terms of my orchestra model
6: This barren field of stumps was a verdant forest before we changed the climate. How do we not make reversing it our top priority?
5: I’ve waited nearly half a century to deliver this pun.
4: Audio of leaving social media and finding freedom that applies to all doof.
3: 674: Oliver Burkeman, part 1: Time Management and Sustainability for Mortals
2: Charging on the roof with snow
2: Beyond the Spodek Method mindset shift: I discovered a second shift!
1: My response to “If you had a child you’d know living sustainably with them is impossible.”
February
28: 673: Jim Oakes, part 2: Can We Go From Abolition to Anti-Pollution?
27: Just finished another three-day water-only fast.
26: If you would have done what Thomas Jefferson didn’t, do you act now?
25: Freedom exists in structure; it’s not chaos, randomness, or luck. Here’s my structure and freedom.
24: Imperialism and Us
23: More Freedom From Their Greedy Mitts Getting Into All Our Business
22: 672: Chris Bailey, part 2: How to Calm Your Mind
21: Ending polluting may seem hard, but the only thing worse than ending pollution is not ending it.
20: GDP Growth versus Hawaii
19: My orchestra model of sustainability leadership
18: Do I get bored of my diet? What I ate in the last 24 hours.
17: 671: How Pulling Off a Challenging Day Off Grid Feels
16: Disgusting and totally unnecessary. Pure pollution, no benefit.
15: I can charge on my roof in February in shorts and a tank top. Stop polluting!
14: 670: Jeffrey Shaw: Self-employment and Sustainability
13: I don’t eat with screens on
12: Doof : local fresh produce :: masturbation : making love
11: On Writing: Hear me on Writers Series by Sasha Talks
10: 669: David Loy: Ecodharma: Zen Buddhism and Sustainability
9: Another month, another electric bill with 0.0 kWh, January 2023
9: Disconnecting from the Electric Grid in Manhattan: Ars Technica Reader Questions Answered
8: 668: Christopher Ketcham: Growthism Versus Sustainability
7: Fixing Peter Singer’s drowning child analogy for sustainability
6: Why Do Hard Things: Glory and Peace
5: 667: James Oakes, part 1: Sustainability and Abolition in the United States
4: Living in the U.S. or rich country won’t protect you, nor will prepping and bugging out. Prevention can.
3: 666: Mark Plotkin: Learning From Indigenous Cultures, the People Not Just Our Projections
2: What you’ll get more of when you stop polluting: what you love most
1: 665: Tony Hiss: Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
January
31: How I define pollution
30: 664: Rodrigo Cámara-Leret: Learning how the Kogi heal the land
29: Environment, racism, hierarchy, and dominance
28: Abraham Lincoln, sustainability, and the “King’s Solution”: the Thirteenth Amendment
27: 663: Nadeem Akhtar, part 2: Breaking a Doof Addiction Can Be Harder Than Expected
27: Hear me on Vancouver’s Jill Bennett Show: “How a NYC man managed to quit using his fridge!”
26: Read the photo-story on me: “A fridge too far? Living sustainably in NYC by unplugging” from the Associated Press
26: The opposite of flying is not less family or business opportunity. It’s more of each and nature too.
25: Do you value family over sustainability?
24: 662: Mark Mills, part 4: What to Do Next
23: NYU in 2019: We will stop buying bottled water. NYU in 2023: Here’s some bottled water from us.
23: Two unbroken streaks: 8 months off-grid and 12 years daily blogging. Which is more challenging?
22: Better in every way
21: Do you want to leave the world better than you found it, really?
20: In the wild: the Spodek Method practiced by someone else to heartwarming success
19: 661: Daniel, host of “What is Politics?”, part 1: Dominance, subjugation, hierarchy, and solutions
18: Video of me volunteering, delivering the food they were going to throw out to a community center
17: 660: Martha Nussbaum: Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
16: The Ruling Race: Quotes on those who improve their lives on the suffering of others, corrupting them
15: The Psychology at the Root of Pollution
14: 659: My video series, episode 01, introduction, part 2: Spodek Method results
13: Read my piece in Ars Technica: “I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months—in Manhattan”
12: 658: Rebecca and Josh Tickell, part 1: On Sacred Ground and the Dakota Pipeline
11: Another month, another zero kilowatt-hour electric bill
10: Refusing to be the change you want to see in the world.
10: Refusing the journey in favor of the destination, while wrecking both.
9: The New Yorker profiled my living off the grid
8: 657: My video series, episode 01, introduction, part 1
7: Sustainability actions that end up the opposite you expect. Systems don’t work linearly.
6: Waking before the alarm, writing in the dark
5: Getting back at BP by buying their products? Way to teach them a lesson.
4: 656: Kate MacKenzie, part 1: Executive Director of New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Food Policy
3: Imagine a drug where you get the pleasure and others suffer the harmful side effects: that’s polluting activities.
2: The Root of Our Environmental Problems: Individuals Refusing to Change Themselves
1: The 160th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Is Today
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