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December

31: 800: Lorna Davis, part 4: After the Sustainability Leadership Workshop
30: Disposable means imperialist. So does polluting.
29: This week’s selected media, December 29, 2024: This Land, Yi Yi
28: “They blame me for their guilt”
27: 799: Josh Bandoch, part 2: Leadership: Humans feel first, then reason
26: Our environmental symptoms aren’t like a mosquito. They’re like a flat tire while riding a bike: you have to stop and face them to solve them.
25: On delivering food to a soup kitchen on Christmas
24: 798: Nick Romeo: The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
23: Hear me on the New Books Network podcast on Sustainability Simplified
22: This week’s selected media, December 22, 2024: Land Power
22: Year 14!, day 1, daily burpees
21: Happy winter solstice. I’m learning more practical astronomy through sustainability than through my PhD in astrophysics
20: 797: Alden Wicker, part 2: Try and Try Again: E-biking in Vermont
19: How I wish I could retitle my book. Oh well.
18: 796: Jack Spencer, part 3: Authenticity on Acting on Sustainability (also Project 2025)
17: Unexpected quotes in my book, plus a few I missed
17: Ten days before Christmas people are already throwing away their Christmas pagan trees.
16: Go Alan Go rocking Washington Square Park, teaching kids music
15: This week’s selected media, December 15, 2024: Meditation for Mortals and Liar’s Poker
14: Why should Exxon become more sustainable but not you?
13: 795: Lorraine Smith, part 1: Leaving mainstream “sustainability” to pursue actual sustainability
12: Extreme like Thomas Jefferson or like Robert Carter III?
11: 794: Lorna Davis, part 3: Before taking the sustainability leadership workshop
10: Gandhi’s Salt March wasn’t about salt or marching, nor is my work about solar or living off-grid.
9: 793: Nick Loris, part 1.5: Heartwarming nature, family, and fatherhood
8: This week’s selected media, December 8, 2024: The Big Short
7: Help a Historic Cause
6: 792: Travis Fisher, part 2: The spirit that America was founded on, Cato, and sustainability
5: See the video from Monday’s book reading
4: Pollution, depletion, and overcoming addiction
3: More reasonable thoughts on population
2: The challenge of the winter solstice and misunderstanding leadership
1: Some early thoughts of a new way to quantify population and overpopulation

November

30: See me on the Radical World podcast: “The Power of Personal Transformation for Systemic Impact”
29: An astronaut I agree with in principle, but who is hurting sustainability, I fear
28: The Thanksgiving Day Parade from inside the barricades
27: Hear my presentations to grade school kids on Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela, and spacetime.
26: Come to my online book reading, THIS MONDAY 7pm eastern
25: Ozempic: A drug that achieves what sustainability does, but sustainability doesn’t trade one dependence for another
24: This week’s selected media, November 24, 2024: A People’s History of the United States
23: Sustainability connecting me to nature: wonderful overall but challenging in the winter
23: The first Christmas pagan dead trees of the season
22: How long does it take to charge my battery?
21: Another annoying knee-jerk response to acting more sustainably
20: How to pull out all your hair: Try to get an addict in denial to seriously acknowledge their addiction
19: See me interviewed by Don Lemon in Washington Square Park on the election
18: 791: Sustainability Leadership Is a Performance Art
17: This week’s selected media, November 17, 2024: Commentary on Wealth of Nations
16: 790: Talking to a guy injecting on the sidewalk
15: One of the most challenging parts of living more sustainably: other people bragging and showing off nonsense they think is “green”
14: 789: Solomon Schmidt: Author of Legal Gladiator, on Alan Dershowitz
13: Land acknowledgments and sustainability
12: 788: Susan Liebell: John Locke, Stewardship, and the US Constitution
11: Adam Smith and pollution
10: 787: Travis Fisher, part 1: A nonpartisan, libertarian view on the environment from the Cato Institute
9: “Have you learned to love not flying?”
9: The Times featured my story on the front page of its Metro section
8: 786: Jan Mulder, part 2: The joy of finding and leading community
7: A response to a common self-serving response to the NY Times profile of me
6: Friends tell friends they’re full of s#!t. Who else will?
5: The Story Behind the Story of the New York Times: “Who Says You Can’t Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?”
4: I don’t mean to be melodramatic, but if I succeed at changing culture, what are the odds of me being shot?
3: This week’s selected media, November 3, 2024: Be Useful, the Power of Negative Thinking, How to Be an Antiracist
2: The reviews for Sustainability Simplified are coming in and look great.
1: Sustainability Simplified became available in paperback this morning!

October

31: Want quality? Start with the corners nobody notices.
30: If you believe living more sustainably makes your life worse but you want sustainability, you’ll help your cause by shutting up (until you practice).
29: 785: Josh Bandoch, part 1: Teaching persuasion and leadership
28: I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the promised land.
27: This week’s selected media, October 27, 2024: The Cost of Discipleship
26: What’s in your garbage?
25: Would you propose changing Nazi culture by making it more efficient?
24: Elon Musk is Eli Whitney on steroids
23: “What about ambulances, fire trucks, and hospitals?”
22: The opposite of individual action is not what you think.
22: What is the opposite of pollution? Loving your neighbor as yourself.
21: Hear me on America Out Loud: “How sustainability led to protecting and serving the community” and “From sustainability to law enforcement”
20: This week’s selected media, October 20, 2024: Serpico, The Road
19: How to pave a state
18: Everyone looks for holes in sustainability, expecting it to unravel, but it’s self-consistent. Unsustainability has holes and doesn’t work.
17: I get the joke, but to accept the humor means giving up. I’m not giving up because I know solutions that work.
16: Two updates to my sidchas and standard operation procedures
15: Serving in Uniform Podcasts and Pictures
14: Environmentalism, Coercion, and Authoritarianism
13: This week’s selected media, October 13, 2024: Sustainability Simplified and Lifegasm
12: Ecomodernists and Fascism
11: 784: Serving in Uniform on September 11, 2024
10: “We’re Running Out of Time—Can Sustainability Save Us? with Joshua Spodek” Hear me on the Compassiviste Dialogues
9: 783: Jan Mulder, part 1: Listening to every episode of this podcast, starting from episode 000
8: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sustainability, Difficult Choices, and Right Choices
7: Climate Week 2024 Was Monticello 1776
6: This week’s selected media, October 6, 2024: A Short History of Reconstruction, On the Waterfront, The Plow That Broke the Plains
6: Mark 12:31: “The second command is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
4: Why do liberals consider political views they disagree with “wrong” but different skin colors and sexual preferences “diverse”?
3: What about ambulances, fire trucks, and hospitals? Don’t they help us and require polluting?
2: Advanced discoveries in sustainability
1: Fridgeless Means Fresher Food; Day 1 Year 4 without a fridge (like all humans before about 100 years ago)
1: New resting heart rate: 46 bpm

September

30: One Year Without Plugging Anything In, Even Not At Home
29: This week’s selected media, September 29, 2024: Teaching White Supremacy, Woke Inc
28: The odd, capricious gratitude and anger of Crack Row addicts to picking up litter
27: Why changing culture to sustainable must come first, only then pursue efficiency, technology, and laws.
26: I can’t wait for when I can go into a store and buy any food for sale without packaging or being shipped far or otherwise hurting people.
25: What I learned about my diet and fiber from a colonoscopy
24: How and why to fix the standard greenhouse effect diagram
23: Preview of SpodekMethod.com
22: This Week’s Selected Media, September 22, 2024: The Worst Hard Time, Leading Marines, Warfighting
21: Predictions about Artificial Intelligence that everyone misses
20: “Pollution makes me sick”
19: My functional new word: Enlightendigenous
18: An anonymous reader: Your “immense privilege that seems to be lurking behind this wall of intellectual masturbation”
17: 782: Jane Muncke PhD MSc: Toxins in your food from plastic packaging. You’d rather know.
16: I spoke to a New York City public high school class on astrophysics and sustainability. Here’s the recording.
15: This week’s selected media, September 15, 2024: The Alternative
14: I attended my first natural building workshop today and recommend it.
13: How do people have so much more time for social media than cooking?
12: 781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making
11: What AI does for you it will do more and better for people richer than you
10: Your spouse and kids can be your greatest excuses for giving up or your greatest support and motivation.
9: Images illustrating our culture today
8: This Week’s Selected Media, September 8, 2024: An Iron Wind
8: New Yorkers: Join Workshop Graduate Emily Wang’s Own Workshop on Sustainable Building 9/14 or 9/15!
7: Are Plastic and Pollution Imperialism? If not, why not?
6: Things I Don’t Know
5: 780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual Choosing
4: Addiction in Greenwich Village, Late Summer 2024
3: I recycled a bicycle at Recycle A Bicycle
2: 779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Choose
1: This week’s selected media, September 1, 2024: White Fragility and House Gods

August

31: 778: The Entrepreneurial Strategy to Restore Sustainability Globally Without Waiting for Governments and Corporations
31: 777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Does What Other Sustainability Work Misses
30: 776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability Leadership
29: Characterizing my sustainability journey in the language of presidents
28: 775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last
27: Why to act sustainably first, then read to learn more
26: 774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is Fun
25: This week’s selected media, August 25, 2024: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
24: Other thoughts after knee surgery
23: Resting heart rate: 44 beats per minute*
22: Robin DiAngelo: Not Even Wrong
21: “You take care of things you found in the trash more than others take care of things they bought.”
20: “I want to be more sustainable, but I’m not ready to start yet.” … You never will be until after you start.
19: A father littering in front of his kids. Should I say something?
18: This week’s selected media, August 18, 2024: Educated, 1619 Project responses
17: 773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, “The Week,” creates space for conversations on the environment
16: Do you value consent?
15: It’s not climate anxiety. *People* are causing that anxiety, destroying life, liberty, and property with impunity.
14: “There’s no food here, just vegetables.”
13: Scum of the Earth
12: The end of plastics
11: This Week’s Selected Media, August 11, 2024: The Counterrevolution of Slavery, The 1619 Project
10: Are more people always better?
9: Who are we in the Star Wars universe?
8: We living sustainably today, helping others live more sustainably are like Americas founders in 1774 and more.
7: We study Lincoln to see who we could be, but should also study Calhoun to see who we are
6: The Sustainability Simplified Entrepreneurship Strategy
5: If your solution to our environmental problems is your solution to problems before them, you’re probably tribal, not thoughtful, and exacerbating them.
4: When you know someone will (mis)interpret everything you say their way, do you talk to them?
3: On considering when to decrease my daily exercises started over a decade ago, now in my 50s
2: 772: Bruce Alexander, part 3: Advanced Spodek Method
1: Quirky nature question: If an alligator can live 3 years without eating, when precisely does it die of hunger?

July

31: Michael Lombardi on Bill Walsh on Tom Peters on living In Search of Excellence; on mastery and freedom
30: Why I doubt I’ll watch the Olympics (I love sport, athleticism, and competition) and what I’ll do instead
29: 771: Jack Spencer, part 1: The Heritage Foundation, limited government, free markets and the environment
28: This Week’s Selected Media: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
27: Calling the other side “a new religion” demeans yourself
27: A rare 360 degree rainbow in the middle of a sunny day yesterday
26: 770: Nick Loris, part 1: A limited government free market approach to our environmental problems
25: Does the U.S. medical system improve more lives than it hurts, including lives outside the system?
24: 769: Kevin Fucillo, part 1: An inside view of our community fridge and its volunteers
23: Emotions that emerge from the Spodek Method about nature that work
22: Examples of sustainability tactics based on extrinsic motivation that fail sustainability and drive unsustainability
21: This Week’s Selected Media: July 21, 2024: Planet of the Humans and American Fiction
20: I started in sustainability trying to restore nature. Now I see we have to restore humanity.
19: A neighbor’s thank-you letter from Donald Trump (sadly disrespecting the office of the presidency)
18: Misunderstanding Hate and Humanity
17: 768: Trish and Evelyn, part 2: The birth of sustainability awards
16: If you build or buy a home in Phoenix, AZ, your claims that you “need air conditioning” lose credibility, as do your claims to others’ resources.
15: 767: Andrew Bennett, part 2: Behind the scenes with a New York City chef
14: This Week’s Selected Media, July 14, 2024: Make Your Bed, A course in packaging toxicity, The Dred Scott of Our Time, No god But God
13: Are environmentalists nearly all science deniers?
12: 766: Chip Conley, part 1: Learning to Love Midlife
11: For every technology you think will help you, remember people who make you miserable will use it too
10: 765: Bruce Alexander, part 2: Can the Spodek Method scale from the individual to the world?
10: The Village Sun profiled me and the Spodek Method
9: Flying = Funding Lobbyists
8: Addiction in Greenwich Village, Early Summer 2024
7: This Week’s Selected Media, July 7, 2024: Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns course, Stolen Focus
6: A Visual Representation of the Spodek Method in Venn Diagrams
5: 764: Erica Frank, part 2: “No Hairshirt At All.” Instead: Abundance
4: Our culture: spring trash. Homeless don’t cause it as much as executives, elected officials, shareholders, and rich people
4: Happy Independence Day, America. Let’s return to protecting life, liberty, and property and stop being imperialist
3: Invited on the field at Yankee Stadium with my family (thank you Brent Suter!)
2: Volunteering: I just helped deliver a mammoth summer load of vegetables to the community fridge
1: Giving up on sustainability is a permanent solution to what could be a temporary problem

June

30: This Week’s Selected Media, June 30, 2024: Albatrosses
29: McKinsey, Rightsizing, and Population: Businesspeople have the tools to get sustainability
28: How I don’t need willpower by learning to feel disgust for what once tempted me. You can too.
27: 763: Guy Spier, part 2: Limited government, free market, low tax sustainability solutions
26: Today’s greatest privilege: denying one’s personal contribution to pollution, depletion, plunder, and imperialism
25: What did they do that ice cream doesn’t melt in baking hot sun?
24: Today in 1988: Global Warming on the front page of the New York Times. Today in 2024: Americans pollute more than ever.
24: How what I’m doing feels, subway version
23: This Week’s Selected Media, June 23, 2024: Strong Towns
22: What I think of when I think of Taylor Swift and her jet
22: Limiting government and limiting pollution and depletion can overlap. Here’s how.
21: 762: Chef Andrew Bennett: Changing the Culture of Hospital Food
20: Another way we let technology make us dependent and unhealthy: Jellies, jams, and preserves
19: Simple Pleasures
18: 761: Dave Kerpen, part 2: Joyfully Skipping Donuts
17: Are liberals trying to prove conservatives right?
16: This week’s selected media, June 16, 2024: In My Time of Dying and The Law
15: Magnitude of suffering and death then and now
14: Why many litterers are entitled and one way the most entitled justify littering
13: Followed up: watched recommended historical videos from the Leadership Institute’s course “Conservatism 101”
12: Climate Reality Leadership Training garbage
11: Hear me on the Inspire Someone Today podcast
10: 760: Adam Alter, part 1: Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
9: This Week’s Selected Media, Jun 9, 2024: When Breath Becomes Air and Scientific Advertising
8: First sail of 2024
7: 759: Bruce Alexander, part 1: Rat Park, Addiction, and Sustainability
6: Another lie we tell ourselves: “Human life requires polluting and depleting”
5: 758: Peter Singer, part 2: A philosopher approaches sustainability
4: A Triply Awesome Weekend
3: The ongoing challenges of sustainability in a culture that talks sustainability but opposes it in practice.
2: This Week’s Selected Media, June 2, 2024: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, History of the Constitution
1: When changing fast is easier than slow

May

31: The challenges of trying to act sustainably in a culture that doesn’t value sustainability never end
30: We’re going to need truth and reconciliation committees when we acknowledge the consequences of our actions
29: Notes for future essay ideas
28: Why fossil fuel companies love that we chase efficiency, “renewables,” and “clean,” “green,” energy sources (and what to do instead)
27: How Profit First is helping my friend run his business
26: This Week’s Selected Media, May 26, 2024: Animal Liberation Now and Turning Pages
25: Milton Friedman: Free Markets Don’t Have to Mean Growth and Governments Ought to Regulate Pollution
24: 757: Dr. Anna Lembke, part 1: Dopamine Nation
23: Year 2, day 365 of my apartment disconnected from the electric grid
22: 756: Kimberly Nicholas: How to Fly Less? Fly less.
21: He who lives by pollution dies by pollution.
20: My new book title and subtitle
19: This week’s selected media, May 19, 2024: The Power of Habit, Conservatism
18: A question for those who believe “more people solve more problems”
17: 755: Stefan Gössling: Busting self-serving myths about flying
16: Another reason we’re failing at sustainability: relying on the wrong people
15: Likely Myth: Food Was Scarce for Our Ancestors Before Agriculture
14: The problem is closer than a future collapse or distant pollution. It’s us, here, now.
13: Restaurants and caterers hate vegetables
12: This Week’s Selected Media, May 12, 2024: Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water, Building a Storybrand
11: Another Disposed of Christmas Pagan Tree… in May!
11: More isn’t less, but people keep making more, trying to make less.
10: What made sustainability politically polarized: my hypothesis
9: Columbia canceling its commencement reminds me of when I protested Apartheid at commencement
8: Saying you care versus acting.
7: Legumes that don’t need cooking
6: 754: (Aunt) Trish Ellis and (Niece) Evelyn Wallace, part 1: Not Even Cancer Holds Her Back
5: This Week’s Selected Media: May 5, 2024: Man’s Search for Meaning
4: Props to EcoFlow for improved solar panels
3: Rain and clouds as far as the forecast goes. More challenges to solve.
2: How to fail at transitioning from fossil fuels
1: More Life-Changing, Inner-You-Revealing, Passion-Unleashing Magic of Initiative

April

30: Cute dogs and delaying waste by reusing old tennis balls
29: What’s the opposite of a land acknowledgment?
28: This Week’s Selected Media, April 28, 2024: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Marketing Made Simple
27: Vegetables taste delicious. Why cover them in oil?
26: Now I’m a Real Cook
25: What do you call a market where people can profit from depriving others of life, liberty, and property with impunity?
24: Seeing pointless medical waste giving blood
23: The problems of sustainability as more social than scientific
22: If you’ve wondered what a fentanyl testing and overdose treatment kit looks like, we live in a culture where you can find them in the park
21: This Week’s Selected Readings: Apocalypse Never, Dare to Lead
20: Reminiscing on college sports on the occasion of a reunion
19: If you don’t like measuring your carbon footprint, report how much you fund extraction and lobbying
18: Visualizations of Empires growing and competing
17: 753: Martin Doblmeier, part 2: Sabbath and Sustainability
16: Spring means it’s about to get noisy
15: 752: Dave Kerpen, part 1: Delegation for leaders and entrepreneurs
14: This week’s selected media: April 14, 2024: The Denial of Death, Braving the Wilderness, Future Shock documentary, Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Training
13: A year only plugging in once at NYU
12: Recognized as artist for the first time in a while
11: Another reader inspired to commit to acting on his own, inspiring me back (and I hope you too).
10: 751: Erica Frank, part 1: Living More Joyfully Sustainably for Decades
9: Environmental problems and solutions
8: Have You Hit Rock Bottom on the Environment?
7: This week’s selected media: April 7, 2024: Irresistible and The Story of More
6: First media coverage of me charging in Washington Square Park (that I know of)
5: Perpetual Motion Machines, Patents, and Leading Polluting, Depleting Industries
4: I don’t know how people can eat at restaurants and not get fat. I couldn’t.
3: Hear me on America Out Loud’s After Dark: How Pollution Destroys Life, Liberty, and Property
2: A billion-dollar idea: Moonshot solar: modest solar for a larger market
1: Why I suspect non-European cultures influenced the U.S. Constitution more than most people think

March

31: This week’s selected media: March 31, 2024: Repo Man, Learning to Love Midlife
30: Everyone should change except me.
29: My favorite part of Bruce Springsteen’s memoir
28: See my solar panels from space
27: One of my rock bottoms, learning beyond just showing up.
26: Do people binge on food or only doof?
25: More fun overcoming solar challenges, this time in Washington Square Park
24: This week’s selected media: March 24, 2024: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Elliot
23: Year 9, day 1 not flying
22: Not giving up, day 2 without roof access. Others can give up; not yet me.
22: More solar challenges. Not giving up.
21: Frederick Douglass promoted imperialism, was anti-catholic, promoted hunting whales
20: 750: Alden Wicker: To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Poisoning Us. You’ll Be Shocked
19: DARVO: how many people feeling guilt and shame protect themselves (including polluters/depleters)
18: The Sustainable Speakers Club hosted me. Here’s the video of my talk.
17: This week’s selected media: March 17, 2024: You Are a Badass; Into a Strange Land: Women Captives among the Indians; Conservatism 101
16: People living contrary to their values say bizarre things
15: Why sell vegetables when you can sell vegetables in plastic?
15: The Life-Changing, Inner-You-Revealing, Passion-Unleashing Magic of Initiative
14: 749: Sven Gierlinger, part 1: Transforming the Culture of a New York Hospital Chain as a Chief Experience Officer
13: People ask what’s in my garbage. Here’s what they could ask instead.
12: 748: Stephen Broyles, part 2: A Calming, Life Change From One Small Commitment
12: Research that avocado seeds are healthy
11: Another book milestone: Finished substantive edits.
10: This week’s selected media: March 10, 2024: The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky; Rat Park and more by and about Bruce K. Alexander
9: Read about and Watch Bruce K. Alexander and Rat Park
8: Feeling Helpless at NYU and in NYC
7: How to help Putin
6: Dave Gardner for President of the United States
5: Rock star drummer and podcast guest Go Alan Go made my day Sunday
4: The Joy of Discovering Saving More Energy (and using Q = m c ΔT)
3: This week’s selected media: March 3, 2024: The Road to Serfdom, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, the Social Dilemma
2: NYU’s sustainability deception (work-in-progress post)
1: I’ve learned to enjoy just thinking

February

29: A workshop graduate and leader living sustainability leadership, biking in the snow and rain
28: Just finished a 4-plus days water only fast
27: Why I stretch
26: My latest life-changing rule for visiting web sites
25: This week’s selected media: February 25, 2024: Carmaggeddon, The Lover, Happy Fat, and Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future
24: What a way to honor Gandhi
23: Big milestone: I turned in my latest manuscript yesterday, the last substantive edits.
22: Attend Flight Free USA’s workshop with me! (March 13 and 20)
21: Beautiful, scary red sunrise, then a snow day
20: Great time to join a CSA (farm share)
19: My Cell Phone Battery and Time Use
18: This week’s selected media: February 18, 2024: Keith Richards’ Life, Killers of the Flower Moon
17: 747: Go Alan Go!, part 1: The drummer rocking Washington Square Park
16: Volunteering recognition from 1993
15: Why do people apologize to me about their polluting?
14: 746: Martin Doblmeier, part 1: What We Can Learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
13: What’s “extreme” when everyone around you is acting crazy?
12: I bought a product almost certainly produced in part with slavery.
11: This Week’s Selected Media, February 11, 2024: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
10: Following up yesterday’s post: “Whom would you call a minority in this picture?”
9: Whom would you call a minority in this picture?
8: Talking to people about the environment is like talking to addicts about people they hurt.
7: One reason why talking to addicts about their addiction goes nowhere
6: Readers’ Pledges to Avoid Flying
6: Probably my last post this season on people paying to chop down trees so they can throw them away
5: “Traveling” with roller suitcases isn’t what traveling used to be
4: This week’s selected media: February 4, 2024: The Color of Law, The Parable of the Sower, and Slavery and Freedom
3: 745: Mattan Griffel, part 2: Is our dependence on polluting behavior “addiction”?
2: One more rainy day before sunshine. It brought glory.
1: February started with more clouds. Will rain again tomorrow.

January

31: Tough January: About three weeks with almost no sun. Learning in uncharted territory.
30: Still cloudy, fast post to conserve energy
29: A week with no sunny days. Should be only partly cloudy tomorrow.
28: This week’s selected media: January 28, 2024: Superabundance, The Population Bomb, War Is a Racket, Finding the Mother Tree, Gandhi. Wow, a lot in a week!
27: Trying to lead an addict to admit their addiction or that they are hurting others (or themselves) is like trying to catch a fish with your bare hand.
26: *Sigh* More Christmas Pagan Trees being thrown away. Wasn’t a month of trashing them enough?
26: Milestones from a culture of freedom and equality to one almost entirely subjugated by dominance hierarchy
25: A month after Christmas and still dumping Christmas Pagan trees. Who needs trees? Why not chop them down and send them to landfills?
24: 744: Stephen Broyles, part 1: What Is Social Work and How Does It Relate to Leadership and Action?
24: Year 14, day 2 posting here daily
23: Being Dick Fosbury and Debbie Brill
22: 743: Benjamin Hett: The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
21: This week’s selected media: The Social Life of Forests, Oppenheimer
20: More Christmas Pagan Trees in the gutter and garbage.
20: 742: John Brooke, part 2: American slavery transformed to today’s industry and anti-stewardship of our environment
19: Americans are so addicted, they can’t see our unbalanced their “balance” is
18: More depth on Robert Carter III
17: Charging on the roof in the snow
16: How sweet vegetables have become. They used to taste bland.
15: Saturday morning syringes in the park
14: This week’s selected media: January 14, 2024: Take the Lead
13: Some of my trash from the 1970s and 1980s
13: More undignified trashed Christmas pagan trees. January 13, almost done?
12: I’m pointing to a brighter future. They keep looking at my hand.
11: A provocative but open-ended question about slavery and pollution
10: More shameful-looking trashed Christmas pagan trees. It’s only January 10, so likely more to come.
10: American adults over 90 percent overfat: Peer reviewed research (children 69 percent overfat)
9: 741: Tony Hansen, part 2: Volunteering hard labor creating meaning and generosity
8: Systemic change begins with personal change, in race terms
7: This week’s selected media: January 7, 2024: Overstory, Melancholia, Superabundance videos
6: 740: Christopher Ketcham, part 3: Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”
5: Videos on Superabundance by Tupy and Pooley and False Alarm by Lomborg
4: See videos of my low-waste cooking workshop at Drew Gardens
3: What fraction of oil becomes pollution versus benign?
2: Christmas trees being thrown away after a few days’ use, part 1. Lovely pagan tradition, people.
1: What I bought last year (besides food)
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