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December

30: My holiday tree this year
29: Allowing pollution and depletion stifles innovation and creativity
28: This week’s selected media, December 28, 2025: On Tyranny, White House Effect, Two Lomborg articles
27: And just like that, I’m almost out of power for a couple days. Batteries have a lot of problems.
26: 842: Silvia Bellezza, part 1.5 and 2: When at first you don’t succeed
25: Help restore my shaken confidence in people from Christmas Eve day
24: Do people who fear learning to lead think it means imposing hierarchy?
23: Family, flying, and Facebook-like visits
23: Four more trashed Christmas Pagan Trees, two days before Christmas.
22: Four more trashed Christmas Pagan Trees, five days before Christmas. I’m not looking for them. Why not at least keep them until Christmas?
22: Year 15, day 1 of my burpee sidcha
21: This week’s selected media, December 21, 2025: I Am Not Your Negro, Mulholland Drive, Wisdom Takes Work
21: Another winter solstice successfully handled. Tomorrow will have more sun.
20: The second trashed Christmas Pagan Tree of the season, six days before Christmas
19: Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and my friend who met Albert Einstein in person
18: The first trashed Christmas Pagan Tree of the season, a week before Christmas
17: Dr. Larry Arnn on Churchill on technology and modern life
16: Turkish Get-Up Achievement and Freedom
15: They chopped down the only two apple trees in a local park
14: This week’s selected media, December 14, 2025: Notes of a Native Son, Planet of the Humans, White Privilege and Male Privilege, Winston Churchill and Statemanship
13: New resting pulse: 38 bpm
12: The number of levels of failures in society that litter reveals. Abysmal.
11: Book update: progress found and lost, but in sight
10: Have you thought about sanitation systems? They violate ideals of the left and right. They are socialist *and* imperialist.
9: Specious, deceptive, irrelevant claims on climate
8: Having the number of kids you want is freedom. People, especially government, telling you otherwise is usually coercion.
7: This week’s selected media, December 7, 2025: The Fire Next Time, Your Music and People, What Is a Woman?, Constitution 201, Children’s Rights to a Life-Sustaining Climate
6: Listening is sharpening your axe
5: Democracy, wedge issues, and calm
4: One of the most important statements of environmentalism: giving up on changing culture (and what to do instead)
3: The New York Times on population
2: Last night I dreamed people actually *wanted* to change to live more sustainably
1: How do we know the people living here when Europeans arrived were indigenous?

November

30: This week’s selected media, November 30, 2025: Led Zeppelin, Greenwashed, Fugazi: Instrument, Hamilton
29: Some thoughts and responses to Julian Simon
28: Sketch for my next book’s opening
27: Book idea: How Not to Fly
26: Top 2025 Christmas Gifts … or landfill within a week?
25: An important perspective to understand the Israel-Gaza conflict
24: Simple math humor
23: This week’s selected media, November 23, 2025: Lesson Plan, Useful Not True, How to Live, La Grande Illusion
22: My first time doing a NY Times crossword puzzle
21: One month to the winter solstice
20: My short conversation with a guy injecting heroin into his neck in broad daylight, steps from my front door
19: Today’s business models: Why we fight to keep what makes us miserable
18: When did yoga become so plastic?
17: More garbage insanity: collecting leaves and sending them to landfill
16: This week’s selected media, November 16, 2025: Here Comes the Sun, Green Tyranny, Fossil Fuel Abolition, Democracy in a Hotter Time, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Idea of America
15: Library strollers and nannies. Why are nannies almost only female? Where is the call for equal employment for male nannies?
14: Am I the only one who sees these problems with America’s liberals, conservatives, and libertarians?
13: My wonderful dream last night, playing with a dog.
12: The average American spends 5 hours per day on social media but claims not to have time to cook. Yeah, right.
11: Differences between environmentalists’ strategies and mine
10: Why I work on sustainability leadership here and now despite other things I could do instead
9: This week’s selected media, November 9, 2025: “Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound”, Tora! Tora! Tora!, At the Heart of the White Rose
8: Garbage people throw in my building’s garden every day
7: More gratuitous destruction of life, liberty, and property in my neighborhood
6: Conservative, libertarian, and Christian posts in my blog and podcast episodes
5: Seeing the world’s fastest runners up close, volunteering at the New York City Marathon
4: A new personal best (bench/floor press) and a failed attempt (Turkish Getup)
3: 841: Sandra Goldmark, part 1: Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet
2: This week’s selected media, November 2, 2025: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, Repair Revolution
1: 840: Dr. Leonardo Trasande, part 1: Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future … and What We Can Do About It

October

31: Lincoln didn’t heal slaves’ wounds. He led their “owners” to stop owning them. I’m following Lincoln, and then some.
30: More drugs: a woman pooping in the park in broad daylight and more junkies shooting up in my neighborhood
29: Climate Week NYC: Slimy and Duplicitous, causing the problems they complain about.
28: When I mess up doing a sidcha: I get to practice integrity
27: A video tour of Drew Gardens, fall 2025
27: My fifth annual cooking workshop at Drew Gardens: pictures and video
26: This week’s selected media, October 26, 2025: The SCUM Manifesto, The Eye of the Storm, A Class Divided, Dirtbag Billionaire, The White Rose movement
25: How “helping” people with disposable goods, especially plastic, isn’t helping compared to reusable. It’s not hard to switch back.
24: Why form is important in lifting weights, especially Turkish Get-Ups
23: Movies so great that they spoil me for other movies
22: The joy of learning from people I diametrically disagree with (I recommend the practice)
21: Hear my second time on the Heritage Foundation podcast The Power Hour with Jack Spencer
20: Attend my fifth annual Cooking Sustainably workshop in the Bronx THIS SATURDAY
19: This week’s selected media, October 19, 2025: The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Wave (1981), Die Welle (2008), Lithium Extraction and “Green Capitalism,” Anything You Want, Hell Yeah or No
18: Abolitionists didn’t free slaves by teaching children that slavery was wrong. Yes, they taught children, but they freed slaves by freeing slaves.
17: Everyone says that raising kids means you can’t avoid polluting and depleting. That’s colonialism.
16: I missed a sidcha yesterday: picking up litter in Washington Square Park
15: We respond differently when society conflicts with men versus with women
14: How environmentalists are like smokers who tell others not to smoke … while smoking
13: If rivers and animals are people, then are no human people indigenous, only colonizers?
12: This week’s selected media, October 12, 2025: Tokyo Story, Talkin’ Greenwich Village
11: Tik Tok and Instagram or hands-on practical experience?
10: Passing fancies and shiny objects sap life of meaning, if you don’t know your values and how to live them
9: Artificial Intelligence pollutes and depletes. Using it won’t help sustainability.
8: Their motivation to make doof: to drive your emotional system to buy more
7: 839: Saabira Chaudhuri: Consumed: Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us
6: What I’ve bought this year besides food
5: This week’s selected media, October 5, 2025: Power and Liberty, two addiction articles, Blood Brothers, and Behind the Curve
4: A new podcast I recommend: “Bulk Beans & Bicycles”
3: Birds like playing on my solar panels (cute picture and video)
2: Year five, day 2 no refrigerator. Did you know power companies promoted them to use more energy (not for health, safety, or flavor)?
1: More delicious free heirloom tomatoes that volunteers and poor people rejected but I turned into gazpacho

September

30: I apologized after over twenty years and it turns out he didn’t notice what I did.
29: If you build a home where it’s unlivable, on what grounds to you complain when you can’t live there?
28: This week’s selected media, September 28, 2025: The Devil’s Climb
27: 838: Zach Rabinor, part 2: What if your business and values clash?
26: Two more times I cried, from laughing
25: 837: Zach Rabinor, part 1: Getting serious about sustainable travel?
24: My top thought about Climate Week
23: 836 Dr. Robert Fullilove, part 5: Unsustainability is upstream of imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and racism
22: Times I cried
21: This week’s selected media, September 21, 2025: The Constitution Today, Groundhog Day, podcasts with Christopher Ryan and Arthur Brooks
20: The easy and hard parts of exercise and another value of sidchas
19: When not to worry about stranded assets, even to prefer them
18: The paradox of homelessness and dependence nobody seems to see
17: “Do the reps, you get the results. Don’t do the reps, you don’t get the results.”
16: A paradoxical consequence of considering animals, plants, and rivers people
15: Stop saying the playbook for doubt and deception comes from “big tobacco.” What to say instead.
14: This week’s selected media, September 14, 2025: Common Sense and A Brighter Summer Day
13: My annual bike ride upstate and lunch at the farm providing my CSA, then riding back by the Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge
12: A fun quote/pun I stumbled into making
11: 835: At last! I can access my roof to charge solar for the first time in 18 months.
10: I reduced my social media use even more.
9: If you claim to consent for someone else, you’re a tyrant
8: What does it mean “to own” something?
7: This week’s selected media, September 7, 2025: Parasite
6: What is a right?
5: Data on the two carbon cycles: Not even close
4: Another summer without air conditioning. What’s the problem?
3: Artificial Intelligence: The Biggest Result People Miss
2: Don’t only “teach children sustainability”. Here’s why and what to do instead.
1: Another 70-pound Turkish Get-Up, also more lifting personal bests

August

31: This week’s selected media, August 31, 2025: Getting to Yes, Getting to Yes With Yourself, The Mindful Body
30: Why not compare trains to planes
29: Heirloom tomatoes, a local pear tree, and a local fig tree
28: The Metropolitan Museum of Art without crowds: glorious
27: Some ups, downs, ins, and outs of writing a book
26: How much pet food comes from factory farms that brutalize animals?
25: 834: Do Americans Know How to Prepare Food From Scratch?
24: This week’s selected media, August 24, 2025: The Problem of Social Cost; Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution
23: The problem with sleeping in summer weather in cities
22: When did you last prepare a full meal from scratch, not one packaged product?
21: Does anything tear family and communities apart more than flying?
20: What you pay for when you buy gas, plane tickets, and plastic: lobbyists (also more extraction)
19: Read my plucky quote in today’s Washington Post
18: Imagine the density of litter was birds and mammals. That’s what our world was like.
17: This week’s selected media, August 17, 2025: Black Hole Blues, If You Can Keep It, several essays by Woodrow Wilson, The White Man’s Task
16: Libertarians confused on pollution, sacrificing their core values. At the root: lack of hands-on practical experience.
15: 833: Aaron Blaise: A Master Disney Director and Animator on Self Expression, Leadership, and Nature
14: Solving environmental problems today by teaching kids is like fighting fascism in 1941 by teaching kids
13: My CPR training certificate
12: James Madison on slavery (in contrast with Abraham Lincoln)
11: More fresh juicy local peaches and heirloom tomatoes than I can handle, saved from waste by rich and poor alike
10: This week’s selected media, August 10, 2025: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
9: My first online delivery in a long time: disgusting, sickening waste
8: A comment on refrigeration and freezing to a zero-waste blog
7: Professions and people NOT to ask how to solve our environmental situation
6: 832: Robert Fullilove, part 4: Action in the Center of Civil Rights in the 1960s
5: Do you think BP tricked us? Here’s a way to respond.
4: 831: Glenn Hubbard: Dean of Columbia Business School on Adam Smith and Leadership
3: This week’s selected media, August 3, 2025: Propaganda, Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment, Fixed
2: Consent of the Governed and NIABY: Not In Anyone’s Back Yard
1: Two personal bests in a week: Freedom.
1: I love where I live but it’s being destroyed, part 3b: More drugs

July

31: Another Green Revolution?
30: The social cost of gratuitous plunder and destruction of life, liberty, and property.
29: 830: Jo Nemeth, part 2: Nature improves time with loved ones
28: I love recognition for my work and friendships that others pay for, like going on the field for batting practice
27: This week’s selected media, July 27, 2025: Cool Food
26: I love a good leadership or entrepreneurial challenge, but few others seem to
25: I love learning about the Enlightendigenous origins of liberty, freedom, equality, and democracy in America
24: I love where I live but it’s being destroyed, part 3a: More drugs
23: 829: Adam Galinsky, part 1: Do you love being inspired? He wrote the book on it.
22: I love learning about nature from hands-on practical experience in helping people
21: I love simple things, like this Gandhi statue
20: This week’s selected media, July 20, 2025: Manufactured Landscapes, Benjamin Franklin (of the city of brotherly love, where I was born)
20: This week’s selected media, July 20, 2025: Mein Kampf, Volume 1, because I love learning, even (especially!) from those I disagree with
19: 828: Richard Reeves: For Boys and Men: More support and love, less misunderstanding
18: Which person has more love in their life?
17: 827: Chris Berdik: Scientific American loved his book Clamor (so did I)
16: To conservatives and libertarians annoyed at trash strikes: Sanitation systems are socialist. Most of your garbage promotes socialism.
15: I love developing resilience and strength: AI version, part 1
14: I love where I live. A perk of volunteering: July 4th fireworks up close (also Thanksgiving)
13: This week’s selected media, July 13, 2025: Eichmann in Jerusalem, Madison, Akhil Reed Amar
12: I love where I live. How it’s being destroyed, part 3: Drugs
11: I love where I live but it’s being destroyed, part 2: Online delivery
10: A broad outline of my vision and mission for the workshop and alumni community I love
9: I love where I live but it’s being destroyed, part 1: Takeout instead of food
8: 826: Jo Nemeth, part 1: Living without money frees her to do what she loves
7: I love finding yet more ways to reduce how much I pollute (that is, hurt people)
6: This week’s selected media, July 6, 2025: The Lucifer Effect, A Brighter Summer Day (two works I love)
5: 825: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 2: Rising to the challenge of random acts of love and friendliness
4: I love how hurting others less (ie living more sustainably) teaches me more about the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
3: I don’t love needless, gluttonous waste
2: Which way of living embodies more love: Picking up litter or walking past it?
1: 824: Dr. Rob Reed, part 2: Learning to love leading effectively

June

30: Love Is Love, Garbage Is Garbage, and Pollution Hurts People: Pride 2025
29: This week’s selected media, June 29, 2025: two about Corrie ten Boom, Mathematics of Love, Pomodoro Technique
28: I love when a team hits on all cylinders: when everyone acts with their specialty and we collectively achieve more
27: More love for the recent heat wave now that it’s passed
26: Can you love your neighbor as yourself in challenging times?
25: Why I love volunteering
24: Why I love the heat, even when it’s 95F (35C) on the way to 102F (39C).
24: Today, 1988: Global Warming on front page of NY Times. Today, 2025: Americans pollute and deplete more than ever. Where’s the love?
23: I love how much leading in sustainably leads to learning the history of liberty and freedom
22: Not hurting innocent people a “purity test”? I think your ignorance or internal conflict is showing.
21: More junkies shooting up in broad daylight in the park
20: How can anyone imaging this self-indulgence a better life?
20: Can I save this apple tree a neighbor threw away?
19: The joy of understanding people we disagree with
18: Juneberries, the law, and discovering local fruit
17: 823: Mark Mills, part 5: We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition
16: How we act when at the top of a dominance hierarchy: Learning from Thomas Jefferson
15: This week’s selected media, June 2025: Thomas Jefferson and The Choice
14: My first Hillsdale College online certificate and why I took the course
13: I wrote a poem: The Poem of the High-Fiber Diet (trigger warning: juvenile humor)
12: More on “How the liberation of living more sustainably feels”
11: Are there people who eat absolutely zero unpackaged food? I think so.
10: 822: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 1: Wildlife Is Everywhere, Including (especially) NYC (and where you live)
9: I increasingly feel like I’m in Monticello listening to Thomas Jefferson
8: This week’s selected media, June 8, 2025: The Choice and The Wrestler
7: When they say “transition fuel,” they mean “more polluting and depleting,” not less pollution or depletion
6: Another sad reminder of our culture as it is: dumping garbage on memorials of our loved ones
5: You’re lying to yourself if you believe we can ramp up wind and solar to replace fossil fuels and stop using them
4: Polluting and depleting are not examples of the Tragedy of the Commons
3: Nature’s discipline missing in today’s world
2: Is Artificial Intelligence More a Weapon Than a Tool?
1: This week’s selected media, June 1, 2025: Inspire, Of Men and Boys, Barbie

May

31: How easily industry can be corrupted, often willingly and enthusiastically
30: If you pollute and deplete, make your peace with the consequences of your actions instead of accusing others of making you feel guilty
29: Are we the 1%? Are you?
28: 821: Rob Reed MD, part 1: Learning leadership transforms your life and work
27: Ayahuasca and psychedelics: I propose an alternative if you want to learn about ego, life, the universe, and everything
26: How the liberation of living more sustainably feels
25: This week’s selected media, May 25, 2025: The Way Home; Right Thing Right Now
25: A quarter million burpees
24: Year 4, Day 1 with my apartment disconnected from the electric grid
23: It’s not your job to end pollution and depletion. It was nobody’s job to end slavery or fight the Nazis either until it was too late. (Or maybe it’s everyone’s job)
22: 820: Andy Samuel CBE: From worry before the workshop to Fun and Community during and after
21: The necessity of the APPLE PIE Amendment
20: Nearly everyone missed the biggest problem with nuclear and fusion, but it’s huge.
19: Interesting trivial meditation story and book pictures
18: This week’s selected media, May 18, 2025: The Male Brain
17: Do I miss anything from when I polluted and depleted like the average American?
16: This Sustainable Life ranked #1 Environmental Leadership podcast
15: Another problem people miss about artificial intelligence
14: Signs you’re not traveling even if you go far
13: Would you ask a plantation owner in 1855 for advice how to abolish slavery? Why ask polluters today how to stop pollution?
12: 819: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 6: Our Brighter Future
11: This week’s selected media, May 11, 2025: Racism, The Case for Reparations, Clamor
10: The left denies science as much as anyone, just different science, but it denies enough to avoid facing that it promotes unsustainability.
9: 818: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 5: The Celebrity Opportunities
8: Watch me cooking my famous no-packaging vegan solar-powered stew at a workshop at Drew Gardens, Bronx NY
7: 817: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 4: The Political Opportunities
6: Why do liberals and progressives so strongly oppose actually acting on sustainability?
5: 816: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 3: Business/Entrepreneurial Opportunities
4: This week’s selected media, May 4, 2025: Pattern Breakers, The Shock Doctrine, What If We Get It Right
3: 815: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 2: The Solution
2: Read about me in Gothamist: “Meet the NYC environmentalists going off the grid and eating discarded food”
2: Hear me on WNYC: “Meet the NYC environmentalists going off the grid and eating discarded food”
1: 814: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 1: The Actual Problem

April

30: My comment on the media pooh-poohing “bros”
29: 813: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: Quick Introduction: Welcome to the Sustainability Simplified community
28: Some insensitivity I perceive from parents
27: This week’s selected media, April 27, 2025: The Myth of Race
26: A definition of sustainability I’m testing
25: Are humans more rationalizing than rational?
24: A simple way to view the choice to live sustainably: Think of others more than yourself
23: Do conservatives oppose the practices of seeking diversity, equity, and inclusion or just those practices being mandated?
22: More cultural exchange because of not flying: plinking and target practice
21: America has acclimatized to overwhelming garbage. It will increase until we change culture to restore the values we’ve jettisoned.
20: This Week’s Selected Media, April 20, 2025: Discipline Is Destiny, Hope Dies Last, I’m Glad My Mom Died
19: Addiction by chance versus Addiction by Design with Intent
18: 812: Robert Fullilove, part 3: Politics, family, race, and sustainability
17: Telling people problems with tobacco and alcohol is perfect message for the industries selling them
16: First they say it’s impossible, then easy, then easy for me but hard for them. Anything but acting or responsibility.
15: Should oil, coal, and gas have rights like animals and rivers to stay in the ground and not get burned?
14: 811: Tina Tombstone: A friend I volunteer delivering food to the needy with
14: Tina Tombstone, a friend I volunteer delivering food with, on Fifth Avenue with vegetables
13: This week’s selected media, April 13, 2025: Matewan, This Changes Everything
12: Some of my creative writing and editing process
11: Why treat doof as second hand smoke
10: We launched our minimum viable course: SpodekMethod.com. Check it out.
9: Democrats and Republicans are dancing together on sustainability for their mutual benefit, avoiding action, rallying their bases
8: Windy and still cold, but starting to feel advantages of spring charging
7: What happened to produce stands in America?
6: This week’s selected media, April 6, 2025: Troubled, The Message
5: A Short Course in Sustainability Leadership
4: In 2025, can you become obese without doof, whose packaging hurts people as surely second-hand smoke, but remotely?
3: We think appliances are to save labor, but General Electric created them to grow demand for electricity, hence General “Electric”
2: You are as much an expert in sustainability leadership as anyone, or can be
2: The last dead Christmas Pagan Tree of the season, at the end of March?
1: Octopuses are so smart we cook them and then throw them away without even eating them.

March

31: Volunteering warmed my heart on a cold spring day
30: 810: Giora Netzer, part 2: Leadership coaching leads to far more than “just” the C-Suite
29: Abraham Lincoln never went overseas yet accomplished a fair amount. Maybe flying isn’t that necessary.
28: 809: Alexander Clapp: Waste Wars, how we profit off polluting the world claiming to help them
27: People thinking sustainability is easier if single are insensitive, lacking empathy and compassion
26: Sriracha sauce: yuck! Enjoying food over doof.
25: Their conflict is with Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and the Founding Fathers, not with me
24: Year 10, day 1 without hurting people and funding lobbyists by flying
24: Hear me on the 12 Minute Conversations podcast with Engel Jones
23: This week’s selected media, March 23, 2025: Courage Is Calling, Robert Clary’s Holocaust remembrances
22: Filter bubbles, algorithms, polarization, and living in different worlds? What you can do about it.
21: My biggest downside to aging so far
20: 808: Silvia Bellezza: Sustainable Marketing at Columbia Business School
20: One Year Without Access to My Own Roof. Nothing Replaces Hands-On Practical Experience.
19: “These are the times that try men’s souls”
18: Our Deepest Values: “Do, Leave, Live, Love”
17: Replacing “comfort and convenience” with “the perks of being at the top of a dominance hierarchy” or “the perks of being a tyrant”
16: This week’s selected media, March 16, 2025: Judgment at Nuremberg, Venomous Lumpsucker
15: Social media executives don’t let their children use social media. This time it’s personal.
14: Honoring fallen auxiliary police officers
13: Freedom or pollution. I would be nice to have both, but you can’t.
12: One fridge may keep a meal fresh. Dependence on a refrigerated supply chain results in less fresh food and more waste.
11: Have you noticed that sanitation departments have become socialist, imperialist, and flagrant violators of the US Constitution’s original intent?
10: See me with Rob and Andrew on After Dark: “When Sustainability Meets MAHA And Making English The Official Language”
9: This week’s selected media, March 9, 2025: Platoon, the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Human Nature Odyssey podcast
8: A real-world example of what I meant in “Racist jokes, polluting, depleting, and integrity”
7: “In the next 30 years, we’ll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have”
6: Racist jokes, polluting, depleting, and integrity
5: “Ecotourism”: What a scam. Why not “solve” other problems by calling them “ecolittering,” “ecopolluting,” and “ecoextinction”?
4: 807: Giora Netzer MD MSCE, part 1: A leader I coached to the C-suite
3: People blame me for leeching my neighbors’ heat. They have it backward.
2: This week’s selected media, March 2, 2025: Waste Wars and Ishmael
1: Corollaries to my recent post: Replacing “sustainability” with “not hurting people” and “polluting” with “hurting people”

February

28: Josh and Evelyn Go Live! … see our first live stream of a series on living joyfully sustainably
27: “I can’t do sustainability because my [spouse or kids] won’t go for it.”
26: What do you think: will the world be more healthy, safe, and secure next year? Next decade? Next century?
25: The one thing in the universe that turns chaos into value and what it means for humanity
24: My favorite solar panel
23: What the Spodek Method workshop delivers
22: Replacing “sustainability” with “not hurting people” and “polluting” with “hurting people”
21: Hundreds of trashed dead Christmas pagan trees, 2025
20: 806: Robert Fullilove, part 2: the spirit of the Civil Rights movement
19: Plastic: “between 400,000 and 1 million people die each year in low- and middle-income countries because of diseases related to mismanaged waste”
18: 805: Osprey Orielle Lake: Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
17: More humble pie for Josh, and the value of Hands-On Practical Experience (HOPE)
16: Bigger distractions than BP’s
15: Why Are So Many Young Adults Getting Cancer? Doof, not food.
14: Hear me on A Climate Change with Matt Matern
13: Helping the poor whom unsustainability hurts is nice and essential but by definition isn’t solving the problem
12: 804: Robert Fullilove EdD, part 1: Lessons from America’s Civil Rights era and effective action today
11: Yet more cases where efficiency doesn’t help sustainability
10: See me on Japanese TV!
9: Why complaining about “private profit and public cost” misses the boat.
8: Inspiring words of resolution from great historical figures to fight coercion and tyranny
7: Why do people like hearing me share my vulnerabilities?
6: Playing on a tilted field isn’t fair. How to fix it and how not to fix it.
5: The Spodek Method is like quitting smoking.
4: Plastic appears more poisonous than you think, especially to your brain. You’d rather know these findings than not.
3: A polluting cafe illustrates our how our culture values and promotes polluting and depleting
2: This week’s selected media, February 2, 2025: The First Emancipator, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, Will & Harper
1: Finding a used syringe at my building for the first time. Also, people injecting on the subway platform.

January

31: What people mean when they say “We have to have a conversation about…” (hint: it’s not about having a conversation)
30: Nearly everyone misses the danger of artificial intelligence we’re sleepwalking into
29: The audio book for Sustainability Simplified is on sale!
28: Fifteen minutes of a Spodek Method workshop
27: 803: Nick Loris, part 3: Liberty, freedom, sustainability, and Rock Creek Park
26: Why environmentalists fail and what environmentalism lacks: integrity, credibility, and experience
25: The value of family support when living by your values when society opposes them: Janae Marie Kroczaleski, part 2
24: The emotional struggles of living by your values when society opposes them: Janae Marie Kroczaleski, part 1
23: Year 15, day 1, posting daily to this blog, my first sidcha (what led me to the concept)
22: On the Jasper Blueprint podcast: “The Spodek Method: How Radical Personal Change Can Change the World”
21: We all descend from indigenous people and we’ve all been assimilated
20: Is space travel possible for Abrahamic religions?
19: This week’s selected media, January 19, 2025: Transformer: Transitioning as a World-Record Powerlifter and The Heat Will Kill You First
18: Do you turn on the light when you wake up at night to go to the bathroom? Why it matters.
17: Darn: My building’s 5-month project denying roof access has extended to 13 months.
16: Asymptotically approaching a finite number isn’t approaching zero, so we can increase efficiency forever and still increase pollution forever too.
15: Hear me on the Power Hour from the Heritage Foundation
14: We need the words of Thomas Jefferson and work of Robert Carter III. Instead we have the words of Carter and acts of Jefferson.
13: 802: Lorraine Smith, part 2: The hidden, dirty secrets of corporate “sustainability” work
12: This week’s selected media, January 12, 2025: Nuclear Revolution, Powering America
11: Measuring greenhouse emissions looks like a distraction. Extraction and introduction into the biosphere seems more relevant.
10: “I never had a more optimistic outlook than when things were going to shit,” said my friend about suffering a debilitating disease
9: Is most of the economy transaction costs?
8: 801: Travis Fisher, part 3: Restoring time with family
7: Why we feel so busy
6: Resources on Robert Carter III
5: This week’s selected media, January 5, 2025: The Anti-Jefferson: Why Robert Carter III Freed His Slaves (And Why We Couldn’t Care Less) and The Individualists
4: “I solve problems. I’m not putting band-aids on symptoms”
3: The average of zero and a negative number is still negative so we all have to live sustainably, not just some of us.
2: A video of my twice-daily burpee-based calisthenics routine at the start of 2025
1: The books and movies I liked most and least in 2024
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