770: Nick Loris, part 1: A limited government free market approach to our environmental problems

on July 26, 2024 in Podcast

Regular readers of my blog know I took a course, Conservatism 101, from the Leadership Institute, which led me to read conservative literature I hadn’t before: Edmund Burke, Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk, and more. This reading came after I started reading and watching Milton Friedman, Julian Simon, Ayn Rand, and current followers of their work like Marian Tupy, Gale Pooley, and Alex Epstein. I had blogged about them[…] Keep reading →

Does the U.S. medical system improve more lives than it hurts, including lives outside the system?

on July 25, 2024 in Blog

I haven’t heard anyone in medicine question the effects of pollution from our medical system on people outside the care facility. What about people harmed by plastic, emissions, and other pollution? They may be affected for centuries and all over the world. I don’t know anyone who calls America’s medical system unwasteful. Every time I walk into a doctor’s office I expect to see each care-person use half a dozen[…] Keep reading →

769: Kevin Fucillo, part 1: An inside view of our community fridge and its volunteers

on July 24, 2024 in Podcast

Kevin and I talk about volunteering at the Chelsea Community Fridge, how it formed, how it’s evolved, and our roles. You’ll hear he’s involved with it more. I was curious to learn about parts I don’t know about. It’s outdoors so it operates 24/7, 365 days a year. New York City has no lack of hungry people, nor places with extra food. It’s insane to see how much we waste,[…] Keep reading →

Emotions that emerge from the Spodek Method about nature that work

on July 23, 2024 in Blog

Yesterday I listed sustainability tactics based on extrinsic motivation that fail sustainability and drive unsustainability. Today, I’ll list emotions about nature I often hear doing the Spodek Method that, when acted on, lead to people doing more than they said they would, expressing gratitude, and being happy to share. I just wrote those items in ten or twenty minutes. I’ll add to the list as I come up with more.

Examples of sustainability tactics based on extrinsic motivation that fail sustainability and drive unsustainability

on July 22, 2024 in Leadership, Nature

Strategies and tactics based in convincing, cajoling, coercing, and seeking compliance that may sound nice, but step on the gas, thinking it’s the brake, wanting congratulations. That is, they exacerbate the problem. Compare this list with tomorrow’s list of emotions that emerge from the Spodek Method about nature that, when acted on, lead to people doing more than they said they would, expressing gratitude, and being happy to share. I[…] Keep reading →

This Week’s Selected Media: July 21, 2024: Planet of the Humans and American Fiction

on July 21, 2024 in Tips

This week I finished: Planet of the Humans, written, directed, and produced by Jeff Gibbs, executive produced by Michael Moore: I watched this movie in 2020 when they released it on YouTube. I remember thinking that solar and wind might not be perfect, but they’re better than fossil fuels. Before saying my reaction this time, I should mention after watching it this week, I read, watched, and listened to about[…] Keep reading →

I started in sustainability trying to restore nature. Now I see we have to restore humanity.

on July 20, 2024 in Models, Relationships

When I started working on sustainability instead of hoping someone else would fix our problem, I saw my goal as restoring nature, also conserving and protecting it. Learning that our environmental problems result from our behavior, which results from our culture, has taught me that we have to work on ourselves. I see how much our culture promotes addiction, pollution, depletion, and plunder. I see that we are abandoning or[…] Keep reading →

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