Context: Remember the first time someone said you could undo the environmental harms of your flight by paying a few dollars for an “offset”? It seemed too good to be true, right? Thousands of dollars going to extract and burn jet fuel offset by a few dollars? It was too good to be true and you knew it. Nearly none of the projects achieved the effects they promoted. Nearly all[…] Keep reading →

If I’m going to post my certificates from Leadership Institute and Hillsdale College classes, you can bet I would post that I got certified in CPR. The training was provided to auxiliary police officers. It was optional, but once I heard it was offered, I knew I wanted to do it. I hope no one around me ever has their heart stop, but if it happens, I hope my training[…] Keep reading →

I have a PhD in physics, the most advanced degree in the most fundamental science. It was my priority for most of a decade. I loved and still love the field. I believe if you want to understand our situation, you must understand science or at least its findings. I also consider nature among the most beautiful thing to learn about. Scientists found out about our environmental situation. They project[…] Keep reading →

Why do my students give me reviews like: “This was the best course I ever took at NYU. There is no substitute for doing the exercises. Thinking I understand a concept and actually trying to execute the concept was difficult. Only in working through the exercises was I able to be aware of what I am currently doing. With these exercises, I now have a roadmap for how to be[…] Keep reading →

I’ve written before about my functional new word Enlightendigenous. In that post I shared what I learned about the evidence for the philosophy and practice of indigenous people in North America influencing and inspiring Europeans into what became called the Enlightenment. Europe at the time had little to no democracy or social mobility. Your status at birth—that is, the status of your parents—determined your place and role for life with[…] Keep reading →

I like American higher education. I don’t like how disconnected it has become to the day-to-day lives of most Americans. I don’t like how it has become overwhelmingly politically one-sided. I don’t like that that one-sidedness has led to professors moving from teaching students to learn to inculcating and indoctrinating them. I don’t like how expensive it has become. On the other hand, I consider the Trump administration’s attack on[…] Keep reading →

Today we made SpodekMethod.com live. My book, Sustainability Simplified, mentions the page as a place for more resources and it came out last November, so it’s been almost painful for it not to be working. I couldn’t in good conscience promote the book on podcasts or elsewhere knowing it pointed to an incomplete page and therefore couldn’t enable someone to take the workshop. It’s ready now. I needed to make[…] Keep reading →

I’ve been working for months on what to show on SpodekMethod.com. My book Sustainability Simplified refers to the page so it has to help people who want to learn and to more. It’s pained me for it not to be ready for so many months after the book has been on sale and the New York Times profiled me with a two-page story starting on the front page of the[…] Keep reading →

People seem to want to defer to “experts” in sustainability and sustainability leadership. Many people know about science, technology, economics, legislation, and places where we might apply sustainability, but nearly no one knows anything about leading people or cultures to enjoy living more sustainably. Telling people facts or what to do or cajoling or coercing them isn’t leading them, yet it’s what nearly everyone does. It doesn’t work. It frustrates[…] Keep reading →