This podcast and my mission are about changing culture. The Color of Law compiled our culture’s practices that I can only see as cruel and unfair. As long as they’re hidden, we can’t do much about them. Listen to my episode with Richard and read that book if you aren’t on top of America’s history of cruel and unfair housing policy. Once you’re outraged, then what? In this episode, Leah[…] Keep reading →

Can Learning to Lead Sustainability be fun, inspiring, and effective? Yes! I just finished leading my first workshop in leading oneself and others effectively to act more sustainably: enduring systemic change and immediate personal change. Best of all: it was FUN! . . . both the workshop and the action it led to. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the participants results. Today’s post is the audio from[…] Keep reading →

Some context leading to my conversation with Maya: When I first thought of a constitutional amendment to protect us from pollution, I thought the idea was crazy, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The more I did, the more it made sense. Since learning about the Thirteenth Amendment prompted me to think of it, I first spoke to previous guest James Oakes about it. Since it involved constitutional law,[…] Keep reading →

See the video for this episode here. I speak about the concept of a constitutional amendment on the environment with former guests on this podcast: We approach the concept from many perspectives, especially comparing it with the Thirteenth Amendment. This is my first conversation with two experts on a topic I’m just starting to learn about based on very detailed fields, including law, history, abolitionism, and politics. I have to[…] Keep reading →

In the first part of our conversation, we start by reviewing Gautam’s commitment to sailing, which seemed and still seems a good idea to him. but maybe too much for now. We revisit what motivated him and come up with a new commitment. The second part gets more exciting. Gautam expresses that we need to develop technology to help people who aren’t living as well as us so we can[…] Keep reading →

Chris returns to share his experience with the Spodek Method. He did something different than he committed to: he stopped using his smart phone—the latest Apple iPhone—in favor of a simple flip phone hearkening almost back to the nineties. What happens? Does his life fall apart? Does he find more calmness? Should you simplify your life by avoiding the call for the latest and greatest? He shares his experience and[…] Keep reading →

Simon is a mining engineer who both researches the minerals and mining necessary if we were to try powering our culture with various sources. His work has brought him to work with government teams, especially economists and politicians around the world. He shares in our conversation that we will transition to a low-energy future, what it will take, and how little we have tried to figure out if we can[…] Keep reading →

The more I move toward living sustainably, the more I learn about cultures that haven’t become as polluting, depleting, addicted, and imperialist as ours. I grew up thinking they were stuck in the Stone Age, but they aren’t. Conversations with Alan help me learn about the Kogi, with whom he’s lived in the mountains of Colombia and made two documentaries with the BBC. The relevant differences is that compared to[…] Keep reading →

I’ve made it no secret that sustainability lacks leadership and leaders. If you want to help on sustainability, I suggest that the most valuable thing you can do is learn to lead. If you know how to lead, improve it. Nothing can change as much as leading cultural change. Gautam’s passion is to learn how leadership works, how to teach it, learning more about it, writing about it, the military,[…] Keep reading →