Category Archives: Podcast

781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making

on September 12, 2024 in Podcast

I started a new project volunteering in my community that is also a big life change I wouldn’t believe I’m doing except that I am. In a sense I started the project over four years ago and it’s only seeing the light of day now. Sorry I’m writing little about and the episode is long, but for now I wanted only those interested to learn in so you have to[…] Keep reading →

780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual Choosing

on September 5, 2024 in Podcast

Jack shares his love for nature and passion to care for it, how central it is to his life, how much of his time and focus he devotes to it. He shares his principles of individual choice over top-down regulation. He especially opposes government subsidy for squashing innovation, including industries he prefers, like nuclear. He’s not anti-government. Listen to the episode for his views in more detail. He is as[…] Keep reading →

779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Choose

on September 2, 2024 in Podcast

Nick and I talk about freedom, liberty, personal action and, however paradoxical to most people, how important personal behavior is in changing systems. Then we talk about markets, regulation, and democracy and how they interact with community norms. Looking at the words markets, regulation, and democracy, they may look academic or abstract, but I think you’ll find the conversation fun because it’s personal. We don’t talk theory. We’re talking about[…] Keep reading →

778: The Entrepreneurial Strategy to Restore Sustainability Globally Without Waiting for Governments and Corporations

on August 31, 2024 in Podcast

This episode follows up the last one, on how you can learn sustainability leadership through our workshops, so you can practice sustainability joyfully. You can teach others to, and teach others to teach others. If the process only led to a few people changing, or even many, it wouldn’t be worth pursuing. Unlike almost any sustainability work, it can lead to global cultural change and a joyful, rewarding path to[…] Keep reading →

777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Does What Other Sustainability Work Misses

on August 31, 2024 in Podcast

If you’ve listened to a lot of this podcast, you’ve heard me walk many guests through sharing their values on sustainability and acting on them. If you haven’t, you should, in my opinion. Why do they enjoy what most people consider deprivation and sacrifice? You can learn to do it. A growing team of us teach workshops in sustainability leadership. One is coming up soon, September 10, 2024. This episode[…] Keep reading →

776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability Leadership

on August 30, 2024 in Podcast

I’d heard of Strong Towns for years, mainly through guest Jason Slaughter‘s Not Just Bikes video series, and finally joined the community by taking a couple of their courses. I can’t recommend them enough. Chuck Marohn founded that community. He found and publicized several of their core discoveries. Some include: North American cities grow based on a Ponzi scheme, the combination of a street and a road fails at both[…] Keep reading →

775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last

on August 28, 2024 in Podcast

You’ve probably listened to Bruce’s past three episodes, so you probably know he wants a path to exist that leads people to want to live more sustainably and spread that change to others. It would mean them overcoming their addictions. By them, I mean all of us, since if we order takeout, fly, and drive big cars, we’re in the group that has to change. His experience with addicts tells[…] Keep reading →

774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is Fun

on August 26, 2024 in Podcast

I ask guests to do episodes 1.5 when they tell me they couldn’t do their Spodek Method commitment or keep postponing. Sometimes they say they don’t want to share that they didn’t do it. But experience has shown that talking about that vulnerability by sharing that they didn’t do it overcomes it. Then redoing the Spodek Method usually leads to it working better than expected. The goal isn’t perfection, after[…] Keep reading →

773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, “The Week,” creates space for conversations on the environment

on August 17, 2024 in Podcast

Frederic describes his program The Week in our conversation. I did it last year, invited by a friend (whom I misname in our conversation, sorry) and recognized him. Podcast guest and mutual friend Lorna Davis had introduced us before he had started creating The Week. The Week is one of the few programs on sustainability approaching it as a leadership effort, not management or lecture. Anyone can do it. It’s[…] Keep reading →

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