Category Archives: Visualization

Another sad reminder of our culture as it is: dumping garbage on memorials of our loved ones

on June 6, 2025 in Awareness, Perception, Visualization

I walked past what was once likely a planter bed filled with lovely flowers or maybe a tree. I presume it was something nice because someone installed a plaque that began “In loving memory of.” Instead of flowers, a tree, or anything lovely or nice, the bed was filled with garbage. I’ve passed it before and seen it filled with garbage. It’s nice to think that environmental problems haven’t hit[…] Keep reading →

How the liberation of living more sustainably feels

on May 26, 2025 in Freedom, Models, Perception, Visualization

Want to know what living more sustainably feels like? Our culture is so dependent and addicted to things like takeout, cars, and flying that pollution and depletion enable, we forget that using them destroys life, liberty, and property. We don’t notice that our government benefits and grows in money and power from licensing and promoting one of its few core responsibilities nearly everyone agrees on. We don’t notice that they[…] Keep reading →

Octopuses are so smart we cook them and then throw them away without even eating them.

on April 1, 2025 in Nature, Visualization

After picking up litter today, I had to look up octopus intelligence. The first link on my search was titled Octopuses may be so terrifyingly smart because they share humans’ genes for intelligence. Why did I have to look up their intelligence? Because of how disgusted I felt, but didn’t feel I felt disgusted enough. Below are three increasingly horrifying pictures of a garbage can in the northwest corner of[…] Keep reading →

What the Spodek Method workshop delivers

on February 23, 2025 in Art, Creativity, Education, Leadership, Visualization

I’ve thought of a simple way to illustrate what the Spodek Method workshop delivers. The mission is to change American and global culture to embrace sustainability by evoking our powerful, basic human emotions relevant to nature. The Spodek Method unearths joy, wonder, oneness, connection, spirituality, divinity, and related passions in people you do it with. They return gratitude. Evoking joy and returning gratitude leads to growing community acting together, achieving[…] Keep reading →

Hundreds of trashed dead Christmas pagan trees, 2025

on February 21, 2025 in Visualization

Every year, I take pictures of how people trash their trees. I find the waste and death tragic and the images of something that was supposed to celebrate life become garbage. This season, I started seeing trees trashed before Christmas: Ten days before Christmas people are already throwing away their Christmas pagan trees. I call them “Christmas pagan trees” because, as I’ve written before, people in the U.S. celebrate Jesus’s[…] Keep reading →

Playing on a tilted field isn’t fair. How to fix it and how not to fix it.

on February 6, 2025 in Models, Visualization

This post is about how to think about fixing historical wrongs, like reparations for past injustices. Imagine playing soccer on a tilted field. Amazingly, I found an image of such a thing online, but it shows a field tilted sideways. I mean tilted so one team has to run uphill on offense. Almost surely one team will have an advantage, though my soccer-playing friends can’t tell which. [Edit: I since[…] Keep reading →

A polluting cafe illustrates our how our culture values and promotes polluting and depleting

on February 3, 2025 in Doof, Visualization

The picture below shows a new cafe down the block from me that shows how polluting our culture has become. Let me count the ways. First, it has no seating. You buy your coffee and walk away. They save rent for not providing space for customers. They give you disposable everything. They save the salary of someone washing, the rent for space for a dishwasher and cups. It’s glowing red[…] Keep reading →

Fifteen minutes of a Spodek Method workshop

on January 28, 2025 in Education, Leadership, Visualization

Journalists keep asking about the workshop: what it’s like, as do people interested in taking the workshops, and a few HR people curious about offering the workshop at their firms. The author of the New York Times piece on me sat in on one session, but only the first session, when people get to know each other. In later sessions, participants can open up and privacy becomes important, so we[…] Keep reading →

An astronaut I agree with in principle, but who is hurting sustainability, I fear

on November 29, 2024 in Leadership, Nature, Perception, Visualization

A reader sent me a link to this video by an astronaut, Ron Garan. He shares how seeing the earth from space changes astronaut’s views on life and humanity’s relationship with nature. I don’t think it achieves the goal he wants. People can interpret it differently, but I conclude that he is saying seeing the earth from space offers a special and unique view of life that enables someone who[…] Keep reading →

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