Boy, do I wish I’d met Ana before. She works in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She’s the executive director for an organization called, I hope I pronounce this right, Nipe Fagio which means “Give me the broom.” in Swahili as in let’s do something ourselves. I wish I’d met her before because it sounds to me like she leads effectively not telling other people to do but leading them. She[…] Keep reading →

  My conversation with Rob is about joy, responsibility, community and values that you undoubtedly share. Rob Greenfield used to live like an average American. He saw the environmental problems we all see on the headlines but we all dismiss but then he decided he could no longer abdicate the responsibility of how he affected others or our world. I consider him a role model. Nearly everyone I talked to[…] Keep reading →

Nikole Beckwith is a celebrated director of playwright and more in Hollywood, on Broadway. Her movie Stockholm, Pennsylvania premiered at Sundance in which she directed Academy Award nominees Saoirse Ronan as well as Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The City fame who had just done well running for governor of New York, and of course that one movie is just the tip of the iceberg. I approached Nikole not because[…] Keep reading →

  Martin Luther King talked about a negative peace where a problem exists but people don’t face it or deal with it. In a positive peace where people solve the problem which requires facing it. He used nonviolent civil disobedience to force people to face problems that affected others but that as voters and citizens they could do something about. People didn’t like facing these problems but you can’t get[…] Keep reading →

If you’ve heard about avoiding straws or if you’ve avoided straws yourself, Dune Ives and the Lonely Whale, the organization she’s the executive director of have influenced you. If you ask yourself “Why straws?” or “What the point was?”, that’s what you wanted for people actually to talk about things on a human scale as opposed to things that are so big that people can’t really figure out how to[…] Keep reading →

The following aren’t all my nutrition rules, but they’ve served me well. I’ll probably add to them over time. If food advice comes from an American, probably best to ignore it or do the opposite. Avoid talking about protein, carbohydrates, and other scientific concept that you can’t sense. Talk about broccoli, cabbage, and spaghetti squash—things that you can hold in your hand or pick up with your fork and eat.[…] Keep reading →

People seem to have a hard time imagining a world without growth, specifically economic growth or population growth. There’s also personal growth but I’m talking about materially measurable growth so population growth and economic growth. People seem to believe that economic growth is necessary. I’ve looked and I have not found any reasonable proof. If you know of any, please let me know. People say you need inflation to keep[…] Keep reading →