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742: John Brooke, part 2: American slavery transformed to today's industry and anti-stewardship of our environment
Episode 742
If John's specialty in deep history weren't valuable enough to understand how our culture's dominance hierarchy formed from the material conditions of the dawn of agriculture, he also specializes in …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
741: Tony Hansen, part 2: Volunteering hard labor creating meaning and generosity
Episode 741
You'll hear Tony's story of rolling up his sleeves and doing some hard labor. You'll also hear the labor being just the start of the reward. He shares about the less tangible but not lesser results i…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
740: Christopher Ketcham, part 3: Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”
Episode 740
I was reading Harper's magazine and Christopher's story was on the cover: Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”! It begins
In the summer of 2016, a fifty-seven-year-old Texan named Stephen McRae drove …Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
739: John Brooke, part 1: Deep history and how our culture formed
Episode 739
Greenhouse gas and ocean plastic levels don't rise on their own. The cause of our environmental problems is our behavior, which results from our culture. The world's dominant culture pollutes, deplet…
Published on 2 years ago
738: Jacqueline Bicanic, part 2: Sustainability doesn't cost time and energy, it gives it
Episode 738
People complain they don't have time, money, or energy to live more sustainably, I think because marketers see the demand so come up with things to sell people to address the demand. Since neither bu…
Published on 2 years ago
737: Michael Gerrard: Considering a stewardship amendment with a foremost environmental lawyer
Episode 737
I follow podcast guest Maya Van Rossum on her work on constitutional amendments protecting a clean environment. You may have heard of the legal victory in Montana, Held versus Montana, earlier this y…
Published on 2 years ago
736: Mattan Griffel, part 1: Online opioid addiction treatment that (actually) works
Episode 736
Regular listeners know I focus on understanding addiction. I see people in my neighborhood and in headlines nearly daily addicted to heroin, fentanyl, meth, and crack. Since our culture promotes crav…
Published on 2 years ago
735: Casey Mahoney, part 1: A Jazz Musician Lowering His Impact to 3 Tons CO2/Year in L.A.
Episode 735
Casey is a longtime friend. One day a few months ago he mentioned in a call he was choosing to lower his carbon footprint to a few tons of CO2 per year. I hadn't been trying to lead or persuade him, …
Published on 2 years ago
734: Alon Tal, part 1: Israel, Hamas, and overpopulation from a former Knesset member
Episode 734
Last month I read Hamas-Israel story from an angle few will touch, but is critical: overpopulation, which I wrote about in my post Overpopulation in Israel and Gaza. The population in Israel and Pale…
Published on 2 years ago
733: Jacqueline Bicanic, part 1: Listener as Guest: Australian University Student, Very Active in Sustainability
Episode 733
Jacquie emailed me that this podcast is inspiring her. She wrote that she'd "always had a spark of interest in sustainability, but I mostly followed the herd mentality and went about my life not real…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago