Podcast Episodes

682: Gautam Mukunda, part 1: Teaching Passion for Leadership at Harvard

Episode 682

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 …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

681: Albert Garcia-Romeu, part 1: Psychedelics and Time in Nature

Episode 681

Regular listeners know I've been asking people what the environment means to them as part of the Spodek Method. Many people respond with touching answers that I would call something close to life-alt…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

680: Wolfgang Lutz: A Primer in Demographics and Global Population Projections

Episode 680

Wolfgang Lutz is one of the world's experts in projecting global population levels and demography. I contacted him to help understand the differences between projections based on demography like his …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

679: Alan Ereira, part 2: The world through Kogis' eyes

Episode 679

I was very curious to learn more about the Kogi and Alan's interactions with them.

Alan is deeply involved with their joint project to learn to restore nature as they have shown they can. "Restoring n…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

678: My talk to the International Society of Sustainability Professionals

Episode 678

The International Society of Sustainability Professionals invited me to speak to their New York Chapter. Here is that recording. We "whooshed" out the participants' words, so it's just my speaking. T…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

677: Roz Savage, part 1: It's Doable and You Can Do It. One Oar Stroke at a Time

Episode 677

Roz could have stopped at rowing solo across oceans to world records, awards, and national honors.

She didn't. She had done those things for a purpose: helping make our world more livable, less pollut…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

676: Paulina Porizkova, part 1: No Filter

Episode 676

One of the most famous supermodels, Paulina needs no introduction.

She's here because mutual friends introduced us and her recent book, No Filter, that tells a different story than you'd expect of the…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

675: Derek Sivers, part 1: Leading versus Exploring Frontiers

Episode 675

I bring leaders from all areas to sustainability. The challenges to changing culture to sustainability aren't in technology, science, journalism, activism, or politics, though all those fields are re…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

674: Oliver Burkeman, part 1: Time Management and Sustainability for Mortals

Episode 674

Oliver's book Four Thousand Weeks deserves the incredible praise it gets. I've recommended it to many friends and can't for the life of me put into words how he refines and changes how I look at time…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

673: Jim Oakes, part 2: Can We Go From Abolition to Anti-Pollution?

Episode 673

My passion for the possibility of doing for pollution what abolitionists did to slavery: transform it from something normal, as if part of nature, to forever seen as wrong. The more I learn the diffi…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago