Podcast Episodes

572: Geoff Colvin, part 2: Are we losing humanity when we lose touch with nature?

Episode 572

Geoff's story of his commitment to act on his childhood memories of playing along the Missouri River in South Dakota starts off interesting, then turns exciting, thrilling, and ultimately life-changi…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

571: Chef Dan Barber, part 1: Supporting the whole ecosystem and farmers at every turn

Episode 571

Dan Barber is helping revitalize our food system. We start by going over his background, how fear drove him maybe most of all.

Then we get into what drives food: farms and soil combined with creativit…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

570: Bill Benenson, part 1: Documenting and learning from the fascinating Hadza

Episode 570

If you agree innovation and technology has its drawbacks, you may still worry: if we don't press onward, aren't we risking reverting to the stone age with thirty becoming old age and mothers and chil…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

569: Stop funding Russia invading Ukraine

Episode 569

People and nations are funding Russia's invading Ukraine, where tens of thousands have died and millions have become refugees. The laws of supply and demand dictate that any use drives up price, so a…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

568: Etienne Stott, part 2: When you threaten the power of the establishment, it starts to kick back

Episode 568

Etienne starts by sharing how his government in England is beginning to increase how much it threatens punishment for people protesting, including what he does as an MBE working with Extinction Rebel…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

567: Nakisa "Sista Sol" Glover, part 1: Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Organizing, and Action

Episode 567

Nakisa describes herself as naturally loving science, born into a hip hop world, combining these starting points. She starts by describing her journey growing up not learning that much about our envi…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

566: The CEO of Ford and Boeing, Alan Mulally: Leadership environmentalism should learn from

Episode 566

"What I do doesn't matter," say many environmentalists as they order steak or buy tickets to fly some place. That's the addiction speaking.

I recently heard Alan Mulally speak on how he led turning Fo…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

565: Sam Quinones, part 2: Fentanyl feels worse but addicts more (like Facebook, McDonald's, flying, etc)

Episode 566

In one of the highlights (lowlights?) of our second conversation, Sam shares that fentanyl users don't like its experience as much as heroin's. On the contrary, it's worse. It pops them out faster fr…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

564: Lauren Carlisle, part 1: Dancer, psychologist, philosopher

Episode 564

Lauren's unusual knack for attracting a refined mix of brilliance and emotional unavailability created a storied dating life from 2010-2019 which included actors, pick-up artists, doctors without bor…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

563: Derek Marshall, part 1: Candidate for California's 23rd Congressional District

Episode 563

Derek is looking to flip a district that has been moving more Democratic through demographic shifts and redistricting. Can he pull it off?

He reached out to me partly to share and explore environmenta…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago