Podcast Episodes

822: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 1: Wildlife Is Everywhere, Including (especially) NYC (and where you live)

Episode 822

This recording went far beyond my usual preference for recording with guests in person when I can.

We met in Prospect Park on one of the peak birding days of the year. Tons of people were out with pow…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

821: Rob Reed MD, part 1: Learning leadership transforms your life and work

Episode 821

Rob is one of my coaching clients. I asked him to be a guest here since many people perceive leadership and learning it as different than I mean. His work in medicine may not be at the center of sust…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

820: Andy Samuel CBE: From worry before the workshop to Fun and Community during and after

Episode 820

Are you thinking about acting more but concerned about feeling guilty or judged that you aren't doing enough? If so, you'll love this conversation. I feel honored to work with people with Andy's back…

Published on 7 months ago

819: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 6: Our Brighter Future

Episode 819

This last recording in the series brings together the opportunities. We can't fix all the world's problems or to go back in time and change history. We can't change that people are already dying by t…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

818: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 5: The Celebrity Opportunities

Episode 818

Look up "Greatest of All Time" on Wikipedia and you'll find Muhammad Ali. This lesson shares how he went from being just the heavyweight champion of the world to the greatest of all time, transcendin…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

817: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 4: The Political Opportunities

Episode 817

Sustainability has become a polarized partisan political issue, despite everyone wanting clean air, land, water, and food. In the US, neither the Democrats nor Republicans have a vision of or plan to…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

816: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 3: Business/Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Episode 816

The solution in video 3---the Spodek Method---creates a new, more effective situation than anything I know of in sustainability.

People act on their own motivation that they felt before I met them. In…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

815: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 2: The Solution

Episode 815

Now that we understand our environmental problems as cultural, proposals based in technology, market incentives, and legislation don't address the problem. They generally won't achieve the desired ou…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

814: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 1: The Actual Problem

Episode 814

Do you think our environmental problems are rooted in greenhouse gas levels or emissions? Or biodiversity loss? Or any of what makes the headlines?

They are symptoms. They all result from our behavior…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

813: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: Quick Introduction: Welcome to the Sustainability Simplified community

Episode 813

Many people see whatever part of what I do, think that's everything, and conclude I'm just doing some personal action or other form of spitting into the wind.

I don't like wasting my time any more tha…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago