Podcast Episodes

452: Book Update #1

Episode 452

Started thinking of book when I worked on initiative but put in background, expecting podcast to improveThat's been the case.Started getting serious about a year ago.You may have noticed a lot of gue…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

451: Alexandra Paul, part 1: A Genuine Celebrity Role Model

Episode 451

I saw a TEDx talk on population where the speaker spoke thoughtfully and persuasively on overpopulation. I consider the topic among the most important on the environment, yet nearly no one talks abou…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

450: Brian Keating, Losing the Nobel Prize

Episode 450

Though I haven't actively practiced physics since defending my thesis in 1999, it felt great to talk science with the author of a book named one of the best non-fiction books of all time. The convers…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

449: Chad E. Foster: How Do You Handle Huge Challenges? Not Big. Huge.

Episode 449

How do you face challenges? Not little ones like a pandemic lockdown for a year. Big ones.

Regular listeners hear me talk about role models like Viktor Frankl and Nelson Mandela in the context of hand…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

448: Robert Bilott: The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

Episode 448

Your blood contains PFOA, also known as forever chemicals. They cause cancer of several types, birth defects, and more.

Dupont and other companies produced this stuff after learning it caused harm and…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

447: Kathryn Garcia, part 1: Candidate for New York City Mayor

Episode 447

Kathryn Garcia, candidate for Mayor of New York City joined. No matter where you live, the mayor here matters. Many national trends in politics, business, culture, education, sports, and more start h…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

446: Wondering how you can make a difference? Action begets action.

Episode 446

I noticed a trend among podcast guests that the people who have already acted the most on sustainability find new things fastest. By contrast, people who do less say they're already doing all they ca…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

445: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, part 2: Religion, Interpreting the Torah, and Nature

Episode 445

We got into territory I'd wanted to talk to a religious scholar about. I would have expected being recorded would make us more tentative, but I found the opposite. I didn't keep track, but several ti…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

444: Dar-Lon Chang, part 1: The engineer who made headlines for quitting ExxonMobil

Episode 444

Do you know anyone whose company pollutes more than they'd like, who wants to change things, but whose company keeps not acting?

I think that situation describes almost everyone. Even the most sustain…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

443: Nobody understands what's so bad with climate change

Episode 443

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It hit me recently that nearly nobody knows what's so bad about climate change. I've started asking people and nobody knows. Actually, of the dozen…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago