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442: Jonathan Hardesty, part 1: The Journey from Absolute Rookie to Mastery
Episode 442
Longtime listeners and readers of my books and podcast know I draw the analogy to learning and mastering a skill to learning to play piano or a sport. You start by playing scales or practicing ground…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
441: John Sargent, part 1: The CEO who reduced a Big Five publisher's footprint
Episode 441
I learned of John's work through his statement at Macmillan's Sustainability page while researching Ray Anderson:
In 2009, after reading Ray Anderson’s “Confessions of a Radical Industrialist,” I dec…Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
440: Andrés Reséndez: The Other Slavery
Episode 440
About six months ago the parallels started forming for me between our global economic system today that creates great suffering on the scale of hundreds of millions of people with nightmarish cruelty…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
439: How to Fix Texas
Episode 439
Here are the notes I read from for this episode
How to fix Texas
Just got off conference call a Texas attendee couldn't attend because her power was out.There are helpless people suffering. I empathize…Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
438: Avoiding Creating Trash, Advanced Edition
Episode 438
When they hear I take two years to fill a load of trash, people ask how I do it, what's in my trash. In this episode I share a couple stories from last week of facing things entering my life that wou…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
437: Bill Ryerson, part 1: Population matters
Episode 437
No matter what you think we should do, everyone gets that there is some connection between population and sustainability. Everyone knows our population is increasing. We're consuming more than ever.
H…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
436: You're right, it's not fair!
Episode 436
The notes I read from for this episode:
It's not fair!
Back from picking up litterForecast, a few inches of snowJust want coffee, not to dispose. Ancestors couldJust want to travel, not pollute.Don't w…Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
435: Etienne Stott MBE, part 1: Olympic gold medalist climate activist
Episode 435
I met Etienne on a holiday conference call of Flight Free UK, which celebrates what life brings when we enjoy people, culture, cuisine, and so forth around us, not flying all over. The concept would …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
434: Manisha Sinha: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
Episode 434
You've heard me speak and bring guests who are experts in the history of abolition and slavery, particularly in England. I learned about well-known abolitionists like Thomas Clarkson and William Wilb…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
433: Adam Hochschild, part 2: Abolition then and pollution today
Episode 433
If you've followed my development on how to view acting on sustainability, you've seen a marked change when I learned about the British abolition movement of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Today's g…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago