Podcast Episodes

302: Nir Eyal, part 1: Make yourself Indistractable

Episode 302

I met Nir Eyal at a podcast recording of Will Bachman, who long ago hosted me on his podcast (see links below).

Nir recently publish a book, Indistractable, about how to keep focused. A lot of people …

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

301: Does It Scale? My Modified Tesla Strategy

Episode 301

If you've listened to this podcast, you know my Building Block---my technique to lead one person to share and act on his or her environmental values. You may also know my strategy to scale from influ…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

300: Larry Yatch, part 3: Discovering New Emotions With His Sons and Wife

Episode 300

As a sneak preview to my third TEDx talk, I used this conversation wit Larry as an example. Sorry you'll have to wait a month for the organizers to edit the video. Waiting is as hard for me as for yo…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

299: Dr. Joel Fuhrman, part 1: Eat to Live

Episode 299

Food is important part of environment, as you know. The book Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman changed a lot for me. I came across it after my experiments avoiding packaged food, fiber-removed foods, a…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

298: Is polluting child abuse?

Episode 298

[EDIT: moments after posting this episode, I found my first example of someone else posting on this idea only two months ago, Environmental Pollution: An Invisible Kind of Child Abuse, which got a po…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

297: RIP James Lipton, a huge influence and inspiration

Episode 297

James Lipton, who started and hosted the show Inside the Actors Studio, died yesterday.

Here are the notes I read from for this episode:

I could talk about how much I enjoyed the episodes, his humor, a…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

296: Solutions have to work for everyone

Episode 296

In this episode I describe how important I consider the accessibility of my personal behavior solutions -- a matter of integrity, not to be confused with behavior to influence others, which is a matt…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

295: Brent Suter, part 1: Major league baseball pitcher and steward

Episode 295

I met Brent through guest Tia Nelson, both Wisconsin celebrities---she in politics, he in sport---who work with the Outrider Foundation.

He is this podcast's first MLB pitcher in string of athletes fr…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

294: Population: How Much Is Too Much?

Episode 294

What is Earth's carrying capacity? Why is it important?

Many ask how we will feed 10 billion people. Mathematician way of asking is if we can feed so many and if so how. Maybe we can't.

First, don't wa…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

293: Alan Weisman: My Greatest Source of Environmental Hope

Episode 293

Alan Weisman's book Countdown changed my strategy to the environment. It ranks among the top most influential works I've read, watched, or come across, up there with Limits to Growth.

Why? Because whe…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago