Podcast Episodes

782: Jane Muncke PhD MSc: Toxins in your food from plastic packaging. You'd rather know.

Episode 782

Toxic chemicals leach from food packaging into your food. Some of these chemicals disrupt your hormones. Some cause cancer. Some affect your children more. Some disperse into the environment and harm…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making

Episode 781

I started a new project volunteering in my community that is also a big life change I wouldn't believe I'm doing except that I am. In a sense I started the project over four years ago and it's only s…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual Choosing

Episode 780

Jack shares his love for nature and passion to care for it, how central it is to his life, how much of his time and focus he devotes to it. He shares his principles of individual choice over top-down…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Choose

Episode 779

Nick and I talk about freedom, liberty, personal action and, however paradoxical to most people, how important personal behavior is in changing systems. Then we talk about markets, regulation, and de…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

778: The Entrepreneurial Strategy to Restore Sustainability Globally Without Waiting for Governments and Corporations

Episode 778

This episode follows up the last one, on how you can learn sustainability leadership through our workshops, so you can practice sustainability joyfully. You can teach others to, and teach others to t…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Differs From Other Sustainability Work

Episode 777

If you've listened to a lot of this podcast, you've heard me walk guests through sharing their values on sustainability and acting on them.

Why do they enjoy what most people consider deprivation and …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability Leadership

Episode 776

I'd heard of Strong Towns for years, mainly through guest Jason Slaughter's Not Just Bikes video series, and finally joined the community by taking a couple of their courses. I can't recommend them e…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last!

Episode 775

You've probably listened to Bruce's past three episodes, so you probably know he wants a path to exist that leads people to want to live more sustainably and spread that change to others. It would me…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is Fun

Episode 774

I ask guests to do episodes 1.5 when they tell me they couldn't do their Spodek Method commitment or keep postponing. Sometimes they say they don't want to share that they didn't do it. But experienc…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, "The Week," creates space for conversations on the environment

Episode 773

Frederic describes his program The Week in our conversation. I did it last year, invited by a friend (whom I misname in our conversation, sorry) and recognized him. Podcast guest and mutual friend Lo…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago