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099: Jethro Jones: No Excuse Stewardship
Episode 99
Stewardship is Jethro's core message, as I heard---of his community, especially children in it, his country, and the natural world we share. This world is a beautiful, abundant gift we could wreck if…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
098: Would You Free Your Slaves?
Episode 98
Imagine you were born into a slave holding family. You didn't ask to be born into it. You didn't create the system. You didn't make slavery legal.
Every landowner around you would own slaves. You woul…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
097: Sir Tim Smit: Changing the World with No Special Skills
Episode 97
Tim Smit is the co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Eden Project in Cornwall, in the southwest of England.
He turned a lifeless, poisoned abandoned mine into a bountiful green world-class garden peopl…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
096: Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus, The New Science of Attention
Chris Bailey shares how to focus and create intention---how to become more productive on the outside and live with more meaning and purpose on the inside by focusing on what is important to you.
Focus…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
095: How Would-be Leaders Move Us Backward
Episode 95
I want to differentiate between telling people facts and what to do or what they should do on one side, and leading them on the other.
I see a lot of people telling others what to do. Not a lot of peo…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
094: Where Reason Fails and Leadership Works
Episode 94
Many people think if you just reason enough, you'll get to what's right and wrong in a way everyone will believe.
This happens in the environment and many other places in life. In the environment, you…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
093: Want to win elections? Clean your neighborhood. Be a steward.
Episode 93
How do we elect people, including a United States President, who act on and steward the environment?
I'm going to present a plan that I believe can win the next election that transcends the usual divi…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
092: Paternalism and pride: why fly to Africa to eek out minor efficiencies when we waste hundreds of times more?
Episode 92
First world people pollute hundreds of times more than third world people yet the material prosperity doesn't translate to greater happiness.
We could reduce our waste by 75% while improving our quali…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
091: What Works That We Can Build On
Episode 91
People ask if I think we can make it out of our environmental mess.
I don't know, but I act on my values.
Many examples of cultural change suggest we can make it, including
SmokingDrunk drivingSeat belt…Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
090: Obesity and the Environment
Episode 90
How we treat our bodies is how we are treating our environment.
How we treat the environment is how we are treating our bodies.
The fat and CO2 concentrations aren't the cause of the problem. The are t…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago