This Sustainable Life
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This Sustainable Life
Do you care about the environment but feel "I want to act but if no one else does it won't make a difference" and "But if you don't solve everything it isn't worth doing anything"?We are the antidote! You're not alone. Hearing role models overcome the same feelings to enjoy acting on their values cr...
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839: Saabira Chaudhuri: Consumed: Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us
Reading Saabira's New York Times piece Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us told me she saw more about plastic and its effect on our culture than most....
838: Zach Rabinor, part 2: What if your business and values clash?
Zach and I got so into our first conversation that we had to take a second one to get to the Spodek Method.
Listen for yourself, but I hear Zach...
837: Zach Rabinor, part 1: Getting serious about sustainable travel?
I met Zach at an event I spoke at sponsored by the Young Presidents Organization, whose members tend to be successful in business. The criteria to joi...
836 Dr. Robert Fullilove, part 5: Unsustainability is upstream of imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and racism
Since our fourth recording, Dr. Bob and I spoke at length about what's driving me and keeping me going beyond where nearly anyone else does on sustain...
835: At last! I can access my roof to charge solar for the first time in 18 months.
This week, I charged my solar panel and battery on my roof for the first time for over 18 months. My building had to do maintenance during which no re...
834: Do Americans Know How to Prepare Food From Scratch?
Late summer means produce at peak ripeness, especially peaches and heirloom tomatoes. Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my newsletter have...
833: Aaron Blaise: A Master Disney Director and Animator on Self Expression, Leadership, and Nature
Aaron and I met after I got to see a screening of his recent short animated film Snow Bear. I knew about Aaron's achievements from participating in so...
832: Robert Fullilove, part 4: Action in the Center of Civil Rights in the 1960s
Dr. Bob worked in the heart of the US Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. He shares stories of his interactions with Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame T...
831: Glenn Hubbard: Dean of Columbia Business School on Adam Smith and Leadership
I can't help but call Glenn "Dean Hubbard" since I met him as a student at Columbia Business School. That was 2005, making him one of the guests I've...
830: Jo Nemeth, part 2: Nature improves time with loved ones
We jumped in to talking about her Spodek Method commitment. She lives in a suburban area. There's a place near her that borders on bush, which I guess...
829: Adam Galinsky, part 1: Do you love being inspired? He wrote the book on it.
Adam teaches leadership at Columbia Business School, where I learned there were classes in leadership, which changed the direction of my life. Regular...
828: Richard Reeves: For Boys and Men: support and love over misunderstanding
When people talk about helping men, a lot of people think any and maybe every man might just have latent misogyny, so helping him risks augmenting mis...
827: Chris Berdik: Scientific American loved his book Clamor (so did I)
Sound pollution is pollution. You know it's been growing for your whole life with little sign of decreasing.
I wish I lived in a world with less...
826: Jo Nemeth, part 1: Living without money frees her to do what she loves
Can you imagine living without money? Humans lived without money for 250,000 years, so it's not necessary for life. Money seems like an invention on p...
825: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 2: Rising to the challenge of random acts of friendliness
Ryan shares his experience approaching people to share in his joy. The task is not easy anywhere, least of all the Bronx, where he doesn't live but wa...
824: Dr. Rob Reed, part 2: Learning to love leading effectively
Rob starts by sharing his experience from leadership coaching in the context of a hospital with people in intensive care as well as their families. Si...
823: Mark Mills, part 5: We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition
Reading Mark's recent piece We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition in Manhattan Institute's City Journal prompted me to write my recent post, When they...
822: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 1: Wildlife Is Everywhere, Including (especially) NYC (and where you live)
This recording went far beyond my usual preference for recording with guests in person when I can.
We met in Prospect Park on one of the peak bi...
821: Rob Reed MD, part 1: Learning leadership transforms your life and work
Rob is one of my coaching clients. I asked him to be a guest here since many people perceive leadership and learning it as different than I mean. His...
820: Andy Samuel CBE: From worry before the workshop to Fun and Community during and after
Are you thinking about acting more but concerned about feeling guilty or judged that you aren't doing enough? If so, you'll love this conversation. I...
819: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 6: Our Brighter Future
This last recording in the series brings together the opportunities. We can't fix all the world's problems or to go back in time and change history. W...
818: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 5: The Celebrity Opportunities
Look up "Greatest of All Time" on Wikipedia and you'll find Muhammad Ali. This lesson shares how he went from being just the heavyweight champion of t...
817: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 4: The Political Opportunities
Sustainability has become a polarized partisan political issue, despite everyone wanting clean air, land, water, and food. In the US, neither the Demo...
816: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 3: Business/Entrepreneurial Opportunities
The solution in video 3---the Spodek Method---creates a new, more effective situation than anything I know of in sustainability.
People act on t...
815: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 2: The Solution
Now that we understand our environmental problems as cultural, proposals based in technology, market incentives, and legislation don't address the pro...
814: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 1: The Actual Problem
Do you think our environmental problems are rooted in greenhouse gas levels or emissions? Or biodiversity loss? Or any of what makes the headlines?
813: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: Quick Introduction: Welcome to the Sustainability Simplified community
Many people see whatever part of what I do, think that's everything, and conclude I'm just doing some personal action or other form of spitting into t...
812: Robert Fullilove, part 3: Politics, family, race, and sustainability
Our third conversation matches the first two in intrigue and quality. We talk about the things that came up for Dr. Bob that got in the way of his com...
811: Tina Tombstone: A friend I volunteer delivering food to the needy with
Tina is one of the central characters in that group that everyone knows (another is Kevin Fucillo, also a podcast guest). We go back a few years. She...
810: Giora Netzer, part 2: Leadership coaching leads to far more than "just" the C-Suite
In our second conversation, Giora reveals more about his developing as a leader. If you listen for it, you can hear the vision he had for himself and...
809: Alexander Clapp: Waste Wars, how we profit off polluting the world claiming to help them
I found Alex when listeners sent me an opinion piece in the New York Times he wrote, The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie.
Gettin...
808: Silvia Bellezza: Sustainable Marketing at Columbia Business School
Silvia created the course Sustainable Marketing at Columbia. It's an elective and has become the class at the business school with the most students f...
807: Giora Netzer MD MSCE, part 1: A leader I coached to the C-suite
Are you reaching your potential, professionally or personally? Have you wondered what would happen if you got coaching?
Giora did. A friend of h...
806: Robert Fullilove, part 2: the spirit of the Civil Rights movement
Dr. Bob shares more about his experience acting during the 1960s, as well as today on helping prisoners and more. I hope you can hear the electricity...
805: Osprey Orielle Lake: Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
I was pleasantly surprised in reading Osprey's book The Story is in Our Bones that she also sees the need to change culture, including elements like o...
804: Robert Fullilove EdD, part 1: Lessons from America's Civil Rights era and effective action today
People call my behavior extreme, though I'm just acting in service of others. To be more precise, I'm acting in love for others. When people suggest w...
803: Nick Loris, part 3: Liberty, freedom, sustainability, and Rock Creek Park
You probably came to hear Nick's experience exploring Rock Creek Park in Washington DC based on his childhood experiences in nature with his father. S...
802: Lorraine Smith, part 2: The hidden, dirty secrets of corporate "sustainability" work
I start by sharing how much value I get from participating in Lorraine's weekly coaching group.
Then she shares her path to coaching on sustaina...
801: Travis Fisher, part 3: Restoring time with family
Meaningful interactions don't have to be complex. Travis simply shares his experiences in nature in childhood and finds ways to recreate the emotional...
800: Lorna Davis, part 4: After the Sustainability Leadership Workshop
If you haven't listened to my conversation with Lorna before taking the sustainability leadership workshop, I recommend listening to it first: 794: Lo...