The Curious Engineer

Joshua Spodek

2019–2022

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December 2022

  1. Flying to a sustainability conference is like hitting a piano with a sledgehammer to learn to play music
  2. 655: Donald Robertson, part 2: Seeking a Wolf
  3. Another reason why an amendment banning pollution will pass and change culture
  4. Doing What It Takes
  5. Post-Christmas Christmas Tree Update
  6. I started my current load of garbage on Christmas 2019 (I used to fill a load a week). Still going.
  7. 653: Mark Z. Jacobson: Roadmaps for 100% clean renewable energy
  8. OMG this butternut squash was amazing! . . . Why connecting to nature connects to people and motivates saving both
  9. Beginning month 8 off the grid and *coincidence* year 12 of daily burpees.
  10. If no one tried to live more sustainably and I knew I could change no one, I would still do what I’m doing: stopping hurting others.
  11. 652: Carl Erik Fisher: The Urge: Our History of Addiction
  12. Reader question: Why do I say solar and wind aren’t clean, green, or renewable?
  13. Who should decide if public transit should be free? What the answer means for sustainability.
  14. 651: Noah Gallagher Shannon, part 2: Uruguay is an environmental role model
  15. Teaching children sustainability
  16. A silly moment showing the joy in disconnecting from the grid, even when it means climbing a lot of stairs
  17. Watch your wallet: examples of heavy polluters saying “we need to bring energy to the world’s poorest” so they can pollute and profit more.
  18. 650: Brian Merchant: your phone’s hidden environmental impact
  19. RIP Frances Hesselbein, one of my great inspirations
  20. 648: Michael Herz, part 1: The United States Constitution, Sustainability, and Pollution
  21. More Polluting Less: Another Zero Kilowatt-hour Bill
  22. Believing our population or economy can grow forever is like believing the Earth is flat
  23. 647: Kris de Decker, part 1: Low and No Tech Magazine: We believe in progress and technology
  24. Proposal for a New Holidays: “Fall Unplug the Fridge Day” and “Spring Plug-in Day”
  25. If Malthus was wrong, Columbus was wrong.
  26. Racism, sexism, and the environment: why do people act on two but make excuses about the third?
  27. Population: what would you have recommended to Hawaiians on population during the centuries they lived alone?
  28. Challenges with solar power in New York in the Winter
  29. This Sustainable Life turns 5 today

November 2022

  1. No, they aren’t living in the stone age
  2. 645: Hamilton Souther, part 1: Living Among the Matsés in the Peruvian Amazon
  3. Meditation: Thoughts aren’t just ideas that arise and pass away. Each wants to hook you.
  4. The Spodek Method Mindset Shift: Before and After. A World of Difference.
  5. Hear me on the Carbon Sessions, from the Carbon Almanac Podcast Network, started by Seth Godin
  6. When a heavy polluter says “we need to bring energy to the world’s poorest,” watch your wallet
  7. Before buying a Christmas tree: A reader shares how his family celebrates Christmas without chopping down trees
  8. Six Months Off the Grid in Manhattan: Admit It, You’re Living a Lie
  9. Bringing the solar panels to the roof in the cold, on the verge of six months.
  10. Yet another reason I don’t watch TV
  11. 644: Janet Allaker, part 1.5: Joy first
  12. Brief thoughts on the question/koan “who am I?”
  13. Apparently I’ve Earned a Reputation Volunteering
  14. Living in the 21st century means there are a million ways to connect and they all break.
  15. 643: Gaya Herrington, part 3: Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse
  16. Flawed By Design: UN Population Predictions Are Based on Faulty Models
  17. My volunteering amounts to donating about $50,000 per year of food.
  18. Why values are more important than technology: Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
  19. Our culture of addiction: someone injecting on Waverly, just off Sixth Avenue
  20. Voting litter
  21. New Yorkers band together to “help” struggling Ukrainians and Europeans
  22. Elements of the brighter future I envision
  23. The text to my answer to the listener question: What Motivates Me To Care?
  24. Another month with zero kilowatt-hours
  25. Read my story in TIME Magazine: “I’ve Been Living Off-Grid In Manhattan for Half-a-Year”
  26. Ela Bhatt 1933-2022
  27. Waste Water: Evian Edition
  28. How old is our culture? Could it be only about 200 years?

October 2022

  1. 200,000 burpees
  2. Your money or your vote
  3. Notes on aging, part 2
  4. Vegan restaurants and doof
  5. 639: Bruce Robertson and Milad Mousavian: Carbon Capture and Storage Is Not a Climate Solution
  6. Poor wittle American can’t wait to buy coffee in a mug or drink water from a tap
  7. You don’t think individual action works? How about any action at all?
  8. 638: Mat Johnson: Exploring and Expressing Identity
  9. Month Six Disconnected From the Electric Grid in Manhattan
  10. On when I should stop picking up litter in Washington Square Park
  11. 637: Holly Whitaker: Overcoming Addiction, Embracing Freedom
  12. Thoughts climbing eleven flights of stairs twice a day to charge my battery from sunlight
  13. Stood up in the rain by a homeless guy with AIDS
  14. How polluters see nature versus how non-polluters do
  15. Score! I found new fruit to forage in the park around the corner
  16. Why do people apologize to me when they pollute?
  17. I act more like Uruguay’s President than the average American, environmentally, according to the NY Times
  18. Sustainability and mating
  19. Why Abraham Lincoln said “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
  20. First report: Yesterday’s Bronx Workshop on Living Off the Grid in New York City
  21. 635: John Biewen, part 2: Turning off screens at 8pm
  22. Another month with zero kilowatt hours to my apartment
  23. A Couple Ways I Avoid Cell Phone and Other Addiction
  24. Notes on aging, part 1
  25. A value in spending time with junkies
  26. How much single-use packaging, times 2.19 quadrillion, works?
  27. Year 2, Day 2 with the Fridge Unplugged

September 2022

  1. “Sanitation Department” is a misnomer.
  2. California is permanently on fire, island nations are being submerged, and New York restaurants are heating the outdoors
  3. Trying to lead on sustainability with trying to live sustainably is like trying to play piano without practicing
  4. 632: Mitzi Perdue, part 1: Sex Trafficking in Ukraine
  5. The New Yorker published my letter
  6. My 32-Year Relationship With The New Yorker Magazine
  7. 631: Stephen M. R. Covey, part 1.5: To Arrive Where We Started and to Know the Place for the First Time
  8. Join my workshop in the Bronx, October 8th, on living off the grid in NYC and enjoy some solar-power-cooked stew!
  9. Month 5 Disconnected From the Electric Grid.
  10. Published in the Leader to Leader Journal: “We Who Choose to Lead Are Humanity’s Best Hope to Save Civilization”
  11. Why nuclear and fusion accelerate our problems, and point to the solution
  12. The text from episode 630: Simplifying Meditation Words and Meaning
  13. People who tell me I’m wasting my time versus those who encourage me
  14. 629: Michelle Nijhuis, part 2: Stopping doom scrolling
  15. Older Americans tell me they would rather die before taking responsibility for the environmental wreckage they helped create
  16. 628: Jay Walker, part 2: Kayaking together on the Hudson
  17. American electric bill insanity
  18. Cuisine: What It Is and How We Ruin It
  19. The Emperor’s New Cigarettes: A Parable for a Polluted World
  20. See and Hear Me On the Manopause Podcast
  21. Zero kilowatt-hours for the third month in a row
  22. You know who else didn’t fly? Humphrey Bogart at the end of Casablanca
  23. My first bike-camping trip since 1988
  24. 623: AJ Jacobs, part 1: Be Curious and Act
  25. Stop complaining that it’s hard and change it
  26. White Men and Publishing in 2022

August 2022

  1. 621: Whitney Tilson, part 3: Talking sustainability with a Harvard-Trained Investment Advisor Who Flies Monthly
  2. Day 100 off the electric grid in Manhattan (about 98 days longer than I thought possible). Still going.
  3. Fossil fuels and slavery from a systems perspective (new diagrams)
  4. Another Million-Dollar Idea: A browser add-on to channel impulse buys to donations
  5. Goal isn’t to pollute “a little bit” less or even “a lot” less. It’s zero if you want to sustain human life and civilization.
  6. What is right amount to pollute? Zero is the only answer that sustains human life.
  7. 619: Dr. Michael Gurven, part 2: The Forager Population Paradox and what do we do
  8. Polluting less isn’t extreme. It’s traditional.
  9. Ask Me Anything
  10. More litter I find in Washington Square Park, and why I focus on it.
  11. Which of these progressive Democrats filling my world with garbage claims to be for the environment?
  12. The “Inflation Reduction Act”: Hear me speak on it with Eugene Bible of This Sustainable Life
  13. “How can carbon dioxide pollute if it’s necessary for life?”
  14. Hawaii is a microcosm of the world: A conversation with co-host Eugene Bible
  15. Can you imagine a world without pollution?
  16. The three top ways liberals and environmentalists stop themselves from thinking and acting
  17. 616: Michael Lombardi, part 1: Culture, Leadership, and Football
  18. Poor people throwing away food
  19. My second month with zero kilowatt-hours
  20. Fourteen years ago today I swam across the Hudson River for the first time
  21. American culture today: “Here’s why I can’t” (especially among conservatives, liberals, and libertarians)
  22. The causes inside you of our environmental problems
  23. Limits to economic growth: A peer-reviewed paper by podcast guest Tom Murphy
  24. On starlight and smog
  25. How we kill innovation around sustainability
  26. What’s the right amount of pollution? How much should you pollute?
  27. Hear me live 9pm eastern on America Out Loud After Dark (conservative radio) on living off the electric grid
  28. Prove me wrong: America has abandoned “Do Unto Others” and “Leave It Better Than You Found It” on the environment

July 2022

  1. My pride and shame in giving blood for the first time since college
  2. 612: Sebastian Junger, part 1: Humans Thrive on Mutual Dependence, Feeling Needed, But Our Culture Isolates.
  3. We won’t run out of fossil fuels, why that’s a problem, and long history
  4. 611: Etienne Stott, part 6: Activism and Leadership
  5. Discarded Electric Vehicles
  6. About two years of recycling
  7. Cities aren’t loud, cars and air conditioners are
  8. People are swearing off air travel because of climate anxiety
  9. Fifty-one
  10. Homeless: do we feed them or force them into jobs?
  11. My cereal shame and recovery
  12. 607: Mike Michalowicz, part 2: Being the Icebreaker
  13. The problem isn’t capitalism. It’s capitulation.
  14. 606: Nakisa Glover, part 3: The Joy of Gardening
  15. Doof isn’t cheaper than food
  16. I think I bought five or ten non-food things over the past year or two
  17. My First Zero Electric Bill: Off the Grid in Manhattan Over a Month
  18. 603: Mark Victor Hansen: Chicken Soup for the Sustainability Leadership Soul
  19. The simple explanation why offsets don’t work
  20. Would you help an abusive parent get more efficient?
  21. 602: Ash Beckham, part 2: How to Out-Boulder the Boulder, Colorado Crowd
  22. Countering my posts on garbage: Mulberries!
  23. When did they start making ice cream that doesn’t melt?
  24. 601: Bill Benenson, part 3: Hadza Versus American Culture and Little Kids with Sharp Knives

June 2022

  1. Not only Pride and Queer Liberation: A Regular Day in Washington Square Park
  2. How Not to Give Up
  3. After the Pride and Queer Liberation Marches 2022: Washington Square Park wrecked again. I could cry.
  4. Volunteering: Institutional Composting
  5. Pride March Preparation: Cops and Garbage
  6. Two questions nobody has ever answered and what to do about them.
  7. If Exxon Knew, So Did You. Today in 1988, Climate Change made the front page in the New York Times
  8. 597: Josh Martin, part 2: If at first you don’t succeed . . .
  9. Done: One month off the electric grid in Manhattan (still going)
  10. It’s amazing how much people argue they have to pollute, especially environmentalists and do-gooders.
  11. 596: Sandra Pérez, part 1: Keeping New York’s LGBTQIA+ Pride March clean
  12. When did humans’ main interaction with Earth become seen as wrecking it?
  13. For humanity to be sustainable, every person must live sustainably, including you. Time to quit waiting and start acting.
  14. 595, Jason Slaughter, Creator of Not Just Bikes, part 1: Ending Car Dependency
  15. I’ve never met a vegan vegan
  16. I’d rather see it so I can act than act like I don’t see it.
  17. Questions about litter, following my thirtieth college reunion
  18. Change my view: American culture has abandoned “Leave it better than you found it.”
  19. My new record electric bill: 5 kWh (62¢ + fixed costs)
  20. Read my emails cursing at Whitney Tilson that brought him to my podcast
  21. Some flying pollution numbers
  22. 588: Mark DiMassimo, part 1: Leading with integrity
  23. You can try to convince yourself otherwise but packaging and plastic pay rich people to impoverish poor people.
  24. Gut punch: What you mean by balance versus what I mean.
  25. Measure your sustainability efforts by your effect on others, not how hard you felt you tried.

May 2022

  1. 586: My Kitty Hawk moment, on the way to a Moon Shot
  2. James Bond: revolting?
  3. Sustainability realizations and gut punches
  4. 585: Douglas McMaster, part 2: If a restaurant can run with no trash, we can too
  5. The tragic fate of democratizing technology
  6. Lies, damned lies, and excuses to keep polluting
  7. My emotional job as a leader in sustainability
  8. Our culture destroyed theirs, but which had better health, mental health, meaning, and purpose?
  9. Assaulted again in broad daylight
  10. The Pennsylvania Historical Commission’s odd blunder on the history of slavery
  11. 581: Dr. Ambrose Carroll, senior, part 2: cultural differences on how we view the individual
  12. My sledding hill in May
  13. All Glory: day two riding from Princeton to Philadelphia
  14. Equal parts misery and glory: today’s ride from New York to Princeton
  15. One of the hardest parts of living in a culture based on addiction: seeing loved ones addicted
  16. One way I admit I’m out of touch: I can’t understand why everyone doesn’t pick up litter all the time.
  17. Do we live in Babylon?
  18. 579: Derek Marshall, part 2: Running for Congress, sharing honest personal experiences
  19. I loathe being interrupted, but here’s when to do it. I’ll thank you for it.
  20. What if you believe life begins at conception? Is that belief part of diversity and inclusion?
  21. I finally realized why people don’t criticize litter
  22. Quotes that transformed Americans from citizens to consumers (and food to doof)
  23. “Titty twister”
  24. 578: Warren Farrell, part 2: Sex, race, and intimacy: How to listen and communicate
  25. Health and longevity of other cultures
  26. Tragic doof addiction statistics: up to 70 percent of children’s calories.
  27. Why I’m writing at 3am: I’m so sore that moving wakes me up.
  28. 577: Michael Carlino, part 6: Discussing the moral case for fossil fuels (and more)

April 2022

  1. The human cost of environmental degradation I want to avoid is already happening.
  2. My new sleeping experiment
  3. Should you get clean of an addiction even if you can’t cure all addictions globally?
  4. Why I can’t post reviews on Amazon
  5. 574: Frances Moore Lappé: Food, Democracy, and Taking Back Control of Our Choices
  6. Transitions in the path to acting sustainably
  7. Reading and listening to the Christian Bible
  8. “It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
  9. 573: Scott White, part 2: An energy CEO considers leading on sustainability
  10. Can you distinguish addicted from stupid?
  11. A New Record in Clean Living: Over 6.5 Months With the Fridge Unplugged
  12. Bill Nye the Science Guy sells out to Coca-Cola
  13. 572: Geoff Colvin, part 2: Are we losing humanity when we lose touch with nature?
  14. Everyone says “It’s the journey, not the destination” until you suggest they consider not flying.
  15. Can you imagine a vacation without burning fossil fuels to get there?
  16. Do Americans buy unpackaged food? Have you, say, in 2022?
  17. 571: Chef Dan Barber, part 1: Supporting the whole ecosystem and farmers at every turn
  18. More Pride, Less Pollution in 2022
  19. Under one dollar: My record low monthly electrical use: 10 kWh ($0.96 + fixed costs)
  20. Everyone acts shocked and outraged at how much food we waste, but happily wastes.
  21. Is “progress” net helping or hurting?
  22. My brief conversation with a heroin addict thanking me
  23. How We Reached Our Environmental Predicament so We Can Take Responsibility
  24. Read about sustainability and me in a Korean-English magazine: 터치 매거진 4월호가 발행되어 보내드립니다.
  25. Things I avoid

March 2022

  1. 565: Sam Quinones, part 2: Fentanyl feels worse but addicts more (like Facebook, McDonald’s, flying, etc)
  2. 564: Lauren Carlisle, part 1: Dancer, psychologist, philosopher
  3. Two ways you became addicted without realizing
  4. Am I in an African-American / African-Diaspora dominated field?
  5. The book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels; freedom, ingenuity, progress, and related books, videos, and resources.
  6. Everyone is avoiding what’s hard on the environment in favor of what’s easy even when effective.
  7. Year 7, day 1 without flying, seeing our cultural and individual addictions
  8. Where I grew up, “a national model of racial integration”: Mount Airy, Philadelphia
  9. Join guest J.B. MacKinnon and the Sierra Club for a webinar, April 13: Climate Change and the Military/Industrial/Consumerist Complex
  10. How much do growth industries mean addictive industries?
  11. My sledding hill in March
  12. Who sees the other as more racist and sexist, the left or the right?
  13. More stuff isn’t less stuff
  14. One of the tragedies of addiction
  15. Finished book number three proposal
  16. A simple proposal to reduce litter
  17. My first kombucha tastes off-the-charts delicious!
  18. Spring flowers
  19. The “Affordable Housing” challenge
  20. Would you have opposed atrocities in the past? Do you oppose them today?
  21. Have we lost the imagination to improve life without fossil fuels?
  22. Do addicts get less of what they think they get more of?
  23. Efficiency and democratization backfiring
  24. Fossil fuels and slavery from a systems perspective
  25. My first solar-powered famous no-packaging vegan stew
  26. How to stay not depressed when living not how society tells you to
  27. If Columbus statues should be removed, what about our behavior today?
  28. According to the CDC, I weigh 6% less than the average American woman. My waist is 13% smaller.
  29. Sponsor my second annual fundraising ride, helping create a bike path from Maine to Florida
  30. Cities aren’t loud, cars are.

February 2022

  1. Nuclear and renewables look like methadone
  2. Liberals: get your stories straight, part 1: individual ability and responsibility.
  3. If you think we can feed 10 billion people sustainably in 2050, why don’t we live sustainably now? Why don’t you?
  4. When does a human life begin when we can clone?
  5. A Milestone: A Quarter-Million Views to My TEDx Talks
  6. Dubai: See me co-lead a sustainability and food workshop (virtually) at Dubai’s Expo2020
  7. My Solar Experiment to Go Off the Electric Grid in Manhattan Continues
  8. I bought my first non-food thing since Thanksgiving yesterday
  9. I finally figured out why I tell you how long since I emptied my trash or flew
  10. Rhythmic beauty about the stars, Sun, Moon, and Earth I bet you’ve never noticed
  11. 561: Scott Hardin-Nieri, part 2: Faith and Personal Challenge
  12. The time and money we spend on social media, clothes, and gaming is insane, part 2: clothes and gaming
  13. The time and money we spend on social media, clothes, and gaming is insane, part 1: Social media and clothes.
  14. We are long past “dominion” over the Earth
  15. People don’t want to travel as much as they say they do
  16. One percent population growth, then and now
  17. My 2022 electric bills
  18. The point of democracy, in my opinion
  19. How did King Solomon get called wise for proposing cutting a baby in half?
  20. Welcome to America. I found on a park picnic table: 30 syringes, a crack pipe, and prescription opiates
  21. Why bother with individual action if it doesn’t change systems and similar, ignorant questions
  22. Read a provocative profile of me by Nancy Colasurdo
  23. 557: Rollie Williams, part 1: Comedy and climate change
  24. There is an ‘I’, it’s just not who you think it is.

January 2022

  1. A chapter of my life, in the words of a massively bestselling author
  2. Challenge question: Can you use fossil fuels without polluting?
  3. 555: EJ Perry, part 1: Brown’s quarterback on clutch performance
  4. Coach John Wooden on sustainability
  5. I blew up a jar fermenting chutney, which got all over my ceiling
  6. What God meant by fruitful and dominion.
  7. Why grocery stores destroy food: Serving the market versus serving people
  8. Sweating the details: Now when I mop, I focus on the corners.
  9. More places I’d be killed for just being me
  10. Four reasons the explanation why we crave sugar and fat and store fat seems wrong
  11. 552: Hilary Link, part 2: colleges and universities talk sustainability but rarely act. This college president does.
  12. Sustainability basics almost everyone gets backward, twisting them up inside.
  13. The Struggle of Living Sustainably in a Society That Supports It in Word But Opposes It in Deed
  14. 551: Chad Foster, part 4: Flying to skiing, but not camping in the back yard
  15. Challenge question (and answer): Could you pollute before fossil fuels?
  16. 550: Rick Ridgeway: A Life Lived Wild: K2, Everest, and places no human had seen
  17. If we are so wealthy, why do we kick people without wealth off their land and take it and its resources?
  18. Conservative trickery. Do others use it too?
  19. 549: Abdal Hakim Murad, part 2: High and low tech in the new green mosque in Cambridge, UK
  20. Do examples of societies deliberately and successfully lowering their population or economy exist?
  21. My peaceful eating sidcha for this month
  22. 548: Erik Bottcher, part 1: a New York City politician awesome enough to pick up litter
  23. My latest six fermentations, by reader request
  24. “I pay taxes. Someone will clean my bottle/wrapper/litter.”
  25. 546: Maxine Bédat, part 2: Systemic Change Begins With Personal Change
  26. Finally, people treating Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-offender acting with independent agency, not a sidekick.
  27. Hear me speak on population on the Post-Growth Australia podcast
  28. Annual Christmas tree dumping
  29. The uncomfortable but desired result of the 70-pound (31.8 kg) kettlebell

2021 306

December 2021

  1. What fruit or vegetable has industrial agriculture destroyed most?
  2. How personal action on the environment is like practicing to reach Carnegie Hall
  3. How personal action on the environment is like changing your baby’s diaper
  4. 545: Jesse Eisinger: Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter for Propublica
  5. Year 3, day 2 on this one load of trash
  6. Hope in small places: a dusting of snow
  7. How to Create a Sustainability Movement: sneak preview of my book and workshops
  8. Decade two, day 1: I reached the ground with my heels on downward dog for the first time in my life.
  9. Ten years (3,652 consecutive days)
  10. How Biden can pass his program with bipartisan support. With global support.
  11. Hear me on America Out Loud’s After Dark: “Single White Straight Male Living In America”
  12. The three people who understand my sustainability least
  13. How I started coaching professionally: a “free coaching” offer on Craigslist
  14. 540: Blake Haxton, part 3: Exploring nature from a wheelchair with a shotgun
  15. What “Circular” and “Closed-loop” mean
  16. Why don’t the media and courts treat Ghislaine Maxwell like an independent woman with agency?
  17. Heartwarming reasons I pick up litter knowing it alone won’t fix the world’s problems overnight.
  18. 539: Katharine Hayhoe: Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
  19. How we’re like gorillas with kids
  20. 537: Nate Hochman, part 1: Toward a Conservative Environmentalism
  21. We live better today than kings before?
  22. How to reform taxes: A chess model
  23. Saying “It won’t matter if we pollute less if China and Russia don’t” is the opposite of leadership.
  24. My fourth TEDx talk: Don’t call Doof Food: systemic change begins with personal change
  25. Advice to a young adult in 2021
  26. 536: David Pogue: How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos

November 2021

  1. What leadership brings to sustainability
  2. Euphoria from food
  3. A gift your partner will love receiving. No cost or waste. Minutes to prepare.
  4. Tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day. Make it Buy Nothing Season. Give the gift of your presence and attention.
  5. 533: Laura Coe, part 3: The Nature of Love
  6. Another reason for individual action
  7. 532: Michael Lenox, part 3: How to Decarbonize the Global Economy by 2050
  8. Buzzfeed’s privilege “calculator”: How I Did
  9. Stop saying “The planet will be fine. It’s us who may not make it.” Everybody knows.
  10. Genesis 1:26-28 and Sustainability
  11. On depression
  12. 530: Cassiano Laureano, part 2: Burpees for the body, banzai tree for the heart and mind
  13. 529: Katie Redford, part 2: No distractions. Keeping oil in the ground.
  14. Profane
  15. My brief conversation with someone smoking crack by Washington Square Park, next door to Babbo, with a twist at the end.
  16. Why everything will collapse (someone else’s video)
  17. People who fly do it for themselves and end up hurting others. People who avoid flying do it for others and end up helping themselves.
  18. Is flying to protest in Glasgow like PETA practicing animal sacrifice?
  19. Is Capitalism Driving Our Environmental Problems?
  20. 526: A recent talk on doof, heroin, crack, and sustainability
  21. A billion-dollar simple (partial) solution to litter
  22. Response to a Christian reader about his friends struggling with stewardship
  23. Scrubbing the floor regularly
  24. 524: James Rebanks, part 1: Pastoral Song
  25. “Bucket list” means craving. You’ll never be satisfied with other places until you’re satisfied where you are.

October 2021

  1. I graphed my ecological footprint, according to the Global Footprint Network
  2. A way to lower pollution that would work
  3. Another way to see the problem with chasing energy efficiency as a strategy
  4. The environment has losing stories.
  5. My shameful reason for not learning to play basketball
  6. Notes from a reader who made famous no-packaging vegan stew from my video
  7. Renewables are less renewable than we thought. That’s the starting point.
  8. Why do so many people lecture me on what it’s like to be a straight white male?
  9. My second Bronx cooking workshop to fill in food deserts, in one of New York City’s most beautiful spots
  10. National Geographic wants you to pay to exploit, plunder, and destroy Earth’s beauty and cultures, co-opting ecologists
  11. Why does nearly everyone reject Gandhi’s advice?
  12. Prepare yourself that you will soon be unable to fly across an ocean
  13. Asking for help is leading.
  14. 519: Terik Weekes, Chief Engineer for Elroy Air: The future of electric flight
  15. Vegans who fly?
  16. In One Chart: How America Can Influence the World on Sustainability and Why It Can’t Now
  17. Refining one of my core message: Systemic Change Begins With Personal Change
  18. You knew flying, plastic, etc were too good to be true. You didn’t earn them.
  19. Robert McNamara and Geoengineering
  20. 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics: Climate Science and my response
  21. Technology is less important than you think to change culture.
  22. “Touch grass”
  23. 514: Jojo Mehta: Ecocide: why you want this law more than you’ve imagined

September 2021

  1. 513: Jon Levy, part 2: Which influences more, shame and guilt or support and love?
  2. “Even when it doesn’t taste as good, it tastes better when you cook it yourself.”
  3. 511: Joe Collins, part 1.5: Can We Clean South Central Los Angeles?
  4. My little litter poem
  5. Another morning walk seeing litter in my neighborhood.
  6. Spodek’s Law of environmental debate
  7. My main discovery that makes The Spodek Method work
  8. 510: Jonathan Hardesty, part 6: “This method of doing things is making me become a better husband and parent”
  9. Would Jesus or Buddha fly in 2021?
  10. 509: Joe Romm: From science to working with James Cameron, leading through story
  11. How to remember e to 20 decimal places
  12. The two biggest chips on my shoulder
  13. Imagine India without Gandhi, South Africa without Mandela, the U.S. without King. Now imagine Earth today with their equivalent.
  14. My first open letter to the leadership training community
  15. 508: Eric Orts, part 2: To the U.S. Senate by living the values he leads
  16. Teamwork will elevate us to victory
  17. #4 of the Top 15 Leadership Blogs You Should Be Reading in 2021: This One.
  18. Graduated to a new kettlebell: 70 pounds (31.8kg)
  19. Welcome to the newest member of the This Sustainable Life podcast family, TSL: Biodiversity & Conservation by Michèle Watson
  20. 504: Dar-Lon Chang, part 2: Activists on Exxon’s Board (and fighting a real estate developer who lied about sustainability)
  21. Why does almost no one pick up litter?
  22. Why you shouldn’t live sustainably (not really): Coming clean about my shameful sponge
  23. Want to live more sustainably: The measure that matters
  24. Notes from biking from New York City to Philadelphia over the weekend
  25. My 1-minute video on a counterintuitive concept in science and technology

August 2021

  1. We know less about nature and science than ever
  2. 501: Big City Andrew, part 2: Cleaning small towns and big cities
  3. Even when governments pay them to have more kids, families want fewer
  4. How much litter should you pick up?
  5. How will a sustainable world look?
  6. They’re creating a bike route from Maine to Florida. Sponsor me in a fundraising ride!
  7. Inspired to my first run in almost a year: 9 miles. Still plogging.
  8. Leading a children’s workshop on picking up litter in Union Square
  9. 495: Alexis Stewart, part 1: Martha’s daughter’s passion for picking up litter
  10. The point of individual action when you want to change systems
  11. Space: The Final Frontier, hear me on America Out Loud on space, space travel, and astrophysics
  12. Another million dollar business idea: Goodwill Food
  13. Young people don’t want kids out of fear. What does it take to wake up and fix our culture?
  14. How to transform my famous no-packaging vegan stew into restaurant food
  15. 493: Sarah Wilson: Living Joyfully Sustainably (more fun than excuses)
  16. The distraction of reporting more wind and solar
  17. When pollution happens
  18. Bullshit Cargo
  19. Food poisoning and burpees nearly as hard as after a marathon
  20. 491: Nevcan Gungor, part 1: Surviving Myanmar’s military coup
  21. More recursion after last week’s recursive map post
  22. I helped get bikes allowed on New York City subways
  23. On sustainability, technology is not the solution. It’s more part of the problem.
  24. There’s no such thing as a superfood

July 2021

  1. 490: Karen Shragg, part 2: Lowering birth rate and raising tomato rate
  2. The most amazing “You Are Here” map you’ve ever seen
  3. What would you say to a slave trader in 1806 England or 1860 U.S. who feared for his or her profession?
  4. The twisted, non-thinking of economists thinking economies must grow or they’ll collapse
  5. 489: Martin Puris, part 2: All big ideas begin in the mind of one person thinking creatively
  6. Know the 2 carbon cycles and don’t confuse them.
  7. A pile of ten syringes outside a luxury building by Washington Square Park. Where is Mayor De Blasio?
  8. Communicating with tech geeks on sustainability
  9. Olympic devastation that could be local fun instead
  10. We will soon see plastic the way we see asbestos, leaded gasoline, and marketing cigarettes to children
  11. Personal action: Nobody said act once and stop. Act, learn, act more, lead others.
  12. Hear me speak on Initiative on Moving Mountains with Sasha Laghonh
  13. 175,000 burpees
  14. Eugenics, anti-miscegenation, and ecofascism, especially in the United States
  15. The best presentation on population I’ve seen, by TV and movie star Alexandra Paul
  16. 486: General Kip Ward, part 2: Not flying by choice, and smiling about it
  17. I don’t pick up litter because I care about the environment. I care about the environment because I pick up litter.
  18. How a Nation With No Racists Can Appear Half-Racist to Everyone in It
  19. Reinterpreting the Marshmallow Experiment
  20. Doing something nonpolluting doesn’t offset something polluting
  21. Eating something healthy doesn’t offset something unhealthy
  22. 484: John Sargent, part 2: Fun Transforming MacMillan, a Big 5 Publisher
  23. A New Reason I Pick Up Trash Every Day
  24. Hear me on ExecuPeaks on leadership and sustainability with Sasha Laghonh
  25. “Olympic Swimmer Caeleb Dressel Says the Key to Success Is Making Your Bed”
  26. 483: Jane O’Sullivan: Debunking the “Aging Problem” Scam
  27. How Close Are We To July 4th, 1775?
  28. How Pollution Happens: the Bicycle Analogy
  29. Don’t put your faith in the next generation. The last generation put faith in you. Act yourself first.
  30. 482: Florida’s Condo Collapse, Doom Psychology, and Our Environment

June 2021

  1. How Much Space You Take Up Is Irrelevant
  2. “Pride Destroyed the Park”, Washington Square Park after a parade (Video)
  3. My new top advice on what to do about the environment
  4. 478: Forrest Galante, part 1: Saving Zanzibar Leopards and Other Not Yet Extinct Species
  5. More Mechai Viravaidya resources: Our world’s top role model
  6. 477: Mechai Viravaidya: My #1 Top Role Model in the World
  7. 476: Tom Murphy, part 3: The Science Book of the Decade
  8. Why I Chose Not to Run for Office
  9. Signs of Overpopulation
  10. Video: What’s wrong with New York City?
  11. What Actions Reduce Greenhouse Emissions Most?
  12. The scams that keep us from solving our environmental problems
  13. 474: Frederick Lane, part 2: Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Motivation
  14. It’s Time to Ban Single-Use Packaging: The Village Sun published my op-ed piece
  15. Comedian Bill Burr on Overpopulation
  16. 473: James Suzman: What We Can Learn From 300,000 Years of Human History
  17. More Used Syringes Littering My Community, This Time at Penn Station and Moynihan Hall
  18. 12 Sustainability Leadership Lessons Unplugging My Fridge for 6.5 Months Taught Me
  19. Hear me on My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston
  20. How I keep going when I feel like giving up (which is often)
  21. Hear me on conservative talk radio: Living By Your Values Is Freedom
  22. Clawing back: 4,951 meters in 20 minutes. 49 to go.
  23. Recycling is like improving Enron’s health care plan
  24. 468: Alexandra Paul, part 2: How to Reduce Something (Wasteful) You Enjoy, to Improve Your Life

May 2021

  1. Memorial Day Glory in Greenwich Village
  2. The Science Book of the Decade: Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet, by Tom Murphy
  3. 466: Shaun Donovan: New York City Mayoral Candidate
  4. Richard Nixon: Environmentalist (compared to us today)
  5. You’ll change when the five people around you do
  6. 465: Markus Pukonen, part 1: Around the World With No Motors
  7. Immigrants and poor people don’t do work other Americans won’t. We create horrible jobs when we can exploit people.
  8. What do you think is the main thing that makes a healthy, long lasting relationship?
  9. Dominion, the documentary
  10. “Corporations should change, not consumers” and other nonsense
  11. If I ever write a novel, what I’ll write
  12. 463: Brad Hoylman, part 1: From New York Senator to Manhattan Borough President
  13. 462: Bill Ryerson, part 3: The biggest impact you can make
  14. Exercise: Imagine a Day Without Doof
  15. Exercise: Imagine a Day Without Using Electric Power
  16. Envisioning a more open world: an exercise
  17. The solution to intermittency in solar and wind power
  18. Pollution:Earth :: Obesity:Body
  19. How to take two years to fill a load of trash or get a $1.70 electric bill
  20. I Saw A Guy Eating Ice Cream With Zero Joy
  21. At a loss for words at people playing with their fat
  22. What was it like to watch Mandela, Gandhi, and Dr. King and not help?
  23. Should streams have rights? Should corporations?
  24. We Can’t Change the Past But We Can Choose Our Values
  25. 455: J. B. MacKinnon, part 2: What happens when you pay for quality?

April 2021

  1. Would you rather eat as much as you want or have someone cook for you and serve you?
  2. 454: Richard Rothstein: Racial segregation in generations of U.S. law
  3. More reasons to act now, not wait for governments or corporations
  4. Each month is 1%
  5. Sometimes writing is peaceful and flows. Sometimes it takes work, toil, and struggle.
  6. The Benefits of Staying Local
  7. Month 6, Day 1: Fridge still off (Happy Earth Day)
  8. The Story of Plastic Animated Short Video
  9. How to Get Free Vegetables With a Smile
  10. Preferring a virus to a vaccine?
  11. 3 minor fitness successes
  12. Progressing From DJs to Dirt
  13. “How Exercise May Help Protect Against Severe Covid-19” Comments
  14. Finally, I illustrated what’s missing from sustainability
  15. After ten years, pushing 50, burpees are getting harder
  16. Thoughts on singing
  17. Vasectomies aren’t about fewer children. They’re about more sex.
  18. Success Through Garbage
  19. More evidence it’s wrong that only government and corporations can make a difference
  20. 450: Brian Keating, Losing the Nobel Prize
  21. Why I predict the Next Pandemic Will Happen Sooner Than in a Century. More like a decade or two.
  22. Rowing 4,936 meters in 20 minutes
  23. How do you honor Easter?
  24. Missing birds
  25. A lovable bigot is still a bigot and a lovable polluter still pollutes.
  26. I Bet You Care More Than People Think You Do
  27. But I don’t have any farmers markets nearby. Should I give up?

March 2021

  1. Wisdom in short audio clips, part 2
  2. Wisdom in short audio clips, part 1
  3. You Can’t Think More Complex Than Interruptions Allow
  4. Litter Hurts
  5. An empty sidcha I’m considering
  6. Don’t call plastic “green space”
  7. The Weather Is Warm. Guess Who’s Back in Washington Square Park, Sadly?
  8. Year 6, day 1 since I last flew
  9. “I refuse to be silenced because you’re afraid of change”
  10. Starting month 5 With My Fridge Unplugged
  11. Family Planning Success Stories From Around the World (mostly videos)
  12. 448: Robert Bilott: The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare
  13. 447: Kathryn Garcia, part 1: Candidate for New York City Mayor
  14. Vertical farms illustrate the problem with fusion
  15. Learned helplessness and managing population
  16. Book 3, first draft done
  17. 445: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, part 2: Religion, Interpreting the Torah, and Nature
  18. Bill Gates and environmental leadership, part 2: His Addiction Speaking
  19. 3 Meditation Updates
  20. What happened to utopia?
  21. Bill Gates and environmental leadership
  22. How I improved on Eisenhower
  23. Can people collaborate across lines of nationality, skin color, etc when it counts?
  24. Debunking the myth that an ageing population is a problem.
  25. Vegan Seitan Stew, 4 minutes prep time (video)
  26. What Genesis Meant
  27. Our environment is getting biblical

February 2021

  1. Marathon Number Eight
  2. “Do black men have a harder struggle in life than most? Are white men privileged?” see me on a Magamedia panel
  3. You can make a habit stick faster than the “experts” say
  4. How learning sustainability is like learning sex
  5. Pandemic Fatigue? How to Achieve Pandemic Thriving
  6. Why do we end sentences with “and stuff” and “or something”?
  7. 440: Andrés Reséndez: The Other Slavery
  8. “The 11 Best Leadership Books You Should Read This Year” named Leadership Step by Step
  9. Hear my second conversation on This Sustainable Life: Solve for Nature
  10. Do we need math and science after school?
  11. The Founding Fathers, travel, and flying
  12. Where Is the World Going, Mr. Spodek?
  13. What the biggest human structure says about culture
  14. Hear me on the Cybertraps podcast
  15. My latest ecological footprint, according to online calculator: 0.8 tonnes of CO2 annually
  16. 4 things to remember when riding in 29 (-2C) degree weather
  17. The reason renewables are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels nobody mentions
  18. Old person: get with the program
  19. Is the best book on pollution and depletion a picture book you can finish in a sitting?
  20. Why I’m singing
  21. Population: Why not educate men on family planning?
  22. Hear me again on the Ask Women podcast on seductive conversation

January 2021

  1. Do you drink bottled water? Watch Tapped, the movie.
  2. Do you have any secret or latent concerns or fears about the environment? Did I miss any?
  3. Are these your main worries about the environment? Did I miss any?
  4. Are these your burning questions about the environment? Did I miss any?
  5. 434: Manisha Sinha: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
  6. Man Ray, the great artist, on his greatest satisfaction
  7. This Sustainable Life: Solve for Nature launches from Japan, hosted by Eugene Bible
  8. 10 Years of Daily Posts
  9. I love Goodwill, but we let it enable our wasteful choices
  10. 432: Matthew Stevenson, part 2: What can environmentalists learn from disarming racism?
  11. Senate hearings on Lloyd Austin III, who invited me to speak at West Point
  12. The problem with “Governments and corporations have to change”
  13. Government and corporations are more problem than solution
  14. Emotions following a summer of BLM, a winter of insurrection, and ongoing pandemic
  15. 428: Vanessa Friedman: The New York Times Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic
  16. Why Food Is Not Medicine
  17. The problem with “dependence on foreign oil”
  18. A recent video overview on sustainability leadership
  19. I used 2.5% the average American’s electric power last month
  20. 20 years ago, my first media coverage: The Wall Street Journal
  21. What one person does matters. What more evidence do you need?
  22. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
  23. 2020 versus 2021
  24. Elon Musk and the Environment
  25. Sketch for book or TV series introduction
  26. 427: Behind the Mic: Attraction and leadership
  27. “Philosophy of Shrinking Footprints” and “Shrinking Your Travel Footprint”, hear me on 2 Growthbusters episodes
  28. Conversazioni Sostenibili (the Italian This Sustainable Life) hosts me

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December 2020

  1. Mastery illustrated
  2. Did you make 2020 your finest hour?
  3. A leadership lesson from Ronald Reagan I’ve taken to heart
  4. Don’t Mess With Texas: a celebrity-packed anti-littering campaign
  5. Update: Day 365 of current load of trash
  6. What can you do?
  7. 424: Brent Suter, part 3: We don’t have to steward. We get to.
  8. Year 10, day 1 of daily burpees (about 163,000 and counting)
  9. What “Educate women” means
  10. Clear talk on the environment from a man at the forefront for fifty years
  11. As I predicted, sadly, Trump: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
  12. “Addicts lie” and they sound like people justifying polluting
  13. 423: Kelly Allan, part 2: Restoring joy to work through Deming and stewardship
  14. Working on Purpose radio with Dr. Alise Cortez hosted me
  15. See me on MAGAMedia.org on the election
  16. America’s bullsh*t stories about the environment
  17. If we led other areas as we do sustainability
  18. Want to play Carnegie Hall?
  19. See me on a MAGAMedia panel with five Trump supporters
  20. 420: Three Years of Leadership and the Environment!
  21. 419: Balint Horvath, part 4: Fatherhood and sustainability
  22. “When did I start acting sustainably?” “When did you stop?”
  23. 418: Chester Elton, part 2: The world’s number 4 best leadership speaker, trainer, and thought leader
  24. I’m not in great shape. I just spent nearly no time or money reaching the shape I want.
  25. 417: Dan McPherson, part 2: Recovering from his heart attack, cutting out water bottles
  26. What makes America great and our greatest vulnerability
  27. 416: Rod Schoonover, part 1: Resigned in protest after White House tried to delete “basic science” from climate change report
  28. American obesity: 42.4 percent

November 2020

  1. 415: Marion Nestle, conversation 2: Let’s Ask Marion
  2. 414: Nir Eyal, part 2: He committed to avoiding flying before the pandemic
  3. Watch Growthbusters free this weekend–tackling the taboo at the root of it all
  4. Management Versus Leadership
  5. Imagine the relief of 3.7 billion people
  6. I spend less than the average American on food, buying almost nothing they do
  7. 413: Michael Moss, part 1.5: Maybe that was the addiction speaking
  8. ANNOUNCING: From Italy, a new offshoot of the Leadership and the Environment podcast!
  9. I unplugged my fridge for the winter
  10. 412: George Chmiel, part 2: Teamwork From Garbage
  11. “The Mandela of the Environment”—profiled in Wildpreneurs
  12. Speak Like a Leader podcast features me today
  13. The cause of our environmental problems, aka “the addiction speaking”
  14. More on less stuff
  15. 409: Kevin Cahill, part 2: Systems change, fast and effective
  16. 407: Eric Metaxas: William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace
  17. Special invitation to sneak preview I Am Greta
  18. The cruel misunderstanding of “poor today live like kings of yesterday”
  19. Lower Manhattan Off the Hook
  20. Parting with material things
  21. 403: Ashish Jha, part 2: Battling covid-19, leadership, and the environment
  22. Full lotus: 21 minutes meditating on a Sunday morning
  23. Day 1,300 picking up at least one piece of litter daily
  24. Two touching new episodes from our UK offshoot: This Sustainable Life Untethered

October 2020

  1. The Story of Plastic panel video
  2. 399: Mark Tercek: Former CEO, The Nature Conservancy; Former Partner, Goldman Sachs
  3. How about helping polluters reduce pollution this way?
  4. What comes next: mind, body, ?
  5. What do you think, feel, and do when you see an addicted person?
  6. Allegory: the source of our environmental problems
  7. Doof: most fruit yogurt and chocolates are misnamed
  8. 398: Lt. General Paul Van Riper USMC, part 2: A Marine Versus Coffee
  9. A solution to social media messing up elections
  10. The Story of Plastic panelists
  11. My keynote and panel at Swedish Food Tech’s Big Meet
  12. My famous no-packaging vegan stew webinar with Plant Powered Metro New York (plagued by technical problems)
  13. Beth Comstock on The Story of Plastic
  14. 396: Margaret Klein Salamon, part 2: Political or Personal or Political and Personal
  15. Your new plans for October 22: Join the screening and panel of experts I’m hosting on The Story of Plastic.
  16. ANNOUNCING: A new offshoot of the Leadership and the Environment podcast!
  17. On pledges to lower emissions by 2030 and 2050
  18. What future generations won’t believe we lacked
  19. Ask not “how bad does it have to get before people act?”
  20. 394: Joe De Sena, part 2: The Sustainable Spartan starts here
  21. 393: Jaime Casap, part 2: If a global pandemic isn’t the end, what is?
  22. Sustainability Leadership Slogans
  23. Litter or Thrones?
  24. Three oddly accurate rules of communications in 2020
  25. Used syringes littering my neighborhood
  26. 391: Bob Inglis, part 2: Is Biden better for conservatives on climate legislation?

September 2020

  1. Our peeled grapes
  2. The joy of my phone breaking
  3. Thoughts on yesterday’s 100-mile bike ride
  4. My first time biking 100 miles in a day since the 80s (then 51 burpees)
  5. Kids you can’t afford?
  6. 387: Maja Rosén: Leading not flying
  7. What I buy used versus new
  8. When I saw Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak at West Point
  9. 385: Coleman Hughes: Race and social media mobs
  10. Attend my online workshop: Make my famous no-packaging vegetable stew. Free, October 1 online
  11. My Washington Square Park drug dealer dream
  12. I confess I don’t get a lot of poetry
  13. More disposable cars: Ignoring unintended side-effects
  14. Prediction: cars will become disposable
  15. Mutual Aid During the Pandemic
  16. The virus does nothing
  17. I don’t have to steward. I get to.
  18. The Book: Food and Climate Change–Without the Hot Air
  19. Would you describe these abs as chiseled?
  20. Watering my tomato plants means climbing 11 flights every day

August 2020

  1. I used to think I lived in the best time and place for food
  2. I’m not leading by example. If you think I am, you’re probably promoting pollution.
  3. It seems I eat food homeless people throw away
  4. In a world calling for leadership, where are the leadership authors and gurus?
  5. 378: Libba and Gifford Pinchot III, part 1: Redefining business education
  6. The rare taste of blood
  7. 377: Chris Manhertz, part 2: Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
  8. 374: Andreas Larsson, part 1: Leadership and the Environment Sweden
  9. Polluting students’ bodies: did NYU go back on its word?
  10. Hear me on No Backing Down
  11. What we can learn from elk hunters
  12. 373: Jaeden Graham, Atlanta Falcon: Reaching beyond your potential
  13. Is Psychology Today Biased Against Men and People of Color?
  14. Rowing by the Empire State Building
  15. A reader asks: “What makes a leader effective during a crisis? E.g. Covid19”
  16. Everything I’ve eaten since returning home
  17. Full Lotus Position
  18. Let’s talk about Race and White Privilege, Parts 1 and 2
  19. 75 years since Hiroshima
  20. Left mouse button broke. Still posting, not missing my sidcha.
  21. “One-Third of New York’s Small Businesses May Be Gone Forever” Another problem with efficiency

July 2020

  1. A million-dollar business idea in sustainability
  2. Superman and picking up garbage
  3. I finish paying for the MBA I earned in 2005-06 tomorrow
  4. Looking for work? See me on Columbia Alumni’s panel: Navigating a Job Search in a Difficult Market
  5. 2020 in 9 words: “Everybody wants to be heard and nobody is listening.”
  6. The Packaged Food Challenge: See me with Joe De Sena on Spartan Up!
  7. 360: Sparta could make history
  8. More tired than in years
  9. “Do men have emotions?”, she asked.
  10. Greetings from Sparta
  11. A reader asks: how much money is enough to spend?
  12. Should NYU-Tisch change its name?
  13. See my webinars on Initiative to Wharton and U. of Chicago Business School alumni.
  14. When facts influence, when they make people dig in.
  15. What “recyclable,” “recycled,” and “compostable” mean
  16. What “net zero” and “closed loop” mean.
  17. Reader questions
  18. The 21st Century: dozens of ways to communicate . . . and all of them break.
  19. Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

June 2020

  1. Frances Hesselbein quoted me for today’s Tip of the Day
  2. Any Given Runway features me (who avoids runways)
  3. Who is responsible for pollution?
  4. Have any President’s decisions and actions led to more American civilian deaths than Trump’s?
  5. Signs of hope
  6. Specious, fatuous, self-serving beliefs
  7. 350: Jonathan Herzog, part 1: A candidate acts with genuineness and authenticity
  8. I don’t mind if the restaurant industry shifts to home cooking and eating
  9. “Our Finest Hour, If We Choose”, in Kosmos Quarterly
  10. Kings of sidchas
  11. Adults “praising” youth on environmental action
  12. Heroes of New York, episode 2: Doing meaningful things, a conversation on change
  13. My new challenge to help people pollute less
  14. Roots of my environmental action video
  15. More inspiration from Nelson Mandela
  16. Surprises returning home
  17. 346: Julie Margretta Wilson: Covid-19 devastating education
  18. Habits create a lifestyle: Hear me on the Style Your Life podcast
  19. Watch UNICEF’s 2020 World Environment Day Panel Discussion, which included me
  20. The advice I shouldn’t have taken from a black friend on talking about race
  21. The habit myths that lead you to quit
  22. A video about the idiocy of perpetual growth
  23. 343: Chad Pregracke: One River, One Piece of Garbage at a Time
  24. Psychology Today: Introversion is not the opposite of extroversion, part 2
  25. Psychology Today: Introversion Is Not the Opposite of Extroversion

May 2020

  1. Introducing Miko Lau’s 26 Days to Greatness Challenge
  2. Should we make stupid shit illegal?
  3. The New Right Network hosted me for its Environment Town Hall. Watch the Video.
  4. Why are we blind to sexism hurting men, take 4: Central Park false accusation
  5. The Heroes of New York podcast hosted me
  6. Elon Musk isn’t helping nature
  7. My reflection on an exercise assigned me: Drinking a Hot Beverage Without Judgment
  8. Americans mistake
  9. An attendee’s stellar review of my webinar: Life-Changing Habits Even (Especially) Under Lock-Down
  10. Habits aren’t my thing, despite what you might think
  11. 340: Michael Turner, DDS, MD: On the front line of Covid-19 in New York City
  12. 339: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: Food Matters
  13. I planted my first tree!
  14. The Market and the Good podcast hosts me for two episodes
  15. Three Latest Videos on New York City’s lockdown with Me and Magamedia.org’s Rob Harper
  16. Recovering from running a marathon versus rowing a 2k
  17. Learning to walk barefoot again
  18. 338: Abbey Ryan, part 1: Technique and Mastery Through Practice
  19. Leadership and the Environment Sweden launches!
  20. “The Value and Joy of Individual Action”: Hear me on the Growthbusters podcast
  21. How Bill Gates and the 1% can help the environment
  22. 337: Why we feel miserable under lockdown
  23. Science discovering “tastes good” versus “wanting more”
  24. 336: Julian Guderley: GreenPlanet BluePlanet
  25. 335: Rhonda Lamb, part 2: reversing food deserts
  26. This Sustainable Life popular guests
  27. Life-Changing Habits Even (Especially) Under Lock-Down
  28. My third TEDx talk: People Don’t Want to Do Small Things. They Want to Do Meaningful Things
  29. Beautiful, modern life before plastic, corn syrup, and Walmart
  30. Keeping your habits and sidchas
  31. The Great Isolation Part 3
  32. 334: Jethro Jones, part 2: Biking in -40 degrees. Why not?

April 2020

  1. Join my webinar THIS FRIDAY: Creating meaning, purpose, and structure under lock down (and the rest of your life)
  2. My keynote at My Green Lab’s Sustainability Summit (Sneak preview of my third TEDx talk)
  3. My thoughts on Planet of the Humans, which I recommend
  4. When you hear “Green Growth,” “Closed-loop Economy,” or “Net zero”, watch your wallet.
  5. 331: Rob Harper, part 2: A Pro-Trump View
  6. Our greatest taboo is the greatest issue of our time: Watch Growthbusters free (for limited time)
  7. Lockdown reflections, locked down with family for the first time since the 70s (with Robjh from Magamedia)
  8. 330: Lockdown Inspiration from Nelson Mandela
  9. My Question Journal
  10. 328: Tony Wagner, Learning by Heart
  11. How much is COVID-19 affecting the environment?
  12. The most valuable no-nonsense covid-19 information I’ve seen (from Nutritionfacts.org’s Dr. Michael Greger)
  13. See my second appearance on Magamedia.org
  14. Video on New York City’s lockdown with Magamedia.org’s Rob Harper
  15. Split infinitives
  16. This bookmark illustrates what’s wrong with our world
  17. 324: Marina McCoy, part 1: A Waste-Free Earth Through Music
  18. 323: Steven Kotler: The Future Is Faster Than You Think
  19. 321: Marni Kinrys, part 2: Making Stewardship Normal
  20. 150,000 burpees

March 2020

  1. Do you research how much water certain produce requires to grow?
  2. Would you take piano lessons from someone who breaks pianos with a sledgehammer but doesn’t play?
  3. 316: Dr. Joel Fuhrman MD, part 2: Eat for Life
  4. The Joshua Spodek Show
  5. My Bronx cooking demonstration video
  6. 313: Jeff Kirschner, part 2: Still Working On It, Still Learning
  7. Covid-19: Addiction to flying and other polluting behavior was a lack of motivation and imagination
  8. 309: Roberta Baskin: Covid-19 Social Connection Amid Physical Distancing
  9. See me on Rise to the Occasion with Chelsea Behrens
  10. Covid advice applies to the environment. What we can do here we can do everywhere.
  11. 305: The greatest danger from covid-19 would be not learning from it
  12. The fashion world is noticing buying less
  13. Would you take a free course in sustainability leadership?
  14. 300: Larry Yatch, part 3: Discovering New Emotions With His Sons and Wife
  15. Hear my second appearance on 12 Minute Conversations with Engel Jones
  16. Beat my 2k record by 4 seconds
  17. TEDx done, on to rowing in the morning, Harvard the next day

February 2020

  1. Is theory just reflection?
  2. Exercise friends
  3. See my interview in the Let’s Reach Success blog
  4. One way to lower white supremacists’ appeal
  5. The project I assigned myself following up my posts on white men
  6. Update on automatic thoughts people connect with straight white men
  7. 293: Alan Weisman: My Greatest Source of Environmental Hope
  8. See me speak at TEDxConnecticutCollege, February 29th
  9. Psychology Today: White Men and Preconceived Notions
  10. Forbes, Faherty, a blog award, and other media mentions
  11. Hear me on the Ask Women podcast
  12. Hear me on the GreenPlanet BluePlanet podcast
  13. 288: Vince Lombardi: What It Takes
  14. My electric bill after a month with the fridge off
  15. Book launch: The War on the EPA
  16. Sexism in magazine covers?
  17. Psychology Today: The Environment: What Do One Person’s Actions Matter?
  18. 287: David Katz, part 1: Stopping ocean plastic
  19. 286: Paul Smith, part 2: At the edge of my seat
  20. A simple, genius way media can lead on the environment
  21. 283: Nadya Zhexembayeva, part 2: The Reinvention Guru

January 2020

  1. 282: Vanessa Hering, part 2: Food, fitness, fun, and winning
  2. What automatic thoughts come to you when you think of straight white men?
  3. Why record temperatures matter
  4. More (d)evolving views on universities
  5. Year 10, day 1, number 3,764
  6. How Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s look when you avoid packaging
  7. Do you postpone or get postponed on more?
  8. My thoughts from when the alarm goes off
  9. My keynote at Sustainology 2019 (video)
  10. TOMORROW: My webinar on Initiative with Columbia Business School
  11. Psychology Today: Food, Sustainability, and Joy
  12. Make exercises and activities easier by combining complementing ones
  13. Avoid Eating “Doof”. What’s doof?
  14. 273: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
  15. Why do people ask about energy levels?
  16. What rowing 2,000 meters for time feels like
  17. Hear me on The Professional podcast with Gary Roth
  18. How long can I keep my fridge unplugged?
  19. We’ve made thrills boring. We can do the opposite.

2019 340

December 2019

  1. 268: Hunter Lovins, part 2: Sustainability will work. It will take work.
  2. When, specifically, is the best time for evening exercises?
  3. When, specifically, is the best time for morning exercises?
  4. 267: Seth Shelden, part 2: Inside the United Nations
  5. Emptying my household garbage for the first time in 2019
  6. A Christmas Thought on Population and Climate
  7. See me on Magamedia.org for one of my favorite interviews, “A Different Look at Climate Change”
  8. Year 9, day 1. Nearly 150,000.
  9. I rowed 100k (60 miles) in 22 days. Memento Mori.
  10. Cold weather when I was young
  11. Stumbling to leadership
  12. My China Africa story of common ancestors
  13. $10 of vegetables
  14. Adding less salt, sugar, and fat makes you taste more of each
  15. 259: Caspar Craven, part 2: with his wife and son
  16. One way universities could teach better
  17. Universities don’t teach as well as they think they do.
  18. Everyone would love this nonprofit idea that would help clean the world
  19. 256: Why Personal Action Matters
  20. Hear me on the new Sustainable and Green Movement podcast with Andy Andrews
  21. Hear me on the Leadership Happy Hour with USN Lt. Commander Chip Lutz
  22. 255: Joshua Becker, Becoming Minimalist
  23. My failure resume, first pass

November 2019

  1. The Original Bar Chart, or why I prefer chalkboards to whiteboards
  2. Clips from my speaking at Google last week
  3. 252: Tia Nelson, part 2: A lifetime of Earth Days
  4. Oprah, how obesity spreads, and the environment
  5. Social media is gossip — global and anonymous gossip
  6. Old athletes keep me young
  7. 249: Florida Mayors Jerry Demings and Buddy Dyer, part 2: Humility and Action from U.S. officials
  8. November 1999 was a big month
  9. If we don’t lower our birth rate nature will raise our death rate.
  10. Here Comes The Sun 2019 brings tears to my eyes
  11. How Psychology Today improved overnight
  12. My second TEDx talk, “What everyone gets wrong about the environment” and how to get it right
  13. My dominant question. What’s yours?
  14. Do I ever feel like giving in?
  15. 4 Delicious Benefits of Acting on the Environment
  16. More disgust at day 2 of a food sustainability event
  17. Disgust at a food sustainability event

October 2019

  1. 240: Fred Krupp, part 1: Helping where it will help most
  2. Imagine well-known people responding how we do to the environment
  3. 239: The Enemy
  4. Candy is punishment, as is more stuff. Vegetables are reward, as is less stuff.
  5. Dr. Pelè hosted me on the I GOT HAPPY podcast!
  6. Update on the love letters with my high school girlfriend
  7. My social media notes on the environment
  8. Update on my vegetable overload
  9. Did you ever notice when someone cancels . . .
  10. Near Manhattan? Come try my stew this week.
  11. Did you ever notice when someone interrupts. . .
  12. 232: Michael Werner, part 2: Leading Google by bike
  13. 230: Brad P, part 2: Change your habits, change your life
  14. Thoughts on reading my love letters to my high school girlfriend after 30 years
  15. Examples of “tastes good” versus “want more”
  16. Victory from the jaws of defeat: I froze two-thirds through my TEDx talk
  17. Exhaustion glory
  18. Artificial Intelligence, us, and becoming superfluous
  19. See me at TEDxWaltham, Saturday October 5 near Boston
  20. How to plant a tree in New York City?
  21. 225: My role model: Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine

September 2019

  1. Attend the Second Annual Leadership and the Environment Panel, October 15
  2. U.S. Obesity Rates Reach Historic Highs
  3. A review of my Google talk
  4. Terrible User Interface
  5. 223: Adam Quiney, part 2: Do the Thing
  6. Differences between management and leadership
  7. Epstein, Weinstein, Trump, the Clintons, and the Sacklers were close
  8. I plogged on TV with the Doctor and the Diva
  9. 220: Michelle Tillis Lederman, part 2: Making it habitual makes it easy
  10. My third Hidden Why, with Leigh Martinuzzi
  11. Protection from depression
  12. TEDx talk #2! . . . three chances to see it live
  13. Your Daily Environment 012: Naomi Klein, Exxon, and us
  14. Why Greta Thunberg is the Leader of the Future
  15. 216: Brandon Voss, part 2: Negotiate Like Your Environment Depends On It
  16. My electrical bill
  17. The Most Romantic Thing I Ever Did
  18. Does Personal Action Matter?
  19. Your Daily Environment 011, We don’t cause climate change?!?
  20. My take on “Google, YouTube To Pay $170 Million Penalty Over Collecting Kids’ Personal Info”
  21. 215: Jeremy Ryan Slate, part 2: How long have you gone without a phone?

August 2019

  1. My trash from redoing the floor
  2. The Top 1% podcast with Trevor Blattner hosts me
  3. 211: Michael Werner, part 1: Dream job results from environmental leadership
  4. Your Daily Environment 010, The Once and Future World, August 27, 2019
  5. Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue and their prevalence.
  6. How much toothpaste should you use?
  7. How many times is it normal to be mugged?
  8. Hear me on Conversations With Phil, with Phil Gerbyshak
  9. Cold Showers Rock
  10. Avoiding food packaging
  11. Initiative: Why We Lack It and How to Develop It
  12. My first time holding a Nobel Prize
  13. Sammy Courtright
  14. Great movie ending moments
  15. Omit needless words
  16. 207: My Sad Fig Tragedy
  17. My One Last Thought
  18. The Company I Co-Founded Locked Me Out of the Office
  19. Your Daily Environment 009, The Once and Future World, 8/9/19
  20. Hear me on Guiding You Through the Maze with Lisa Lentino
  21. Your Daily Environment 008: National Public Radio, August 6, 2019
  22. Who knew silence and stillness could bring such joy?
  23. Hear me on the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast

July 2019

  1. Your Daily Environment 007: Greta Thunberg to sail the Atlantic, July 31, 2019
  2. Your Daily Environment, 006, Earth Overshoot Day (was yesterday), July 30, 2019
  3. Why the fixation on toothbrushes and toilet paper?
  4. My latest contribution to the public domain
  5. Your Daily Environment, Day 005, National Review, July 26, 2019
  6. Your Daily Environment, Day 004, Salon.com, July 25, 2019
  7. Your Daily Environment, 003: Trevor Noah on plastic and science doesn’t motivate
  8. Your Daily Environment, day 002: The Environment as a Moon Shot
  9. Your Daily Environment, day 001: The New York Times
  10. Where to buy the best food around New York City
  11. Reflections on 48 years
  12. 201: James Altucher, part 1: More Curious and Adventurous Than Almost Anyone
  13. More Joy of Life Without the Crutch of Flying
  14. Recipe to get rich in America in 2 easy steps
  15. I do more burpees before 9am . . .
  16. Another million-dollar business idea
  17. Mementos of my high school girlfriend
  18. R.I.P. Eva Kor, who expanded compassion, empathy, and forgiveness
  19. Beware arch problems
  20. The Story Behind Initiative’s Cover
  21. 199: Be Fruitful and Multiply: What Does It Mean? transcript
  22. See me speak on Initiative at the New York Public Library, THIS THURSDAY
  23. Freedom: Zero Inbox
  24. The joy of (not) flying, a poem
  25. 193: Tim Smit, part 2: Spirituality and Passion from the Earth

June 2019

  1. Health and Human Services Facts and Statistics
  2. See me speak on Initiative at the New York Public Library, July 11
  3. Eye See You portraits by Genevieve Kim
  4. My TEDx talk coaching
  5. My TEDx talk is online: “Find Your Delicious”
  6. Adventures that don’t cost anything
  7. I got sunburned and dehydrated today. The elite college president I spoke to Friday could learn from my experience.
  8. Diversity doesn’t mean just the diversity you’re thinking of
  9. 191: Mark Metry, part 2: Farmers markets
  10. 190: McKinsey’s 3-Time Global Managing Director Dominic Barton: Fundamentally about people
  11. Do you think like an addict?
  12. Where pollution comes from
  13. Hear me on Becoming Your Best
  14. 188: Steve Sikra, part 1: Passion at Proctor and Gamble
  15. Here me on Stand Out Get Noticed from Australia
  16. Sidchas — the series
  17. More difficulty posting
  18. An anti-magical New York moment
  19. Burned out friend or family you want to help?
  20. Tastes Good versus Want More, explored in depth
  21. A magical New York moment
  22. In depth on habits, initiative, and discipline: Hear me on the Ideas Lab podcast
  23. The Curiosity Warrior
  24. Kicking the flying habit, which keeps you from family and income
  25. Why take initiative in business? Hear me on Smashing the Plateau
  26. Bold, Striking Portraits by Azael Montejo Jr.
  27. “Published” in the New York Times
  28. Full Monty Leadership hosts me on initiative, leadership, and the environment
  29. 60 hours only water
  30. NYU, your sexism is showing

May 2019

  1. No Willpower Needed: Once indulgent foods that now disgust me and the healthy foods I love more
  2. Clarifying The Problems With Capitalism and the Environment
  3. Initiative in mainstream media: Dave Kerpen in Inc.
  4. Living by your values promotes innovation (if it helps)
  5. Capitalism’s problems and the environment
  6. 184: Jonas Koffler, part 1: It’s going to take all of us (plus a hippopotamus)
  7. The longer I go without flying, the more people talking about flying sounds like they’re talking about heroin, part 2.
  8. Justifying music?
  9. An empty boat parable from life
  10. 182: Dov Baron, part 3: What is your car worth?
  11. My body is the outward manifestation of my beliefs and habits.
  12. Hear me with Dr. Diane Hamilton on Take the Lead Radio
  13. Read an Excerpt from Initiative
  14. The Success Through Failure Podcast on my new book, Initiative
  15. Can’t or Won’t Achieve Your Potential?
  16. Can you learn to take initiative?
  17. Initiative: online for pre-order
  18. 179: Initiative, the book: Highlights from an interview
  19. The cover for my new book, Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)
  20. The blurbs for Initiative, my new book
  21. The first interview on my new book, Initiative, launching May 21, on C-Suite radio
  22. Live: Tom Szaky (Founder, TerraCycle) and Me, Thursday at Assemblage
  23. Life adventures without leaving home
  24. America’s Greatest Strength
  25. What Putin wants

April 2019

  1. 175: Jack Buffington, part 1: What can we do about plastic?
  2. 174: Chase Amante, part 1B: Chase on the Environment
  3. How to generate clicks
  4. See Tom Szaky (Founder, TerraCycle) and Me, Live May 9 at Assemblage
  5. Recent praise
  6. 172: If anything, I’m a maximalist (transcript)
  7. Cures that cause their diseases
  8. The end of ethics
  9. 171: The “best kept secret in environmental leadership” (transcript)
  10. My favorite music videos
  11. 170: Colonel Mark Read, part 2: His Family’s Best Christmas Ever (transcript)
  12. 170: Colonel Mark Read, part 2: His Family’s Best Christmas Ever
  13. 169: Srini Rao: Surfing and Creativity
  14. 169: Srini Rao: Surfing and Creativity (transcript)
  15. The environmental revolution begins here, with the Noetic podcast with Jared Angaza
  16. 168: Sir Ken Robinson: Wisdom on the intersection of education, leadership, and the environment (transcript)
  17. 168: Sir Ken Robinson: Wisdom on the intersection of education, leadership, and the environment
  18. The Ethicist: How Can I Teach My Great-Granddaughter to Be Charitable?
  19. Lifesaving ideas: firescooters, firebikes, and firedrones
  20. 167: Amy Aussieker, part 1: Can we transform an American City? (transcript)
  21. 167: Amy Aussieker, part 1: Can we transform an American City?
  22. 166: Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
  23. 166: Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (transcript)
  24. 165: Colonel Mark Read, part 1: Environmental Engineering at West Point (transcript)
  25. Tomorrow, April 10, see a live Leadership and the Environment recording of the former President of the Rainforest Alliance
  26. 164: Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias, part 1: Olympic gold and Crossfit Fittest on Earth (transcript)
  27. 164: Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias, part 1: Olympic gold and Crossfit Fittest on Earth
  28. The Ethicist: Should My Daughter Speak Up About a Classmate’s Plagiarized Poem?
  29. “Nailed it!”
  30. A curious, annoying observation on asking advice for a TEDx talk
  31. How to sleep in without sleeping late
  32. 163: Kevin Kruse, part 1: Great Leaders Have No Rules (transcript)
  33. 163: Kevin Kruse, part 1: Great Leaders Have No Rules
  34. Would you rather, part 5
  35. 162: Bob Langert: McDonald’s former head of Corporate Social Responsibility (transcript)
  36. 162: Bob Langert: McDonald’s former head of Corporate Social Responsibility

March 2019

  1. The Ethicist: I Detest the N.R.A. What Should I Do With My Gun?
  2. See my TEDx talk live, this Saturday, April 6!
  3. I’m famous for plogging! See me pick up litter while I run on local news.
  4. 161: Katie Pettibone, part 1: Americas Cups, 81-foot waves, and protecting the oceans (transcript)
  5. 161: Katie Pettibone, part 1: Americas Cups, 81-foot waves, and protecting the oceans
  6. See Leadership and the Environment recorded live and in-person, April 10 in Manhattan with Tensie Whelan
  7. The difference between belief, faith, and the supernatural
  8. The first interview mentioning my upcoming book
  9. The Ethicist: Should I Report a Do-Nothing Co-Worker?
  10. Year 4, day 1 of not flying
  11. 160: Sean O’Connor, part 2: Replacing coffee cups with human connection (transcript)
  12. 160: Sean O’Connor, part 2: Replacing coffee cups with human connection
  13. Jia Jiang’s world-class social sidcha
  14. 159: Chris Schembra: Expressing Gratitude (transcript)
  15. 158: Dee Caffari, part 1: Turning the Tide on Plastic (transcript)
  16. 158: Dee Caffari, part 1: Turning the Tide on Plastic
  17. 157: Tom Szaky, part 1: TerraCycle’s new initiative: Loop (transcript)
  18. 157: Tom Szaky, part 1: TerraCycle’s new initiative: Loop
  19. The Ethicist: Is It O.K. for a Chinese Restaurant to Favor Chinese Patrons?
  20. 156: Pale Blue Dot Today (transcript)
  21. 155: Margot Machol Bisnow, part 1: Raising an Entrepreneur (transcript)
  22. 155: Margot Machol Bisnow, part 1: Raising an Entrepreneur
  23. Treat Failure With Respect
  24. 154: Why You, Famous Person, Will Like Being a Guest on this Podcast (transcript)
  25. 153: Sean O’Connor, part 1: From paper cups to evaluating life (transcript)
  26. 152: Peter Gray, part 1: Free to Learn (transcript)
  27. 152: Peter Gray, part 1: Free to Learn
  28. 151: What Al Gore Misses (transcript)
  29. 151: What Al Gore Misses
  30. Why call using no sugar extreme but not using no heroin?
  31. 150: Tom Murphy, part 1: Do the Math, the language of nature (transcript)
  32. 149: Ana Rocha, part 1: Cleaning Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (transcript)
  33. 149: Ana Rocha, part 1: Cleaning Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
  34. 147: Ron Gonen: Closed Loop Solutions
  35. 147: Ron Gonen: Closed Loop Solutions (transcript)
  36. My humbling leadership start
  37. The Ethicist: I Think My Former Employer Is Underpaying a Black Employee. Should I Tell Her?
  38. News roundup: drugs, sex, and injuries
  39. 145: Rob Greenfield, part 1: Abundance without stuff
  40. 145: Rob Greenfield, part 1: Abundance without stuff (transcript)
  41. 144: Nikole Beckwith, part 1: Education and leadership (transcript)
  42. 144: Nikole Beckwith, part 1: Education and leadership

February 2019

  1. I rowed a marathon today
  2. 143: Dune Ives, part 2: How Did Plastic Pollution Become Normal? (transcript)
  3. 143: Dune Ives, part 2: How Did Plastic Pollution Become Normal?
  4. 142: To Sam Harris, whom I hope to meet backstage Friday at the Beacon Theater (transcript)
  5. The Ethicist: Can I Turn Down Family Requests for Money?
  6. Diversity: where are my invitations?
  7. 148: Dawn Riley, part 2: Minding her beeswax (transcription)
  8. 148: Dawn Riley, part 2: Minding her beeswax
  9. 141: Dune Ives, part 1: Let’s Talk Ocean Plastic (transcript)
  10. Nutrition Rules
  11. 140: Joanne Wilson: Gotham Gal (transcript)
  12. 140: Joanne Wilson: Gotham Gal
  13. 139: Chris Voss, part 1: FBI Hostage negotiation through honesty and fun (transcript)
  14. 139: Chris Voss, part 1: FBI Hostage negotiation through honesty and fun
  15. The Ethicist: Was I Wrong to Tell a Friend’s Partner About His Infidelity?
  16. 138: A National Civilian Service Academy (transcript)
  17. 137: Why Famous Guests (transcript)
  18. 136: Nataly Kogan, part 2: Happiness Comes From Skills You Can Learn (transcript)
  19. 136: Nataly Kogan, part 2: Happiness Comes From Skills You Can Learn
  20. 135: Why We Want a World Without Growth (transcript)
  21. 134: Tim Kopra, part 1: Seeing Earth from Space (transcript)
  22. 134: Tim Kopra, part 1: Seeing Earth from Space
  23. 133: At Least Try (transcript)
  24. The Ethicist: Can a Doctor Refuse to Treat a Patient Who Takes Cannabis?
  25. Double standards
  26. Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, by Rachel Love Nuwer
  27. 132: Lorna Davis, part 1: C-suites and B-corps (transcript)
  28. 131: Dawn Riley, part 1: After winning the Americas Cup, revitalizing sailing (transcript)
  29. My first rowing half-marathon
  30. 130: John Lee Dumas, part 3: One year picking up beach garbage
  31. The Ethicist: I Quit Watching Football Because It Harms Players. Can I Still Keep Up With My Team?
  32. 130: John Lee Dumas, part 3: One year picking up beach garbage (transcript)
  33. Sheepship: the opposite of leadership
  34. 129: Dave Gardner, part 2: “Came to relieve the burden, stayed for the joy”
  35. 129: Dave Gardner, part 2: “Came to relieve the burden, stayed for the joy” (transcript)

January 2019

  1. 128: Sally Singer: Fashion and the Environment (transcript)
  2. 128: Sally Singer: Fashion and the Environment
  3. 127: Douglas Rushkoff, part 1: Team Human
  4. 127: Douglas Rushkoff, part 1: Team Human (transcript)
  5. Year 9, day 1 of daily posts
  6. 126: Col. Everett Spain, part 2: West Point’s Head of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership
  7. 126: Col. Everett Spain, part 2: West Point’s Head of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership (transcript)
  8. The Ethicist: My Son’s Tutor Slipped Me Entrance-Exam Questions. Should I Report Him?
  9. 125: Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder, part 2: Balancing priorities (transcript)
  10. 125: Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder, part 2: Balancing priorities
  11. Why I don’t try to convince
  12. What not to hurry
  13. 124: Guilt Free (transcript)
  14. 124: Guilt Free
  15. 123: Dave Gardner: Busting the Growth Myth (transcript)
  16. 122: Rosa Parks and Acting on Your Environmental Values (transcript)
  17. The Ethicist: Can I Cut Off a Relative With Hateful Views?
  18. 121: Minimalism should be called Maximalism (transcript)
  19. 117: Jeffrey Madoff: Creative Careers: Making a Living With Your Ideas (transcript)
  20. See me: A Fireside Chat Over Brunch with brunchwork, January 27
  21. 120: Rules for plogging in New York City (transcript)
  22. 119: Heroin and the Environment (transcript)
  23. Avoid that addictive tug
  24. How to bring the third world to a first-world standard of living while saving energy
  25. The Ethicist: May I Cut My Daughter Out of My Life?
  26. 118: Beth Comstock 2: Action creates awareness (transcript)
  27. 118: Beth Comstock 2: Action creates awareness
  28. How can you tell if you’re a good leader
  29. 117: Jeffery Madoff: Creative Careers: Making a Living With Your Ideas
  30. 116: Michael O’Heaney, part 2: Less plastic, less stuff, more fun, more family (transcript)
  31. 116: Michael O’Heaney, part 2: Less plastic, less stuff, more fun, more family
  32. 115: Sandy Reisky, part 2: A Superbowl Ad to reduce consumption (transcript)
  33. 115: Sandy Reisky, part 2: A Superbowl Ad to reduce consumption
  34. 114: Dave Asprey: Leading with love (transcript)
  35. 114: Dave Asprey: Leading with love
  36. The Ethicist: Was I Wrong to Facebook-Friend My Nephew’s Girlfriend?
  37. 113: Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder: A conservative voice (transcript)
  38. Painting sidchas: A Painting A Day
  39. My famous no-packaging vegetable stew formula, take 2
  40. My email about cards and gifts
  41. 112: Bethany McLean, part 1: the Business and People of Fracking
  42. 112: Bethany McLean, part 1: the Business and People of Fracking (transcript)

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