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Two core elements of leadership are effective communication and creating community. AJ has done both. I can attest from taking her writing w...
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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...

Two core elements of leadership are effective communication and creating community. AJ has done both. I can attest from taking her writing w...

Josh Bandoch published a book on persuasion, influence, and leadership: How to Get What You Want: Mastering the Art and Science of Persuasio...

I met Peter in person at a local (Manhattan) event that EarthX hosted for media people. I was invited for hosting this podcast. We spoke abo...

I met Tzeporah at an event called Climate Week NYC last fall. She was nearly the only person there who spoke about decreasing and stopping e...

Gail shares her investigations into meat industry practices, exploring how exorbitant slaughterhouse production line speeds in a consolidate...

Doug and Sarah's podcast The War on Cars is a podcast that delivers news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight to...

Since I've seen Maya's work on the Years Project with people like executive producers James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was worried...

Judith just published The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late . I've read a lot about plasti...

Since Silvia teaches as a business school, I'll address a leadership aspect of our interaction. I skimped on a leadership step, so we did an...

How often does something break that you know could be fixed, but you don't know how and there are no places to fix it? I remember repair sto...

I found Dr. Trasande quoted in a Washington Post article The health risks from plastics almost nobody knows about: Phthalates, chemicals fou...

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 t...

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...

I met Zach at an event I spoke at sponsored by the Young Presidents Organization, whose members tend to be successful in business. The crite...

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...

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 w...

Late summer means produce at peak ripeness, especially peaches and heirloom tomatoes. Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my newsl...

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 particip...

Dr. Bob worked in the heart of the US Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. He shares stories of his interactions with Stokely Carmichael (lat...

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 gu...

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, whi...

Adam teaches leadership at Columbia Business School, where I learned there were classes in leadership, which changed the direction of my lif...

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 augm...

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...

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 inve...

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 l...

Rob starts by sharing his experience from leadership coaching in the context of a hospital with people in intensive care as well as their fa...

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,...

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 pea...

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...

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 conver...

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...

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 cha...

Sustainability has become a polarized partisan political issue, despite everyone wanting clean air, land, water, and food. In the US, neithe...

The solution in video 3---the Spodek Method---creates a new, more effective situation than anything I know of in sustainability. People act...

Now that we understand our environmental problems as cultural, proposals based in technology, market incentives, and legislation don't addre...

Do you think our environmental problems are rooted in greenhouse gas levels or emissions? Or biodiversity loss? Or any of what makes the hea...

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 spitt...

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...

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...

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 hi...

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 . G...

Silvia created the course Sustainable Marketing at Columbia. It's an elective and has become the class at the business school with the most...

Are you reaching your potential, professionally or personally? Have you wondered what would happen if you got coaching? Giora did. A friend...

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 el...

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 eleme...

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...

You probably came to hear Nick's experience exploring Rock Creek Park in Washington DC based on his childhood experiences in nature with his...

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 sust...

Meaningful interactions don't have to be complex. Travis simply shares his experiences in nature in childhood and finds ways to recreate the...