Episodes
March 23, 2020
311: Jeff Kirschner, part 1: Building Community Around Cleaning Litter
Since I don't use many apps and pick up litter already, I felt modest expectations of Jeff's Litterati , but I love it. It delivers the main things I look for: fun, community, connection, effectiveness, and free---the opposi…
March 21, 2020
310: The Start and End of Any Serious Conversation on the Environment
This episode puts together the most important and fundamental considerations about the environment: What works The basic cause contributing to all environmental problems Earth's carrying capacity An attainable bright future …
March 20, 2020
309: Roberta Baskin: Covid-19 Social Connection Amid Physical Distancing
Roberta and I met last September. Our scheduled time to record came just after the covid-19 situation hit the US. We reflected on the change. The conversation is less scripted but of the moment. I decided to post it in the m…
March 18, 2020
308: Marni Kinrys, part 1: The Ultimate Wing Girl
Previous guest and retired dating coach guru Brad P suggested inviting Marni as a guest, his longtime friend and colleague. She coaches men on attraction, dating, and so on. Curious? She pioneered women coaching men in this …
March 16, 2020
307: Covid-19, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and leading through crises
People are criticizing politicians and others over handling Covid-19. I don't blame or criticize people for not knowing how to handle particulars of this situation, but we can respond more effectively. Some parts of the situ…
March 15, 2020
306: Covid-19, avoiding people, and family
I chose to stay at my mom's outside the city Why? Read stories, saw difference between places with SARS and MERS experience versus not NY and US woefully underprepared govt, corps. People didn't get it Not worried about my h…
March 14, 2020
305: The greatest danger from covid-19 would be not learning from it
My notes that I read from for this episode: Greatest danger is not to learn from it. Starting story: Preparing to launch on 9/11. While nothing on scale of victims, first responders, and those who fought, but went from 8 dig…
March 13, 2020
304: How ecotourism can work
I view ecotourism skeptically at best. While I imagine someone could create tourism that increased the world's ability to sustain life and human society, every case I've seen at least doubly does the opposite. For one thing …
March 11, 2020
303: The environmental results I predict versus what I work for
People ask, "Josh, do you really think you can make a difference?" or comment that what I or anyone does won't matter. In the first part of this episode I describe how I think our environmental future will unfold---the outco…
March 10, 2020
302: Nir Eyal, part 1: Make yourself Indistractable
I met Nir Eyal at a podcast recording of Will Bachman, who long ago hosted me on his podcast (see links below). Nir recently publish a book, Indistractable , about how to keep focused. A lot of people ask me how I do so much…
March 9, 2020
301: Does It Scale? My Modified Tesla Strategy
If you've listened to this podcast, you know my Building Block---my technique to lead one person to share and act on his or her environmental values. You may also know my strategy to scale from influencing one person at a ti…
March 6, 2020
300: Larry Yatch, part 3: Discovering New Emotions With His Sons and Wife
As a sneak preview to my third TEDx talk, I used this conversation wit Larry as an example. Sorry you'll have to wait a month for the organizers to edit the video. Waiting is as hard for me as for you. When last we heard, La…
March 6, 2020
299: Dr. Joel Fuhrman, part 1: Eat to Live
Food is important part of environment, as you know. The book Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman changed a lot for me. I came across it after my experiments avoiding packaged food, fiber-removed foods, and meat. Eat to Live show…
March 5, 2020
298: Is polluting child abuse?
[EDIT: moments after posting this episode, I found my first example of someone else posting on this idea only two months ago, Environmental Pollution: An Invisible Kind of Child Abuse , which got a positive response. I'm sur…
March 4, 2020
297: RIP James Lipton, a huge influence and inspiration
James Lipton, who started and hosted the show Inside the Actors Studio , died yesterday. Here are the notes I read from for this episode: I could talk about how much I enjoyed the episodes, his humor, and a few things I lear…
Feb. 27, 2020
296: Solutions have to work for everyone
In this episode I describe how important I consider the accessibility of my personal behavior solutions -- a matter of integrity, not to be confused with behavior to influence others, which is a matter of leadership. Here ar…
Feb. 26, 2020
295: Brent Suter, part 1: Major league baseball pitcher and steward
I met Brent through guest Tia Nelson , both Wisconsin celebrities---she in politics, he in sport---who work with the Outrider Foundation . He is this podcast's first MLB pitcher in string of athletes from the Olympics, NFL, …
Feb. 24, 2020
294: Population: How Much Is Too Much?
What is Earth's carrying capacity? Why is it important? Many ask how we will feed 10 billion people. Mathematician way of asking is if we can feed so many and if so how. Maybe we can't. First, don't want to know. While it de…
Feb. 20, 2020
293: Alan Weisman: My Greatest Source of Environmental Hope
Alan Weisman's book Countdown changed my strategy to the environment. It ranks among the top most influential works I've read, watched, or come across, up there with Limits to Growth . Why? Because when you look at environme…
Feb. 19, 2020
292: The environment is the outward manifestation of our beliefs
Here are the notes I read from for this episode: Outward manifestation Been saying lately When you see pollution, dingy skies, sea levels rising Any one person listening may not have But if American, likely more than nearly …
Feb. 16, 2020
291: Lorna Davis, part 2: Can an Executive Buy No Clothes for a Year?
Lorna's challenge is one of the longest and most personal at over a year. I also couldn't wait to bring her story to you most because within weeks she was reporting the joys overcoming the challenges. We've become friends th…
Feb. 14, 2020
290: Excessive Self Interest, from Thomas Kolditz
I ask people their reasons for polluting activities like flying, take-out, taking taxis or ride shares where public transit serves. They consistently tell me that they love these things. They love visiting family, seeing rem…
Feb. 11, 2020
289: Rob J. Harper, part 1: The Conservative Black Cowboy I met at Google
Most people will find my conversation with Rob unexpected, but talking with someone with his experience and views has long been one of my goals. People keep associating the environment with the political left, but everyone w…
Feb. 10, 2020
288: Vince Lombardi: What It Takes
Nearly everyone treats acting on the environment as a burden or chore---especially would-be leaders who don't do what they say others should. They lead people to inaction. Effective leaders don't discourage. I find role mode…