Episodes
May 3, 2019
176: The folly of chasing efficiency
Silicon Valley, governments, and lots of people are pushing for efficiency. I do too, but only after changing systemic beliefs and goals . The greatest cause of global warming would have looked like the greenest clean energy ...
April 30, 2019
175: Jack Buffington, part 1: What can we do about plastic?
Plastic is everywhere -- the oceans, landfills, and for 93% of us, our bloodstreams. Everyone promotes recycling, but it's not happening anywhere near the scale that we're producing it and pumping it into our world. Most peop...
April 28, 2019
174: Chase Amante, part 1B: Chase on the Environment
In this part of the conversation, Chase and I spoke about the environment. He's very thoughtful about it, though hasn't acted on it, for reasons he eloquently explains. I take the liberty of persisting politely, so if you hav...
April 28, 2019
173: Chase Amante, part 1A: How to start and run a business giving men dating advice
Chase runs GirlsChase , one of the most trafficked sites for dating coaching, which recently celebrated 10 years in business. It sets itself apart from its peers, besides its longevity with basic material, not gimmicks, for m...
April 24, 2019
172: If anything, I'm a maximalist
When many people enter my apartment for the first time say something about it being minimalist. I feel like I have a lot of stuff because I have many things I don't need, mean to get rid of, but haven't. Apparently, my amount...
April 21, 2019
171: The "best kept secret in environmental leadership"
I love watching Dr. Michael Gregor's videos on nutrition . A common theme of his videos is how medical school barely teach doctors nutrition and exercise despite how important they are for health. He shows how industrial food...
April 19, 2019
170: Colonel Mark Read, part 2: His Family's Best Christmas Ever
A lot of people say, "Josh, easy for you to act on the environment. You don't have kids." First, I could point to former guest Bea Johnson , who with her husband and 2 sons, produce less than a mason jar of trash per year, wh...
April 18, 2019
169: Srini Rao: Surfing and Creativity
Srini has run his podcast over 10 years, written several books, hundreds of articles, interviewing hundreds of researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, me, and more. His business is helping people develop themselves -- to dream, ...
April 16, 2019
168: Sir Ken Robinson: Wisdom on the intersection of education, leadership, and the environment
As a professor of leadership, host of this podcast, and constant student of acting by my environmental values, I live and work in the intersection of leadership, education, and the environment. Ken Robinson does too, but with...
April 13, 2019
167: Amy Aussieker, part 1: Can we transform an American City?
Business, based growth, loves the ideas of a circular economy and recycling because both promotes more, but may keep us on track to unsustainability, global warming, plastic, etc. I don't know the answer, but the city of Char...
April 11, 2019
166: Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
With some guests I have a hard time finding a quote to start the episode with. With Anand, I had the opposite -- at least half of what he said wowed me. When I first saw him speak and saw the title of his book, Winners Take A...
April 11, 2019
165: Colonel Mark Read, part 1: Environmental Engineering at West Point
I met Colonel Read through Colonel Everett Spain , who has also been a guest of the podcast. Two myths about the military have unraveled in me as a result of seeing West Point from the inside and talking to 4-star Generals an...
April 9, 2019
164: Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias, part 1: Olympic gold and Crossfit Fittest on Earth
Anna is down to earth for anyone, let alone a gold medalist and Crossfit champion. Watch her videos to see the contrast with what she does, her abilities, and how she doesn't have to be humble. She does something hard, that m...
April 4, 2019
163: Kevin Kruse, part 1: Great Leaders Have No Rules
Kevin and I have been friends since we both wrote for Inc, and before I appeared on his podcast , which always opens a conversation. It's two guys talking about leadership and love with examples of hardball football and baske...
April 2, 2019
162: Bob Langert: McDonald's former head of Corporate Social Responsibility
I got an email that Bob Langert, McDonald's former head of Corporate Social Responsibility, wrote a book on his experience in over two decades at the corporation. From my view, seeking change, I see places like McDonald's, Co...
March 29, 2019
161: Katie Pettibone, part 1: Americas Cups, 81-foot waves, and protecting the oceans
Katie continues the line of world class sailing champions who have translated their athletic success to leadership in their sport, business, and beyond. What success? How about three America's Cups, including being the younge...
March 23, 2019
160: Sean O'Connor, part 2: Replacing coffee cups with human connection
This episode is about a simple experiment anyone can do. It costs nothing and takes no extra time or other resource besides carrying a mug with you. Everyone knows how much garbage we're dumping in the ocean. Everyone knows t...
March 20, 2019
159: Chris Schembra: Expressing Gratitude
Do you feel gratitude toward people who have helped you? Do you express that gratitude more than enough, not enough, or about right? You're probably familiar with research that expressing gratitude and feeling it improve peop...
March 20, 2019
158: Dee Caffari, part 1: Turning the Tide on Plastic
For context for today's guest, those who know I'm avoiding flying might also know I'm learning to sail to explore off North America. When considering acting on their values, most people focus on the part they like of what the...
March 19, 2019
157: Tom Szaky, part 1: TerraCycle's new initiative: Loop
Tom Szaky has been working on waste since his undergrad days at Princeton in 2001. Then I suddenly heard about him from many sources in the past few months. His company, Terracycle, recycles waste others don't. The new initia...
March 16, 2019
156: Pale Blue Dot Today
If you've never heard Carl Sagan's spoken essay Pale Blue Dot , you'll get to hear it in today's episode. It still chokes me up. Here is an Earthrise image taken a few years ago like those he contrasts the pale blue dot image...
March 15, 2019
155: Margot Machol Bisnow, part 1: Raising an Entrepreneur
A few months ago I attended the Summit. It was expensive, so I wasn't sure I'd get the value out of it that I paid. As it came together for me, I met the founder, Elliott Bisnow, and then happened to meet his mother, Margot, ...
March 13, 2019
154: Why You, Famous Person, Will Like Being a Guest on this Podcast
Today, I'm sharing what value being a guest offers to influential, well-known people. I call Oprah and her peers the single-name people -- people everyone knows by single names: LeBron, Serena, Sergey, Larry, Barack, Elon, Bi...
March 12, 2019
153: Sean O'Connor, part 1: From paper cups to evaluating life
Today's guest, Sean, is a friend. We recorded this conversation before the podcast launched in November 2017. It took a while to get through the editing process, but I wanted to post it to document the evolution of the podcas...