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by spodek 5y ago
Building on the success of my podcast, This Sustainable Life, where I've led globally renowned people (you'll know many: https://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-and-the-environment-top-... ) 1. Keep building the podcas
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Role models! Everyone should watch the channel Not Just Bikes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A , by a guy who moved to Holland and learned what makes those transformations possible, in my opinion
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> People choose platforms because of their functionality, not because of their code licensing status I choose software based on the freedom behind their licenses and always will. I value my relationships with others over mere technical
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> Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans Historically, this was true but no longer. There is a fraction of the life that the ocean used to support. A great source is the book Once and Future World, which describes captains&#x2
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Also the difference between outdoors a generation ago and outdoors now. Depending on where you are, the decrease in birdcalls is huge, but happens so slowly that most people don't know what we're missing. That loss has been happen
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Insecurity, lack of self-awareness, lack of support
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I just got back from picking up litter, though I do it every other day too. People keep picking up the habit, so it's spreading. I've been on TV twice for plogging too. Everyone thinks it will be dirty and ineffective, but then fi
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> Watching lecture videos is now a major part of many students’ university experience. This sentence is the most important, describing a failure in education. Once I learned to teach through project-based learning, I'm never going
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I can't believe people are downvoting your post. If they want to influence someone, understanding them is how to start. Saying "I'm right, you're wrong" provokes resistance. They want others to change to save lives
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First, no they don't. Look up successes in Thailand, Costa Rica, Iran, South Korea, and other nations that lowered their birth rates through noncoercive means that improved health, longevity, prosperity, equality, and stability. Second
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Because the data keeps matching their Business as Usual model. I think there's more recent research, but here's a paper from 2014, showing 40 years of reasonable fit: http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/de
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That money will trickle down isn't a myth. It's an outright lie or fraud. It's more clear to see when you take away the imagery and see it says: giving money to rich people is giving money to poor people.
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Has anybody used the method to undo myopia at Getting Stronger: https://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-thr... ? It suggests to read at an inch or two past comfortable for a few hours a day. At fi
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Wow, I took a class from Paul Steinhardt when I was starting my PhD in physics at Penn. I think it was in him in his class who asked us how planes flew. I raised my hand and said the Bernoulli principle. He showed how despite schools teachi
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Elon Musk is today's Robert Moses. People associate him with helping the environment, but he's pushing for growth as his top-line strategy. He may lower emissions from tailpipes, but systemically, he's exacerbating the proble
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The only thing changing slower than expected is humans. We resist stopping digging and burning fossil fuels. One thing we know reduces emissions and pollution: stop digging and burning fossil fuels. We're using every excuse not to. Eve
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To propose we go to Mars to protect the species is backward. People with the means want to go to Mars to show off or other personal reasons. Then they drum up some humanitarian-sounding reason for government and popular support. If we could
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The bicycle wheel. I can't believe 16 hours and nobody mentioned it (that I found anyway). You will find few things that serve their functions so well with such a minimum of material. The General Public License. The foundation of Linux
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Like the jobs the book Bullshit Jobs referred to, I'd bet most of the cargo in these trucks is bullshit products that will end up in landfills within six months.
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The turkey that would have been mine is still alive. When I stopped eating meat in 1990, people saw it as a burden on them. Over the years, more joined the bandwagon, not that I did anything that people haven't been doing for centuries
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Today is also Buy Nothing Day for those with different values. Our mainstream culture generally says growing the GDP helps everyone, that "a rising tide lifts all boats." Some of us see the evidence pointing the other way and avoi
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If you think science has you stomach untenable ideas, it's got nothing on what a lack of science will stick you with.
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by spodek 5y ago
Since you ask, I've reduced over 90 percent, which I've shared publicly, anticipating I may be like a Roger Bannister to some. Will you join? Here is a graph: https://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2
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1. Flying at a whim, large vehicles, a/c 24/7, and related profligate fossil fuel burning. Today we think we're living at the peak of progress so far and that people in any other time would wish they were us. Future generatio
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Has anyone heard from the President a message to reduce consumption in the U.S.? We waste so much, there need be no hint of tightening belts or doing without things we like. Most Americans could drop our emissions and waste 50 percent just
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I've heard positive reviews of Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635536/never-pay-th... . I've only read as far as
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However much life has returned, it's nothing compared to before the Industrial Revolution. The wonderful book The Once and Future World by JB MacKinnon changed my understanding of how much more wildlife there was, everywhere. The Tha
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> Proponents of efforts to make roads safer for cyclists have always gotten pushback from people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies. Here in New York City, people delivering food, packages, etc are one of
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The article applies to farmers markets too. By any measure, farmers markets are better than supermarkets and takeout. Cheaper, faster, more convenient (if there's one nearby), more friendly, cleaner, healthier, but talk about their ben
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I came here to write about Tom's book. I consider it Mackay's successor and called it The Science Book of the Decade in my review of it. He wrote it for non-science undergraduates. Here's the review: https://joshua

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