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I too would like to see examples from your site. Does your book on mental models relate to this topic beyond surface relationships?

by 616c 10y ago

spodek 10y ago
That book is unrelated to the environment. It's about developing the skill of changing mental models in general through an exercise of writing them out and seeing how they work. I have deep passions for teaching leadership and for reducing pollution. Professionally, I have decided to focus on teaching leadership for now so I write a lot less on pollution, though I continue to refine my personal behavior, for example http://joshuaspodek.com/wasting-waste http://joshuaspodek.com/wasting-waste and http://joshuaspodek.com/living-with-integrity-means-considering-the-results-of-your-actions-on-other-people http://joshuaspodek.com/living-with-integrity-means-consider... and links within.
- 616c 10y ago
  Thanks, I'll take a look. I live in a region of the Middle East that is more part of the problem than the solution I recycle, because we are in a city upon a hill type project, but others laugh at me and see it as pointless. I drive, sadly, but try to minimize it and do multiple errands in one circuit of a trip. Public transportation here is almost non-existent, and the average temp in the summer is over 40 degrees Celsius (no, not a typo). Local political activism is virtually non-existent, and dissenting opinion is punished. There is no local awareness, especially outside our project campus, or support for environmentally friendly policy. The government says otherwise, but minimal top-down politics changes nothing for anyone beyond the narrative. What is the plan for people like me in regions like this? I see I live in the world majority of developing local economy, global indifference. "You Westerners had your Industrial Revolution, now it's our turn" is hard to counter as the world regime in talks and accords seems to passively prove this true.
  - selimthegrim 10y ago
    You are at KAUST?
    - 616c 10y ago
      No, in the neighborhood. If you read my posts you'll get the drift. I am not specific on purpose.

I too would like to see examples from your site. Does your book on mental models relate to this topic beyond surface relationships?

by 616c 10y ago

I too would like to see examples from your site. Does your book on mental models relate to this topic beyond surface relationships?

spodek 10y ago

That book is unrelated to the environment. It's about developing the skill of changing mental models in general through an exercise of writing them out and seeing how they work. I have deep passions for teaching leadership and for reducing pollution. Professionally, I have decided to focus on teaching leadership for now so I write a lot less on pollution, though I continue to refine my personal behavior, for example http://joshuaspodek.com/wasting-waste http://joshuaspodek.com/wasting-waste and http://joshuaspodek.com/living-with-integrity-means-considering-the-results-of-your-actions-on-other-people http://joshuaspodek.com/living-with-integrity-means-consider... and links within.

616c 10y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look. I live in a region of the Middle East that is more part of the problem than the solution I recycle, because we are in a city upon a hill type project, but others laugh at me and see it as pointless. I drive, sadly, but try to minimize it and do multiple errands in one circuit of a trip. Public transportation here is almost non-existent, and the average temp in the summer is over 40 degrees Celsius (no, not a typo). Local political activism is virtually non-existent, and dissenting opinion is punished. There is no local awareness, especially outside our project campus, or support for environmentally friendly policy. The government says otherwise, but minimal top-down politics changes nothing for anyone beyond the narrative. What is the plan for people like me in regions like this? I see I live in the world majority of developing local economy, global indifference. "You Westerners had your Industrial Revolution, now it's our turn" is hard to counter as the world regime in talks and accords seems to passively prove this true.
- selimthegrim 10y ago
  You are at KAUST?
  - 616c 10y ago
    No, in the neighborhood. If you read my posts you'll get the drift. I am not specific on purpose.