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by spodek 7y ago
Having reduced my pollution by about 90% over the past 5 years according to online calculators and discovered the joy, community, and connection that comes with acting on my environmental values, I hope people experience simplicity and non-
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How many of the people who pay for these things were entrepreneurs who felt they could change the world with their new products and services when it would profit them, yet when it comes to changing the world to stop growing so much and stew
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Don't forget the value of finding ways to avoid the need for video conferencing. While many may feel unavoidable, alternatives like delegating authority, simplifying tasks, and such can often achieve more than a meeting. The before cov
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> Since the way to achieve a good night’s sleep was by no means self-evident. . . It couldn't be more self-evident: stop doing things and go to bed with enough time to sleep your amount. Anyone can do it any evening. The challenge
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She doesn't cover that in particular, but: 1. Here are videos on how to mend jeans: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patch+jeans&oq=... 2. The bigger picture is that when you force yourself to live by a
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Any tinkerers want to help these low tech versions https://www.notechmagazine.com/2020/03/open-source-breathing... Helping create versions 3d printable or mass manufacturable could save countless lives.
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In the context of Covid, wouldn't lowering economic activity help keep people home? It seems more than "just" saving lives. Purely economically, wouldn't a crashed health care system hurt the economy for a longer term?
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Logically similar, I would make the headline: Cutting down London’s Trees Costs the City Billions You can define normal how you want, but my way comes from seeing trees as normal. The old headline seems to treat lack of trees as normal. I
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A guest on my podcast -- Lorna Davis, the key leader behind the largest B Corp to date, Danone USA, and a c-suite executive from Danone and other multinationals -- committed not to buy clothes for a year. Within a few weeks she started gett
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We can also switch to project-based learning from a coercive educational system based on tests, factual recall, abstract analysis, reading and writing papers, and other things divorced from life. Project-based learning doesn't just tea
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I got a healthy sugar that tastes good: fresh fruit. I was a kid once, too young to know better, and liked sweet. Now nothing beats fresh fruit. Even many vegetables are sweet. This stuff sounds like engineered garbage and I will bet anyone
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GP back again. I did a podcast episode on the point of personal action and the difference from influencing others, which I also do: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...
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Facing climate change fills you with dread . . . until you act. Then you see all the reasons not to act as self-serving rationalization. When you find the joy, community, and connection of acting on your environmental values. When you reali
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People have gotten so used to flying they can't see how dependent and entitled they've become. When I share that I'm about to start my fifth year without flying, everyone tells me how impossible it is for them but they never
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I mentioned my TEDx talks and podcast with links in a post above. A couple podcast guests are prominent in zero waste and minimalism, so you might enjoy their episodes and books: Bea Johnson http://joshuaspodek.com/guests&#x
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My first TEDx talk describes my process and how to do it http://joshuaspodek.com/my-tedx-talk-is-online-find-your-del... . My podcast shares me walking through many people to start their challenge http://joshuaspo
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I can only compare roughly, but I compared my footprint now, which is 0.4 Earths http://joshuaspodek.com/my-ecological-footprint , with the average American, which is 5.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ec
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Glad to see reducing consumption at the top. People's scarcity mindset makes them think burning less fossil fuels and consuming less stuff will lower their quality of life. On the contrary, most Americans could reduce their consumption
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I consider the main measure of quality for a problem to be how much it helps people, not the difficulty in solving it. This measure applies for entrepreneurial problems where you want to earn money, but most other fields too. No harm in sol
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The rest of the world has partially switched, but as long as people continue to use hours, days, weeks, months, years, leap years, and not kiloseconds and megaseconds, they don't seem to have switched completely either, but stopped at
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I don't see anything idiotic about Fahrenheit. With distances I can see why powers of ten make a difference, but we don't vary temperatures by orders of magnitude in regular life. Nor do I spend much time around freezing or boilin
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How about treating Facebook like an unapologetic monomaniacal psychopath fixated on provoking polarization and undermining communication?
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Andreas is a later example (p.77) who started from a strong software background. You'll see that he went in a different direction for a while, developed skills doing things outside software, and applied those skills when he returned to
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Glad to hear. Let me know how it goes and if I can help.
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Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) https://www.amazon.com/Initiative-Proven-Method-Bring-Passio... Here's a video of the author (me) interviewing a reader who did all the exercises,
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Limits to Growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth didn't try to predict specifics so much as find trends, which they did, like overshoot and collapse, the counterintuitive effects of technology
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You know your class better than I do, but the main guy I learned project-based learning from, Chris Lehmann, differentiates between a project, which is open-ended and no one knows where it will lead, but starts with the student creating it,
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> institutions should focus on learning why students cheat in the first place. The students didn't create the system. I suggest the institutions look into their pedagogy that motivates cheating with abstract assignments unrelated
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> Walmart pays 5 of its executives a total of ~$70m/year [1]. Walmart employs 2.2m people [2]. Redistributing 100% of these 5 executives' salary to all 2.2m workers would be a raise of... $32/year. A calculation Louis XV
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Do the Math is one of my favorite sites on the internet for the value and perspective it brings. I had a few great conversations with its author on my podcast http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/tom-murphy . I found this rep

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