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by spodek 7y ago
People have sent me this link because I've reduced my food packaging to filling less than one load of trash per year (which I blog about http://joshuaspodek.com/avoiding-food-packaging-2 ) and my diet has become more de
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When, specifically, is the best time for morning exercises?(joshuaspodek.com)
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> the costs of de-carbonising the economy Global warming is important, but only one environmental problem, so important to consider here, but not the only environmental issue. Contributing to every environmental issue, including this o
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Alan Weisman's book Countdown revealed to me about countries that lowered birth rates without coercion. Before reading it I only know about the one-child policy and some eugenics attempts. I highly recommend the book. I just recorded a
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Climate left out many other environmental issues: pollution, plastic, extinctions, etc Most of all Overpopulation. People fear discussing it now because they only know of China's policy and eugenics. I predict that the successful, non-
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Doesn't beauty mean visual signs of health, longevity, and likelihood for the same in offspring? From that perspective, the headline reads "Signs of health and longevity determine whether men romantically desire or dismiss high
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Watch the True Cost, a documentary on clothing, and you might not like Uniqlo any more. It's available free here: http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost .
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I've written several blog posts on it and my two TEDx talks cover more. TEDx talks: http://joshuaspodek.com/my-second-tedx-talk-what-everyone-ge... Blog post listing of other posts: http://joshuaspodek.com&#
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Having foregone nearly all packaged food and all flying for about five years, I can report similar results -- discovering that what was supposed to be more convenient, bringing the world closer, connecting me to family, and exposing me to m
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Can't get much colder or wintery than Finland, Denmark, and Norway, but > For the second year in a row, the world's happiest country is... Finland! > Finland topped the list of 156 countries, which were ranked in the Unit
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I haven't found writing them in internet forum conveys them effectively. It's like telling people how to play a scale or hit tennis ground strokes. You generally need some demonstration and practice, which most people forego. I wr
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As a coach to similar-level people and professor/coach to elite students at NYU and Columbia Business School, I'm also impressed by how much the social and emotional challenges can be overcome with a few exercises that teach socia
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I find Limits To Growth's view https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19... more compelling, especially that its business as usual model is still reasonably accurate based on 2014 research
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I look forward to the mainstream catching up to seeing advertising like second-hand smoke: harmful enough to others to ban based on widespread democratic support.
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Once you see environmental problems as, despite each being unique, mostly arising from overpopulation, you can't help substitute for the proximal cause "overpopulation". > The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong Bec
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> So nice to be reminded that there people trying to care for each other and make a positive difference in the lives of those around them Is there any other kind of person?
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I tried it for New York City and prefer using OpenStreetMap but don't see subway directions on it. Am I missing something or are subway directions not available in it yet?
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People will likely create an app for this, not realizing they're contributing to the culture creating situations like this.
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I've been meaning to plant a tree in Manhattan for a while http://joshuaspodek.com/how-to-plant-a-tree-in-new-york-city . If anyone here wants to do it with me, email me and let's do it. I have zero experience in i
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Nothing about Einstein's miracle year?
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Low Tech Magazine's piece "Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet: The energy use of the internet can only stop growing when energy sources run out, unless we impose self-chosen limits." https://solar.lowtechma
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I plan to write my next book, this time on leadership and the environment. I see a lack of leadership -- like a Mandela of the environment. I don't call telling people what to do or spreading facts, figures, doom, and gloom leadership.
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If only it all made it to landfills, but the most polluted spots on Earth include south sea islands thousands of miles from population centers, ocean gyres, and so on. Once you make something unhealthy, to suggest that (leaky) places to put
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Or we could stop making plastic. Or at least the 90% of it making junk. Even if we separate it, it still exists, as does basically all the plastic we've ever produced. Even separated, at the rate we're producing it, wherever we pu
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As important as climate change is, plastic and other waste is one of several environmental problems. While it does affect climate in production, it also poisons land, air, and water, kills wildlife and messes up their hormones, us too, and
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Also sugar. I might call industrial food in general a drug -- the refined addictive parts of plants mostly like opiates, cocaine, etc
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Ironic to work so hard preserving something from a tradition based on impermanence that says if you meet the Buddha to kill him. Not that there's any reason not to preserve it.
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Environmental destruction is the story here, but with one misunderstanding. > Rural America is eroding. If you talk to farmers such as Short and Roger, they lament it. But almost nobody thinks it can be prevented. More efficient farming
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Like many classmates getting our PhDs, I considered my field, physics, the most fundamental of all the sciences, joking that we could derive the rest. That was the 90s. In today's world, I consider the most important role of anyone who
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Kuwait leads the world in per capita emissions but has a population of 4.5 million. No problem? So someone who pollutes a lot can change nationality and pollute more?

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