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by spodek 7y ago
Beyond not just "not violating your principles," it's necessary accounting. If the public pays for part of the costs of something -- say of cleaning up after extraction or pollution -- you haven't accounted for its costs
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by spodek 7y ago
I've watched a few videos of Gene Kranz lately. Inspiring leadership of a different sort than seen today. Very effective, especially in the Apollo missions. Plenty of them are online: https://www.youtube.com/results?sea
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by spodek 7y ago
I have other role models for not flying, though mostly I'm motivated by how much avoiding flying has improved my life, now in my fourth year. http://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/365-days-without-flying.htm...
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by spodek 7y ago
Reading the Do The Math blog https://dothemath.ucsd.edu and Low Tech Magazine http://lowtechmagazine.com , the obvious starting point is to consume drastically less. My experience tells me that reducing consumption fr
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by spodek 7y ago
A related change for me came when I joined a CSA http://joshuaspodek.com/farm-food-summer and gave myself the rule to waste no food. Since I didn't choose what food I'd get and they design the shares for a family
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by spodek 7y ago
> harder if you have kids. Bea Johnson's family of four produces less than a mason jar of trash per year. https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeroWasteHome Not speaking to atoav in particular, but it's tempting
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by spodek 7y ago
> the number of Americans who can do a single push-up is likely only about 20 or 30 percent Wow, I wonder how that percentage has changed over the lifetime of the nation, as well as the figure globally over time.
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by spodek 7y ago
I meant what FlyingAvatar suggested. Quoting Wikipedia: In statistical mechanics, entropy is an extensive property of a thermodynamic system. It is closely related to the number Ω of microscopic configurations (known as microstates) that a
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by spodek 7y ago
I'm responding to a post, not choosing a crowd to educate, but in any case, your link in your post below shows that per capita the US and UK (probably most HN readers) rank high. Quoting your source, > plastic waste generation tend
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by spodek 7y ago
Unless I misinterpret, everything you wrote stems from interpreting my suggestion to reduce as exclusive of other things. I'm learning that I have to clarify every time that I'm not suggesting one solution as exclusive of any othe
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by spodek 7y ago
I generalized from plastic to pollution in general in how reducing improves lives. I'm not sure why so many people interpret suggestions on acting in one area as exclusive of others. I expect that people/voters acting on their val
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by spodek 7y ago
The problem isn't the volume. It's the distribution. Some of it is in your bloodstream. And your children's, messing with your and their endocrine systems, among other problems. Some of it is in the bellies animals around the
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by spodek 7y ago
Missing from most environmental conversation is how much you can improve your life avoiding polluting things. What you replace packaged food, flying, and such with is fresh fruits and vegetables and local community. You learn that while one
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by spodek 7y ago
Readers: reducing your emissions will make a difference, not just your reduction, but you will lead others, who otherwise might feel alone, to join you. And after reducing small things, you'll find it easier to reduce big things. Event
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by spodek 7y ago
One of the best things I've done is to challenge myself to buy no packaged food for a week. I made it 2.5 weeks and have reduced my food packaging by about 95% since, about 4 years ago. I thought it would be hard at first and it was. T
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by spodek 7y ago
The book Initiative is for this type of situation. https://www.amazon.com/Initiative-Proven-Method-Bring-Passio... http://joshuaspodek.com/initiative Disclosure: I wrote it.
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by spodek 7y ago
Annoying pedantry. Everyone knows "destroy the planet" means something like "decrease Earth's ability to sustain life, especially human society" as is clear from every context it's used. Of course there are edg
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by spodek 7y ago
I'll go further with the example of the U.S. car industry in the 60s, when the evidence was clear that consumers preferred safe, reliable, affordable, efficient cars -- from increasing sales for Volkswagen and Toyota, and most of all f
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by spodek 7y ago
Schrodinger's cat, maybe.
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by spodek 7y ago
It reveals the value Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen created in the GPL, how much market forces will tend toward monopoly, and how we've let up on resisting those trends.
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by spodek 8y ago
Sex too. The Innocence Project has overturned hundreds of wrongful convictions, around 99% men.
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by spodek 8y ago
We passed strict laws to protect us from it. I, for one, support following that precedent by passing strict laws limiting plastic.
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by spodek 8y ago
The New York Times did a fascinating series of long articles that are similar: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/world/the-out...
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by spodek 8y ago
One of my favorite sites online. I recommend spending time there on other articles to catch his view of the modern world, which I find refreshing and timely.
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by spodek 8y ago
If I could change the past, I would.
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by spodek 8y ago
In the first month of my fourth year since I chose to live by another environmental value of not flying -- which has become one of the best decisions of my life by improving it beyond any expectations -- I look forward to more nations, orga
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by spodek 8y ago
> And as soon as a measure becomes known, it becomes the target. Soon after, 90% of the target is still an 'A', which becomes the new target. On a related note of unintended consequences, the Cobra Effect: https://
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by spodek 8y ago
I find such practices so helpful I call them sidchas -- for self-imposed daily challenging helpful activities -- to distinguish them from mere habits, like brushing teeth or reading the news. I find that having a few sidchas one of the most
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by spodek 8y ago
> * The more white and privileged you are - the more predictable your life is.* That's a quantifiable claim, especially in response to an article about a gulag system that killed and tortured many white people, many of whom you may
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by spodek 8y ago
> The study found that toddlers 12 to 18 months consumed 5.5 teaspoons per day, and that toddlers 19 to 23 months consumed 7.1 teaspoons. Toddlers consumed ? More like parents fed them. Toddlers eat what's put in front of them. &

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