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863: Robert Parkinson: Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence

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862: Andrew Levy: A role model for today: Robert Carter III freed more slaves than any other American

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861: Cara Judea Alhadeff, part 1: Actually acting, the joys we feel, and the friction we face

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860: Christopher Ryan, part 1: Civilized to Death

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859: Jack El-Hai: The Nazi, the Psychiatrist, Nuremberg, and Why to Find Humanity in Those We Call Monsters

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858: Beth Bailey, the great-grandmother influencer leading the cleaning of Mérida, Mexico

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857: Kim Stanley Robinson: Science fiction writing and leadership

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856: David Jenkins, President of Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship

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855: Peter DeCarlo PhD: Shocking Cancer Alley research from the scientist who did it

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854: John Perkins, part 2: New Book Preview: The Art of the Steal (and restoring American ideals)

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853: Kate Williams: CEO, 1% for the Planet

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852: Steven Pressfield, conversation 2: His new book, The Arcadian (and A Man at Arms)

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851: J. Eric Oliver: How to Know Yourself

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850: AJ Harper, part 1: Write to change lives, including yours

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849: Josh Bandoch, part 3: How to Get What You Want: Mastering the Art and Science of Persuasion

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848: Peter Simek, part 1: EarthX's CEO

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847: Tzeporah Berman: Ending Fossil Fuels by Treaty

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846: Gail Eisnitz: The Inside Story of a Life Investigating Factory Farms

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845: Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon: The War on Cars and Life After Cars

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844: Maya Lilly, part 1: Effective Storytelling and Producing The Years Project

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843: Judith Enck, part 2: The Problem with Plastic (the Book)

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842: Silvia Bellezza, part 1.5 and 2: When at first you don't succeed

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841: Sandra Goldmark, part 1: Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet

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840: Dr. Leonardo Trasande, part 1: Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future ... and What We Can Do About It

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839: Saabira Chaudhuri: Consumed: Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us

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838: Zach Rabinor, part 2: What if your business and values clash?

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837: Zach Rabinor, part 1: Getting serious about sustainable travel?

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836 Dr. Robert Fullilove, part 5: Unsustainability is upstream of imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and racism

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835: At last! I can access my roof to charge solar for the first time in 18 months.

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834: Do Americans Know How to Prepare Food From Scratch?

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833: Aaron Blaise: A Master Disney Director and Animator on Self Expression, Leadership, and Nature

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832: Robert Fullilove, part 4: Action in the Center of Civil Rights in the 1960s

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831: Glenn Hubbard: Dean of Columbia Business School on Adam Smith and Leadership

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830: Jo Nemeth, part 2: Nature improves time with loved ones

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829: Adam Galinsky, part 1: Do you love being inspired? He wrote the book on it.

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828: Richard Reeves: For Boys and Men: support and love over misunderstanding

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827: Chris Berdik: Scientific American loved his book Clamor (so did I)

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826: Jo Nemeth, part 1: Living without money frees her to do what she loves

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825: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 2: Rising to the challenge of random acts of friendliness

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824: Dr. Rob Reed, part 2: Learning to love leading effectively

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823: Mark Mills, part 5: We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition

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822: Ryan Mandelbaum, part 1: Wildlife Is Everywhere, Including (especially) NYC (and where you live)

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821: Rob Reed MD, part 1: Learning leadership transforms your life and work

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820: Andy Samuel CBE: From worry before the workshop to Fun and Community during and after

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819: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 6: Our Brighter Future

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818: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 5: The Celebrity Opportunities

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817: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 4: The Political Opportunities

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816: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 3: Business/Entrepreneurial Opportunities

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815: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 2: The Solution

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814: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 1: The Actual Problem

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813: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: Quick Introduction: Welcome to the Sustainability Simplified community

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812: Robert Fullilove, part 3: Politics, family, race, and sustainability

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811: Tina Tombstone: A friend I volunteer delivering food to the needy with

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810: Giora Netzer, part 2: Leadership coaching leads to far more than "just" the C-Suite

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809: Alexander Clapp: Waste Wars, how we profit off polluting the world claiming to help them

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808: Silvia Bellezza: Sustainable Marketing at Columbia Business School

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807: Giora Netzer MD MSCE, part 1: A leader I coached to the C-suite

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806: Robert Fullilove, part 2: the spirit of the Civil Rights movement

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805: Osprey Orielle Lake: Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

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804: Robert Fullilove EdD, part 1: Lessons from America's Civil Rights era and effective action today

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803: Nick Loris, part 3: Liberty, freedom, sustainability, and Rock Creek Park

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802: Lorraine Smith, part 2: The hidden, dirty secrets of corporate "sustainability" work

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801: Travis Fisher, part 3: Restoring time with family

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800: Lorna Davis, part 4: After the Sustainability Leadership Workshop

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799: Josh Bandoch, part 2: Leadership: Humans feel first, then reason

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798: Nick Romeo: The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

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797: Alden Wicker, part 2: Try and Try Again: E-biking in Vermont

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796: Jack Spencer, part 3: Authenticity on Acting on Sustainability (also Project 2025)

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795: Lorraine Smith, part 1: Leaving mainstream "sustainability" to pursue actual sustainability

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794: Lorna Davis, part 3: Before taking the sustainability leadership workshop

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793: Nick Loris, part 1.5: Heartwarming nature, family, and fatherhood

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792: Travis Fisher, part 2: The spirit that America was founded on, Cato, and sustainability

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791: Sustainability Leadership Is a Performance Art

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790: Talking to a guy injecting on the sidewalk

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789: Solomon Schmidt: Author of Legal Gladiator, on Alan Dershowitz

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788: Susan Liebell: John Locke, Stewardship, and the US Constitution

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787: Travis Fisher, part 1: A nonpartisan, libertarian view on the environment from the Cato Institute

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786: Jan Mulder, part 2: The joy of finding and leading community

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785: Josh Bandoch, part 1: Teaching persuasion and leadership

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784: Serving in Uniform on September 11, 2024

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783: Jan Mulder, part 1: Listening to every episode of this podcast, starting from episode 000

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782: Jane Muncke PhD MSc: Toxins in your food from plastic packaging. You'd rather know.

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781: My New Major Life Volunteering Community Project, four years in the making

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780: Jack Spencer, part 2: Policy and the Individual Choosing

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779: Nick Loris, part 2: Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Choose

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778: The Entrepreneurial Strategy to Restore Sustainability Globally Without Waiting for Governments and Corporations

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777: How the Spodek Method Workshop Differs From Other Sustainability Work

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776: Chuck Marohn, part 1: Strong Towns and Sustainability Leadership

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775: Bruce Alexander, part 4: The Spodek Method clicks at last!

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774: Alden Wicker, part 1.5: Foraging Is Fun

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773: Frederic Laloux, part 1: His program, "The Week," creates space for conversations on the environment

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772: Bruce Alexander, part 3: Advanced Spodek Method

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771: Jack Spencer, part 1: The Heritage Foundation, limited government, free markets and the environment

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770: Nick Loris, part 1: A limited government free market approach to our environmental problems

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769: Kevin Fucillo, part 1: An inside view of our community fridge and its volunteers

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768: Trish and Evelyn, part 2: The birth of sustainability awards

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767: Andrew Bennett, part 2: Behind the scenes with a New York City chef

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766: Chip Conley, part 1: Learning to Love Midlife

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765: Bruce Alexander, part 2: Can the Spodek Method scale from the individual to the world?

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764: Erica Frank, part 2: "No Hairshirt At All." Instead: Abundance