Jill Wagner of Terraformation and the Hawaii Island Seed Bank returns to talk about the results of her sustainability challenge and how her mission of reforesting the planet is progressing! Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time for a long conversation, but I’m looking to having another one with her someday! Find Jill Wagner and Terraformation online: Donate to This Sustainable […]
As regular readers might know, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to have more and better climate change conversations, and as I thought more and more about how to do that, the sage words of Josh Spodek, host of the This Sustainable Life podcast came back to me: Stop thinking about how you’re going to do it, and just […]
We’ve become arrogant. We’ve come to a point where we believe we have conquered nature, and nature bends to our will. But we have not. Increasingly strong heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are mother nature’s warnings: we are not above nature. And if we don’t fix the damage we’ve done, mother nature won’t allow us to live on this planet anymore. […]
Yishan Wong is an engineer and entrepreneur who has worked at big name companies like Paypal and Facebook, and was CEO of Reddit. After leaving Reddit, he used his knowledge of the tech industry and combined it with the knowledge of Solve For Nature former guest, Jill Wagner, to found Terraformation, a company designed to take down climate change through […]
The single largest piece of #climate legislation has JUST been signed into law by President Biden! 😍 But what does it do, and does it actually make us more sustainable? I’m here to talk about it with Joshua Spodek, Ph D, author of Leadership Step By Step, and host of This Sustainable Life Podcast. Find Verdant Growth online: Verdant Growth […]
Inflation Reduction Act just passed through the senate, house, and is now heading for President Biden’s desk. Today we’re going to talk about what’s in it, and then have a discussion on sustainability and whether this bill is making us more sustainable or not with Joshua Spodek, Author of Leadership Step by Step, Professor at NYU, and probably the most […]
I want to share something personal today, just because I was able to do something that I had been meaning to do for a long time but could never find the right moment to do: have a climate talk with my own wife and daughter. Finding The Perfect Moment I completely understand the feelings that many describe when they talk […]
John Hartman is currently CMO of Ando, the leader in sustainable banking. He is an award-winning marketing executive who’s worked with brands such as Oakley, SkullCandy, Volcom, L’Oreal, Lancome, Intuit, RayBan, HugoBoss, AAA, AARP, Intuit, WarnerBros and Taylor Guitars. Ando has disrupted the traditional banking industry by investing customer money exclusively in green initiatives like renewable energy and responsible agriculture, potentially giving users […]
David A. Dodd is the head of the globally recognized International Sustainable Resilience Center, Inc (ISRC), and having dealt with two near death experiences, David has a unique take on resilience at both the macro and micro scale. After surviving his two near death experiences, he was determined to make a positive impact on this world. In 2005, when Hurricane […]
We’ve been sailing aboard the fossil fuel energy ship to advance humanity for about 150 years now; that is, we invented machines that burn fossil fuel to create power and electricity, and it has brought us from horse and buggy to cars, airplanes, houses with electricity, and computers in our pockets so we can watch videos of cats wherever we […]