Buffy Cushman-Patz is the founder and executive director of SEEQS (School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability) Charter School, where students are learning to become stewards of planet Earth and healthy, effective citizens of the world. On top of standard core learning in math, science, social studies, English, and the arts, students combine concepts with project-based experiences that allow students […]
When hosting the This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature podcast, I’m frequently helping others try to find personal challenges in sustainability. The goal is always to find a challenge that aligns with my guest’s values. This means focusing on my guest’s experiences in nature and what they love to feel in those environments, and then help guide them towards a […]
The Leadership Step-By-Step chapter 3 is titled “Inner Monologue” and challenged me to write my entire inner monologue a few times a day. Basically, just write every thought that comes into your head as they come into your head. At first, it was really hard to do. Thinking about your own thinking immediately tends to make the thoughts stop, but […]
Leadership Step By Step, Unit 1, Chapter 2: Perception, Focus, and Attention (Essay #2) For Unit 1, Chapter 2: Perception, Focus, and Attention in Josh’s book, we turn our focus inward to ourselves. To begin, Josh recommended trying an exercises called the Three Raisins Exercise. In this exercise designed to help practice mindfulness and becoming self-aware, you basically go through […]
Leadership Step By Step, Unit 1: Understanding Yourself – The Personal Essay (Essay #1) Recently, I’ve started reading Joshua Spodek’s Leadership Step By Step, a book that teaches, as the title suggests, a step by step methodology for becoming a better leader in whatever area you choose. Each chapter ends with an exercise that he recommends you do to advance […]
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 […]
Today we continued our discussion about Hawaii being a case study for the direction the entire world is going: pollution leading to reducing the capacity for our planet to sustain life. Joshua Spodek is host of This Sustainable Life podcast and author of Leadership Step By Step. He guided me once again through exploring my own feelings while stopping me […]
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 […]
David Radlo is the best-selling author of Principles of Cartel Disruption: Accelerate and Maximize Performance, and an internationally-recognized expert in leadership, innovation, and growth. He is a partner with RB Markets-Achievemost, a Masters professional outside director, a growth coach, and an International Fortune 500 speaker. He is experienced in the US and globally, building sustainable consumer food brands such as […]
Today I’m talking with Iza and Samo Login, two Slovenian tech entrepreneurs who founded Outfit7 and created the Talking Tom app, which has been downloaded over 13 billion times. In just 7 years, they sold their startup for $1 billion dollars to a Chinese investment group in order to dedicate themselves to philanthropic pursuits, with their largest priority being to […]