It's a cultural value system that when things "go wrong" we perceive them as "bad." It's a paradigm to expect life to go smoothly and successfully all of the time. Perhaps it does for some people. For many, it's riddled with grief, trauma, difficulty, bro

Big goals aren't always a good idea. Tiny habits are better. In this episode, I talk through the power of small daily habits that grow into substantial changes over years. Stuff takes time. It takes lots and lots of time. There is great power to adopting

There's one school of thought to structure, grit, and grind to achieve anything. Then there's another which calls us to surrender to this grasping and then surrender some more. It beckons us to sit in presence, in being, in connection with the energy arou

There is only one thing you need to get right - knowing that YOU like it. Do you like it? Or are you always asking everyone else if THEY like it? That's how you lead and not follow. Stop asking people if they like it. Ask yourself. 

In late 2019, I started eating every other day. At the time, I just wanted to lose weight. But as I googled it, I discovered intermittent fasting and the striking testimonials and scientific research that came with it. It had given me nearly instantaneous

Stop getting so caught up in a single idea. An idea is just a hypothesis. You need to have lots of ideas and rapidly iterate them. You need to test them and discover the causal mechanism of what works on people. The faster you can test and iterate, the fa

We can get better at telling the story of sustainability, climate, and greener futures. I wrote down these 23 evocative words, backed by science to motivate people, and riffed on ideas of how you use each of them to tell better stories to get people to jo

People come to me with all sorts of elaborate ideas to "change the world."  Usually, these ideas have little connection or thought gone into how they will actually make a real change happen on the ground once people have "experienced" the idea. 

People often ask me why we should practice individual environmental behavior change when what we really need is "systems change." It's not an easy question to give a thorough answer to. We do need "systems change," but the truth is that all systems are ma

What is environmental leadership? Everyone who is trying to improve the world needs to activate people to do things they have not done before and every time you are trying to persuade people (especially many people) you are practicing the art of environ