Hardware Podcasts

#029 - Call for action to you - for a new path to reduce climate change, with Joshua Spodek of NYU, Spodek Academy, USA

The Hardware Entrepreneur · 7 Jun 2017 · 29m

What this episode covers

Joshua Spodek, a professor at NYU and author of 'Leadership Step by Step', argues that effective leadership and personal behavioral change are more critical to reducing climate change than technology or policy alone. He shares his personal experiments, such as eliminating food packaging waste and stopping air travel, to demonstrate how reframing sustainability as an opportunity for growth rather than deprivation leads to better outcomes. Spodek calls on listeners to take individual accountability and invites developers to help build a website for public commitments to these challenges.

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makers and hobbyists

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Tesla, NYU, Spodek Academy
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Leadership Step by Step
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Inc magazine

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