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

- Show: [The Hardware Entrepreneur](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur)
- Published: 2017-06-07
- Length: 29m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur/2017-06-07-029-call-for-action-to-you-for-a-new-path-to-reduce-climate-change-with-joshua-s
- Listen: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thehardwareentrepreneur/029.mp3

## Summary

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.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur/2017-06-07-029-call-for-action-to-you-for-a-new-path-to-reduce-climate-change-with-joshua-s#t=0) Introduction and Context
- [3:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur/2017-06-07-029-call-for-action-to-you-for-a-new-path-to-reduce-climate-change-with-joshua-s#t=236) The Failure of Information and Guilt in Climate Action
- [8:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur/2017-06-07-029-call-for-action-to-you-for-a-new-path-to-reduce-climate-change-with-joshua-s#t=508) Reframing Sustainability as Leadership and Opportunity
- [13:51](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur/2017-06-07-029-call-for-action-to-you-for-a-new-path-to-reduce-climate-change-with-joshua-s#t=831) Personal Experiments: Zero Waste and No Flying
- [21:17](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-hardware-entrepreneur/2017-06-07-029-call-for-action-to-you-for-a-new-path-to-reduce-climate-change-with-joshua-s#t=1277) The Call for a Public Commitment Website

## Topics

- [Sustainability & circular products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sustainability-and-circularity)
- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Tesla (company)
- Leadership Step by Step (product)
- NYU (company)
- Spodek Academy (company)
- Inc magazine (other)

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