December 26, 2020

51 Philosophy of Shrinking Footprints

42 minutes

We set out to make this the second of a series of episodes about shrinking our travel footprint, but the conversation ended up being a broader exploration of philosophical issues related to all kinds of footprint-shrinking actions. Erika and Dave are joined by recurring guest, Joshua Spodek, host of the This Sustainable Life podcast. The conversation includes:

The joy of not flying Generating a lot less waste Is the new iPhone really green? And plastic, plastic, plastic.

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Apple’s New iPhone Is Far from Green

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The Story of Plastic

The Story of Plastic screenings (search for The Story of Plastic)

Joshua Spodek’s The Story of Plastic panel discussion

Joshua Spodek's This Sustainable Life podcast

On the GrowthBusters podcast, Erika and Dave explore the joy of sustainable living and provide a recovery program for our society’s growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture’s obsession with and pursuit of growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Erika Arias is researching the childfree/environment connection and is about to enter grad school.