{"podcast":{"title":"This Sustainable Life","slug":"this-sustainable-life-924670","podcast_index_feed_id":924670,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f","website_url":"http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1607568708606-ddbbab92b7e0736c16ba3a24a6ef974f.jpeg","author":"Joshua Spodek","episode_count":860,"summary":"Do you care about the environment but feel “I want to act, but if no one else does, it won't make a difference,” and “But if you don't solve everything, it isn't worth doing anything”? We are the antidote! You're not alone. Hearing role models overcome the same feelings to enjoy acting on their values creates meaning, purpose, community, and emotional reward. Want to improve as a leader? Bestselling author, 3-time TEDx speaker, leadership speaker, coach, and professor Joshua Spodek, PhD, MBA, brings joy and inspiration to acting on the environment. You'll learn to lead without relying on authority. We bring you leaders from many areas — business, politics, sports, arts, education, and more — to share their expertise for you to learn from. We then ask them to share and act on their environmental values. That's leadership without authority — so they act for their reasons, not out of guilt, blame, doom, gloom, or someone telling them what to do. Guests include: Dan Pink , 40+ million TED Talk views Marshall Goldsmith , #1-ranked leadership guru and author Frances Hesselbein , Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, former CEO of the Girl Scouts Elizabeth Kolbert , Pulitzer Prize-winni…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670"},"episode":{"title":"845: Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon: The War on Cars and Life After Cars","slug":"845-sarah-goodyear-and-doug-gordon-the-war-on-cars-and-life-after-cars","published_at":"2026-02-13T17:02:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670/845-sarah-goodyear-and-doug-gordon-the-war-on-cars-and-life-after-cars","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-sustainable-life-924670","url":"https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/845-sarah-goodyear-and-doug-gordon-the-war-on-cars-and-life","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/e/698f56564d911476d82f5990/media.mp3","summary":"Doug and Sarah's podcast The War on Cars is a podcast that delivers news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight to undo a century’s worth of damage wrought by the automobile, approaching the topic from all angles, from politics to pop culture. They release two regular episodes and one Patreon bonus episode per month. Doug and Sarah's Book Cars ruin everything. That’s why we need Life After Cars . When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for everyone; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty. Instead of unbounded freedom, the never-ending proliferation of automobiles has delivered a host of costs, among them the demolition of our neighborhoods, towns, and cities to make way for car infrastructure; an epidemic of violent death; countless hours lost in traffic; isolation from our fellow human beings; and the ongoing destruction of the natural world. That’s why we need Life After Cars . Through historical records, revealing interviews, and unflinching statistics, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, hosts of the podcast The War on Cars , and former host Aaron Naparstek unpack the scale of damage that cars cause, the forces that have created our current crisis and are invested in perpetuating it, and the way that the fight for better transportation is deeply linked to the fight for a more equitable and just society. Life After Cars expands on the podcast with new interviews and original content—offering something for everyone, from longtime listeners familiar with the harms of car culture to those just beginning to imagine a world with fewer metal boxes zooming around. Cars as we know them today are unsustainable—but there is hope. 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