Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems (Hardcover)

Josh Spodek disconnected his Manhattan apartment from the electric grid in May 2022. He didn’t know how he’d last more than a day. He learned by doing and he’s still going.

He didn’t ask permission or wait for institutional aid, though he had practiced unplugging appliances and bought a used solar panel from Craigslist, hoping it would help. Then he simply flipped the circuit and solved challenges as they came. He soon found, to his surprise, his quality of life improving.

Now, through his courses and podcast, he leads people to live more sustainably, including teaching others who teach others, and so on. His solutions are visionary and practical: he and his teams actually practice them. They wish they’d started earlier and don’t want to go back. They are creating a bottom-up and top-down movement that grows organically, leading governments and corporations instead of waiting for them.

He disdains lecturing, convincing, and coercing, which creates resistance. He shows how to inspire with intrinsic motivation, which create meaning, gratitude, and effective action. Sustainability Simplified shares his journey. It reveals how our culture became so polluting and passive. It then shows practical and liberating solutions that work for individuals, nations, and the world.

Nearly uniquely, Josh Spodek has lived for decades at the forefront of fields essential to understanding and solving all (yes, all) our environmental problems:

1. Living sustainably. He decreased his environmental impact over 90 percent within three years.
2. Science. He helped build a satellite with NASA and the European Space Agency.
3. Leadership. He leads courses and coaches clients from institutions including Harvard, West Point, Howard University, BCG, and Google.
4. Entrepreneurship. He co-founded a venture based on his invention that grew worldwide with clients including Coca-Cola, Cadillac, and Target.

He has a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA, both from Columbia University, and wrote Initiative and Leadership Step by Step. He and his work have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Daily Show, and nearly all major networks. Esquire named him “Best and Brightest” in its Genius issue.

For more information visit SpodekMethod.com.