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Joshua Spodek PhD MBA is the premier voice in sustainability leadership. He hosts the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, is a four-time TEDx speaker, author of Sustainability Simplified, Initiative, and Leadership Step by Step, professor at NYU, and leadership coach. He has spoken on leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, West Point, Princeton, MIT, the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, and studied under a Nobel laureate. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents. He takes over 4 years to produce one load of garbage, hasn’t flown (by choice) since March 2016, unplugged his refrigerator in September 2021 (still going), disconnected his apartment from the electric grid in May 2022 (still going), and his carbon footprint is about 1 ton per year. He has picked up at least one piece of litter per day since April 2017. He earned praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (ABC News and Forbes) and has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, and has done burpees daily since 2011.
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