{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/5c350e7a2a3b567545916744?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"116: Michael O'Heaney, part 2: Less plastic, less stuff, more fun, more family","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1546980914013-008a4f43b968bf216d27cb0368741c0e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>First, if you haven't watched <a href=\"http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/\" target=\"_blank\">Story of Stuff</a>, as much as I love my podcast, watch the videos from the organization Michael O'Heaney leads---the <a href=\"http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/\" target=\"_blank\">Story of Stuff</a>.</p><p>You'll hear that simple things he could have always done are available and doing them improves his life, as I heard.</p><p>As experienced leaders often do, he involves others---in particular, his daughter---in contrast to many others, who tend to think of other people as problems. They think, \"I can't stop flying because of family,\" or because of work. Always someone else.</p><p>Leaders involve others solutions that affect them a strategy that usually works, at least among this podcast's guests.</p><p>He's not the first to find acting on his environmental values overcomes separation with children. I recommend listening to <a href=\"http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/jim-harshaw\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Harshaw's episodes</a> for another example of a parent using acting on his environmental values to connect with people he cares about.</p><p><br></p><p>The links Michael mentioned:</p><ul><li>The first group is <a href=\"http://tejasbarrios.org/\" target=\"_blank\">TEJAS</a>, based in Houston.</li><li class=\"ql-indent-1\">Yvette, a staffer, was featured in <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMau-t3QaI&amp;t=3s\" target=\"_blank\">the first short documentary</a> that the Story of Stuff released in the run up to the full Story of Plastic.</li><li>The second is <a href=\"https://earthworks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthworks</a>, which works with a series of grassroots groups fighting extractive projects around the country, including fracking in Pennsylvania.</li></ul>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}