How much trash do you create? Professor Joshua Spodek tells Joe De Sena he had been eating packaged food with every meal of his life. One day he decided to take responsibility for his own mess. With every meal, everything we buy from stores, everything we order- we throw something away, and every item of waste you have ever “gotten rid of” still exists in some form, somewhere. Spodek calls Joe De Sena out on his own consumption - and Joe responds. Spodek, a leadership professor at NYU, has embarked on a journey to lighten his impact on the planet by creating as minimal garbage as possible. It has meant, among other things, that at the supermarket he is buying whole fruits and vegetables because everything else has packaging. The added benefit - a more healthy diet. Take responsibility for how you are participating and contributing. Are you a steward of the land and of your community? Can you implement simple tactics to improve your impact? Spartan’s, we all need to take ownership and initiative around our actions. What will you do today?!  LESSONS Be where you can effect the most change  Be a steward of the land  Be around a community that challenges you  Be resourceful and efficient to fulfill your needs  Be mindful of how much trash you create  Learn to reduce your impact on the earth  Purchase things without packaging  Adapt your tastebuds to what’s healthy and local  Be motivated by internal factors  Be an initiator  Be better & just do !   This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Wild Alaskan Company. With wild-caught and sustainable seafood delivered right to your door, it's never been easier to access the best seafood that Alaska and the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Go to https://wildalaskancompany.com and enter promo code SPARTAN on checkout to save $25 off your first order.   LINKS  https://joshuaspodek.com.  His TEDx page: https://joshuaspodek.com/tedx. Joe De Sena on Spodek’s podcast  https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/360-sparta-could-make-history   Book: Initiative : https://joshuaspodek.com/initiative   TIME STAMPS 0:00 intro to unpackaging and new podcasts  2:00 WildAlaskanCompany.com intro  2:30 Living in nature and edible forests  4:00 Being a steward of the land  5:00 Transforming kids  7:00 Challenging students at NYU  8:15 Things we can do to be more efficient  10:00 The need to reduce garbage  12:30 WildAlaskanCompany.com break 14:00 Shop.Spartan.Com Be Unbreakable! (Special offer through July 25th) 16:00 Communities strategies on waste  18:00 Figuring out how to reduce how much trash you make  19:30 What can you buy that has no packaging? 21:00 Foraging in the city  22:00 Changing your taste buds 24:00 Walking your talk  25:30 Empowering people to figure it out for themselves  27:15 The meaning of competition  28:30 The rules of engagement with the environment 29:30 Developing skills of an initiator   31:00 Exhausting passing fancies & ideas of a lifetime  32:30 Starting with the emotion  33:10 Why Joe feels uncomfortable  36:00 Just doing & taking ownership of your life  37:10 WildAlaskanCompany.com close  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1pYBkk1T684YQg7CmoaAZt FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod   CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena  Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye are farming/ not buying plastic ;)  Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty   © 2020 Spartan