Sustainability Time

Todd Francis
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Sustainability is about the world we share and not just the commitment we make to supporting a better environment. It is about what we do to sustain ourselves, our communities, our society, our culture, our institutions and our future. Sustainability Time asks a central question about us: What is the natural thread that connects the many pieces of our civilization? Do we recognize what binds our challenges to a single frame? Real life doesn't arrive in separate categories. Still, we attack our problems one by one and try to make a difference. We are resourceful and accomplish many of our goals in society. On the other hand, often, we diminish important parts of our problems as we try to solve them—and lose sight of what we are actually trying to fix. We should always remember that people aren't simply consumers of resources. We are creators of value—and society's greatest resource. Economics, technology, government and natural resources matter, but so do compassion, creativity, integrity, experience, friendship, resilience, cooperation and time. So, on this podcast, it is time for us to assess and tackle our goal: full sustainability and resilience—the things that ultimately matter. Sustainability is about constructive vitality: developing healthier people, stronger relationships, resilient communities, responsible institutions and a natural world capable of supporting generations still to come. Resilience is all of this supported by continuity and stability, laying the groundwork for opportunity and quality of life for all—which is part of the fundamental value of sustainability itself. There won't always be easy answers. We have unexpected tangents to follow. Tall cliffs to dive from. Walls to drive straight through without stopping. Ultimately, sustainability is about the air we'd like to breathe and the lives we'd like to live. We have problems to wrestle with, and separate ideals and ideas to wrestle into one. This is part of life's journey. We must lead the way. Proper valuation is the key to all things sustainable. Proper valuation is the freedom we keep in our hearts right now and the consciousness we care to share with others. As we learn to recognize our own value, the value of others and our place within the greater society, perhaps we move a little closer to becoming sustainable beings – supporting growth within humanity, supporting growth within ourselves. Sustainability is love. Sustainability is life. Sustainability is one of the human race's most essential spiritual values. Join us on this long and winding road. It is only life we are chasing, after all. #Sustainability #SustainabilityTime #SocialSustainability #HumanSustainability #SustainableFuture #EnvironmentalScience #EnvironmentalJustice #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #HumanDevelopment #Resilience #SocialImpact #Community #QualityOfLife #FutureGenerations #SustainableLiving 

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  1. -5 дн.

    Sustainability and Mass Incarceration

    What does the food served inside an American prison tell us about the society outside of it? In this episode of Sustainability Time, we begin with incarceration and follow the question much further. We examine prison food and punishment in the extraordinary human environment created when large numbers of people with very different histories, offenses and needs are confined together. We also confront the difficult question that can get lost in criticism of mass incarceration: if we substantially change the system, what do we do for and with the people already inside it? Some have been institutionalized for decades. Some have been profoundly harmed. Some have profoundly harmed others. Some may remain dangerous. Others may be capable of returning to society and contributing to it. Reform has to deal honestly with all of them. But prison doesn't exist separately from society. Our journey takes us through childhood development, abuse, mental health, housing, food access, healthcare, poverty, homelessness, employment and economic insecurity. We consider the role that chronic survival fear can play in people's lives—and what happens when society waits until human problems have become extraordinarily difficult and expensive before seriously addressing them. Along the way, we question something even larger: how does society determine value? If our economic and political systems count the cost of helping someone but fail to count the cost of allowing that person's human capacity to deteriorate, perhaps our accounting is incomplete. Real life doesn't arrive in separate categories. Neither do the causes and consequences of incarceration. This is a conversation about punishment and compassion, victims and offenders, responsibility and development, fear and freedom—and ultimately about what a sustainable society should be trying to produce in its people. Because perhaps the purpose of corrections shouldn't simply be deciding how long someone must remain behind a wall. Perhaps it should also be helping a human being find their way back.

  2. 25 авг.

    Sustainability Will Eat Anything

    In this episode, we take sustainability out of the “environment-only” box and treat it as a way to evaluate the health of the larger society: people, communities, institutions, and the natural world.  Real life doesn’t arrive in separate categories.  We explore why sustainability can be the connecting thread across education, healthcare, economics, mental health, technology, culture, and public trust. We also widen the definition of “resources” to include compassion, creativity, integrity, patience, friendship, experience, and cooperation.  People aren’t merely consumers of resources; we are the chief resource, creating ideas, inventions, mentoring, art, and the social bonds that make resilience possible. If you want a clearer, more human definition of sustainability and a more hopeful way to think about long-term progress, press play.  Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with your own definition of “sustainability.”

  3. 23 июл.

    Trauma vs. A Sustainable Mind

    From domestic violence and childhood neglect to addiction, chronic fear, and intergenerational pain, trauma shows up in everyday life and often hides behind choices that look self-destructive. Someone returns to an abusive partner within hours of the police removing him.  Another person makes a life choice about career path because a 15 minute occurrence when they were 9.  Trauma can be shaping force in human behavior and long-term relationships.  What more can we do to limit its effects? Sustainable values can help us to become more adequate beings.  We can improve our emotional resilience through the development of more enlightened and supportive communities.  Sustainable thinking and proper use of our time and resources will help us build practical tools that can help us, as a society, reduce the impact of trauma before it becomes a reality for an individual.  How can this be possible?  A community deeply involved with sustainable values can accomplish more than we can imagine.

  4. 21 июн.

    Sustainability is Holding Hands

    Sustainability starts in ordinary life, in the human environment we create with our words, habits, and daily choices. When people feel supported instead of abandoned, connected instead of isolated, communities become more resilient, and that resilience is every bit as real as any policy.

  5. 31 мая

    Let's Raise Capable Children

    In this episode of It’s Sustainability Time, we explore the idea that the true goal of education in a sustainable society is the development of capable human beings. What does it mean to be capable in the context of sustainability? A capable person is able to understand systems, navigate challenges, contribute constructively to community, and support the long-term stability of both humanity and the natural world. Using the American Revolution as an example, this episode explores how history changes when students are taught to understand the resource systems, economic realities, and environmental pressures operating underneath historical events. How does knowledge of systems shape perception? How might education evolve if its purpose became the development of people capable of sustaining humanity over time? This episode explores sustainability as a philosophy of human capability — the capability to support a dynamic, prosperous, and resilient humanity.

  6. 3 мая

    A Sustainable Society in Real Time

    In this episode, we explore what it might actually feel like to live in a sustainable society in daily life. Would we be a population of slimmer people? Would hypertension become a thing of the past? The effects of a sustainable society may be subtle—but over time, even the work we do may begin to carry an added dimension. We also consider how tools like AI might help manage abundant complexities, while keeping human stewardship at the center. In the end, the most meaningful aspect of a sustainable world may be the opportunity to take part in maintaining it.

  7. 12 апр.

    Evolving Values

    Value is the starting point of sustainability — and a healthy community is its end result. In this episode, we explore why real progress isn’t driven by better information or improved practices alone, but by a change in our thought process and what we recognize as valuable. Sustainability is often framed as environmental protection, but its potential may be much broader: the development of resilient communities and strong institutions that support a better way of life for human beings. As a central characteristic of a sustainable society, healthy biodiversity would exist within communities and be actively fostered in the natural world. If we begin to see value differently, what kind of society could emerge?

  8. 24 мар.

    The Sustainable Mind

    Sustainability has a transcendent quality. Can we make it part of our everyday reality? In this episode, Todd Francis explores the idea that sustainable thinking is less like a band-aid for problems and more like a vitamin — something that strengthens individuals, communities, and future generations over time. The possibilities for wiser decisions, personal growth, and long-term progress are boundless. Join the conversation and discover the deeper value of sustainable thinking.

  9. 01.12.2025

    Our Incarceration Pandemic: Part 1

    Americans make up 25% of the global prison population.  We live in a virtual pandemic of U.S. citizens who live their lives in 6ft. x 8ft. cells.  Is this a crime against humanity or a strong commitment to keep law abiding citizens safe?   On this episode we will talk about the real-time components, ambivalence and de facto-ambivalence, that make crime management in America an abysmal failure.  Then we will talk to a former gang member about his experiences, which have consumed more than half of his adult life. #incarceration #prison #criminaljustice #rejuvenation #legalsystem #crime #communitysupport #addiction #recovery #illegaldrugs #gangviolence #massincarceration #parole #selfcare

  10. 01.09.2025

    Do I exist?

    It would take  1.3 million Planet Earths to equal the Sun's mass and 7.5 trillion people to equal the Earth’s mass.  So, where do I fit in?  I myself am made up of 7 octillion atoms, which is 7 followed by 27 zeros. Each human has a 1 in 400 trillion chance of coming into existence and the size of the Milky Way Galaxy is billions of times smaller than is a spec of dust when compared to the scale of the universe.   Do we live in an endless mindless expanse or not?!   Is there an invisible being around us or not?!  Shouldn't we have figured out this definitively by now?  Oh well, we haven't.  Maybe we are like Chinese pygmy dormouse - blind.  Who knows.  Does it matter?  Probably.  Should we care?  Probably.   The oceans might know more clearly whether there is a God than we do.  So what.  Praise Jesus. Challenge reality! #CosmicPerspective #Philosophy #TowerOfBabel #Creation #Evolution

  11. 28.06.2025

    Mystical Nature of Christianity

    A man implies that God is his Father.  The same man changes jugs of water into wine at a marriage festival.  He was conceived without a human father and returns after his death to lead humanity back to its righteous nature.   Three distinct beings make up the Christian God.  The mysteries of the Christian faith are deep and entrenching.  In today's episode, we'll take a look at what Christians believe, or are supposed to.

  12. 25.05.2025

    5 Crops Feed 6.4 Billion

    Just 5 food items form the basis for human survival.  They are the foundation for what makes civilization possible.  What are they?  What gives the five staples the capability to feed us all?

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Sustainability is about the world we share and not just the commitment we make to supporting a better environment. It is about what we do to sustain ourselves, our communities, our society, our culture, our institutions and our future. Sustainability Time asks a central question about us: What is the natural thread that connects the many pieces of our civilization? Do we recognize what binds our challenges to a single frame? Real life doesn't arrive in separate categories. Still, we attack our problems one by one and try to make a difference. We are resourceful and accomplish many of our goals in society. On the other hand, often, we diminish important parts of our problems as we try to solve them—and lose sight of what we are actually trying to fix. We should always remember that people aren't simply consumers of resources. We are creators of value—and society's greatest resource. Economics, technology, government and natural resources matter, but so do compassion, creativity, integrity, experience, friendship, resilience, cooperation and time. So, on this podcast, it is time for us to assess and tackle our goal: full sustainability and resilience—the things that ultimately matter. Sustainability is about constructive vitality: developing healthier people, stronger relationships, resilient communities, responsible institutions and a natural world capable of supporting generations still to come. Resilience is all of this supported by continuity and stability, laying the groundwork for opportunity and quality of life for all—which is part of the fundamental value of sustainability itself. There won't always be easy answers. We have unexpected tangents to follow. Tall cliffs to dive from. Walls to drive straight through without stopping. Ultimately, sustainability is about the air we'd like to breathe and the lives we'd like to live. We have problems to wrestle with, and separate ideals and ideas to wrestle into one. This is part of life's journey. We must lead the way. Proper valuation is the key to all things sustainable. Proper valuation is the freedom we keep in our hearts right now and the consciousness we care to share with others. As we learn to recognize our own value, the value of others and our place within the greater society, perhaps we move a little closer to becoming sustainable beings – supporting growth within humanity, supporting growth within ourselves. Sustainability is love. Sustainability is life. Sustainability is one of the human race's most essential spiritual values. Join us on this long and winding road. It is only life we are chasing, after all. #Sustainability #SustainabilityTime #SocialSustainability #HumanSustainability #SustainableFuture #EnvironmentalScience #EnvironmentalJustice #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #HumanDevelopment #Resilience #SocialImpact #Community #QualityOfLife #FutureGenerations #SustainableLiving 

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  • Автор
    Todd Francis
  • Годы выхода
    2025 - 2026
  • Выпуски
    12
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