Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2021-03-29
Books mentioned on Alex Honnold On The Responsibility of Adventure, Olympic Climbing & Reversing Climate Change
With great adventure comes great responsibility. It’s not enough to simply appreciate our natural world—we must also protect it.
Alex Honnold discussed The Better World Shopping Guide by Ellis Jones, Seven Summits by Dick Bass and others, Energy by Vaclav Smil, and Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Better World Shopping Guide
Discussed“my sister actually many years ago before I started my foundation, before I started any of this stuff, she gave me this book called "The Better World Shopping Guide," which I think is out of print now but at the time was this incredible resource where for any consumer product, including banking and things like that, you could flip through”
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Seven Summits
Discussed“I don't know if you've ever read the book, "The Seven Summits" by Dick Bass. He was the first person-”
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Energy
Energy by Vaclav Smil is a sweeping, highly detailed examination of how energy systems have evolved alongside human civilization, charting power sources from ancient biomass to modern industrial grids.
Discussed“I just finished this book "Energy and Civilization," this like Vaclav Smil's, like this super dense tome about sort of the progression of different energy systems in human civilization.”
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Energy and Civilization
Discussed“I just finished this book "Energy and Civilization," this like Vaclav Smil's, like this super dense tome about sort of the progression of different energy systems in human civilization.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Voicing Change
“then something tells me I think I'll really dig my latest book "Voicing Change," featuring excerpts from, poignant essays by and glorious photography of some 50 of my favorite guests over the last eight plus years of doing this thing, this podcast.”