What's in the fridge?

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The power of systems

Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.

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0:00.0	In your house, running all night and all day, right near the back door, is a box, a device that is responsible, at least partly for many of the ills and dangers in our culture.
0:16.0	Yes, we're here to talk about the system that involves your refrigerator.
0:24.3	Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.
0:29.0	We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor.
0:39.8	What happens when jobs are taking out of neighborhoods, where zombie homes abound and
0:44.5	foreclosures have occurred, where there's no after-school programs and there's no
0:49.4	green space for kids to play in. I'm Jim Kalloran and for 30 years I have worked in these neighborhoods bringing volunteers
0:57.1	like you helping to transform them full center ny dot o gee make a donation swing a hammer 4 Center NY-NY-Y-O-R-G.
1:02.8	Make a donation, swing a hammer, be a mentor,
1:06.5	the excitement is building.
1:08.4	Join us.
1:09.4	4-Center NY-O-R-G. This is not actually a podcast about refrigerators. It's about systems and how hard they
1:18.0	are to change and the opportunities that are in front of us if someone, if some organization finds the guts and the
1:27.2	wherewithal and the persistence to actually make a change happen. So let's talk about your fridge. First of all, it is
1:35.9	wasting a lot of power day in and day out. An old refrigerator is using a ton of electricity.
1:45.0	New ones are a lot more efficient, thanks to the EPA ratcheting up the standards.
1:50.0	Hopefully we'll return to that era of making fridges even more efficient.
1:56.6	Number two, human beings have been pushed by the marketing industrial complex to shop more and more in the middle of the supermarket.
2:09.3	The edges of the supermarket where we find things like fresh fruits and vegetables, things like dairy products, things that require cooking and innovation, meats and fishes as well, those are fading compared to the
2:26.8	pre-packaged stuff in the middle of the store.
2:31.6	Third, we waste a lot of food. By some estimates, a third of all the food we buy in the
2:37.4	store. We don't end up eating, either because it's left over at the bottom of the package or because it goes bad.
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