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I am very fortunate to present this podcast with Steven Anderson, founder of Integrated Leadership Systems. ILS helps organizations all over North America improve their leadership and team building to be more effective so they can perform at a higher level, and I know this through my own experience in their program.This, however, is a podcast about what you can do to help the environment.Steven’s environmental activism is inspiring. He is an avid bird watcher and has been counting birds to track their migration and population for 20 years. He works to protect rainforest abroad as well as local wetlands. He drives a Chevy Volt, composts, and he’s traveled to Washington DC to meet with our congressmen.For a long time, I’ve been curious about how people get involved in our political discourse — it is a mystery to me. So it was fun to hear his journey to DC to meet with politicians and what happened when he met with our representatives.Throughout the podcast, Steven shares a ton of ways that you can make a difference. I believe understanding is the first step to taking action and taking action is important because it’s not just a beautiful planet, it’s the only one we’ve got. That, and, as Steven puts it, “The planet doesn’t care if we die. We’re doing this for ourselves.”I dream for the day when the environmental stability of our planet is not a potential threat - the more we understand where we can best focus our efforts, the more we can magnify the effect that we have on the world. I hope you listen and share your own insights in the comments!Read Full Transcript[00:00:00] Adam: Welcome to have people helping people, a podcast to share ideas on how to make the world a better place and to inspire you with ideas of how to get involved. We are exploring stories about social change, culture, the environment, and basically people helping people and make awesome stuff happen. I'm very grateful to be talking today with Steven Anderson who found an integrated leadership systems.[00:00:30] They help organizations and companies all over North America improve their leadership and team building so that the organizations can perform at a higher level. Personally, they coach me to be more effective as I've grown in my own career, and I'm very thankful for that. Now, Steven has a great story, but I'm not going into that today because he also does a lot of awesome stuff to help the environment and easy when he God to the Capitol.[00:00:54] To discuss issues with our Congressman, and I just want to know more about how this all came about. So, welcome, Steve. Maybe I can do stop. I'm curious like what motivated you to get involved in improving the environment?[00:01:08] Steve: Well, so I mean, to go all the way back, I, I was raised at a hundred acres and it was.[00:01:14] A small neighborhood of families with about 38 two creeks and about 30 acres of woods attached to it, and I probably was in the woods as much as I was in my house. I mean, I just loved being out there. I love building a campfire of love. We camped out all the time. We just love, we go up on a Hill and find a vine and cut off the bottom of it and swing out there like Tarzan.[00:01:37] It was just build tree houses. It was just the place to be, and I just always felt the most alive in the woods. When I got to be 11 years old, I became a scout and really enjoyed that, became an Eagle scout, and just really deepen my love for nature and appreciation for it. And then when I was my early twenties I started, my brother was a birdwatcher and I started birdwatching.[00:02:04] I was taking a hike with him and he had his binoculars and he started showing me, what's this bring migration started showing me what was. Flying up over the trees that looked like sparrows, but they weren't there. Warblers and I found out there's about 50 species of warblers that winter and S
