What Plasma Boy Taught Me About Electric Drag Car Racing (#5)
“The future that restores balance to nature while enabling us to live as well as we can is going to be through finding tons of win-wins.” – Josh Dorfman
John Wayland, a.k.a. Plasma Boy is an electric drag car racer in Oregon. While working at a warehouse, he took old forklift batteries to use in his 1974 Datson, dubbing it “The White Zombie,” and turned it into an electric car. Since converting his car into an electric-powered vehicle, it now goes from 0 to 60 MPH in under three seconds and generates over 800 pounds of torque.
So what does Plasma Boy’s story teach us about environmental solutions?
On today’s episode, I share the lesson I learned from Plasma Boy about electric drag car racing and why environmental solutions need to be a win-win for the Earth as well as people. I explain why finding win-win environmental solutions is the best way to restore balance to nature as well as scale the solutions that will create a future that we all can be excited about. I also discuss how Tesla and dozens of other large name brands are seamlessly integrating environmental solutions that can positively impact the environment.
This week on The Last Environmentalist Podcast:
- How a conversation with electric drag car racer, John Wayland a.k.a. Plasma Boy, helped me realize the best solution to solving climate change is to find win-win environmental solutions
- Why identifying how environmental solutions can benefit the planet and people is critical for scaling these solutions quickly
- Why Tesla’s electric car outsells all other entry-luxury vehicles on the market
- Brands that have seamlessly integrated smart, scaleable environmental solutions that consumers can easily stand behind
- Why what we make and consume impacts our environment
- What are ‘green-built’ schools and how they impact the environment and students
- How green-built hospitals impact a patient’s recovery speed
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