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In this special episode, we chat with David Pogue about decluttering and disposing without adding to landfills. David is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on CBS Sunday Morning, a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED Talk speaker, host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS, and creator/host of the CBS News/Simon & Schuster podcast Unsung Science. He was also the New York Times weekly tech columnist from 2000 to 2013. David’s New York Magazine article My Quest to Downsize Without Throwing Anything Away. A big house full of belongings – could I find them a new life? was the catalyst for this episode. David shares specific organizations he used to ecologically remove unwanted belongings.
For more information on David Pogue, check out his website. His book, How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos, includes a chapter on where to live. Go to David’s Amazon page for a list of his many books.
Here are some organizations which may aid in donating or selling your items:
Author and Television Personality
David Pogue wrote the New York Times weekly tech column from 2000 to 2013. He’s a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on CBS Sunday Morning, now with Jane Pauley [a show we love], a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS, and creator/host of the CBS News/Simon & Schuster podcast Unsung Science. By the way, we highly recommend a recent episode about Google Maps. [Gene: That episode blew me away]. And lest we forget, his annual segment, the Holiday List from Techno Clause, on CBS Sunday Morning.
This is what you may not know about David: He was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio and get this: he arrived on March 9th at 9:09 am, weighing 9 pounds, 9 ounces, and his parents had been married for 9 years. After graduating summa cum laude from Yale with distinction in music, Pogue spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York.
He’s written and co-written more than 120 books, including the Missing Manual tech series, which he created in 1999, the For Dummies line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); 2 novels; 3 bestselling Pogue’s Basics books of tips and shortcuts (on Tech, Money, and Life); and his 2021 magnum opus, How to Prepare for Climate Change.
David lives with his wife Nicki and their blended brood of five children.
