Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.

Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.

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Luther Krueger: “Goldilocks Tech? A Solar Oven Overview”

On this episode, Nate is joined by Solar Oven collector and educator Luther Krueger to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking.

April 18, 2024

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The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About

In this week’s Frankly, Nate offers a list of things he is absolutely certain of… or as certain as any human can be.

April 16, 2024

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Michael Every: “The Many -Isms of the Metacrisis”

On this episode, Nate is joined by financial analyst Michael Every to discuss global macro trends in economics, politics, and social movements.

April 15, 2024

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7 Meta Questions About Our Global Metabolism

Based on this week’s podcast episode with Geoffrey West, which covered how biological scaling applies to human economies, this week’s Frankly is a reflection on what this might mean for the future of our societies.

April 9, 2024

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Geoffrey West: “Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology”

On this episode, physicist Geoffrey West joins Nate to discuss his decades of work on metabolic scaling laws found in nature and how they apply to humans and our economies.

April 8, 2024

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The Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Bend Not Break’ Version

In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative “archetypes” of our human world grouped by various timelines.

April 2, 2024

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