Green Talks: Nate Hagens & The Great Simplification
Citizens in the US and Canada use over 300GJ per capita, so there is lots of room to simplify. We can reduce our energy demands without significantly reducing the general well-being of humanity.
Alissa Quart’s ‘Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream’
In Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Alissa Quart – director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project – addresses the meritocratic delusion of the “self-made man,”….
Can we grow enough food?
We, in the US, can feed ourselves without destroying our planet and therefore ourselves — but only if we change everything about the ways that we go about feeding ourselves today.
Black radical imagination helps us transform our relationships to energy, land & economy
For those of us interested in exploring alternative visions for the future of land, economy, and energy, the answers on how best to achieve collective liberation may come in lessons hard-learned from the past.
The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics
We are going to have to dramatically downsize the dream of a future in which we replace 150-year-old fossil fuel infrastructure with “clean energy” by 2050.
Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?
A group of archaeologists, climate scientists and policy experts met at the University of East Anglia last week to discuss how unique cultures and heritage are fast disappearing because of climate change – and what can be done to properly measure and address this.
The long century of the car
Although Tom Standage’s book is billed as A Brief History of Motion, it is really about the long century of the car.
Hazards of a connected world – Should you forgo the Internet of Things?
You should be very, very cautious about any device that uses the word “smart” in its name.
How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
As a rapidly warming world strains at the shortcomings in industrial farming, key lessons can be taken from Indigenous practices.
The mask of leadership
This is the crisis of faith. Really, we all know that those we’ve elevated on pedestals of power can do approximately nothing for us, that we have no reason to admire them or to look to them for support.
Picture the Future: Imagining Wellington’s Green Corridor
What we saw with the Fox’s Field forest garden project, is that the power of illustration to create the future we want is no small thing.
Antonio Turiel: “Deep Challenges: Oceans, Scarcity and Culture”
On this episode, physicist Antonio Turiel joins me for a wide-ranging discussion from oceans and climate to energy and culture.
