Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It is important to start this process recognizing that all these marvelous attributes of the universe as we find it are still awe-inspiring even from a different starting point. In fact, my own experience is that it all becomes rather more incalculably stupendous as a result of shifting away from a dualist perspective.
Electricity is our energy future, but the details of that future are still sketchy. Right now, the picture is being drawn by billionaire investors, but it looks dark and dystopian. Surely more imaginative artists could do better.
A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps toward that outcome.
In this week’s episode, Nate invites listeners into an exploration of what it means to navigate a growing predicament shaped by ecological limits, rapid technological changes, and shifting expectations of reality.
The debate continues, but one certainty is that we must make the production and consumption of meat and dairy more sustainable and realign our agricultural systems with planetary boundaries and dietary guidelines.
Solar panels will continue to work for decades. But soon enough societies will have to reproduce its energy resources, if you can’t do that, they are hardly renewable in the first place.
No matter how little we have or how crazy our lives, we all are enveloped in an impressionist painting if we just look up. We all share the brilliant sunlight, the ever-changing sky, the magical phases of the moon.
The frustration is reaching critical mass, and it will drive change. The question is what type, and direction, of change?
Post-partisan does not mean passive; it means discerning. It means recognizing that real change depends on an ecology of responses including resistance, building, healing, and culture work. Each is necessary, but none is sufficient alone.
We must enforce, fund, and model policies that recognize the forest not merely as a carbon repository, but as the planet’s irreplaceable air conditioning and freshwater generation system.
In this episode, Nate is joined by Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, a Peruvian chemical biologist with Andean-Amazonian indigenous roots, to discuss how she is actively merging modern science and indigenous knowledge through innovative research in the Amazon Rainforest.
Dam removals aren’t a climate cure-all, but the magnitude of the crisis we face will require all the tools we can muster — and master. Several decades of dam removals across the U.S. has proved they work to restore rivers better and faster than anything else. Now let’s put them to use for climate action, too.
