Carbon and Canada’s Cars: “Business As Usual, Electrified”
Electrification is an important and necessary step for a sustainable, healthy future, but growth-driven Business As Usual—even Electrified—is killing us.
Where will humanity move when the earth gets too hot?
In this episode, Nate is joined by environmental and migration historian, Sunil Amrith, to explore the complex history of human movement – and what it reveals about the looming wave of climate-driven migration.
Restoring Appalachia’s ex-coalfields: How native trees are reviving the region
Renew Appalachia is working to be a beacon of hope for the region. With native tree restoration, community involvement, and sustainable practices, they’re showing that even the most damaged landscapes can heal.
Bread of Heaven
To find satisfaction you have to have an encounter with the real world and absorb its great subtleties. It’s difficult to make the deep connections about food without meeting the people that grow the plants or bake the bread, or doing those things yourself.
The Canary Has Fallen Silent: Episode 2 of Going Steady with Herman Daly
We follow Herman from the lecture halls of Louisiana to the forests of Brazil – and through a period of global upheaval and personal transformation. It’s the late 1960s: war, civil rights, and the first whispers of ecological collapse are reshaping the world.
The Annihilation of the Ontological Feminine
Every myth matters. Each one reveals how people once understood their place in the cosmos. Most have been lost, their meanings erased. The story of Marduk and Tiamat survives—and that alone makes it worth examining.
Human Nature Odyssey: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature. What’s universal, what’s cultural, and what’s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?
Organic agriculture: to standardize or to diversify?
The developments of the organic certification system is today driven by the actors who have a vested interest in it, such as the standard-setters, certification bodies, government bureaucrats and consultants; not by the farmers, food producers, consumers and the trade they are supposed to serve.
Outrage as Plug Pulled on Coal Mine Public Hearing
In an unprecedented move Rob Morgan, the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, has bowed to intense bullying from an Australian-based coal company and cancelled a planned public hearing on a large underground project near the town of Grande Cache.
Dear Ecologist, Don’t Forget About the Economy
Ecologists, this is a call to emerge from your niche occasionally, enough to acknowledge the root cause of the issues you study. You don’t need to start a new movement. There’s an existing movement of academics and activists establishing the need for degrowth to a steady state economy and raising awareness of this need.
The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth
On this episode, Nate is joined by environmental journalist, Oliver Milman, to discuss the alarming decline in insect populations in the past few decades and the far-reaching consequences this has for ecosystem stability, human well-being, and the overall health of the biosphere.
Crazy Town: Episode 109. Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum.
In this episode we travel in time to the year 2125, to visit the Crazy Town museum, which showcases today’s world of wanton consumption and profligate waste. How will humans in 2125 – if there are any of us left – judge the things everyone sees as normal today?
