The Power Podcast: Episode 8 Powered Down and Better Off
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
We're currently on a pathway to collapse, but the future doesn't have to be bleak. We can develop communities where we take care of one another and the ecosystems we inhabit.
The Power Podcast: Episode 7 Optimal Power
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
We can still choose our path forward, we can still sacrifice for what we value. But to do so we must recognize the power we possess, build on it in community with others, and acknowledge the ways in which we wield it.
The Power Podcast: Episode 6 Overpowered – the Days of Climate Chaos
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
But what if our voracious appetite is less to blame than the types of things that hunger has been directed toward? Could we direct our attention instead toward beauty, tenderness, and collective action?
The Power Podcast: Episode 5 Fossil Fuels Changed Everything
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilence.org
Improve your energy literacy with stories about pushing motor vehicles, enduring blackouts, and growing $10 tomatoes, and take a tour of history that visits ancient China, industrializing Britain, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the Green Revolution.
The Power Podcast: Episode 4 The Rise of Social Inequality
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
Richard Heinberg explores the development of social power – simply defined as the ability to get other people to do something.
The Power Podcast: Episode 3 Fire, Tools, and Language
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.
The Power Podcast: Episode 2 Power in Nature
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford
To understand humanity's relationship with energy and power, and to get a handle on why we're experiencing a polycrisis of climate change, social inequality, and loss of biodiversity, you have to go back to the beginning – all the way back to the origins of life on Earth.
The Power Podcast Episode 1: Introduction to Power
By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
If we want to address this problem and reduce the chances of a chaotic collapse of society, we will have to confront our overuse and abuse of power.