Crazy Town: Episode 133. Finding Crazy Town Part 5: Adapting to the Adaptive Cycle
What if collapse isn’t the end of the story but part of a larger cycle?
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Growth mania is fueling dangerous advances in AI – and its existential risks
AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future.
What do we still share in an age of political polarization?
Deepening fragmentation reflects an urgent challenge: our growing difficulty in identifying what truly matters, and therefore in designing policies that promote our collective well-being.
Healing the earth, one community at a time: Highlighting ERC’s global impact
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.
Why community matters when preparing for the Great Unraveling
If we want to fail more beautifully, to make our predicament less ugly, we need to learn what it means to face it together.
Crazy Town: Episode 132. Finding Crazy Town Part 4: The Myth of Progress – Are We There Yet?
What if the story we tell ourselves about progress is wrong?
Unions have been down before, history shows how they can come back
Two ways we can honor unions at this time of trial are to ask others to join union picket lines and to learn from their innovations and successes for whatever campaigns we are committed to today.
Why degrowth movements need perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe
In many ways, Central and Eastern Europe is not a newcomer to degrowth. It helped shape some of its foundational ideas.
Human Nature Odyssey, Episode 26. Can Games Save The World From Bureaucracy? With C. Thi Nguyen
How did humans go from living in small-scale communities where everyone knew each other to building a massive civilization filled with billions of strangers? Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, author of “The Score,” joins the odyssey to explore the strange relationship between games and large-scale society.
‘Goliath’s Curse’: Author Luke Kemp charts the rise and collapse of societies ruled by elites, but offers no way forward – book review
Kemp’s views on the emergence and nature of the state are debatable, but his insistence on the historical significance of the emergence of Goliaths is not.
‘Studies in Happiness’: What Japan can teach us about thriving beyond economic growth
While degrowth in Europe is often framed as a deliberate choice, Japan’s version is distinctive – and instructive. Japan offers a rare set of living experiments in how communities can actually function, and even thrive, without growth as the organizing goal.
Human Nature Odyssey, Episode 25. The Forest and the Forager
In this immersive episode, join Alex on a walk through an ancient forest as you explore what it means to live life as a forager. It’s a journey through the garden of eden grocery story, a wrestling with the gods, and a coming home to feast and famine.
