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Act: Inspiration

Frankly: Meeting the Future Halfway

By Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification

July 14, 2022

crossroads

We recently finished our 25th episode. Time (and events) are moving fast.

At end of long week I offer a short riff on:

==> What is the Great Simplification?

==> What have I learned in doing the first 25 episodes?

==>What is a framework for solutions responses?

 

Teaser photo credit: Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash.

 

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.

Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.

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