[ Episode #57 // Permaculture Convergence ]
Despite the massive destruction our species has wrought on the earth, we’ve also learned a tremendous amount about ecological systems in the process. As our old narrative of domination crumbles, an...
View Article[ Episode #59 // Financialized Education ]
The amount of college debt is skyrocketing in the United States while job opportunities sought by graduates are dwindling. Costly undergrad and graduate degrees used to be the passport to a middle...
View Article[ Episode #60 // Days of Destruction ]
While the cultural foundations of the United States are unraveling the unconscious programs of American society lay outside of public dialogue. Where there was once an American Dream, a spiritual void...
View Article[ Dennis McKenna // Tools for a Culture of Healing ]
Dr. Dennis McKenna describes how people are reaching out for meaningful experiences beyond what politicized religious institutions can provide. McKenna talks about how shamanic practices can be...
View Article[ Episode #62 // Land Grabs ]
A financial sector built on a foundation of continuous material expansion is seeking returns in a slowing global economy. Will investments in global farmland be able to provide the returns expected by...
View Article[ Episode #66 // Changing Reactions ]
The catastrophe at Fukushima presents the opportunity to re-evaluate basic assumptions about energy and technology but the temptation to double down on business as usual becomes incredibly strong. Will...
View Article[ Episode #67 // Bubble and Beyond ]
A massive pile of accumulated debts and a global credit bubble are tearing apart our politics and societies. As illusory wealth continues to evaporate, a battle ensues between creditors that lent too...
View Article[ Episode #70 // Downloading Responsibility ]
An ongoing economic crash that feels like the onset of a deep freeze is far more exhausting than a rapid implosion. As bubbles are reflated and debts accumulate yet again, the system lurches towards...
View Article[ Episode #72 // Green Wizardry ]
The members of the middle class in the United States are finding increasing difficulty achieving and maintaining their expectations for jobs, housing and other basic aspects of life. With the limits to...
View Article[ Episode #73A // Regarding Revolutions ]
Extraenvironmentalist #73 is a two part episode. This is the post for SIDE A – featuring our interview on a contractionary revolution with Frank Rotering. The link for SIDE B on Egypt’s revolution and...
View Article[ Episode #73B // Regarding Revolutions ]
Extraenvironmentalist #73 is a two part episode. This is the post for SIDE B on Egypt’s revolution and education with David Blacker. The link for SIDE A featuring our interview on a contractionary...
View Article[ Episode #74 // Addiction Thinking ]
Creating a society around the idea of access to leisure time has resulted in the unintended consequence of rampant addictive behaviors. Nearly ubiquitous access to mobile high resolution screens and...
View Article[ Episode #75 // Positive Money ]
Critics of quantitative easing highlight the absurdity of creating money from nothing to paper over terrible investment decisions. Yet, what about all of the money created by banks before 2008?...
View Article[ Episode #76 // Energy Slaves ]
Our command of energy resources has created amazing technologies and social systems at a grand scale, but at what cost? Where past societies shackled human muscle with force and subjugation to create...
View Article[ Episode #77 // Locally Invested ]
As trust is lost in the global financial system and its intermediaries, surplus investment capital seems stranded in ever more risky international asset flows. Are there ways of re-routing investments...
View ArticleReturns on divestments? Chris Nelder [Part 4 of 4]
Diving Into Stories of Energy Transition with Chris Nelder Transcript Part 4: Returns on Divestment? A transcript of our interview on Extraenvironmentalist #76 by Scott Bohachyk Editor’s note: In the...
View Article[ Episode #79 // Money System Mayhem? ]
Over the last hundred years, the international money system has unraveled every few decades with surprising regularity. With the current US-based system reaching the end of its useful life for newly...
View Article[ Episode #80 // Dying Wisdom ]
Though death is an inevitable part of life, do we really act as if we know we’re going to die? In a culture that glorifies youth and technology, the true acknowledgement of death can come as an affront...
View Article[ Episode #81 // Falling Empires ]
With its empire in decline, the United States is no longer the world’s dominant superpower. Stuck in the idea of international control, it continues to maintain military reach at the expense of...
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The view further down the oil supply pyramid: a transcript with Gail Tverberg
The view from further down the oil supply pyramid – de-growth probable A transcript of our interview with Gail Tverberg on Extraenvironmentalist #55 by Nathan Surendran Editor’s note: Our thanks goes...
View Article[ Episode #88 // Resilience Imperative ]
Our governments, businesses and economic institutions were built on a society that was supercharged with fossil fuels to get as big as possible as fast as possible. Now, with the challenges of the 21st...
View Article[ Episode #91 // Age of Stagnation? ]
The common political conversation about our shared economic future focuses on achieving an escape velocity where the post-war growth boom can return as usual. While years of lackluster economic...
View Article[ Episode #92 // Decrypting Cryptocurrency ]
Digital communication technologies hold the possibility of re-orienting the way we exchange value and think about money. Do digital currencies like Bitcoin have the ability to change the global...
View Article[ Episode #93 // Climate Agreements ]
After years of mediocre negotiations on an international agreement to limit future climate change, it is easy to be cynical about the viability of a global strategy for reducing greenhouse gas...
View Article[ Episode #94 // Rocking the Google Bus ]
Companies like Twitter can make billions of dollars in revenue while providing a widely used service and still be considered a financial failure. Though today’s digital technologies provide new...
View Article[ Episode #95 // Economy of Things ]
Though we often think the modern culture of consumerism is an export from United States and a product of capitalism, people long before today’s era were enjoying the benefit of soft shoes, beautiful...
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