[ Episode #33 // Year of Jubilee ]
Expectations for the year 2012 A.D. have grown from tales of Mayan calendrical cycles and timewaves. Were there truly ancient prophecies describing catastrophes in the coming year? Is a change in human...
View Article[ Episode #38 // Hard Times ]
Debt is placing a stranglehold on the global economy, restricting the ability for growth to occur at a rate fast enough to prevent the monetary system from unraveling. To delay a massive deleveraging,...
View Article[ Episode #49 // Developing Breakdown ]
Central banks are undertaking unprecedented actions to keep the monetary system from unraveling. Despite unlimited Quantitative Easing and wealth transfers between Europe’s economies, growth has yet to...
View Article[ Episode #51 // Culture of Dying ]
The globally dominant culture is suffering from an economic, ecological and social crisis that has deeper roots than failing budgets and environmental degradation. Do we have a role to play if our...
View Article[ Episode #55 // Degrowth ]
Decades of material growth have left us with a limited imagination for alternatives. Now that we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns for additional economic growth, can we decolonize our mind? In...
View Article[ Episode #56 // So Much Magic ]
// Duncan’s Photos From His Canalers Adventures [nggallery id=2 width=400] Maintaining the complexity of our civilization requires a consistent input of net energy and a stable climate. We’ve already...
View Article[ 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...
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