Extraenvironmentalist

[ Episode #95 // Economy of Things ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 07:16:10 +0000

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 cloth and exceptional goods. Acquisition has been an important part of community and identity, essential to societies even though only recently so many people have been part of a middle class, capable of affording the mass consumption of today's world. What insights can we glean from the history of consumption and economic thought for what it means to be human?

In Extraenvironmentalist #95 we first speak with Professor Frank Trentmann about his new book Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First. We hear from Frank about how we've come to live with so much stuff. Then, we talk to Professor Laurence Malone about his work and teaching on Adam Smith and in editing the Essential Adam Smith. Dr. Malone helps us understand the real meaning of the invisible hand.

//Books

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
The Essential Adam Smith edited by Robert Heilbroner and Laurence Malone.

// Music (in order of appearance)

Jose Gonzalez - This is How We Walk on the Moon (Thomas Jack Remix) via Et Musique Pour Tous
Mozambo & Basic Tape – Bright Side (ft. Julia Church)[RYI Remix] via Et Musique Pour Tous
Card on Spokes - Faded Pictures via RTFKT
Peter Doran - Every Little Thing via Soundcloud

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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[ Episode #94 // Rocking the Google Bus ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 06:29:20 +0000

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 innovations that reorganize daily life, can the digital economy expand forever? Will our most promising tech ever reach its potential in an economy pushing for growth at all costs?

In Extraenvironmentalist #94 we first speak with Douglas Rushkoff about his new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity. Douglas discusses drivers of recent tech businesses and how relentless financial incentives are undermining their possible value to society. Then we speak with Jennifer Hinton about the possibility of a not-for-profit model for business and technology described in her forthcoming book How On Earth: Flourishing in a Not-For-Profit World by 2050.

//Books

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff
How On Earth: Flourishing in a Not-For-Profit World by 2050 by Jennifer Hinton and Donnie Maclurcan

//Clips (in order of appearance)

How private tech industry buses became a symbol of the economic divide in San Francisco
Exponential Technology

// Music (in order of appearance)

Overjoy - Another via Soundcloud
Rufus Du Sol - Innerbloom (Lane 8 Remix) via We Got This Covered

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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Ian in Australia
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Ben in Colorado

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[ Episode #93 // Climate Agreements ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:45:42 +0000

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 emissions. What do these large conferences really mean for the future of the planet? Our correspondent reports back from the December 2015 COP21 meeting in Paris to discuss the context and the content of large-scale climate negotiations.

In Extraenvironmentalist #93 we speak with Mark Dixon to discuss his take on the COP21 Paris climate conference. We hear interviews Mark recorded at the meeting, including one with climate scientist Kevin Anderson on the problem with ambitious projections of carbon capture technology. We also discuss Mark's conversations with the attendees who voiced their perspectives on the future of the planet's climate.

//Additional Links

Carbon Capture in Pathways to 1.5˚?

//Clips (in order of appearance)

What is COP21?
President Obama Addresses Climate Change at COP21
Climate deal in Paris: everything you need to know

// Music (in order of appearance)

St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Midnight on the Earth via IndieShuffle
Saint Motel - Move via Paste
Coast Modern - The Way it Was via Pigeons and Planes

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel
Cover photo via Mark Dixon's Flickr

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Christian in Massachusetts
Lorenzo in California

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[ Episode #92 // Decrypting Cryptocurrency ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 23 May 2016 01:45:52 +0000

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 economic order? Can machine learning, automation, and cryptocurrencies unleash exponential innovations that unseat the financial institutions at the top of the monetary pyramid?

In Extraenvironmentalist #92 we first speak with Paul Vigna about his new book The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order to discuss how the Bitcoin currency and the blockchain distributed ledger system are laying the groundwork for alternatives to today's monetary system. Then, we talk about the potential influence of exponential technologies on education, learning and other areas of the economy with Jim Jubelirer.

// Books

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey

//Clips (in order of appearance)

Full Story: on Bitcoin
Bitcoin vs. Banks
This Money's so Safe, You'll Never Touch It

// Music (in order of appearance)

Postiljonen - Supreme (Niva Remix) via Soundcloud
Future Elevators - Modern World via The Planet of Sound
Rodriguez - Hate Street Dialogue (GingerAle Remix) via IndieShuffle

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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Kathryn in Washington
Erin in Vermont
Robert in Kansas
Lee in Arizona

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[ Episode #91 // Age of Stagnation? ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:18:12 +0000

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 performance mount, a rapidly growing global economy is still discussed like it is readily just over the horizon. Can the factors creating a slower growth world find open discussion in time to avoid severe social strife? Is the drive for passive income in an age of stagnation placing the global economy in permanent peril and creating a context for social strife?

In Extraenvironmentalist #91 we first speak with Satyajit Das about his new book The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy is in Peril which questions the assumption that never ending economic growth is possible, or desirable. Das questions the ability of political leaders to enact the tough structural changes needed to avoid social chaos in a low growth world. Then, in the second half of our show we speak with Michael Hudson about his book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy. Hudson describes how debt deflation is imposing austerity on the U.S. and European economies, siphoning wealth and income upward to the financial sector while impoverishing the middle class.

Note: Partial transcripts of our interviews in this episode are forthcoming in the next few weeks

// Books

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy is in Peril by Satyajit Das

Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy by Michael Hudson

//Clips (in order of appearance)

Fourth Industrial Revolution tsunami warning in Davos - economy
Highlights: The Dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Looking to 2060: A Global Vision of Long-term Growth
The Future of Economic Growth
Post-World War II Economy Booms with Soldiers Return to U.S.

// Music (in order of appearance)

Nifty Earth - Intertwine (Ft. Akhila Eechampati) via Indieshuffle
Rebeka - Davos - erfect Man via Earmilk
Vaults - Midnight River via Beautiful Buzz

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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Paul in California
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David in Colorado
Luke in British Columbia

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[ Episode #90 // Missing Out ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:33:22 +0000

In our highly connected world of cell phones, ever expanding inboxes and regular social media updates, it is easy to be constantly immersed in the rich and dynamic worlds created by our technologies. While the internet gives us so much, it also changes our social relationships and mental environment in many subtle ways that can be challenging for brains that aren't too different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Can we develop a healthy relationship with modern digital technologies by thinking about what it really means to be human?

In Extraenvironmentalist #90 we talk with Christina Crook about The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World, her book on developing intentional and deliberate relationships with today's communication technologies. Then, we speak with Andrew Zenn about his experience at a digital detox camp, where people choose to experience a technology fast for encountering new dynamics of relating and conversing.

// Books

The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World by Christina Crook

//Clips (in order of appearance)

Is the internet really ruining your attention span
What the internet is doing to our brains
How social media is rewiring our brains

// Music (in order of appearance)

Easy Star All-Stars feat. Kirsty Rock - Paranoid Android (Reggae Cover) via Soundcloud
Jim James - State Of The Art (Macando Remix) via Soundcloud
SOAK – “Digital Witness” (St. Vincent Cover) via Stereogum
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
Tomas Barfod - Used to be (feat. Nina K) via Soundcloud

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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Björn in Sweden
Andreas in Denmark
Carla in Quebec
Christopher in New York

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[ Autumn 2015 Interlude // Archaeoacoustics ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:49:07 +0000

In this Autumn 2015 Interlude of The Extraenvironmentalist we talk about research on how ancient humans perceived sounds with Steve Waller on rock art acoustics and Miriam Kolar about her archaeoacoustic research at Chavín de Huantar.

// Music (in order of appearance)

St. Germain - Forget Me Not
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four
B. DreadMan (John Talabot's Dusty Edit) via Soundcloud

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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The Energy Transition Show – [Episode #0] – subscribe @ energytransitionshow.com

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:27:41 +0000

We're launching The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder - the first show on our forthcoming podcast network! This is the only episode we'll place in our Extraenvironmentalist podcast feed so please go to http://energytransitionshow.com/ to subscribe.

Episode #0 features the conversation we had with Chris in XE #89 on how global macro trends are presently influencing the ongoing process of energy transition.

The first few episodes are slated for a regular Wednesday release over the coming weeks. Enjoy the show! We'd love to hear your feedback at podcast [at] extraenvironmentalist.com so be sure to let us know what you think.

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[ Episode #89 // How on Earth ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 07:08:28 +0000

Today's textbook notions of business were developed during an unprecedented global economic expansion - a cultural condition that faces diminishing returns in today’s world. Can we build enterprises for a post-growth future that thrive among challenges of the next century? By reversing the process that privatizes profits, would unsustainable trends and drivers of inequality be subverted? Can a modern media and journalism industry flourish within a not-for-profit framework?

In Extraenvironmentalist #89 we first speak with Donnie Maclurcan of the Post Growth Institute about their organization's upcoming book, How On Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050. Donnie explains ways that organizing business activities under the framework of not-for-profit enterprises can make meaningful change in the face of a seemingly intractable situation wrought by immense private wealth accumulation and slowing global growth.

In the second half of the show, we talk to Chris Nelder, host of the Energy Transition Show - the first regular podcast on the forthcoming XE Audio Network! We ask Chris about the ongoing contraction in US shale oil production during 2015 and the deteriorating financial condition of the industry in the face of a global deflationary undertow. The conversation is Episode #0 of the Energy Transition Show, which launches with Episode #1 beginning September 23.

Bonus Segment

// Links and News Items

The Energy Transition Show - launching September 23rd

As We Lay Dying -
Stephen Jenkinson On How We Deny Our Mortality

// Books

How On Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050 by Donnie Maclurcan and Jennifer Hilton

// Music (in order of appearance)

Lazy Knuckles - Polyglot via Soundcloud
Eric Clapton - Change the World (Mac DeMarco Cover) via IndieShuffle
Freddie Frank - This Old Rig (1961)
Cavaliers of Fun - Wiki via Tracasseur
Tube & Berger - Disarray Feat. J.U.D.G.E

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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Stephanie in North Carolina
Wally in North Carolina
Stephen from Australia

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[ Episode #88 // Resilience Imperative ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:00:16 +0000

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 century, resilience is a more appropriate principle for reinventing and reorganizing our economic life. Is it possible to develop economic and financial arrangements that can emphasize aspects of humanity other than individual greed?

In Extraenvironmentalist #88 we discuss the Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy with co-authors Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty. We talk about ways to create a decentralized, cooperative steady-state economy that can work as an alternative to the highly globalized and financialized economic paradigm of today.

Bonus Segment

// Links and News Items

Bloomberg: This Wharton Grad Wants You to Live in His Shipping Containers

China coal use falls: CO2 reduction this year could equal UK total emissions over same period

An example of how neoclassical economics works if we are immortal

Give me some China Investment Plays

// Books

The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy by Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty

// Extended Clips (in order of appearance)

[Break] - 41m

Economic globalization
Thomas Friedman's Three Eras of Globalization
CNBC: Europe survives in emerging markets keep growing
WSJ: Illustrating China's Shadow Banking Problem

[End]

Growth first. Then these other things can be dealt with, whatever they are.

// Music (in order of appearance)

Polodoore - But I Do via Soundcloud
Husky - Let it Happen (Tame Impala Cover) via Faster Louder
Nicholas Jaar - Tourists (Creange Remix) via IndieShuffle
Cavaliers of Fun - Wiki via Tracasseur
Polodoore - Ain't No Sunshine via Bandcamp

// Production Credits and Notes

Our editor Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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Christopher from NY
Stephen in Australia

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[ Episode #87 // Permaculture Paradigm ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:07:44 +0000

Usually we think of permaculture as a system for land and food, where humans work with the flows and systems of nature. Can we also apply permaculture to societies? To our justice or education systems? Can we reorganize our civilization to live on yield rather than the principle before depleting our most important stocks? In […]

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[ Episode #86 // Slow Money // Part C ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 26 May 2015 02:00:18 +0000

The soil of our food system provides the roots of our culture. Without soil, our modern lifestyle would cease to exist. As climate change accelerates rates of soil erosion, will the global population be left as a stranded asset? As we fail to describe the real cost of cheap food through our vocabulary and economics, and […]

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[ Episode #85 // Slow Money // Part B ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:27:25 +0000

Our 20th century food system has created a global market for cheaply priced commodities of corn, wheat, soybeans and rice. We pump a plethora of food from the earth, in the same way we pump barrels of oil. A vision of never-ending technological progress frames the creation of genetically modified organisms in an attempt to […]

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[ Episode #84 // Slow Money // Part A ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:38:54 +0000

Our industrial system of agriculture and an integrated global marketplace has created an abundance of available food for those in wealthy nations. Cheaply priced produce and meat shows up in our supermarkets and restaurants with rarely any concern. Values of efficiency and synchronized just-in-time deliveries have been served by a philosophy of capital-intensive financing for […]

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[ Episode #83 // Degrowth 2014 // Part B ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 06:19:41 +0000

The degrowth movement seeks to decolonize a cultural imaginary that is currently directed to expand the scale and scope of a materially extractive economy. Through adopting strategies like voluntary simplicity and convivial activities, degrowth advocates aim to create an economic system that is compatible with the biosphere. Are the ideas and concepts of degrowth ready […]

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[ Episode #82 // Degrowth 2014 // Part A ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:26:17 +0000

The degrowth movement seeks to redefine a cultural imagination focused on expanding the scale and scope of a materially extractive economy. Through adopting strategies like voluntary simplicity and convivial activities, degrowth advocates aim to create an economic system that is compatible with the biosphere. Are the ideas and concepts of degrowth ready for a wider […]

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[ Episode #81 // Falling Empires ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:13:36 +0000

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 long-term economic health. Will the people of the US empire be able to regain democratic control over their communities as the political system fails? John Michael Greer returns […]

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[ Episode #80 // Dying Wisdom ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:16:28 +0000

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 to our perceived ability to negotiate with limits. Can we each acknowledge the role of death in […]

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[ Episode #79 // Money System Mayhem? ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:11:15 +0000

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 rising economic powers, will campaigns of financial warfare push countries to abandon the dollar denominated financial regime? How does human nature and behavioral psychology […]

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[ Episode #78 // Open Knowledge Society ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:38:34 +0000

With emerging and innovative methods for distributing information and the means of education, we're still embedded in the relationships created in the 20th century. Can our societies distribute knowledge to enable healthy forms of production and consumption as a template for a decentralized and equitable post-growth economy? On Extraenvironmentalist #78 we discuss the FLOK Society Project with Michel Bauwens of […]

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[ Episode #77 // Locally Invested ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 02:02:54 +0000

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 towards local processes that rebuild communities and food systems? Will alternative investment strategies develop in time to challenge the failing narrative of a standard approach […]

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[ Episode #76 // Energy Slaves ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:55:40 +0000

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 an energy surplus, beginning in the late 19th century we have used coal, oil & gas to create an unprecedented energy abundance. As […]

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[ Episode #75 // Positive Money ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:25:13 +0000

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? Incorrect narratives of money have misdirected and befuddled our thinking on finance and currency, limiting our responses to the global financial crisis. Can we learn […]

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[ Episode #74 // Addiction Thinking ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:04:26 +0000

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 instantaneous information is an experiment on a massive scale. Will our sensory inputs be able to overcome the addictive tendencies of the human species? Can […]

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[ Episode #73B // Regarding Revolutions ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:12:44 +0000

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 revolution with Frank Rotering is here. The mainstream environmental movement has been unable to stop the ongoing ecological crisis. Are environmentalists willing […]

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[ Episode #73A // Regarding Revolutions ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:12:29 +0000

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 education with David Blacker is here. The mainstream environmental movement has been unable to stop the ongoing ecological crisis. Are environmentalists […]

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[ Episode #72 // Green Wizardry ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:32:42 +0000

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 growth putting basic lifestyle assumptions under increasing assault, can people use intermediate technologies to reduce their ecological and financial footprint? If we start […]

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[ Episode #71 // Supply Shock ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 08:19:37 +0000

When the profession of economics began to think that land and capital were equivalent and interchangeable, the roots of real estate speculation and environmental crisis were established. Because the origins of neoclassical economics became deeply influenced by the interests of early 20th century land barons, a new economic paradigm will have to challenge the assumptions […]

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[ Episode #70 // Downloading Responsibility ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:01:30 +0000

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 its next financial accident. While the global operating system fails, can the exchange of critical goods and services detach from failing […]

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[ Episode #69 // Carbon Democracy ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:10:28 +0000

The ideas we have about our government systems have been dramatically shaped by the energy sources that power them. If the physical characteristics of coal and oil have developed the expectations of our 20th century politics, how they also invent 'the economy'? Will it be possible to sabotage a system that has an entirely different […]

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[ Episode #68 // Better Than Normal ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:08:13 +0000

Society dramatically underestimates human potential, placing our imagination within a limited range of possibilities. What are the psychological limits of our species? Is there reliable scientific evidence of supernormal human capabilities? What areas of scientific study could replace the failing aims of a materialist scientific paradigm? Would compelling evidence for special abilities change our beliefs […]

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[ Episode #67 // Bubble and Beyond ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 06:17:41 +0000

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 much and a rapidly growing class of debt serfs. With the ability for reform appearing increasingly futile, a systemic crisis has created paralysis […]

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[ Episode #66 // Changing Reactions ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:25:47 +0000

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 our species obtain a paradigm shift in the face of an energy emergency? Could we create new models for business that regenerate ecological functions rather than […]

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[ Episode #65 // Restoring Function ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:43:25 +0000

A fundamental flaw in our economy drives the consumption of our ecosystems until they enter terminal dysfunction. This logical error has eroded numerous civilizations and landscapes. Can our species cooperate to restore large-scale degraded ecosystems across the planet before terminal collapse? In Extraenvironmentalist #65 we speak with John D. Liu about his experience documenting the […]

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[ Episode #64 // Straw Into Gold ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:45:27 +0000

By thinking of the world as a machine our species has created an economic and political system that is dangling over an abyss. Many are optimistic for business as usual with an ideological belief in the power of positive thinking. Can we develop a practical spiritual philosophy that sorts through all the garbage? Have our […]

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[ Episode #63 // Next US Revolution ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:21:59 +0000

With a media ecosystem focused almost entirely the corporate system, burgeoning elements of a new economy revolution escape the mainstream eye. As our political systems stagnate in the face of ecological, energy and social crises, can an alternative to capitalism develop over the next few decades? Do ongoing experiments in money, society and energy have the […]

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[ Episode #62 // Land Grabs ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:49:04 +0000

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 pension funds, endowments and future financial claims? Why are investors suddenly emphasizing the same data and charts that environmentalists have been pointing towards […]

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[ Episode #61 // Cure for Capitalism? ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:11:31 +0000

Can we link the decline in our democratic institutions to the nature of the workplaces that occupy so much of our time? Is there reason to believe that we can transition to an alternative economic system while our current economy crashes? Can we learn from the collapse of feudalism and the formation of capitalism to […]

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[ Episode #60 // Days of Destruction ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:08:35 +0000

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 remains. As the framework of consumer society breaks down, will an economic system of inverted totalitarianism reverse become explicit? Why do our elites seem […]

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[ Episode #59 // Financialized Education ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:23:33 +0000

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 class lifestyle but are now leading to a growing number of indebted youth who are bitter about their time in higher ed. Have […]

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[ Episode #58 // Permaculture Possibilities ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:53:09 +0000

Even though our global environmental challenges have become dramatically more severe over the last several decades, our understanding of ecological processes have significantly deepened. Permaculture approaches offer a unique toolkit to address problems of desertification, poisoned landcapes, impure water supplies and more. Yet will low-tech solutions that work with nature be able to capture a […]

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[ Episode #57 // Permaculture Convergence ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:49:01 +0000

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 understanding of how to work with nature is emerging. Can we apply the ideas of permaculture to society when facing energy depletion, climate change […]

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[ Episode #56 // So Much Magic ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:40:12 +0000

// 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 experienced the first few years of a long emergency through economic stagnation and contraction, financial fraud and a lack of meaningful political momentum. Can we expect […]

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[ Episode #55 // Degrowth ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:20:41 +0000

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 the developed world, is it possible to improve our quality of life while decreasing our standard of living? Could it be possible to […]

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[ Episode #54 // Love + Marriage ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:31:42 +0000

Our cultural institutions face such immense challenges from economic and environmental factors that even our assumptions about love and marriage on the table. What does recent research into early human sexuality say about our ideas of love as practiced by our early ancestors? In hard times, did our predecessors practice fierce egalitarianism to ensure group […]

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[ Episode #53 // Without Growth ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:35:29 +0000

The global economy is searching for growth and choosing austerity when it can't be found. Is it possible to manage an economy, obtain full employment, and provide social equity without economic growth? Can we develop a dialogue about our economy that recognizes the human enterprise as a subset of biophysical processes? In Extraenvironmentalist #53 we […]

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[ Episode #52 // Market Monsters ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:42:16 +0000

The monstrosity of capitalism gains new strength as political leaders fight for a return to growth by dissecting society. Though many nations are rising up against the monetary elite, most North Americans are still zombified. Could some of our monster stories describe the feeling of living in a capitalist system? Will the failure of capitalism […]

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[ Episode #51 // Culture of Dying ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:19:21 +0000

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 culture is headed towards its eventual death? Though our economic system has trained us to be needy, can we approach these challenges as […]

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[ Episode #50 // Markets By Other Means ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:50:28 +0000

Developed nations find themselves stuck in economic quicksand as the status quo is maintained through debts on sovereign balance sheets. Over the last few decades of rapid economic expansion, each country bet on the continued story of globalization that narrates Tom Friedman's dreams each night. As the developing world sees our folly, will they choose […]

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[ Episode #49 // Developing Breakdown ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:36:13 +0000

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 return and debt is demanding to be serviced. This process is stretching the banking system to its limit. What happens when the pretense is dropped and money loses […]

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[ Episode #48 // Urban Minds ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:52:23 +0000

Human populations have lived a rural lifestyle through most of history, depending on agriculture or hunting and gathering. As abundant oil reserves fueled the rise of modern civilization, urban life grew along with it. In 1800 only 3% of the world's population lived in cities, in 1900 that number reached 14% which increased to 30% […]

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[ Episode #47 // Power Transition ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:50:28 +0000

After years of stagnant growth in conventional oil extraction rates, ignorance of Hubbert's Curve has peaked. Now that the mainstream can't dismiss the issue, public conversations proclaim an exuberant belief in marginal reserves as our savior. Claims of American energy independence have fueled a dialogue that threatens to drive the US economy towards a fiscal […]

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[ Episode #46 // Recovering Environmentalists ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:31:54 +0000

Success for the environmental movement has meant many of its members adopted mainstream values in attempts to sustain the unsustainable. Is sustainability a farce when associated with a way of life that is out of touch with reality? Global droughts, weather catastrophes and heatwaves are demonstrating the rapidly increasing impact of atmospheric greenhouse gases. With […]

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[ Episode #45 // Opening Money ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:40:40 +0000

By failing to question our money system, we've accepted an understanding of finance and fiat that's showing its flaws greater than ever. This globalized currency system draws money out of localities and into the hands of corrupt financial institutions. Can we start recapturing these flows of money to build resilient communities? If the Federal Reserve […]

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[ Episode #44 // Evolving Innovation ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:34:46 +0000

Our understanding of innovation has been shaped by decades of growth in the rate by which we can extract environmental resources. Now that conventional oil reserves are no longer flowing as readily, what does this do to how our modern civilization thinks about innovation? Do the innovations of the future involve faster processors and further […]

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[ Episode #43 // Occupy With Aloha ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:55:41 +0000

The people of Hawaii have lived an incredible story of cultural assimilation. Numerous external influences on the island have driven a process of creation and destruction, resulting in innovative musical styles. Now, Hawaii faces difficult challenges with food security and genetically modified seeds as it survives the dying values of a corporate culture. Can we […]

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[ Episode #42 // Green Illusions ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:51:43 +0000

We've imagined for several decades that in an ideal energy future we'll have solar panels on every building and wind turbines accompanying the corn on rural farmland. Yet, is our energy context ready for photovoltaic modules and wind generated electricity? Who doesn't love the idea of harvesting solar energy that would just hit the planet […]

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[ Episode #41 // Surviving Progress ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:17:15 +0000

The complexity of modern civilization has obscured an ecological crisis through a finely crafted system of markets and trade. Local environmental problems can be exported across the world with modern technologies while placing the global economic ladder on ever shakier ground. Is our species capable of sparking a widespread and intelligent discussion of our trajectory […]

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[ Episode #40 // Corporate Influence ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:45:58 +0000

The logic of neoliberalism behind our economic model is fading as its fundamental conclusions about human nature are reaching an extreme. As global economies continue to reveal numbers indicating a spiraling trend of contraction in manufacturing and economic growth, corporations maintain enough power over our societies to stay afloat. Though we are influenced by the […]

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[ Episode #39 // Debunking Economics ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:54:26 +0000

Roughly 90% of the world's economics professionals failed to see the current economic crisis forming on the horizon of the early 21st century. Many of them are now striving for stability through policies of refinancing and quantitative easing. While this class of economic thinkers have driven the planet's policies for decades, their faulty logic is […]

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[ Episode #38 // Hard Times ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:03:11 +0000

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, governments are turning on the central bank taps to fill the system with liquidity. With severe structural issues that continue to avoid […]

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[ Episode #37 // Techno-Fix ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:39:18 +0000

Are you optimistic about technology? Let's talk about why. Could the majority of our proposed technological solutions be doing little more than kicking the can down the road towards ecological collapse? Politicians and economists speak of the ability for technological innovation to boost and grow economies, yet where does their techno optimism come from? Do […]

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[ Episode #36 // Art Into Action ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:26:31 +0000

With an educational system that trains artists to develop their talents into commercial skills, our culture is missing out on the ability for art to disrupt normalcy. Why should we hope for systemic reform when the vast majority of water cooler conversations turn to American Idol and the fashion at awards shows? Will concerted efforts […]

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[ Episode #35 // Ecology + Alcohol ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:30:22 +0000

You can easily enjoy a beer without knowing about the thousands of years alcohol has modified the senses of our species. We'll go out to a bar to participate in a ritual to help us deal with the tasks of a work day, yet what if a tree does the same? Should alcohol be recognized […]

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[ Episode #34 // Why America Failed ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:01:59 +0000

Twilight is on the horizon for American culture. After spreading an ideology of endless economic growth around the world, the definition of modernity has been defined by the United States. American values are now written into the cultural textbook for nations across the globe. Now that America is failing, what does it feel like to […]

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[ Episode #33 // Year of Jubilee ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:05:03 +0000

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 consciousness imminent as human novelty reaches its concresence? What if the global consciousness shift we've all been asking for is barreling towards us as a complete […]

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[ Episode #32 // Apocalypse Never ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:15:16 +0000

Even though we live in an age of economic decline and collapse, do our expectations for the future act similarly to the thought patterns of religious faiths expecting the end of the world? For the last 3,000 years, our species has used the meme of apocalypse to create the expectation for a utopia that never […]

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[ Episode #31 // Simplifying Complexity ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:25:52 +0000

Is our species capable of looking ahead to prepare for the potentially disastrous results of larger trends? While daily existence has always presented challenges, modern civilization uses advanced technologies to address problems. Yet, is our ability to problem solve the very problem itself? What if the technology we're developing is increasing our reliance on a strategy yielding […]

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[ Episode #30 // Austerity + Hope ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:24:41 +0000

Through the transfer of private debt to balance sheets of governments around the world, we've entered an age of austerity where citizens are experiencing drastic cuts to basic necessities. Civil unrest has resulted from people demanding that corporate greed should be punished instead of individuals. As the Occupy movement reaches a transition point, have we […]

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[ Episode #29 // Creating Wealth ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:34:17 +0000

Occupy Wall Street has directed our attention to the extreme concentration of wealth resulting from decades of policy designed to trickle down prosperity. Through using a single type of bank debt currency, we allocate our labor and resources to benefit a global elite instead of our communities. Can we engage our local leaders and municipal […]

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[ Episode #28 // At Growth’s End ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:04:53 +0000

European economies are teetering on the brink of collapse as low rates of GDP growth are no longer able to justify continued investments in piles of debt. On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States is struggling to acknowledge its ever larger ranks of underemployed and unemployed while managing the world's largest national […]

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[ Episode #27 // Fringeology ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:37:05 +0000

Can challenging your belief system trigger a fight or flight response? Our species is often terrified by thoughts we can't wrap our heads around because of a basic biological response. This has separated a discussion of paranormal topics into camps of believers and skeptics that are every bit as entrenched as our political reality. Does […]

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[ Episode #26 // The Four Horsemen ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:29:08 +0000

Is capitalism failing or is it producing an intended outcome? There are a group of people privy to the internal mechanisms of our global economic rationale who are willing to share a vision of how the system really works. Though their original intent was to serve what appeared to be a beautiful machinery of supply […]

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[ Episode #25 // Saving Money ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:54:41 +0000

Is it more practical to learn permaculture than to earn a business degree? As financial markets sell off around the globe and world leaders scramble to prevent national defaults from collapsing the global economy, today's youth are certain to live through a massive shift in the monetary paradigm. An education system that prepared us to […]

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[ Episode #24 // Redesigning Business ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:52:41 +0000

Are we truly free or has our search for freedom led to entrapment by dysfunctional organizations? As the global monetary paradigm fails, it takes the internationl business structure along with it. This dynamic allows for the application of design principles to the foundations of the new organizations replacing corporations in meeting our human needs. How […]

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[ Episode #23 // Fermenting Culture ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:47:15 +0000

Sustainability is not a spectator sport. Unless every single one of us radically alters our participation in the rapidly failing industrial food system, within the next few years we'll find our food prices spiking and chaotic weather decimating the food distribution networks we have relied on. In the age of cheap and abundant refrigeration, we're […]

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[ Episode #22 // Picking Battles ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:45:07 +0000

Formerly abundant raw materials which enabled the creation of capitalist economies are falling short of allowing the system to grow any further. With this historic moment, the opportunity to re-imagine the nature of work and the structure of society arises. Maintaining a balance between the steps necessary for self preservation in a depleting culture while […]

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[ Episode #21 // When Technology Fails ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:00:54 +0000

The complex supply chain delivering our goods and the electrical grid powering our lifestyle meets the daily needs of modern humanity with astounding efficiency. With a relative low cost and remarkable ease of use, we've trimmed the fat and placed an ever more complex behemoth on top of increasingly brittle and spare supports. Our ability […]

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[ Episode #20 // Debt Unmasked ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:52:43 +0000

Rapidly rising and falling global markets are throwing the world into turmoil. The instability our societies were supposed to control has risen to the forefront. Will the incredible debt piles sitting underneath the flags of Western economies rip social fabrics into fits of unrest like the current riots in London? Before the first major financial […]

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[ Episode #19 // Crash Course ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:53:12 +0000

The debt crisis engulfing American political discourse is just the realization of a financial and economic reality that has been playing out for several years resulting from decades of economic policy. Now that the unsustainable nature of our national economy can no longer be ignored how will ordinary people in the United States handle such […]

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[ Episode #18 // The Wealth of Nature ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:52:09 +0000

Our economic systems are beginning to expose the first intimations of how drastically they've been failing us. Is this breakdown happening because our economics are reflecting the state of our ecosystems? Generations of economists have adhered with religious fervor to tenets of growth and free market dynamics that have detached from reality so drastically these […]

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[ Episode #17 // Economics of Sustainability ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:26:54 +0000

The interplay between energy and money will be the underlying factor behind the biggest stories of the next decade. While easily accessible energy has created a massive financial bubble on the way up Hubbert's curve, the primary agent on the way down will be unraveling financial complexities built up over the last 60 years. Surviving […]

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[ Episode #16 // Powering the Dream ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:47:28 +0000

Energy drives our civilization: onward towards the limits of human imagination, ever closer to the grave consequences of oil depletion. Technology is often viewed as a mythical force, seemingly bestowing its gifts on an often misguided species in a neutral manner; though what if the best technologies don't always win? Are all the energy solutions […]

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[ Episode #15.2 // Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss // Part II ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:27:10 +0000

In the course of an extraordinary life, one might become the kind of person who, without intending it, is a source of marvelous accidents. Two young men set out from Colorado to the rainforest of South America as they hunt down an elusive chemical with the potential to reveal new dimensions of human nature. During […]

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[ Episode #15.1 // Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss // Part I ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:23:33 +0000

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[ Episode #14 // Discovering Dirt ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:52:28 +0000

Though we call it dirt, the soil beneath is the skin of our planet and the breadbasket of our species. Is there a connection between the lifespan of a civilization and the rate at which its topsoil erodes? The agricultural practices of past societies can serve as a stern warning against highly erosive farming and […]

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[ Episode #13 // Debt-Dollar Discipline ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:54:24 +0000

Does our currency drive participation in a disciplinary system that conditions a consumer society? Surplus goods created by industrial production require an acceptable set of behaviors, reinforced by a financial establishment of rewards and punishments. Though the people reliant on disciplinary institutions are used to playing by the rules, what happens when the game changes […]

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[ Episode #12 // Questioning Collapse ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:43:15 +0000

As anthropologists, historians and popular writers fit the complex events of the past into stories that relay morals to the modern world, sometimes details can be overlooked to make a point. Does a civilization collapse or does it merely transform? What role does human resilience play in the shifting structures of a society? Has a society […]

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[ Episode #11 // Temporal Blindness ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:01:06 +0000

Our education system creates the models we use to interpret information. A faulty model can lead to significant blind spots, especially in thinking about nonlinear problems. Do the cognitive models that you've developed allow you to understand the severe problems threatening our global civilization? How accurately can you recognize how trends will impact your society […]

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[ Episode #10 // Brilliant ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:24:07 +0000

How has access to artificial light allowed us to transform our human lives? Did it give us access to new reaches of the day or has it disconnected us from nature? The development of inexpensive and accessible light has brought about social change with its many forms: from animal fat candles to whale blubber, oil […]

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[ Episode #9 // Economics of Happiness ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:25:47 +0000

Converging crises of the environment, energy and our personal psychology threaten to destabilize the economic systems we depend on for subsistence. Globalization has provided tremendous financial benefits and convenience for specific groups but has degraded communities while spreading the emotional and spiritual depravity of materialism. By developing a local resilient economy can we counteract the […]

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[ Extra-Extraenvironmentalist .01 // Christmas Special ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:43:14 +0000

With the Holidays upon us, we were able to secure a last minute interview with Santa Claus! That fell through so we were passed off to Nick jr. who gave us an in-depth view of life at the north pole. Though our elfin magic connection through various HAM radio repeater stations was a little hazy, […]

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[ Episode #8 // Back to the Garden ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:17:32 +0000

As a response to the dire situation facing modern industrial civilization it can be tempting to seek a simpler life away from the complexity and out in nature. Quite a few from the previous generation have already made such a choice and recognizing this we can learn from their trials and successes. In Extraenvironmentalist #8 […]

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[ Episode #7 // When Two Worlds Collide ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:30:53 +0000

Living in a western media bubble we receive every story through a prism of corporate and political control which bends a complex and multifaceted light into a monochromatic blur. When oil and multinational energy interests collide with the mode of sustainable living practiced by Amazonian tribes for generations, a cascading series of events has encapsulated […]

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[ Episode #6 // Peak Oil Blues ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:13 +0000

The old Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times", is a particularly apt encapsulation of the current moment we experience on the global stage of affairs, yet facing an uncertain future doesn't mean it has to unfold as bleak. The readily available net energy which drove rapid expansion of a particular form of dominance […]

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[ Episode #5 // Phantom Wealth ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:50:16 +0000

Now is the season of spirits. Together we face the most horrifying of all poltergeists: the ghost of phantom wealth. Numbers representing the money in our bank account are very different from real wealth. While the focus is on gaining and creating money, this very process sublimates a methodology of destruction and wealth extraction from […]

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[ Episode #4 // Technological Inefficiency ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:21:04 +0000

Oil is more efficient than coal; coal is more efficient than wood. We've been using more efficient energy sources throughout the timeline of modern industrial society yet our ecological footprint has continued to grow. If our technology has been making us more efficient all along, why do we continue to grow our ecological footprint? Could […]

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[ Episode #3 // Ideological Energy ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:35:00 +0000

A truly well-informed person will undoubtedly discover the rapid rate at which belief in business as usual is collapsing. This collapse extends to include our ecosystems, our human systems and our thought systems. Is deflating societal complexity fueled by cheap energy causing this collapse? Would such a collapse inherently allow for a positive social transformation? […]

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[ Episode #2 // Powerful Plastic ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:52:19 +0000

We are surrounded by a media maelstrom on a daily basis and every so often that tornado of music and language coalesces into something that inflicts a bewildering inspiration. This podcast is about enlightened entertainment and that's what The Extraenvironmentalist #2 delivers. Sure, it might be a little all over the place, but isn't everyone? […]

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[ Episode #1 // The Great Awakening ]

podcast@extraenvironmentalist.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:57:37 +0000

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