[ Mary Evelyn Tucker // Creating a New Narrative ]
Interview with Mary Evelyn Tucker at the Montreal Degrowth Conference 2012 (Visited 93 times, 3 visits today)
View Article[ Bill Rees // Why We're in Denial ]
Dr. William Rees is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). He is the originator of the “ecological...
View Article[ Episode #46 // Recovering Environmentalists ]
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...
View Article[ Episode #47 // Power Transition ]
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...
View Article[ James Howard Kunstler // American Dream on Hiatus ]
We sit down with James Howard Kunstler after his talk at Elon University. [ James Howard Kunstler // American Dream on Hiatus ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. (Visited 1,309 times, 5 visits today)
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 #56 // So Much Magic ]
// Duncan’s Photos From His Canalers Adventures Maintaining the complexity of our civilization requires a consistent input of net energy and a stable climate. We’ve already experienced the first few...
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 #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 #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 #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 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 #87 // Permaculture Paradigm ]
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?...
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 #89 // How on Earth ]
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...
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...
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