Podcast Episodes

Popping the Tech Bro Bubble | Molly White

Free speech is under attack.

Banning books, cutting library funding, attacking Wikipedia. The authoritarian regime of the tech-bro backed hard right doesn’t want to protect your free speech. It plans …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

A World of Contradictions | David Edgerton

We can’t make this make sense.

The world’s most famous face of renewable solutions spent a record-breaking amount to get Big Oil’s candidate into the White House. The ruling communist party of China i…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Collapse: What It Is — And What To Do | Sarah Wilson

The s**t’s hit the fan.

We can’t turn the fan off, argues best-selling author Sarah Wilson. But we can learn how to clean up the mess.

Sarah, author, podcaster and creator of the This is Precious news…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

How To Do The Right Thing in Business | Brad Vanstone

Businesses could run differently — with the right leaders.

Brad Vanstone, cofounder of plant-based cheese company Willicroft, is an example. He founded the company out of a desire to protect the plan…

Published on 5 months ago

The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Episode 212

Civilisation always wants more energy.

The idea that our global society will merely switch from one energy source to another is fantasy masquerading as policy. Every time human beings discover a new …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

States, Markets, and the Rest of Us | Grace Blakeley

It wasn’t always like this.

Just decades ago, working people had power to leverage governments, ensuring our politicians weren’t just capitulating to markets — they were also working to keep people h…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Age of Territorial Expansion | Michael Albertus

Our borders are changing.

Russia wants Ukraine, China wants Taiwan, Israel wants Palestine, and Trump wants Greenland. We are in the beginning of an age of territorial expansion, as nations seek to sh…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Animal Agriculture Exceptionalism | Kenny Torrella

Big Oil has a Big Brother — animal agriculture.

A handful of multinational companies are driving environmental degradation and cruelty around the world to feed their pockets rather than the hungry’s b…

Published on 6 months ago

How to Cool the Planet | Sailesh Rao

What is one thing we could all do tomorrow?

Switch to a planet-based diet.

Sailesh Rao, Executive Director of Climate Healers, joins me to explain how emissions from animal agriculture are not being c…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The B******t Stinking Up Silicon Valley | Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron is one of Silicon Valley’s fiercest critics. Since A.I’s arrival, Ed has virulently exposed its singular lack of intelligence, its huge energy demands, and the dangerous way its hoovering u…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago