Podcast Episodes

THOMAS CROWTHER - Ecologist - Co-chair of the board for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - Founder of Restor

Season 12

Although they comprise less than 5% of the world population, Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the Earth’s biodiversity. How can we support farmers, reverse biodiversity loss, and restore our ecosyst…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

PETER DITLEVSEN - Professor of Physics, Ice, Climate & Earth at the Niels Bohr Institute

Season 12

As we reach the tipping points of climate change, how will our world change? Greenland has already lost 4,700 billion metric tons of ice, an amount that is enough to flood the entire United States in…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Does having too many choices make us unhappy? - Highlights - DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ

Season 12

"Clifford Geertz said that human beings uniquely are unfinished animals. And what he meant by that is that we come into the world with some structure, some constraints, some essential knowledge, but …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ - Author of The Paradox of Choice & Why We Work

Season 12

Does having too many choices make us unhappy? How can we learn practical wisdom?

Dr. Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor Emeritus of Social Theory and Social Action in the psychology …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

KOHEI SAITO on Degrowth Communism & the Need for Radical Democracy

Season 12

Can we stop talking about growth and mediate an environmental crisis through the structures of capitalism?

In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu speaks with…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE: BEN FRANTA on Weaponizing Economics - Big Oil, Economic Consultants & Climate Policy Delay

Season 12

In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu speaks with noted researcher and scholar Ben Franta about two new articles he has written that add to his growing arc…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Highlights - How do we navigate ambiguity, uncertainty & move beyond linear thinking? - RUPERT SHELDRAKE

Season 12

"The idea that the laws of nature are fixed is taken for granted by almost all scientists and within physics, within cosmology, it leads to an enormous realm of speculation, which I think is totally …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Biologist & Author of The Science Delusion, The Presence of the Past

Season 12

How do we navigate ambiguity and uncertainty? Moving beyond linear thinking into instinct and intuition, we might discover other sources within ourselves that lie beyond the boundaries of science and…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

What’s it like to film a supernatural thriller in darkness at minus 17 degrees? - Highlights - FLORIAN HOFFMEISTER

Season 12

“I drove for like a half an hour into absolute nothingness, and I left the car. It was three o'clock in the morning. It was minus 17 degrees and it was absolutely still. I've never experienced stilln…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

FLORIAN HOFFMEISTER - Cinematographer - True Detective: Night Country starring Jodie Foster & Kali Reis

Season 12

How does the place we’re born influence our beliefs? What would it be like to live in a world run by women, where it’s perpetually night, and the dead can speak to the living? In this episode, we dis…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago