Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMeeting the Future Halfway | Frankly #4
In this Frankly, Nate unpacks the choice of the podcast title "The Great Simplification", and how he thinks about responses - rather than solutions -…
3 years, 9 months ago
Gerardo Ceballos: "Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?"
Episode 25
On this episode, we meet with ecologist and conservationist Dr. Gerardo Ceballos.
Ceballos discusses animal populations, the sixth mass extinction, h…
3 years, 9 months ago
Jason Bradford: "A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming"
Episode 24
On this episode, Jason Bradford, who is an author, activist, farmer, and teacher, talks about the energy intensity of our modern industrial agricultu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Energy Blindness | Frankly #3
Nate explains how our culture is "energy blind" and the implications.
The YouTube video, featuring charts and graphs, of this podcast is available no…
3 years, 9 months ago
Tim Watkins: "From Living Like Gods to Living Your Own Story"
Episode 23
On this episode, we meet with author, social scientist, policy researcher, and mental health advocate Tim Watkins.
Watkins gives us a bird's eye view…
3 years, 10 months ago
Aza Raskin: "AI, The Shape of Language, and Earth's Species"
Episode 22
On this episode, we meet with cofounder of the Earth Species Project, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, and cohost of the podcast Your U…
3 years, 10 months ago
Vicki Robin "Money and LIfe's Energy"
Episode 21
Show Summary:
On this episode, we meet with social innovator, writer, and speaker, Vicki Robin.
Robin unpacks how the machine of community begins. H…
3 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents"
Episode 20
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In the second of a four-part series, Nate and Danie…
3 years, 10 months ago
Dr. Simon Michaux: "Minerals and Materials Blindness""
Episode 19
On this episode, we meet with Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland, Dr. Simon Michaux.
Why do humans ignore impor…
3 years, 10 months ago
Thomas Murphy: "Physics and Planetary Ambitions"
Episode 18
On this episode, we meet with Professor of Physics at UCSD and the Associate Director of CASS, the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Tom Mu…
3 years, 11 months ago