Podcast Episodes

672: Chris Bailey, part 2: How to Calm Your Mind

Episode 672

Bringing back Chris for first time since five years ago. Since then, his last book got big, as we briefly discussed.

We started talking about meditation and at a high level, framed the conversation to…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

671: How Pulling Off a Challenging Day Off Grid Feels

Episode 671

Last night I had trouble falling asleep because before getting in bed, I noticed I had to record two podcast episodes first thing in the morning but I wanted to cook some stew, the forecast was for r…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

670: Jeffrey Shaw: Self-employment and Sustainability

Episode 670

Do you want a job working in sustainability? If you want to wait for a job in the field, you're going to wait for a long time. Most businesses' models depend on growth, extraction, and exploiting res…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

669: David Loy: Ecodharma: Zen Buddhism and Sustainability

Episode 669

What can we learn from Buddhism to understand and respond to our ecological crisis? This question is the heart of David's focus, as I understand it.

We started by describing his journey from a more ma…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

668: Christopher Ketcham: Growthism Versus Sustainability

Episode 668

Reading Christopher's story in the Pacific Standard, The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth What economists around the world get wrong about the future, made me contact him. It was one of the only re…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

667: James Oakes, part 1: Sustainability and Abolition in the United States

Episode 667

The only was I can see how we can avoid environmental disaster leading to human population collapse is by changing our culture---every unsustainable culture but America most, as the most polluting pe…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

666: Mark Plotkin: Learning From Indigenous Cultures, the People Not Just Our Projections

Episode 666

Every step I take toward sustainability leads me to learn how much humans have figured out how to live sustainably. I'm far from living sustainably, though I've come a long way. We are wiping out the…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

665: Tony Hiss: Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth

Episode 665

Tony turns out to live a few blocks from me. I met him at his home, where we recorded. He shared his experience knowing E. O. Wilson, who, as Tony described, conceived of the plan to protect half the…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

664: Rodrigo Cámara-Leret: Learning how the Kogi heal the land

Episode 664

Ethno-botonist Rodrigo Cámara-Leret first describes how podcast guest Alan Ereira chose him to live and work with the Kogi, who want to share, in my language, how to stop wrecking the biosphere.

He ha…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

663: Nadeem Akhtar, part 2: Breaking a Doof Addiction Can Be Harder Than Expected

Episode 663

Nadeem committed to reducing his doof. He bravely shares the challenge.

Even in Norway, he's surrounded by messages to keep consuming it. Imagine any other unhealthy addictive substance---cocaine, her…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago