Though we often think the modern culture of consumerism is an export from United States and a product of capitalism, people long before today’s era were enjoying the benefit of soft shoes, beautiful cloth and exceptional goods. Acquisition has

[ Episode #94 // Rocking the Google Bus ]

Oct 25th, 2016 1h 25m

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 innovations that reorganize daily life, can the di

[ Episode #93 // Climate Agreements ]

Sep 5th, 2016 1h 55m

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 emissions. What do these large conferences really m

[ Episode #92 // Decrypting Cryptocurrency ]

May 23rd, 2016 1h 52m

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 economic order? Can machine learning, automation,

[ Episode #91 // Age of Stagnation? ]

Mar 21st, 2016 2h 12m

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 performance mount, a rapidly growing global econom

[ Episode #90 // Missing Out ]

Dec 22nd, 2015 1h 50m

In our highly connected world of cell phones, ever expanding inboxes and regular social media updates, it is easy to be constantly immersed in the rich and dynamic worlds created by our technologies. While the internet gives us so much, it also

[ Autumn 2015 Interlude // Archaeoacoustics ]

Oct 31st, 2015 1h 39m

In this Autumn 2015 Interlude of The Extraenvironmentalist we talk about research on how ancient humans perceived sounds with Steve Waller on rock art acoustics and Miriam Kolar about her archaeoacoustic research at Chavín de Huantar. // Musi

The Energy Transition Show – [Episode #0] – subscribe @ energytransitionshow.com

Sep 25th, 2015 44m 35s

We're launching The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder - the first show on our forthcoming podcast network! This is the only episode we'll place in our Extraenvironmentalist podcast feed so please go to http://energytransitionshow.com/ to

[ Episode #89 // How on Earth ]

Sep 16th, 2015 1h 55m

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 for a post-growth future that thrive among ch

[ Episode #88 // Resilience Imperative ]

Aug 17th, 2015 1h 54m

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 century, resilience is a more appropriate

[ Episode #87 // Permaculture Paradigm ]

Jun 29th, 2015 1h 58m

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? Can we reorganize our civilization to live

[ Episode #86 // Slow Money // Part C ]

May 26th, 2015 2h 2m

The soil of our food system provides the roots of our culture. Without soil, our modern lifestyle would cease to exist. As climate change accelerates rates of soil erosion, will the global population be left as a stranded asset? As we fail to d

Extraenvironmentalist Radio Edition for May 20th, 2015

May 20th, 2015 59m 51s

[Originally aired January 19th, 2013] On this week’s episode, we play the first hour of our Montreal Degrowth Conference coverage which features David Suzuki, Bill Rees, Josh Farley and others talking about ecological economics and the ideas of

[ Episode #85 // Slow Money // Part B ]

Apr 14th, 2015 2h 22m

Our 20th century food system has created a global market for cheaply priced commodities of corn, wheat, soybeans and rice. We pump a plethora of food from the earth, in the same way we pump barrels of oil. A vision of never-ending technological

[ Episode #84 // Slow Money // Part A ]

Mar 3rd, 2015 1h 58m

Our industrial system of agriculture and an integrated global marketplace has created an abundance of available food for those in wealthy nations. Cheaply priced produce and meat shows up in our supermarkets and restaurants with rarely any conc

[ Episode #83 // Degrowth 2014 // Part B ]

Dec 22nd, 2014

The degrowth movement seeks to decolonize a cultural imaginary that is currently directed to expand the scale and scope of a materially extractive economy. Through adopting strategies like voluntary simplicity and convivial activities, degrowth

[ Episode #82 // Degrowth 2014 // Part A ]

Sep 28th, 2014 1h 9m

The degrowth movement seeks to redefine a cultural imagination focused on expanding the scale and scope of a materially extractive economy. Through adopting strategies like voluntary simplicity and convivial activities, degrowth advocates aim t

[ Episode #81 // Falling Empires ]

Sep 2nd, 2014 2h 6m

With its empire in decline, the United States is no longer the world's dominant superpower. Stuck in the idea of international control, it continues to maintain military reach at the expense of long-term economic health. Will the people of the

[ Episode #80 // Dying Wisdom ]

Aug 5th, 2014 1h 18m

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 to our perceived ability to negotiate with

[ Episode #79 // Money System Mayhem? ]

Jul 1st, 2014 1h 43m

Over the last hundred years, the international money system has unraveled every few decades with surprising regularity. With the current US-based system reaching the end of its useful life for newly rising economic powers, will campaigns of fin

[ Episode #78 // Open Knowledge Society ]

Jun 2nd, 2014 2h 1m

With emerging and innovative methods for distributing information and the means of education, we're still embedded in the relationships created in the 20th century. Can our societies distribute knowledge to enable healthy forms of production an

[ Episode #77 // Locally Invested ]

Apr 30th, 2014 2h 11m

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 towards local processes that rebuild commun

[ Episode #76 // Energy Slaves ]

Mar 31st, 2014 2h 22m

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 an energy surplus, beginning in the late 19t

[ Episode #75 // Positive Money ]

Mar 10th, 2014 2h 3m

Critics of quantitative easing highlight the absurdity of creating money from nothing to paper over terrible investment decisions. Yet, what about all of the money created by banks before 2008? Incorrect narratives of money have misdirected and

[ Episode #74 // Addiction Thinking ]

Feb 27th, 2014 1h 46m

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 instantaneous information is an experiment on