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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy,…

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A Shattered Market?: The Counterintuitive Story of the Hormuz Oil Crisis with Rory Johnston 2026-10-28 · 97m
5 Things That Keep Us Whole: Staying Grounded in an Unraveling World | Frankly 163 2026-10-23 · 17m
Earth's Oldest Teachers: How to Live Well on Earth with Robin Wall Kimmerer 2026-10-21 · 85m
7 Rungs of a Runaway System: How Civilization Descended Into Crisis | Frankly 162 2026-10-16 · 30m
Optionality Collapse: We're Investing in a Future That Won't Exist with Indy Johar 2026-10-14 · 89m
Humanity's Icarus Moment: The Wings, the Sea, and the Sun of AI | Frankly 161 2026-10-09 · 59m
A World-Changing Event: We're Not Going Back to January 2026 with Art Berman 2026-10-07 · 75m
Climate Uncertainty: The Coolest Year for the Rest of Our Lives? with Zeke Hausfather 2026-09-30 · 92m
A State of the World Address: The Climate Speech We'll Probably Never Hear | Frankly 160 2026-09-25 · 15m
The Escalation Trap: Is America's Strategy in Iran Backfiring? with Robert Pape 2026-09-23 · 67m
The Real Work: Four Things We Can't Afford to Get Wrong | Frankly 159 2026-09-18 · 33m
Radical Simplicity: The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson 2026-09-16 · 99m
The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind? | Frankly 158 2026-09-11 · 19m
Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy 2026-09-09 · 54m
Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy: Decent People, Indecent System | Frankly 157 2026-09-04 · 39m
The Collapse of Our Mythology: Can Humanity Choose What's Next? with Charles Eisenstein 2026-09-02 · 98m
Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023) 2026-08-28 · 32m
The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott 2026-08-26 · 101m
An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis | Frankly 156 2026-08-21 · 18m
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127 2026-08-19 · 109m
The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us | Frankly 155 2026-08-14 · 29m
Your Anxiety Is Normal: A New Psychology for a World in Crisis with Richard Schwartz & Steffi Bednarek 2026-08-12 · 100m
Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future | Frankly 154 2026-08-07 · 30m
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant 2026-08-05 · 85m
When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153 2026-07-31 · 24m
The End of Globalization: Why Abundance Is an Illusion with Jeff Currie 2026-07-29 · 88m
Watch With Both Eyes Open: The Beauty and the Horror of Our Moment 2026-07-24 · 9m
Taking Love Seriously: What Ancient Wisdom & Modern Psychology Say About Interconnectedness with John Churchill 2026-07-22 · 95m
Protect the Irreversible: What Matters Most in an Uncertain Future? | How to Think About the Future Pt 6, Frankly 151 2026-07-17 · 32m
It's Not Just Hormuz: The Chokepoints Changing Global Shipping Forever with Sal Mercogliano 2026-07-15 · 91m
Foundations Before Outcomes: The Future Beneath Your Feet | How to Think About the Future Pt 5, Frankly 150 2026-07-10 · 29m
Can Money Serve Life? How to Fund Communities Doing the Real Work with Matthew Monahan 2026-07-08 · 68m
A Legacy Worth Celebrating? Reflecting on 250 Years of the American Experiment | Frankly 149 2026-07-02 · 21m
Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades? | How to Think About the Future Part 4, Frankly 148 2026-06-26 · 33m
We Weren't Expecting This: What Does a Super El Niño Mean For the Climate? with Tad Patzek 2026-06-24 · 85m
How to Play 5D Chess: It's Not What You Think | Frankly 147 2026-06-19 · 18m
No More Dystopian Stories: How to See a Future Worth Living In with Rob Hopkins 2026-06-17 · 95m
The Ultimate Alternative: Are You Okay With Nuclear Warfare? | Frankly 146 2026-06-16 · 24m
The U.S. Can't Back Down: The Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Messier Than You Think with Michael Every 2026-06-12 · 85m
Why 'Community' Fails: Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager with Nora Bateson, Jonathan Goldsmith & Lucas Jackson | RR 26 2026-06-10 · 94m
How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World | Frankly 145 2026-06-05 · 24m
The Missing Half of Climate Change: Why Our Planet is at 50% Capacity and How to Get it Back with Brett KenCairn 2026-06-03 · 94m
Casting Call for a Future Frankly 2026-06-01 · 5m
A Word I Can't Seem to Understand: Non-Duality and Our Living World | Frankly 144 2026-05-29 · 14m
Darkness Deficit Disorder: How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek 2026-05-27 · 101m
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 3): Why Mindfulness Matters When the World Is Breaking Down 2026-05-22 · 35m
Learning in a Way that Actually Matters: Why Standardized Testing Contributed to the Metacrisis – and How to Fix It with Theo Dawson & Zak Stein | RR 25 2026-05-20 · 74m
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 2): Navigating Dread and Carrying the Weight of Tomorrow | Frankly 142 2026-05-15 · 32m
A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? with Art Berman 2026-05-13 · 101m
Wide Boundary News: Sacrificing Wilderness, Oil Data Propaganda, and Feeding the Superorganism's Brain 2026-05-08 · 25m
Why Each American Lives Like a 40-Ton Whale: Power, Overshoot, and Climate with Tad Patzek 2026-05-06 · 96m
A Perspective From Lebanon: Who Will We Be When Things Get Hard? | Frankly 140 2026-05-01 · 16m
This War Changes Everything: Are We Ready for Energy Shockwaves From the Strait of Hormuz? with Rory Johnston 2026-04-29 · 87m
How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades | Frankly 139 2026-04-24 · 33m
Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist 2026-04-22 · 128m
How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 138 2026-04-17 · 32m
The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White | RR 24 2026-04-15 · 96m
Everything Is About to Change: The World After Cheap Energy | Oil 301, Frankly 137 2026-04-11 · 16m
Built for Cheap Energy: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Oil 201, Frankly 136 2026-04-10 · 14m
The Untold Energy Story: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Oil 101, Frankly 135 2026-04-09 · 10m
Navigating the Metacrisis: Finding Calm in the Storm through Awareness and Meditation with Sam Harris 2026-04-08 · 101m
What Does "Winning" Even Mean?: A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 134 2026-04-03 · 20m
Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict with Chris Keefer 2026-04-01 · 87m
Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 133 2026-03-27 · 12m
Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help with Tristan Harris 2026-03-25 · 111m
What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 132 2026-03-20 · 53m
The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human Health with Shanna Swan & Sian Sutherland | RR 23 2026-03-18 · 79m
Preparing for a More Fragile World: Iran Effects and End of Empire? | Frankly 131 2026-03-13 · 14m
Questioning Human Exceptionalism: How Rethinking Our Place in the Web of Life Could Change Our Global Crises with Christine Webb 2026-03-11 · 78m
Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Failure | Frankly 130 2026-03-10 · 27m
A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency | Frankly 129 2026-03-06 · 27m
Could the West Lose the Resource Wars? AI, Rare Earths, and Economic Statecraft with Michael Every & Craig Tindale | RR 22 2026-03-04 · 96m
Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128 2026-02-27 · 24m
How to Inoculate Against Misinformation: Breaking Down Misleading Arguments & Why Science Communication Fails with John Cook 2026-02-25 · 83m
Wide Boundary News: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge 2026-02-23 · 18m
Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers | Frankly 126 2026-02-20 · 40m
The Future is Rural: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty through Farming Clubs? with Jason Bradford 2026-02-18 · 84m
The End of 'Progress?': Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times | Frankly 125 2026-02-13 · 19m
The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth's Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen 2026-02-11 · 70m
Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks 2026-02-09 · 15m
The Consumption Pyramid 2026-02-06 · 23m
How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe's Industrial Decline with Balázs Matics 2026-02-04 · 76m
A Country of Geniuses: Anthropic CEO's Warnings, Plus Wide-Boundary Considerations on AI 2026-02-02 · 32m
Wide Boundary News: Japan, Silver, Venezuela, and More – the Biophysical Phase Shift Cometh 2026-01-30 · 32m
The New Generation of Environmental Leadership: Stubborn Optimism, Tending Your Inner Fire, and Why Hope Is Not Enough with Xiye Bastida 2026-01-28 · 82m
The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120 2026-01-23 · 21m
Arms Race or the Human Race? Governance in the Age of AI, Nuclear Threats, and Geopolitical Brinkmanship | RR 21 2026-01-21 · 88m
Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve | Frankly 119 2026-01-16 · 29m
Why the West Can't Defend Itself: How Material Scarcity Is Reshaping Global Power with Craig Tindale 2026-01-14 · 102m
The Things We Take for Granted | Frankly 118 2026-01-09 · 23m
How We've 'Drugified' Our Entire Existence: Dopamine & Addiction In the Digital Age with Anna Lembke 2026-01-07 · 97m
Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law? 2025-12-19 · 31m
End of Year Reflections: Four Years of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens 2025-12-17 · 27m
Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116 2025-12-12 · 23m
Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions with Kelly Erhart 2025-12-10 · 67m
Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Frankly 115 2025-12-05 · 26m
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares 2025-12-03 · 101m
Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater 2025-11-24 · 94m
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114 2025-11-22 · 40m
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114 2025-11-21 · 40m
Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza 2025-11-19 · 82m
11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113 2025-11-14 · 38m
Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson 2025-11-12 · 82m
Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20 2025-11-05 · 113m
The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112 2025-10-31 · 23m
Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon 2025-10-29 · 107m
The Three Most Important Words We're Taught Not to Say 2025-10-24 · 27m
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell 2025-10-22 · 88m
What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism 2025-10-17 · 18m
Will Coral Reefs Be Gone by 2050? How Bleaching, Acidification, and Ocean Heating are Killing Coral Reefs with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg 2025-10-15 · 90m
Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If The Grid Fails with Meredith Angwin 2025-10-08 · 85m
Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries 2025-10-03 · 22m
Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good with Rutger Bregman 2025-10-01 · 76m
The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think 2025-09-26 · 22m
The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp 2025-09-24 · 136m
Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19 2025-09-17 · 84m
This Week's Learnings: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107 2025-09-12 · 17m
Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump with Anastassia Makarieva 2025-09-10 · 122m
10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106 2025-09-05 · 16m
How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do | Reality Roundtable 18 2025-09-03 · 75m
Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith 2025-08-27 · 81m
Key Blindspots of the "Walrus" Movement | Frankly 105 2025-08-22 · 39m
How Do You Become Who You Want to Be?: The Science Behind Identity, Purpose, and Motivation with Taylor Guthrie 2025-08-20 · 92m
Ducks and Blueberries: A Reflection on Price, Cost and Value 2025-08-15 · 7m
The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully with Stephen Jenkinson 2025-08-13 · 64m
The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance of Insects Means for Humanity and the Earth with Oliver Milman 2025-08-06 · 80m
The Ghost of Dopamine Past | Frankly 103 2025-08-01 · 15m
Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden 2025-07-30 · 100m
Towards Individual Wisdom & Restraint 2025-07-25 · 42m
The Packaging Revolution: Industry's Responsibility & the Innovations That Could Mitigate the Waste Crisis with Wes Carter 2025-07-23 · 100m
This Week's Learnings: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102 2025-07-18 · 15m
The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality with Josh Farley 2025-07-16 · 95m
What I Want to Want for the Future | Frankly 101 2025-07-11 · 13m
Moving from Apathy to Action: How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis | Reality Roundtable #17 2025-07-09 · 78m
Ask Nate Anything 2025 | Frankly 100 2025-06-27 · 35m
Algorithmic Cancer: Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy 2025-06-25 · 98m
The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | Frankly 99 2025-06-20 · 43m
The National Security Risks We're Not Prepared For: Adapting In an Age of Actorless Threats with Rod Schoonover 2025-06-18 · 59m
The Systems Science Behind Our Global Crises: How Energy Drives Economics, Ecology, and Our Future | The Great Simplification Movie 2025-06-13 · 2m
Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge 2025-06-11 · 79m
10 Qualities That Could Change the Future: The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria | Frankly 98 2025-06-06 · 20m
AI's Unseen Risks: How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Future Generations with Zak Stein 2025-06-04 · 110m
Why the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart: The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes | Frankly 97 2025-05-30 · 15m
The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life with Malin Pinsky 2025-05-28 · 65m
The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96 2025-05-23 · 13m
Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action with Andrew Millison 2025-05-21 · 63m
The Parent and the Pendulum | Frankly 95 2025-05-16 · 15m
No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature with Thomas Crowther 2025-05-14 · 72m
Social Overshoot? Dunbar's Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs | Frankly 94 2025-05-09 · 15m
Fragile Electric Grids: Did Renewables Cause the Blackout in Spain? with Pedro Prieto 2025-05-07 · 57m
Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking? | Frankly 93 2025-05-02 · 13m
Sobriété vs Poverty: Preparing for a New Cultural Paradigm with Jean-Marc Jancovici 2025-04-30 · 71m
Artificial Intelligence - In Service of Life? | Frankly 92 2025-04-25 · 28m
The Neuroscience of Good Journalism: How Constructive Journalism Uses Information to Empower with Maren Urner 2025-04-23 · 84m
Unintended Consequences in a Complex World | Frankly 91 2025-04-18 · 7m
Planetary Insights: How Satellites Could Transform Our Understanding of Earth's Predicament with Will Marshall 2025-04-16 · 76m
Living the Change: How TGS Viewers are Transforming Their Lives and Communities 2025-04-11 · 30m
Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler 2025-04-09 · 73m
Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can't, Won't and Might Happen | Frankly 90 2025-04-04 · 20m
Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins 2025-04-02 · 73m
Digital Democracy: Moving Beyond 'Big Tech' to Save Open Societies with Audrey Tang 2025-03-26 · 85m
The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers' Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War | Reality Roundtable #16 2025-03-23 · 90m
Thinking and Feeling | Frankly 89 2025-03-21 · 10m
Threats to U.S. Security: Aging Infrastructure, Fragile Systems, and Information Warfare with Dan O'Connor 2025-03-19 · 86m
The Lost Art of Grieving: Grief as Ritual, Resistance, and Resilience with Francis Weller 2025-03-12 · 98m
Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River | Frankly 88 2025-03-07 · 14m
2000-Watt Society: The Realities of Living a Low(er) Energy Lifestyle with Peter Strack 2025-03-05 · 78m
(Some of) The Central Questions of Our Time | Frankly 87 2025-02-28 · 17m
Wisdom Over Power: Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity with Iain McGilchrist 2025-02-26 · 120m
What is Wealth? | Frankly 86 2025-02-21 · 17m
The 'Decline' of Nations: How Elite Surplus and Inequality Lead to Societal Upheaval with Peter Turchin 2025-02-19 · 65m
The Light Triad | Frankly 85 2025-02-14 · 16m
Reimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine 2025-02-12 · 97m
The Plastic Crisis: A Health and Environmental Emergency | Reality Roundtable 15 2025-02-10 · 99m
Share Your Story: A Call for Responses to The Great Simplification | Frankly 84 2025-02-07 · 5m
Always Adding More: The Unpopular Reality about Energy Transitions with Jean-Baptiste Fressoz 2025-02-05 · 75m
Artificial Intelligence and the Lost Ark | Frankly 83 2025-01-31 · 25m
The Uncertain Future of Oil: Energy Poverty, Depletion, and 'Green' Ambitions with Scott Tinker 2025-01-29 · 104m
Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty | Frankly 82 2025-01-24 · 40m
Navigating International Crises: The Evolving Challenges for Humanitarian Organizations with Birgitte Bischoff 2025-01-22 · 73m
The Future is Local: Bioregioning 101 2025-01-19 · 89m
Reality and Perseverance in India: Pollution, Poverty, and Policy with Sunita Narain 2025-01-15 · 73m
The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and the Search for Coherence with John Vervaeke 2025-01-08 · 98m
Best of TGS: What Would You Do With a Magic Wand? 2024-12-22 · 14m
Time Travel & The Superorganism: A Movie Idea | Frankly 81 2024-12-20 · 18m
The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities with Christian Sawyer 2024-12-18 · 70m
"Thank You for Ruining My Life" | Frankly 80 2024-12-13 · 12m
The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash with Jeremy Grantham 2024-12-11 · 108m
Shutting Off The Plastic Tap: A Global Treaty To Regulate Petrochemical Pollution? with Jane Muncke 2024-12-08 · 47m
The Biggest Takeaways from the Logic of the Superorganism 2024-12-06 · 20m
Existential Risks: The Biggest Threats to Life as We Know It with Luke Kemp 2024-12-04 · 101m
A Brief Clarification on Human Behavior | Frankly 78 2024-11-29 · 10m
Energy Crises & Global Power Shifts: The Struggle for Stability in Israel, Iran, and Beyond | Helen Thompson 2024-11-27 · 72m
Future Council: How Children are Responding to our Planetary Crises with Damon Gameau and The Future Council 2024-11-24 · 51m
7 Philosophies on the Future | Frankly 77 2024-11-22 · 10m
Fires in the Rainforest: The Impossible Economics of a Disappearing Amazon | André Guimarães 2024-11-20 · 80m
The Battles of Our Time | Frankly 76 2024-11-15 · 29m
Carbon Sink to Carbon Source? How the Amazon Rainforest Could Become a Self-Drying Savanna | Carlos Nobre | TGS 150 2024-11-13 · 72m
Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking with John Fullerton 2024-11-06 · 89m
Somebody's Gonna Win | Frankly 75 2024-11-01 · 20m
Preserving Democracy: A Call for Civility with Richard Gephardt 2024-10-30 · 57m
The Global Stakes of the U.S. Election: Debt, The Dollar, and Military Power | Reality Roundtable #12 2024-10-27 · 75m
The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System with Indy Johar 2024-10-23 · 97m
Ecological Awakening: A Path Toward Holistic Adulthood with Bill Plotkin 2024-10-16 · 97m
Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth's Critical Systems with Kari Stoever 2024-10-13 · 25m
The Lament of the Bigfoot | Frankly 74 2024-10-11 · 18m
Inner Development Goals: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out with Erik Fernholm 2024-10-09 · 101m
Tales from the Carbon Pulse | Reality Roundtable 11 2024-10-06 · 91m
The Superorganism and the Self | Frankly 73 2024-10-04 · 17m
Rooted in Connection: Exploring the Hidden Ties in Earth's Forests with Suzanne Simard 2024-10-02 · 78m
What if Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72 2024-09-27 · 12m
History for Tomorrow: Uncovering Future Possibilities from Humanity's Past with Roman Krznaric 2024-09-25 · 100m
Weakest Links: Depletion, Supply Chains, and Trust | Frankly 71 2024-09-20 · 10m
Global Heating 101: Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions with Stefan Rahmstorf 2024-09-18 · 101m
U.S. Full Spectrum Dominance: Nuclear Risks and The End of Empire with Jeffrey Sachs 2024-09-11 · 51m
Bioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary Health with Daniel Christian Wahl 2024-09-04 · 106m
The Physics of Connection: Understanding Relationships and Ecology with Fritjof Capra 2024-08-28 · 63m
The Art of Movement Building: Personal Liberation for Public Change with Mamphela Ramphele 2024-08-21 · 83m
Ask Me Anything - Your Questions About TGS Answered | Frankly 70 2024-08-16 · 40m
The Population Problem: Human Impact, Extinctions, and the Biodiversity Crisis with Corey Bradshaw 2024-08-14 · 121m
Goldilocks Technology - A Preliminary Checklist | Frankly 69 2024-08-09 · 20m
Biomimicry: Applying Nature's Wisdom to Human Problems with Janine Benyus 2024-08-07 · 96m
Overshoot and Its 7 Fundamental Drivers | Frankly 68 2024-08-02 · 16m
Planetary Boundaries: Exceeding Earth's Safe Limits with Johan Rockström 2024-07-31 · 92m
The Ecology of Communication: Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life | Reality Roundtable 10 2024-07-28 · 109m
The Solutions that can be Named are not the Solutions | Frankly #67 2024-07-26 · 22m
Indigenous Wisdom: Resilience, Adaptation, and Seeing Nature as Ourselves with Casey Camp-Horinek 2024-07-24 · 94m
The Reality Party | Frankly #66 2024-07-19 · 14m
Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI with Daniel Schmachtenberger 2024-07-17 · 107m
And Then What?: Using Wide-Boundary Lenses | Frankly 65 2024-07-12 · 24m
Eat, Poop, Die: Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman 2024-07-10 · 93m
Living Your Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable with Krista Tippett 2024-07-03 · 93m
The 20 Control Knobs for a Post-Growth Future | Frankly 64 2024-06-28 · 26m
The Flip, the Formation, and the Fun: A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures with Jonathan Rowson 2024-06-26 · 96m
Sound Thinking: Using Music, Resonance, and Harmonics for Human Wellbeing with Alexandre Tannous 2024-06-19 · 161m
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway 2024-06-12 · 105m
The Next Generation's Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable #9 2024-06-09 · 70m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment" 2024-06-05 · 201m
Nuclear Conflict: 7 Key Questions for Sustainable Futures | Frankly #63 2024-05-31 · 18m
Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity" 2024-05-29 · 94m
Levke Caesar: "Oceanic Slowdown: Decoding the AMOC" 2024-05-22 · 90m
Special Request & Community Announcement 2024-05-17 · 4m
Chris Keefer: "Empowering the Future: from Nuclear to Podcasting" 2024-05-15 · 130m
The Indic Mind: An Approach to the Metacrisis | Reality Roundtable 8 2024-05-12 · 75m
Zak Stein: "Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis" 2024-05-08 · 113m
Pella Thiel: "Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature" 2024-05-01 · 78m
7 Thought Experiments for Earth Day | Frankly #62 2024-04-26 · 15m
Tom Chi: "Net Positive for the Planet – from Beavers to Bionics" 2024-04-24 · 139m
The Strait of Hormuz and 'the Spice' | Frankly #61 2024-04-19 · 13m
Luther Krueger: "Goldilocks Tech? A Solar Oven Overview" 2024-04-17 · 72m
The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About | Frankly #60 2024-04-12 · 20m
Michael Every: "The Many -Isms of the Metacrisis" 2024-04-10 · 110m
7 Meta Questions About Our Global Metabolism | Frankly #59 2024-04-04 · 15m
Geoffrey West: "Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology" 2024-04-03 · 101m
The Fellowship of the Ring - 'Bend Not Break' Version | Frankly 58 2024-03-29 · 24m
Riane Eisler: "Domination and Partnership in Society" 2024-03-27 · 70m
Information Bifurcation | Frankly #57 2024-03-22 · 15m
Patrick Knodel: "Question Everything - Towards Cooperation & Change" 2024-03-20 · 94m
Chuck Watson: "NATO in Ukraine: from Proxy to Participants" 2024-03-15 · 57m
Lyn Alden: "The Myth of Frictionless Finance" 2024-03-13 · 100m
Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw | Frankly #56 2024-03-08 · 25m
Samantha Sweetwater: "Life at the Center" 2024-03-06 · 83m
7 Key Interventions for the Future | Frankly #55 2024-03-01 · 28m
Sandra Faber: "The Universe and Our Place in It" 2024-02-28 · 86m
John Robb: "Networked Tribalism, AI, and Asteroids" 2024-02-21 · 112m
Reflections From India | Frankly #54 2024-02-16 · 13m
Ashley Hodgson: "The New Enlightenment and Behavioral Economics" 2024-02-14 · 66m
Steve Keen: "On the Origins of Energy Blindness" 2024-02-07 · 93m
Mario Giampietro: "Models with Meaning - Changing Social Practices" 2024-01-31 · 84m
Alexa Firmenich: "Biodiversity, Beauty, and Being" 2024-01-24 · 104m
The Haves & The Have-Nots | Frankly #53 2024-01-19 · 15m
Leon Simons: "Aerosol Demasking & Global Heating" 2024-01-17 · 85m
Jane Muncke: "Perils of Plastic Packaging" 2024-01-10 · 80m
The Behavioral Stack | Frankly #52 2024-01-05 · 18m
Peter Brannen: "Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today" 2024-01-03 · 102m
Bill McKibben: "Climate, Movements, and Power" 2023-12-20 · 80m
Systemic Themes for 2024 | Frankly #51 2023-12-18 · 15m
Arthur Berman: "Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound" 2023-12-13 · 90m
Stephanie Hoopes, Peter Kilde, Marc Perry, Dalitso Sulamoyo: "Poverty Blind" | Reality Roundtable #7 2023-12-10 · 83m
COP 28 and the Smoke Under the Door | Frankly #50 2023-12-08 · 13m
Nate Hagens: "Episode 100 - The Great Simplification" (Interviewed by Kate Raworth) 2023-12-06 · 129m
Jeremy Grantham: "Pollution, Population & Purpose" 2023-11-29 · 141m
Artificial Intelligence vs Real Ecology | Frankly #49 2023-11-17 · 17m
Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy & Geopolitics" 2023-11-15 · 121m
Fossil Free Food Systems: Jason Bradford, Andrew Millison, Vandana Shiva, Daniel Zetah | Reality Roundtable #06 2023-11-12 · 91m
Chuck Watson: "The Nuclear Wild West" 2023-11-08 · 57m
The Biophysical Taxman Cometh | Frankly #48 2023-11-03 · 17m
David Holmgren: "Small and Slow Solutions - Permaculture Design" 2023-11-01 · 100m
Frankly Re: Franklys | Frankly #47 2023-10-27 · 17m
Sir David King: "Global Heating: The Science and the Response" 2023-10-25 · 110m
Chuck Watson: "War, Rumours of War, and Governance" 2023-10-20 · 74m
Joris van der Schot: "Oil Refining 101 and Other Energy Stories" 2023-10-18 · 67m
Food & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel | Reality Roundtable #05 2023-10-15 · 88m
The Middle East: Stormwatch | Frankly #46 2023-10-13 · 11m
Arthur Berman: "BRICS+, Strategic Petroleum Reserve & Metaphysics" 2023-10-11 · 92m
One Ring to Rule Them All | Frankly #45 2023-10-06 · 17m
Luke Gromen: "Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency" 2023-10-04 · 91m
Nick Haddad: "Insects - A Silent Extinction" 2023-09-27 · 86m
Sian Sutherland: "Innovating the Business of Plastics" 2023-09-20 · 76m
Robert Sapolsky: "The Brain, Determinism, and Cultural Implications" 2023-09-13 · 118m
Titanic Oceans: Daniel Pauly, Antonio Turiel, Peter Ward | Reality Roundtable #04 2023-09-10 · 90m
The Many Shapes of the Carbon Pulse | Frankly #44 2023-09-08 · 21m
Graham Palmer: "Energy Storage and Civilization: A History" 2023-09-06 · 65m
Fossil Energy Subsidies: The Bottom Line | Frankly #43 2023-09-01 · 13m
Lisi Krall: "Agriculture, Surplus, and the Economic Superorganism" 2023-08-30 · 81m
Running the 'Systems Discourse' Gauntlet | Frankly #42 2023-08-25 · 15m
Iain McGilchrist: "Wisdom, Nature, and the Brain" 2023-08-23 · 114m
Jean-Marc Jancovici: "Our Global Energy Predicament" 2023-08-16 · 87m
Unlearning Economics: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, & Kate Raworth | Reality Roundtable #03 2023-08-13 · 102m
Just Stop Oil !? Part 4 - The Intersection | Frankly #41 2023-08-11 · 26m
Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy" 2023-08-09 · 102m
Just Stop Oil !? Part 3 - 10 Pathways to Post-Growth | Frankly #40 2023-08-04 · 28m
Kevin Anderson: "The Uncomfortable Link between Climate and Equity" 2023-08-02 · 88m
Just Stop Oil !? Part 2 - Oil is the Economy | Frankly #39 2023-07-28 · 31m
Roger Pielke Jr: "Understanding the Origins of Climate Models" 2023-07-26 · 78m
The 7 Things That Scare Me Most | Frankly #38 2023-07-21 · 13m
Taimur Ahmad: "Energy Inequality in the Polycrisis" 2023-07-19 · 73m
Just Stop Oil !? Part 1 - Gasoline | Frankly #37 2023-07-14 · 9m
Anne Biklé & David Montgomery: "Nourishing the Land and Ourselves" 2023-07-12 · 96m
Deep(er) Ecology: William Rees, Nora Bateson & Rex Weyler | Reality Roundtable #02 2023-07-09 · 93m
Cool Privilege | Frankly #36 2023-07-07 · 6m
Iñigo Capellán Pérez: "Net Energy Analysis: Through a Systems Lens" 2023-07-05 · 66m
10 Things That Bring Me Joy | Frankly #35 2023-06-30 · 19m
Kate Raworth: "The Superorganism V. The Doughnut" 2023-06-28 · 103m
The Limits to Podcasting About Limits 2023-06-23 · 20m
Daniel Zetah: "Regenerative Agriculture and Personal Sovereignty" 2023-06-21 · 91m
Kris De Decker: "Looking Back Towards a Human Powered Future" 2023-06-14 · 84m
"Electric Vehicles": Arthur Berman, Simon Michaux & Pedro Prieto | Reality Roundtable #01 2023-06-11 · 100m
NATO/Ukraine: Playing Russian Roulette with Complex Life | Frankly #33 2023-06-08 · 16m
James Fleay: "What's The Deal with Nuclear Energy?" 2023-06-07 · 68m
Joslin Faith Kehdy: "Lebanon - Beyond Resilience" 2023-05-31 · 72m
Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin" 2023-05-24 · 147m
Reflections on 'Beyond Growth' | Frankly #31 2023-05-19 · 10m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism" 2023-05-17 · 193m
Missing Words | Frankly #30 2023-05-12 · 14m
John Kitzhaber: "What Makes a Healthy Society?" 2023-05-10 · 50m
The Words of Our Lives | Earth Day 2023 2023-05-08 · 40m
Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society" 2023-05-03 · 88m
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadian Blueprint" 2023-04-26 · 75m
Edward Chancellor: "The Price of Time" 2023-04-19 · 105m
Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29 2023-04-14 · 23m
Kim Stanley Robinson: "Climate, Fiction, and The Future" 2023-04-12 · 85m
The Real Global Macro | Frankly #28 2023-04-06 · 13m
Antonio Turiel: "Deep Challenges: Oceans, Scarcity and Culture" 2023-04-05 · 102m
USA! (But wait, There's More) | Frankly #27 2023-03-31 · 9m
Andrew Millison: "Geomorphology, Permaculture, and The Good Work" 2023-03-29 · 85m
Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem" 2023-03-22 · 81m
A Bigger Boat | Frankly #26 2023-03-16 · 14m
Jodi Archambault: "Relationships, Reciprocity and Resiliency" 2023-03-15 · 64m
Loss Aversion | Frankly #25 2023-03-10 · 11m
Gareth Roberts: "Geology, Optimism, & Something Completely Different" 2023-03-08 · 72m
Nina Simons: "Dancing With Contradictions - A Systems View" 2023-03-01 · 83m
Jonathan Haidt: "Social Psychology in an Age of Social Fragmentation" 2023-02-22 · 82m
Olivia Lazard: "Peace and Power in the Mineral Age" 2023-02-15 · 90m
Gaya Herrington: "Humanity's Soul: Life or Growth?" 2023-02-08 · 88m
NOT for Sale | Frankly #24 2023-02-03 · 9m
David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World" 2023-02-01 · 82m
The Mordor Economy | Frankly #23 2023-01-27 · 13m
Erica Thompson: "Models, The Hawkmoth Effect, and the Future" 2023-01-25 · 73m
Arthur Berman: "Peak Oil - The Hedonic Adjustment" 2023-01-18 · 70m
William E. Rees: "The Fundamental Issue - Overshoot" 2023-01-11 · 119m
The Simple Story of Civilization with Tom Murphy | Frankly #22 2023-01-06 · 30m
Giorgos Kallis: "Cultural Surplus and 'Dépense'" 2023-01-04 · 84m
Reflections, Predictions, and Interventions | Frankly #21 2022-12-29 · 16m
DJ White: "Ocean Effectivism" | The Great Simplification #51 2022-12-28 · 118m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50 2022-12-19 · 141m
Staying Warm Data with Nora Bateson | Frankly #20 2022-12-16 · 29m
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians" 2022-12-14 · 84m
Tomas Björkman: "The Great Transformation - Metamodernism and The Future" 2022-12-07 · 93m
"Islands" | Frankly #19 2022-12-02 · 11m
Patrick Ophuls: "Energy, Politics, and The Future" 2022-11-30 · 70m
Energy Gratitude | Frankly #18 2022-11-24 · 6m
Vandana Shiva: "Agroecology and The Great Simplification" 2022-11-23 · 71m
Russia - Be Careful What We Wish For | Frankly #17 2022-11-18 · 11m
Jon Erickson: "Illusions, Power and the Political Economy" 2022-11-16 · 82m
7 Boundaries of Climate Concern | Frankly #16 2022-11-11 · 13m
Arthur Berman: "The Devil is in the Diesel" 2022-11-09 · 76m
7 Realities - No Matter Who Wins 2022-11-04 · 10m
Betsy Taylor: "Finding Hope in Nature-Based Solutions" 2022-11-02 · 82m
7 Shades of Jekyll and Hyde | Frankly #14 2022-10-30 · 15m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis" 2022-10-26 · 126m
The Quiet Part Out Loud | Frankly #13 2022-10-21 · 12m
Marty Kearns: "Building Networks in Uncertain Times" 2022-10-19 · 78m
The Speed Bump | Frankly #12 2022-10-14 · 22m
Mary Evelyn Tucker: "Religion, Ecology, and the Future" 2022-10-12 · 63m
In Spite Of... | Frankly #11 2022-10-07 · 12m
Ayan Mahamoud: "East Africa and the Poly-Crisis" 2022-10-05 · 73m
The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10 2022-09-30 · 14m
Sebastian Heitmann: "Gigacorns" 2022-09-28 · 95m
Creatures United | Frankly #9 2022-09-24 · 14m
Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution" 2022-09-21 · 77m
The 6th Pool..? | Frankly #8 2022-09-17 · 13m
Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy" 2022-09-14 · 83m
Growth Until Not | Frankly #7 2022-09-09 · 23m
Steve Vavrus: "Arctic Fever? Taking the Arctic's Temperature" 2022-09-07 · 60m
Kiril Sokoloff: "What's the Most Important Question in Today's World?" 2022-08-31 · 79m
The End Of Abundance | Frankly #6 2022-08-30 · 9m
Kris De Decker: "Low Tech: What, Why and How" 2022-08-24 · 68m
Timothée Parrique: "Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool" 2022-08-17 · 79m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #3: Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose" 2022-08-10 · 78m
Steve Keen: "Mythonomics" 2022-08-03 · 84m
Josh Farley: "Money, Money, Money" 2022-07-27 · 80m
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification | Frankly #5 2022-07-23 · 55m
Joan Diamond: "From Kool-aid to Lemonade" 2022-07-20 · 82m
Joe Tainter: "Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification" 2022-07-13 · 72m
Peter Whybrow: "When More is Not Enough" 2022-07-06 · 81m
Meeting the Future Halfway | Frankly #4 2022-07-02 · 22m
Gerardo Ceballos: "Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?" 2022-06-29 · 97m
Jason Bradford: "A Hybrid Path to the Future of Farming" 2022-06-22 · 73m
Energy Blindness | Frankly #3 2022-06-21 · 24m
Tim Watkins: "From Living Like Gods to Living Your Own Story" 2022-06-15 · 81m
Aza Raskin: "AI, The Shape of Language, and Earth's Species" 2022-06-08 · 110m
Vicki Robin "Money and LIfe's Energy" 2022-06-01 · 62m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents" 2022-05-25 · 112m
Dr. Simon Michaux: "Minerals and Materials Blindness"" 2022-05-18 · 79m
Thomas Murphy: "Physics and Planetary Ambitions" 2022-05-11 · 69m
Chuck Watson: "Nuclear War - All the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask" 2022-05-04 · 99m
Tristan Harris: "Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor" 2022-04-27 · 82m
Daniel Pauly: "Peak Fish and Other Ocean Realities" 2022-04-20 · 62m
John Gowdy: "Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!" 2022-04-13 · 80m
Jamie Wheal: "Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture" 2022-04-06 · 82m
Dennis Meadows: "Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In" 2022-03-30 · 80m
Rex Weyler: "Crisis in the Ecology Movement" 2022-03-22 · 90m
Are Americans Willing to Risk Nuclear War? | Frankly #2 2022-03-18 · 30m
Nora Bateson: "Complexity Between The Lines" 2022-03-16 · 84m
What War in Ukraine means for Energy & Money | Frankly #1 2022-03-12 · 19m
The Human Superorganism - TGS Animated Series Preview 2022-03-09 · 2m
Paul Ehrlich: "Was the Population Bomb Defused?" 2022-03-02 · 76m
Peter Ward: "Oceans - What's the Worst that Can Happen?" 2022-02-23 · 75m
Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation" 2022-02-16 · 76m
Energy Blind - TGS Animated Series Preview 2022-02-09 · 1m
Herman Daly: "Toward an Ecological Economics" 2022-02-02 · 67m
Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness" 2022-01-26 · 94m
Chuck Watson: "From MAD to NUTS: Risk, Nukes, & Climate Change" 2022-01-19 · 86m
Arthur Berman: "Oil: It Was The Best of Fuels, It Was The Worst of Fuels" 2022-01-12 · 54m
Dr. Shanna Swan: "Sperm and Our Future" 2022-01-12 · 43m
Richard Gephardt: "Democracy: Old School vs New Reality" 2022-01-12 · 65m
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