Extraenvironmentalist

In our highly connected world of cell phones, ever expanding inboxes and regular social media updates, it is easy to be ... Read more

Our governments, businesses and economic institutions were built on a society that was supercharged with fossil fuels to... Read more

In this Autumn 2015 Interlude of The Extraenvironmentalist we talk about research on how ancient humans perceived sounds... Read more

The soil of our food system provides the roots of our culture. Without soil, our modern lifestyle would cease to exist. ... Read more

Today's textbook notions of business were developed during an unprecedented global economic expansion - a cultural condi... Read more

We're launching The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder - the first show on our forthcoming podcast network! This ... Read more

Usually we think of permaculture as a system for land and food, where humans work with the flows and systems of nature. ... Read more

Our 20th century food system has created a global market for cheaply priced commodities of corn, wheat, soybeans and ric... Read more

Our industrial system of agriculture and an integrated global marketplace has created an abundance of available food for... Read more

The degrowth movement seeks to decolonize a cultural imaginary that is currently directed to expand the scale and scope ... Read more

The degrowth movement seeks to redefine a cultural imagination focused on expanding the scale and scope of a materially ... Read more

With its empire in decline, the United States is no longer the world's dominant superpower. Stuck in the idea of interna... Read more

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 glorifi... Read more

Over the last hundred years, the international money system has unraveled every few decades with surprising regularity. ... Read more

With emerging and innovative methods for distributing information and the means of education, we're still embedded in th... Read more

As trust is lost in the global financial system and its intermediaries, surplus investment capital seems stranded in eve... Read more

Our command of energy resources has created amazing technologies and social systems at a grand scale, but at what cost? ... Read more

Critics of quantitative easing highlight the absurdity of creating money from nothing to paper over terrible investment ... Read more

Creating a society around the idea of access to leisure time has resulted in the unintended consequence of rampant addic... Read more

Extraenvironmentalist #73 is a two part episode. This is the post for SIDE A - featuring our interview on a contractiona... Read more