Planet: Critical
By Rachel Donald
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Planet: Critical is the podcast for a world in crisis. We face severe climate, energy, economic and political breakdown. Journalist Rachel Donald interviews those confronting the crisis, revealing what's really going on—and what needs to be done. Visit planetcritical.com
| Episode | Date |
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The Founding Mothers | Laura George
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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How Mexico City Unleashed Its Political Imagination | Ashwin Ravikumar
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Feeding The Future | Nicole Negowetti
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Rojava: The Feminist Resistance in the Heart of the Middle East | Matt Broomfield
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Designing Liveable Futures | Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The Copper Curtain | Art Berman
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Lithium: The "Miracle" Mineral | Javiera Barandiaran
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Who Will Lead the Future? | Roger Hallam
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Liberating Social Contributions | Andrew Percy
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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From Coloniality to Decolonisation | Farhana Sultana
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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How Fiction Makes Sense of the Crisis | Heather Milligan
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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For the Future We May Never See | Rachel Donald
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Exergy Economics | Tânia Sousa
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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The Myth of Progress | Samuel Miller McDonald
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Hyper Local Futures | Chris Smaje
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Categories of Control | Jules Falquet
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Future of Rebellion | Fernando Racimo
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Why "Solutions" Fail | Dave Snowden
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Extractive Frontiers | Thea Riofrancos
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Material Dependencies | Nina Djukanović
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Update on new website
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Health Begins With Earth | Sharon Friel
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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China’s Leverage | Kenneth Hammond
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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There Are No Simple Solutions | Jessica Hernandez
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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How the Eco-Crisis is Changing Our Brains | Clayton Aldern
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Beyond Paradox | Iain McGilchrist
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Bad Environmentalism | Gordon Katic
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Community Sufficiency | Kara Huntermoon
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Knowing and Being | Tyson Yunkaporta
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why Complex Societies Collapse | Joseph Tainter
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Is Non-Violence the Only Way? | Rowan Tilly
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Degrowing Healthcare | Martin Hensher
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Why Earth Needs a Feminist Movement | Silvia Federici
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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What’s Really Warming the Planet | Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Resilience is Resistance | Max Wilbert
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Human Exceptionalism | Christine Webb
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why We Can’t Understand Each Other | Damien Williams
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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How to Change People’s Minds | Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Change is Risk | Celine Semaan
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Beyond Separation | Willow Defebaugh
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May 29, 2025 |
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Is the End Nigh? | Émile Torres
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May 22, 2025 |
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Voices of the Amazon | Chumpi Washikiat
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May 15, 2025 |
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Confronting Collapse | Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
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May 08, 2025 |
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Resource Scarcity and Eco-Fascism | Antonio Turiel
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May 01, 2025 |
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Carbon is Not Our Enemy | Mongabay
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Popping the Tech Bro Bubble | Molly White
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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A World of Contradictions | David Edgerton
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Collapse: What It Is — And What To Do | Sarah Wilson
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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How To Do The Right Thing in Business | Brad Vanstone
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The ”Energy Transition” is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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States, Markets, and the Rest of Us | Grace Blakeley
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Age of Territorial Expansion | Michael Albertus
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Animal Agriculture Exceptionalism | Kenny Torrella
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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How to Cool the Planet | Sailesh Rao
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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The B******t Stinking Up Silicon Valley | Ed Zitron
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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The Smallest Parts | Craig Slee
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Climate Violence | Peter Schwartzstein
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Israel’s Campaign To Destroy Life | Samaneh Moafi
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Planetary Solvency | Sandy Trust
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Climate Criminals | Aaron Regunberg
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Scale Out in 2025 | Rachel Donald
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Need for Roots | Nathalie Nahai
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Exposing the Imperial Class | Matt Kennard
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Language and Violence | Sunil Amrith
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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From the Ashes | Dana Fisher
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Civil Resistance | Pasha Bell
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Climate Litigation Breakthroughs | Nikki Reisch
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Hurt People Hurt People | Kosha Joubert
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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WTF | Emily Atkin
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Renewables Solution | Auke Hoekstra
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Nuclear and Justice | Jessica Lovering
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Decarbonising the War Machine | Sherri Goodman
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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How Net Zero Killed 1.5 | James Dyke
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The Plastic Crisis | Jane van Dis
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The Green Washing Machine | Veronica Bates Kassatly
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The Energy Collapse | Louis Arnoux
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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E-Topia | Deep Dhillon
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The Rights of Nature | Mongabay Newscast
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Sick People or Sick Society? | Steffi Bednarek
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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We Deserve Better Certainties | Natasha Lennard
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Low Tech Life | Kris De Decker
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Crisis of Mastery | Bayo Akomolafe
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Building Trust | Nate Kinch
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Climate Change as Class War | Matt Huber
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Sixth Mass Extinction | Peter Brannen
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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How A.I. is Driving Policy | Paul Schutze
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Climate Reparations | Esther Afolaranmi
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Doing the Right Thing | Gianluca Grimalda
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Body Politic | Ranu Mukherjee
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The Symbolic Species | Terrence Deacon
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Energy Wars | Art Berman
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett
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May 23, 2024 |
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Reimagining A.I | John Wild
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Reduction Roadmap | Dani Hill-Hansen
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Politics of Food | Chris Smaje
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May 02, 2024 |
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Designing Collective Security | Olivia Lazard
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Global Carbon Reward | Delton Chen
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Social Tipping Points | Erin Remblance
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Global Oil Depletion | Alister Hamilton
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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The Origins of Hell On Earth | Carl Safina
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Psychological Transition | Jonathan Mille
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Rewilding the Earth to Rewild Ourselves | Laura Martin
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Is Nuclear the Answer? | Mark Nelson
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Art, AI and Octopus | Mer Maggie Roberts
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Climate Corruption | Amy Westervelt
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Trauma, Power and Stories | Paddy Loughman
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Enshrining the Rights of Nature in Washington’s Constitution | Chaytan Inman
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Cognitive Dissonance Crisis | Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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What We Get Wrong About Money | Steven Hail
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Climate is a Justice Issue | Naomi Oreskes
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Becoming Ungovernable At Scale | Fabian Dablander
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Keep Trying in 2024 | Rachel Donald
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Nationalism and Greenwashing | Laurie Parsons
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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It’s Them vs Us | George Monbiot
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Mongabay: Climate loss & damage fund ‘the furthest thing imaginable from a success’
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Our Global Economy Won’t Survive | Sandy Trust
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Green Democratic Revolution | James Schneider
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Oil and Conflict | John Browne
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Moral Clarity | Hamza Yusuf
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Climate Delay and the Fossil Fuel Industry | Ketan Joshi
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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How Corporations Overthrew Democracy | Matt Kennard
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Dignity and Liberation | lisa minerva luxx
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Exposing UN Greenwashing | Jacob Goldberg
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Doubt as a Weapon of War | Marc Owen Jones
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Interconnected Grid | Nafeez Ahmed
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oligarchs, Media and Markets | Peter Jukes
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Patriarchy and Pasture | Nikki Yoxall
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Leveraging Pensions to Force the Transition | Ian Edwards
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Creating The Alternative | Pat Kane
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Fighting for Freedom in West Papua | Jeffrey Bomanak
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Overshooting Earth’s Boundaries | Bill Rees
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Religious Naturalism | Ursula Goodenough
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Mainstreaming Behaviour Change | Bill Ryerson
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Protecting the Amazon | Paul Rosolie
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Non-Violence in the face of Violence | Rose Abramoff
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The Eco-Fiscal Crisis | James Meadway
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Problem With Language | Ray Ison
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Debating the transition | Simon Michaux & Nafeez Ahmed
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Imagination Activism | Phoebe Tickell
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Petromasculinity | Cara Daggett
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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An Alternative India | Ashish Kothari
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Untold Stories of the Amazon | Heriberto Araujo
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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A Humane Transition | Bob Jensen
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Climate Campaign | Alastair Campbell
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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How To Change A System | Isabel Cavelier
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May 25, 2023 |
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Closing the Enlightenment Gap | Gregg Henriques
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May 18, 2023 |
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How Death Drives the Anthropocene | Sheldon Solomon
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May 11, 2023 |
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Protecting Children in a Warming World | Carter Dillard
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May 04, 2023 |
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The Media’s Role in the Crisis | Lucy McAllister
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The Unsustainable Green Transition | Simon Michaux
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The Power of Community Imagination | Immy Kaur
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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How Economics Overpowers Culture | Lisi Krall
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Understanding Reality | Jude Currivan
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Creating the Leaders We Need | Owen Sheers
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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How Pronatalism Feeds The Economy | Nandita Bajaj
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Mind Over Reality: Why Men Are Destroying The Planet | Ajit Varki
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Woman Who Transformed A Nation | Sophie Howe
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Power, Politics and Possibility | Indra Adnan
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Cleaning The Energy Grid | Dave Jones
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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How To Sue Big Oil | Benjamin Franta
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Decolonise to Decarbonise | Fadhel Kaboub
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Writing A Better World | Kim Stanley Robinson
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The Green Transition Needs Land | Max Ajl
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Steady State Economy | Brian Czech
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Solving the Climate Crisis | Roundtable
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Message From The Future | Wendy Schultz
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Why Scientists Must Rebel | Aaron Thierry
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Information Pollution | Dahr Jamail
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Activism: The Moderate Flank | Rupert Read
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The World We Leave Behind | Ella Saltmarshe
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Crisis Policies: What We Need From COP27 | Laurie Laybourn
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Why Scientists Choose Activism | Charlie Gardner
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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The Most Sustainable Economy in the World | Kate Raworth
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Making Sense of the Meaning Crisis | John Vervaeke
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Building Democracies for the 21st Century | Matt Leighninger
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Alternatives To Capitalism | John Harvey
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The Future is History | Jon Alexander
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Overpopulation: From 8 billion to 3 | Phoebe Barnard
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Power vs People | Robbie Watt
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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How Systems Malfunction | Trevor Hilder
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Limits of Human Wisdom | George Mobus
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Bright Green Lies | Max Wilbert
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Politics of Land | Chris Smaje
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Transition Engineering: A Sustainable Future is Possible | Susan Krumdieck
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Let’s Talk About Real Zero | Caroline Lucas
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Why Complex Societies Need Simple Individuals | John Gowdy
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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It’s Not Just A Climate Crisis | Mike Joy
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Truth about Green Finance | Fred Hache
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Pro-Power: How the Far Right Stole America | Katherine Stewart
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Global Climate Compensation | Henrik Nordborg
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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The Meaning Crisis | Jeremy Lent
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Understanding Resilience | Graeme Cumming
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Creating Complex Solutions | Asher Miller
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Creating Deliberative Democracies | Susan Clark & Tom Prugh
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May 26, 2022 |
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Price Wars: How Prices Caused the Crisis | Rupert Russell
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May 19, 2022 |
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The Climate Crisis is a Social Crisis | Richard Heinberg
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May 12, 2022 |
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Debunking Green Growth | Tim Parrique
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Future of Activism | Gail Bradbrook
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Citizens vs Oligarchies | Sally Goerner
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Creating Resilient Biosystems | Walter Jehne
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Understanding the Nature of Systems | Jessie Henshaw
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Urgency, Action and Ethics | Joseph Merz
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Buying Time With Geoengineering | Ye Tao
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Saving Democracy to Save the Planet | David Orr
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Russia’s War: The Impact of Sanctions and Markets | Chris Cook
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Journalism’s Role in a Crisis | Ian Urbina
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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How To Make Markets Serve People | Chris Cook
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Gaianism: Can a Spiritual Movement Combat the Crisis?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Transforming Food Systems to Transform the Future | Jason Bradford
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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How Science is Failing the Crisis | Dan Fiscus
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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How Western Philosophy Created the Crisis | Carl Safina
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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The Thermodynamics of Collapse | Tim Garrett
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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One year of Planet: Critical
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Common Sense vs Economics | Joshua Farley
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Save The Forests To Save The Planet | Anastassia Makarieva
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Fish, Fusion and Revolution | Paul Greenberg
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Confronting the crisis: Systems, solutions and stories | Ugo Bardi
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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The War on Nature | Gary Juffa
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The Myth of Efficiency | Carey King
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Grassroots Economics for a Better Future | Blair Fix
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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The Climate Crisis and the Climate Crash | Simon Michaux
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Designing Resistance in the Middle East
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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The Economics of Climate Change | Steve Keen
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Why states are afraid of blockchain technology
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Earthalujah! We can stop the sixth extinction
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Being poor is expensive
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Net-Zero Won’t Save Us | James Dyke
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Using crypto to save money and build community
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Creating art in a capitalist regime
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Raising the bar of workplace equality
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Understanding Capitalism: From racism in the USA to spiritual extractivism in the Amazon
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Building a home with your own hands
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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The Future of British Politics
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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What money really means
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Why Africa needs a free market
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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The Politics of Poetry
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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How to make a change
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May 26, 2021 |
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Designing Rebellion
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May 19, 2021 |
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Pharmageddon: The destruction of the people’s vaccine
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May 11, 2021 |
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Circles: The cryptocurrency taking on world poverty
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May 04, 2021 |
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On Being an Artist
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Satellite: the social network we deserve
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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How to save the world
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Building human economies using technology
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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The Art of Joy
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Creating Collaborative Economies
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Extinction, Rebellion and Politics
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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The Future of The Left
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Woodbine: Self-organising during COVID
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Saving our waterways from the fashion industry
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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The Museum of Care
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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The elite, corruption and the world’s biggest financial scandal
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Regenerative farming and community-supported agriculture
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Plastic as the foundation of a circular economy
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Trump’s ”punitive” asylum system
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Language, sisterhood, and rebellion
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Brad Vanstone on a plant-based future and transitional farming
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Dennis on extra-capitalist spaces and The Foundry
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Charlotte Kilpatrick on the COVID vaccine and Black Lives Matter
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Dec 15, 2020 |