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Reflections on gratitude
I do think we need this feast to return to its roots, as a potlatch, a bonding redistribution of wealth and full bellies, a rapprochement across the great divides, and a coming together in joy to feed each other. We need something that draws us into community, that builds ties, that creates relationship and memories.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Ditching Dualism #2: Animism
Rather than being a religion, animism is a mindset that had common purchase around the globe prior to modern times. Not only is it important to appreciate how we used to be when the planet’s ecological relationships were more “normal,” but it offers a worthy alternative to dualism that has much overlap with an astrophysical perspective.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis
In this episode, Nate is joined by guide and author Samantha Sweetwater to explore how separation is at the root of the metacrisis and how nurturing interconnection, relationships, and ecological maturity act as foundational components for systems change.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Marx and Sartre go shopping for a car
Why is it so difficult to find a job or to buy products that align with our values? Why is it difficult to even know whether our personal choices might have effects in the right direction?
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December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Broadening Science and Bridging Divides in a Complex, Interconnected World
Investment in science is a pillar for any dynamic, equitable modern society, and promoting scientific literacy across all levels of society can help foster innovation, dialogue, and consensus that crosses disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Shutdown proved that the USA needs SNAP
The short, natural experiment we all witnessed reinforces that SNAP is the nation’s first line of defense against hunger and food insecurity and food pantries can only be a secondary and supplemental source of food. Food pantries and food banks cannot substitute for a robust, reliable, government-funded food safety net.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Proposed East Texas water pipeline and the growing thirst for distant water
East Texas farmers and ranchers are finding out to their dismay that water has become a commodity like so many of our daily needs.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Why stay with the trouble? What gives you hope for a better future?

Jacqui Patterson, founder of The Chisholm Legacy Project, answers these questions while referring to the work her organization is doing to empower 300+ rural communities.

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November 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings?
The proposal for Degrowth calls for an intentional downscaling of the global economy to achieve both ecological sustainability and social justice. A degrowth transition would help ensure that ecological practices actually displace destructive ones, and that the savings from efficiency measures are truly saved.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Oil, AI, Electrification and the Next Big Crash
So, what have we got? A global economy staggering amongst geopolitical tension, a bubble to beat all bubbles, and the twin shocks of a (potentially permanent) oil price crash and the EV subsidies ending — and all with the backdrop of worsening climate change driving up inflation and inflicting constant disasters.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Ditching Dualism #1: Exaltation
It is important to start this process recognizing that all these marvelous attributes of the universe as we find it are still awe-inspiring even from a different starting point. In fact, my own experience is that it all becomes rather more incalculably stupendous as a result of shifting away from a dualist perspective.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Electricity Price Squeeze: Something’s Going to Give
Electricity is our energy future, but the details of that future are still sketchy. Right now, the picture is being drawn by billionaire investors, but it looks dark and dystopian. Surely more imaginative artists could do better.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Climate and the Revival of Political Hope
A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps toward that outcome.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament
In this week’s episode, Nate invites listeners into an exploration of what it means to navigate a growing predicament shaped by ecological limits, rapid technological changes, and shifting expectations of reality.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Should We Start Taxing Meat?
The debate continues, but one certainty is that we must make the production and consumption of meat and dairy more sustainable and realign our agricultural systems with planetary boundaries and dietary guidelines.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Will there be solar panels after the dust has settled?
Solar panels will continue to work for decades. But soon enough societies will have to reproduce its energy resources, if you can’t do that, they are hardly renewable in the first place.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Look Up
No matter how little we have or how crazy our lives, we all are enveloped in an impressionist painting if we just look up. We all share the brilliant sunlight, the ever-changing sky, the magical phases of the moon.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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With modernity failing, will clubs and community organizations make a huge comeback?

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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Our broken and brutal economy
The frustration is reaching critical mass, and it will drive change. The question is what type, and direction, of change?
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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When Resistance Is Kinship: The Ecology of Post-Partisan Change
Post-partisan does not mean passive; it means discerning. It means recognizing that real change depends on an ecology of responses including resistance, building, healing, and culture work. Each is necessary, but none is sufficient alone.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Beyond Carbon: A Paradigm Shift for Climate Action
We must enforce, fund, and model policies that recognize the forest not merely as a carbon repository, but as the planet’s irreplaceable air conditioning and freshwater generation system.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries
In this episode, Nate is joined by Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, a Peruvian chemical biologist with Andean-Amazonian indigenous roots, to discuss how she is actively merging modern science and indigenous knowledge through innovative research in the Amazon Rainforest.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The U.S. Isn’t Leading at COP30 — But It Is Un-damming Its Way to Climate Resilience
Dam removals aren’t a climate cure-all, but the magnitude of the crisis we face will require all the tools we can muster — and master. Several decades of dam removals across the U.S. has proved they work to restore rivers better and faster than anything else. Now let’s put them to use for climate action, too.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Space Case
It’s not news that many in our culture are violently allergic to the notion of limits (and then we all die of limitations). Maybe fear of death is another key driver for space fantasy, but let’s not get into that just now.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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From Shanghai with energy
Can China face the challenges awaiting humankind in the near future?
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November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM