Podcasts
all the hilarity of Peak Oil
In this episode of The Bugle, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzmann give a great comedic run-down of the problem looming with peak oil. Mainly covering the fact that the stone-age wasn’t that bad, and that painting yourself blue in a post-industrial future will be a lot more socially acceptable.
Toby Hemenway on Permaculture: Reaching Beyond Sustainability
This week’s Deconstructing Dinner podcast featured a fantastic talk by Toby Hemenway on agriculture systems and permaculture. While we speak about sustainability as an alternative to the currently implemented degenerative systems, what we really need to talk about are regenerative systems. Toby says, “If you ask how a marriage is going and you answer that [...]
Financial Sense Newshour on the volcano and hyperinflation
This episode of Financial Sense News Hour covers the impacts of the Iceland volcano and also the possibility of hyperinflation in the United States. Some interesting analysis and definitely worth a listen. Government stats talk starts around the 17′ mark.
talking educational philosophy on the Shift podcast
The second half of my interview with Rusty McLellan on the Shift podcast is out. Rusty did an amazing job editing because I was about half way through and was starting to think, “Wow, I totally resonant with what that guy is saying” and then I remembered it was me. So yes, I owe that [...]
talking energy issues on the Shift podcast
This week’s Shift podcast is out and it features my interview with host Rusty McLellan where we talk about energy issues, technology and oil supplies. Rusty did a great job putting it all together and that gets me excited about the next episode which will feature our discussion on education systems.
change everything you think in two hours
This is the one track of audio to rule them all. In it, bard and sage and storyteller and author Terence McKenna speaks on the origin of human consciousness in a talk titled, Evolving Times. Terence McKenna has had a tremendous influence on the way I’ve developed since I first discovered him back in 2004. [...]
podcasts from this week can help you understand the US debt problem
As the US debt ceiling was quickly raised to $12.4 billion to prevent Federal government shutdown, the only inevitable response will be an even larger increase early next year. The United States balance sheet is looking like a weaker and weaker attempt at recovery. Some might even make the argument that the US is insolvent, [...]
is technology the biggest ponzi scheme of all?
I’ve been prevented from sharing on the blog recently because of my regimen of finals at University of British Columbia but I had to pass on this talk from Archeologist Sander van Leeuw. Stewart Brand’s The Long Now Foundation is always posting great talks but this one was my favorite on the podcast feed thus far. (Michael [...]
Mysterious Universe is back!
The first podcast I subscribed to when I bought my Creative Zen Vision: M in 2006 was Mysterious Universe. One of the things that got me through the work week was listening to Ben Grundy’s reports on the mysterious and the paranormal. After his mysterious exit from the podcasting world, pledging to record a final episode [...]
this is real wealth
A few days ago I mentioned on Twitter that, “money is not wealth, merely a sociological mechanism for distributing wealth” a statement inspired by Charles Eisenstein’s article on the new economy from Reality Sandwich. Quoting from the article, There is a much deeper crisis at work as well, a crisis in the creation of goods [...]
