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Escaping Growthism: Wendigo Economics, Mystery Houses, and Becoming the Bear

Crazy Town - May 01, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour
Grow or die. It's the governing principle of companies, investment portfolios, national economies, and even philanthropic foundations. Oh, and cancer. Asher, Jason, and Rob lay bare the stats on everything from human population, energy consumption, global GDP, greenhouse gas emissions, and the s...

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Escaping Growthism: Wendigo Economics, Mystery Houses, and Becoming the Bear

Crazy Town - May 01, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Grow or die. It's the governing principle of companies, investment portfolios, national economies, and even philanthropic foundations. Oh, and cancer. Asher, Jason, and Rob lay bare the stats on everything from human population, energy consumption, global GDP, greenhouse gas emissions, and the s...

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Escaping Globalism: Rebuilding the Local Economy One Pig Thyroid at a Time

Crazy Town - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour
From the top of a skyscraper in Dubai, Jason, Rob, and Asher chug margaritas made from the purest Greenland glacier ice as they cover the "merits" of globalism. International trade brings so many things, like murder hornets, piles of plastic tchotchkes, and deadly supply chain disruptions. The o...

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Escaping Globalism: Rebuilding the Local Economy One Pig Thyroid at a Time

Crazy Town - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
From the top of a skyscraper in Dubai, Jason, Rob, and Asher chug margaritas made from the purest Greenland glacier ice as they cover the "merits" of globalism. International trade brings so many things, like murder hornets, piles of plastic tchotchkes, and deadly supply chain disruptions. The o...

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Hephae Energy - Pandora | Steve Krase on CORE Knowledge Podcast

CORE Knowledge - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
There will always be the doubters who say that something is impossible and will never be achieved or realized. To people like Steve and John of Hephae Energy, it is music to their ears, a challenge accepted to go beyond where anyone has before. That is what they are doing for the geothermal indu...

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Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History

Crazy Town - April 17, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Modern humans have a Stockholm Syndrome relationship to technology, which has kidnapped us while convincing us it has our best interests in mind. But when one looks back at the history of plastics or the current frenzy around AI, it isn't hard to see the insanity of doubling down on new technolo...

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Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History

Crazy Town - April 17, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour
Modern humans have a Stockholm Syndrome relationship to technology, which has kidnapped us while convincing us it has our best interests in mind. But when one looks back at the history of plastics or the current frenzy around AI, it isn't hard to see the insanity of doubling down on new technolo...

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Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse

Crazy Town - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Consult your inner tortoise to find novel ways of slowing down and living the good life. In a world haunted by just-in-time delivery, hyperactive business, accelerating environmental calamities, and metric tons of stress, Jason, Rob, and Asher work at a fast and furious pace to savor the moments...

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Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse

Crazy Town - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour
Consult your inner tortoise to find novel ways of slowing down and living the good life. In a world haunted by just-in-time delivery, hyperactive business, accelerating environmental calamities, and metric tons of stress, Jason, Rob, and Asher work at a fast and furious pace to savor the moments...

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Escaping Urbanism: Green Acres, Climate Migration, and the End of the Megacity

Crazy Town - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Did a whimsical 1960s TV sitcom presage climate migration and a reversal of urban growth? We're not calling for a Godzilla-esque teardown of cities, but climate change is forcing a serious urban rethink. Jason, Rob, and Asher offer visions of better infrastructure, policies, and culture that you...

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Escaping Urbanism: Green Acres, Climate Migration, and the End of the Megacity

Crazy Town - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour
Did a whimsical 1960s TV sitcom presage climate migration and a reversal of urban growth? We're not calling for a Godzilla-esque teardown of cities, but climate change is forcing a serious urban rethink. Jason, Rob, and Asher offer visions of better infrastructure, policies, and culture that you...

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The game-changing reform set to transform the UK energy industry: Market-Wide Half Hourly Settlement

Energy Matters - April 02, 2024 10:00 - 56 minutes
Due to come into force by the end of 2026, Market-Wide Half Hourly Settlement is being dubbed as the biggest transformation to the UK energy industry since privatisation and competition was introduced in the mid 1990s. But what exactly is it? And moreover, what will it mean for everyday energy ...

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Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion

Crazy Town - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour
If American consumers ever come up for air under the pile of crap in their storage units, they find themselves face to face with a materialistic hellscape of megastores, McMansions, endless fleets of delivery trucks, and evil hordes of targeted ads. But help is on the way. Jason, Rob, and Asher ...

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Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion

Crazy Town - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
If American consumers ever come up for air under the pile of crap in their storage units, they find themselves face to face with a materialistic hellscape of megastores, McMansions, endless fleets of delivery trucks, and evil hordes of targeted ads. But help is on the way. Jason, Rob, and Asher ...

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Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other "Miracles" of the Industrial Age

Crazy Town - March 20, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes
Jason, Rob, and Asher take a tour of New Caledonia, California's Central Valley, Bhutan, and Cuba to uncover the ins and outs of industrialism, especially as it has been applied to agriculture. Along the way they riff on how the hell we can escape from an -ism that completely engulfs us. Warnin...

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Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other "Miracles" of the Industrial Age

Crazy Town - March 20, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Jason, Rob, and Asher take a tour of New Caledonia, California's Central Valley, Bhutan, and Cuba to uncover the ins and outs of industrialism, especially as it has been applied to agriculture. Along the way they riff on how the hell we can escape from an -ism that completely engulfs us. Warnin...

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Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town

Crazy Town - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 51 minutes
Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We're exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maint...

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Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town

Crazy Town - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We're exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maint...

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Crazy Town Season 6 Trailer

Crazy Town - March 06, 2024 22:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Join us on March 13, 2024 for the launch of our sixth season, in which Jason, Rob, and Asher explore escape routes from industrialism, capitalism, consumerism, and a bunch of other "-isms" that are causing the polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Support the Show.

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Crazy Town Season 6 Trailer

Crazy Town - March 06, 2024 22:00 - 1 minute
Join us on March 13, 2024 for the launch of our sixth season, in which Jason, Rob, and Asher explore escape routes from industrialism, capitalism, consumerism, and a bunch of other "-isms" that are causing the polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Support the Show.

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Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt

Crazy Town - February 15, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
LaUra Schmidt visits Crazy Town to discuss her work with the Good Grief Network and her book, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet. Along the way, she shares wisdom and insights on courage, taking meaningful action, terror manage...

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Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt

Crazy Town - February 15, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes
LaUra Schmidt visits Crazy Town to discuss her work with the Good Grief Network and her book, How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet. Along the way, she shares wisdom and insights on courage, taking meaningful action, terror manage...

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"Kids feel powerless about climate change...this new schools programme will finally help empower them!"

Energy Matters - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes
Imagine a sustainable community of UK schools that prepare young people with the skills needed for a net zero future, and in turn help actively reduce carbon emissions through a programme led by the children themselves...  Well, that is exactly what's happening through the Energy in Schools ini...

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Iceland Drilling | Sveinn Hannesson & Daniel Drader on CORE Knowledge Podcast

CORE Knowledge - January 30, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Iceland Drilling has been drilling geothermal wells for many years now, and is even taking their skillset and knowledge abroad to help in accessing this immense resource of heat beneath our feet. This episode talks all about the past, present, and future of the geothermal industry, Iceland Drill...

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De-mystifying economic policy for Hydrogen – “The 5 Levers” with GHD

Exploring Hydrogen - January 23, 2024 23:12 - 39 minutes
De-mystifying economic policy for Hydrogen – “The 5 Levers”, with GHD   Introduction to Ariel:   Ariel Elboim a Senior Advisor for GHD working in the future energy market. A consultant for 10 years, Ariel has worked on the decarbonisation of infrastructure, and renewable energy proj...

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Bonus: New Year's Dissolutions

Crazy Town - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes
Asher, Jason, and Rob reflect on 2023 – a year filled to the brim with Crazy Townisms like the COP climate conference being held in Dubai, an anti-aging nutbag who parasitizes his own son, and the hijinks of the world’s dumbest billionaires. After a few predictions (all with money-back guarantee...

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Bonus: New Year's Dissolutions

Crazy Town - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Asher, Jason, and Rob reflect on 2023 – a year filled to the brim with Crazy Townisms like the COP climate conference being held in Dubai, an anti-aging nutbag who parasitizes his own son, and the hijinks of the world’s dumbest billionaires. After a few predictions (all with money-back guarantee...

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Bonus: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions

Crazy Town - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
The most vomit-inducing document of 2023 has to be the "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," written (oh so obviously) by a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Join Jason, Rob, and Asher if you feel like sharing in some outrage and learning about a WAY better manifesto that just so happens to ...

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Bonus: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions

Crazy Town - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour
The most vomit-inducing document of 2023 has to be the "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," written (oh so obviously) by a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Join Jason, Rob, and Asher if you feel like sharing in some outrage and learning about a WAY better manifesto that just so happens to ...

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Bonus: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile

Crazy Town - November 15, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
Investigative journalist Leah Sottile writes articles teeming with insights, and she produces and hosts podcasts filled with ah-ha moments. Rob tries not to sound like too much of a fanboy as he interviews Leah about political extremism, environmentalism, and the craft of storytelling during the...