Latest Carfree Podcast Episodes
42 Fixing Edenicity
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - November 26, 2020 11:00 - 14 minutesAn end of season round up of corrections, omissions and breaking news about Edenicity. Episode details Support the Show.
41 Building Edenicity
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - November 19, 2020 11:00 - 15 minutesHow will Edenicity actually get built? Episode details Support the Show.
40 Rating Your Edenicity
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - November 12, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutesTake the quiz and discover how abundant and sustainable your life really is (or isn’t!). Episode details Support the Show.
39 Securing Your Privacy
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - November 05, 2020 11:00 - 10 minutesIn this episode I’ll discuss the big dystopian fear that has haunted sustainability for decades, and why Edenicity is designed to win you far more privacy than you have now. Episode details Support the Show.
38 Befriending Animals
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - October 29, 2020 10:00 - 15 minutesHow to transform our relationship with domestic animals so we can feed everyone in the world and end the mass extinction. Episode details Support the Show.
37 Manufacturing a New Reality
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - October 22, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutesHow to massively expand manufacturing while saving the Earth. If you thought Tesla's Gigafactory was big, wait till you hear this! Episode details Support the Show.
36 Recycling Everything
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - October 15, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutesA complete tour of recycling in a city built to end the mass extinction... with a special destination at the end! Episode details Support the Show.
35 Ending Pollution
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - October 08, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutesHow ecologically sound city design can end pollution and clean up the environmental wreckage of the past. Plus, how to go "poo-less," and how to maybe use diamond batteries (a.k.a. betavoltaics) to clean up nuclear waste. Episode details Support the Show.
34 Balancing Inequality
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - October 01, 2020 10:00 - 19 minutesShould a city support or limit inequality? Answer: Both! Here’s why... Episode details Support the Show.
33 Opening Borders and Minds
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - September 24, 2020 10:00 - 19 minutesHow cities can accommodate immigration so the world can become twice as rich, without the seemingly obvious downsides. Episode details Support the Show.
32 Powering Edenicity
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - September 17, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutesWhy we’ll have enough solar power for everyone in the world within this decade. Episode details Support the Show.
31 Changing Big and Fast
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - September 10, 2020 10:00 - 11 minutesWhy small and slow solutions to environmental problems are doomed to failure and what to do instead. Support the Show.
30 Coming of Age
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - September 03, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutesFor anyone who has wondered where the adults are in the modern world, this episode examines how city design can help people grow up. Episode Notes Support the Show.
29 Living with Nature
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - August 27, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutesTrying to live closer to nature is a mistake. Here’s how to fix that. Episode details Support the Show.
28 Fleeing the City
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - August 20, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutesWhy fleeing the city to escape disease and crime is a huge mistake. Episode details Support the Show.
27 Ending Racism
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - August 13, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutesHow city design can end racism while healing the planet. Support the Show.
26 Finding Justice
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - August 06, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutesHow to design a city that is secure, honest and equitable. Episode Notes. Support the Show.
25 Getting Free Money
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - July 30, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutesHow a universal basic income would make cities economically stronger and ecologically more sustainable. Caution: the first two minutes of this program may challenge what you thought you knew about money! Episode details and downloads Support the Show.
24 Defying the Housing Crash
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - July 23, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutesWhat happened when I bought a home at the peak of the housing bubble, and sold three years later in the depths of the housing crash? This episode tells my story, and how it provided the first clue that sustainable living is ready for its own "Apple Computer" moment. Episode details Greener Vill...
23 Reinventing a Neighborhood
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - July 16, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutesA step-by-step guide to making a neighborhood happier and healthier for its residents and the planet. With worked examples and free downloadable checklist. Checklist: https://edenictiy.com/GreenerVillageBlueprint.pdf Sources Alexander, Christopher et al., A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,...
22 Growing Up in Edenicity
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - July 09, 2020 09:00 - 21 minutesIn this episode, you'll get to rate the edenicity of your childhood. Then we’ll explore how much more is possible in ecologically well-designed cities. Support the Show.
21 Expanding the Commons
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - July 02, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutesHow to create wealthier cities by sharing more. Resources Edenicity Reference Design Rose, Carol M. (1986). "The Comedy of the Commons: Commerce, Custom, and Inherently Public Property". Faculty Scholarship Series, Yale Law School. Paper 1828. Originally published by Chicago Law Review, 53:3....
20 Fixing Permaculture
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - June 25, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutesIn which I call out what is wrong or missing in Permaculture and suggest changes so we can build something that actually can end the mass extinction, reverse climate change and provide abundantly for humanity. Resources Permaculture in One Page Edenicity Reference Design Curtis Stone, What ...
19 Understanding Permaculture
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - June 18, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutesIn which I take you on a brief tour of permaculture so you can better understand the context of Edenicity without taking an 80-hour course. And if you are permaculture certified, it’s a great quick review of the major concepts. Resources Edenicity Reference Design Permaculture in One Page Su...
18 Governing a City
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - June 11, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutesIf politics seems a painful topic right now, it's because the whole edifice is crumbling under the weight of new realities and perceptions. In Episode 18, I'll take you on a tour of how governance is changing, how ecology informs the latest thinking about organizational structure, and end with s...
17 Maintaining Populations
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - June 04, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutesIn which I use a global biomass census and Predator vs. ET simulations (among other things!) to explore what it takes to sustain large, vibrant cities without killing the world. Resources: Edenicity Reference Design. Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo, The biomass distribution on Ear...
16 Surviving Disasters
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - May 28, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutesEdenicity vs. pandemics, earthquakes, locust plagues and more. It's like 17 disaster movies rolled into one. But in this case (spoiler alert!) the hero is the city. Resources Edenicity Reference Design Uri Friedman, New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet, ...
15 Building Soil
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - May 14, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutesHow nature and successful civilizations build soil, and how Edenicity will use these models to create a permanently wealthy civilization. If Episode 14 was like Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, today's episode is like The Return of the Jedi. For this episode, it'll really help to have the ...
14 Losing Soil
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - May 06, 2020 21:00 - 35 minutesWhy civilization after civilization squandered their soils and fell, why soils are even more imperiled in the modern world, and how Edenicity will learn from these mistakes. If Episode 13 was like Stanley Kubrick's "2001", this episode is like The Empire Strikes Back. Click here to get the Refe...
13 Understanding Soil
Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities - April 23, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutesIn which I bury techno-escapist fantasies such as The Singularity and identify the highest technology we will ever use to build a permanently abundant civilization. Support the Show.
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