Creating a Sustainable Future
Click on the black box below to watch the video. Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources presented by Rob Dietz. This is the first in a new lecture series sponsored by the...
Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn, or What Climate Scientists Are Getting Wrong (Episode 8 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Did you know that we can lose half our food supply and it won’t matter? That’s because agriculture is only 3% of GDP, so there’s no need to worry about the effects of climate change on farming. Or so...
Deer Sinew and Beetle Biscuits: Raising Kids in the Age of Climate Chaos (Episode 7 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In this episode Asher, Rob, and Jason explore what we could be teaching kids these days and debate which is the more valuable skill: being comfortable eating beetles or understanding how to deal with difficult people.
Zombies, Magic Rocks, and Techno-utopia (Episode 6 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In this episode, Asher, Rob, and Jason search for reasons why the movie theater is so obsessed with Armageddon and the political theater offers empty promises of infinite progress, when the reality is likely to be somewhere in the...
Solar Freakin’ Roadways (Episode 5 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In this episode, Jason, Rob, and Asher talk about some of the magical “solutions” that are being peddled out on the streets of Crazy Town (solar roadways, anyone?!?) and why we’re so quick to jump at technological fixes that...
My Talk at the Celebration of the Life and Times of the Totnes Pound
Last night we closed down the Totnes Pound. Here is the speech I gave at the event: Dearly Beloved. We are gathered here this evening not to mourn the passing of the Totnes Pound, but to celebrate its life...
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises
We are but one part of that story, and our place in it should feature earth as our creator, our defender, and—with proper restoration of the Creaturely—our redeemer.
My Car Is Bigger Than Yours (Episode 4 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
If you jam on the brakes for just a minute and take a look at cars and car culture, you just might find something stinky (maybe even as stinky as the black plume of diesel exhaust emanating from that...
Taking Meaningful Action in a Time of Crisis Event
On April 3rd, Nick Tilsen, Sarah Peters, and Tim DeChristopher will share their personal answers to the central question of our time: In the face of climate change and other crises, what do I do? I hope you can join...
One Point Twenty-One Jigawatts (Episode 3 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
What would we do without energy? The short answer is, “Nothing, absolutely nothing.” And sadly, most people know next to nothing about energy and its fundamental role in society and life itself.