Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Thursday March 11, 2021 Season 3 of the Crazy Town podcast launches with episode 32, which explores cognitive bias and the wide world of irrationality. If only we were as rational as we think we are! It turns out that...
Post Carbon Executive Director Asher Miller was interviewed by Antony Funnell of Future Tense about his thoughts on how geopolitics will be impacted as countries move away from fossil fuels. Asher argues why simply replacing fossil fuels with renewable...
Introducing “The Great Unraveling?”, a series of interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts on a broad range of environmental and societal challenges, culminating with a powerful discussion on what these converging and accelerating crises mean, and how...
The recent surge in Black Lives Matter protests following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, along with growing evidence that COVID-19 is disproportionately hitting communities of color, have raised urgent questions about structural racism and...
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In the season finale of Crazy Town during this upside down year of 2020, it’s only fitting that a return to “normal” actually means a return to “crazy.”
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Is there anything crazier than the people in our towns, who are sworn to protect and serve, instead coldly taking the lives of our neighbors? Given this moment in American history marked by outrage, sadness, and massive protest, we...
Talking about race is a tricky proposition. It’s complex, emotionally charged, fraught with sensitivity, and inescapably tied to individuals’ personal life experiences. Which is why I suspect many of us, including myself and Post Carbon Institute as an organization,...
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Despite the occasional (and well deserved) insult, we love our listeners and find them to be some of the most intelligent, caring, and committed people in the world. Learn how they’re working toward sustainable transportation, healthy farms, infrastructure repurposing,...
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Besides lessons in ethics (and in Asher’s case, lessons in the English language), the Brady Bunch offers up a metaphor about the fault lines in American politics -- fault lines that include the undermining of government, extreme individualism, race...
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In this episode Asher, Rob, and Jason wonder if individualism (not to mention all those other “-isms”... capitalism, socialism, communism) is simply the product of a relatively short period of expansionism, and what of our values must be kept...