The Crazy Town Mailbag: We Heard from You, and It Wasn’t as Bad as We Thought (Episode 29 of Crazy Town)
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,...
It Will Get Darker Before the Dawn
This is about choice, not about our capacity to deliver. Each and every ‘black elephant’ is fixable – if we act in time.
What the Transition Movement can Teach us About how to ‘Bounce Forward’
What have we seen from the Transition movement during this time, and before, that can shape our thinking as to what ‘bouncing forward’ might look like in practice?
Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and America’s Fault Lines (Episode 28 of Crazy Town)
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...
Nobody takes the renewable energy transition seriously
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and...
Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction (Episode 27 of Crazy Town)
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...
Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot (Episode 26 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In search of better ideas and better leadership, Asher, Rob, and Jason discuss how we can reinvent lifeboat ethics and find prosocial ways to manage humanity’s shared crises.
Koala Butts Ablaze and the Sweet Relief of the Adaptive Cycle (Episode 25 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Join Asher, Rob, and Jason as they give a guided tour of the growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization phases of the cycle, and hash out how it can be applied to the modern world.
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Asher, Rob, and Jason grapple with the cacophony, hash out the good and bad of the film and the response to it, and argue for an honest, messy-middle approach to the transition away from fossil fuels.
Review: Planet of the Humans
A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans (directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs), in which she began by admitting that she hadn’t seen the film yet. When writers...