When the Chickens of Imagination Come Home to Roost
In ‘From What Is to What If’, I suggest that we are living in a time in which our collective imagination, our ability to, as John Dewey put it, “see things as if they could be otherwise”, is in...
United States: An Obituary
The United States of America was problematic from the start. It was founded on genocide and slavery, and, while frequently congratulating itself on the rights and freedoms it granted its citizens, never managed to confront the demons in its...
A Time to Speak up, but Also a Time to Shut up: White Privilege in America (Episode 30 of Crazy Town
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...
If My House Were the World: The Renewable Energy Transition Via Chickens and Solar Cookers
My take-away: the energy transition is an enormous job, and people who look at it just in terms of politics and policy have little understanding of what is actually required.
Seeing White
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,...
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...