Episode 62: Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster
June 29, 2022 Talk about cascading consequences: when a few nerds wanted to get high and orchestrated a small exchange of cannabis, they kicked off the age of ecommerce. Now that online shopping and the technology supporting it have...
The 1970s Again?
For the United States and much of the rest of the world, the 1970s were a time of high oil prices, surging inflation, stock market swoons, political upheaval, and geopolitical tension. Add pandemic and climate change to the list,...
Biodiversity 6: Systems Thinking & Scenarios – Tools for Creating Better Ecological Futures
Biodiversity 6: Systems Thinking & Scenarios – Tools for Creating Better Ecological Futures Starts Wednesday, June 22 at 12:00 pm or 7:00 pm ET Register here! Every extinction episode in Earth’s evolutionary history has led to an emergence of...
Episode 59: Throwing Superman through a Cigarette Truck: The Insidious Manipulation of Advertising
June 8, 2022 Are shameless product placements keeping you from enjoying your movie-viewing experience? Have you ever felt assaulted by pop-up ads and sidebars while trying to read something on the internet? These are some of the less insidious...
Episode 56: The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity
May 18, 2022 Welcome to the dehumanizing world of scientific management, where business gurus and middle managers view workers as resources, and where a cult-like devotion to productivity has invaded almost all facets of daily life. From fairy tales...
The Failure of Global Elites
In the 1970s, global political and corporate elites had all the information they needed to put the world on a path toward long-term stability. Systems science was sufficiently advanced that a team of its practitioners organized a scenario study...
Episode 50: Injustice for All: The Invention of Racism to Justify a Putrid Power Hierarchy
March 30, 2022 When greedy power-trippers perpetrate unspeakable acts of exploitation, they often rationalize their loathsome acts after the fact. Such is the case with the Atlantic slave trade. European kidnappers of African people used racism to justify slavery...
Complimentary Access: From Art to Action
FROM ART TO ACTION How Beauty Can Inspire Us to Protect What We Love MARCH 22, 2022 | 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM PT FROM ART TO ACTION Live Online Event | March 22, 2022 What is it...