We Weren't Expecting This: What Does a Super El Niño Mean For the Climate? with Tad Patzek
This year's projected Super El Niño forming in the Pacific could become one of the strongest climate oscillations in over a century. As regions prepare for the effects, and continue to adapt to extrem...
24 Jun 1h 25min
How to Play 5D Chess: It's Not What You Think | Frankly 147
In this week's Frankly, Nate explores a pattern of thinking that permeates so many of our conversations: we often decide what we think before we've fully heard what's being said. Using the metaphor of...
19 Jun 18min
No More Dystopian Stories: How to See a Future Worth Living In with Rob Hopkins
Self-fulfilling prophecies; manifestations; the Oedipus Effect: Humanity has long had an intuition that the stories we tell ourselves the most are often the stories we make come true. Science has foun...
17 Jun 1h 35min
The Ultimate Alternative: Are You Okay With Nuclear Warfare? | Frankly 146
This week's Frankly is another in Nate's recurring series Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times, in which he poses questions about our shared future. Today, he uses headlines regarding a potenti...
16 Jun 23min
The U.S. Can't Back Down: The Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Messier Than You Think with Michael Every
This episode was recorded Tuesday, June 9th, before the current 'deal' was floated. Given world events, we decided to post this episode immediately as a special release, and deal or not, this conversa...
12 Jun 1h 25min
Why 'Community' Fails: Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager with Nora Bateson, Jonathan Goldsmith & Lucas Jackson | RR 26
Many of us lack meaningful community in our lives, either from a complete absence of relationships or simply the sense of disconnection from those around us. In response, a growing number of people at...
10 Jun 1h 33min
How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World | Frankly 145
This week's Frankly is part three of the series How to Think About the Future. Today, Nate builds a framework for understanding the pathways that connect today's choices to tomorrow's realities. Drawi...
5 Jun 24min
The Missing Half of Climate Change: Why Our Planet is at 50% Capacity and How to Get it Back with Brett KenCairn
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s is one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. Across the great plains, roughly 2.5 million people left the region over the decade, amid severe crop failures,...
3 Jun 1h 34min
