Breaking Down: Collapse — Episodes 1–7
Breaking Down: Collapse — Episodes 1–7 Breaking Down: Collapse offers an unusually clear and accessible introduction to the systemic vulnerabilities of modern industrial civilization. In Episodes 1–7, hosts Kory and Kellan build the case step by step, exploring societal collapse, the fragility of complex systems, energy dependence, ecological overshoot and limits to growth, catabolic collapse, […]
Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world
Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world Local-first computing offers a provocative design principle for the technological infrastructure of the Great Transition: put agency, resilience, and ownership back at the edges of the network. Martin Kleppmann explores an alternative to today’s cloud-dependent model in which applications and data increasingly depend upon centralized services, corporate […]
Listening To The Earth Elders
Listening To The Earth Elders This conversation between Marianne Williamson, Mindahi Bastida—founder of The Earth Elders and ritual ceremony officer of the Otomi Toltec peoples—and Lara Mastropasqua explores Indigenous wisdom and the climate crisis through a fundamentally different relationship between humanity and the living Earth. Its importance to the Great Transition lies in challenging a […]
Chasing Time (Director’s Cut)
Chasing Time (Director’s Cut) More than a climate documentary, Chasing Time is a meditation on stewardship across generations. As photographer James Balog concludes his 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, the film invites viewers into a radically different relationship with time—one measured not by quarterly returns, election cycles, or news cycles, but by the slow unfolding […]
What Founders of America can Teach about Happiness
What Founders of America can Teach about Happiness This podcast features Jeffrey Rosen, President of The National Constitution Center which, according to him, is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the U. S. Constitution among the American people on a nonpartisan basis. In this episode, he delves […]
WIll Ruddick on ‘Commitment Pooling’ to Build Economic Commons
WIll Ruddick on ‘Commitment Pooling’ to Build Economic Commons The present currency systems play a deep and pervasive role in perpetuating the Material Culture. We need alternatives! Will Ruddick, development economist and founder of Grassroots Economics, has spent the past 16 years in Kenya developing innovative “community inclusion currencies” for dozens of poorer communities. By […]
Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp In this insightful conversation, researcher Luke Kemp explores the patterns and drivers behind the rise and fall of civilizations, drawing on historical and systems analysis to illuminate risks facing modern society. Rather than treating collapse as an anomaly, the discussion frames it […]
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis In this episode of *Your Undivided Attention*, the hosts examine how AI systems are increasingly capable of manipulating human attachment, emotion, and perception—raising concerns about psychological dependency and distorted reality. The conversation explores how persuasive technologies can exploit cognitive vulnerabilities, potentially leading to what some describe as […]
Transition Media Presentation
Transition Media Presentation For three years, Planet Project co-founder Roger Briggs has been wandering the global landscape of leaders and organizations that are all on the forefront of the cultural evolution towards a flourishing Earth. By cultivating perand personal relationships with these leaders, he has observed ways in which they may clustered into different ecosystems […]
The Race to Cooperation with David Sloan Wilson
The Race to Cooperation with David Sloan Wilson This podcast opens a brief window into the work of evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson’s work on the evolution of cooperation. It includes Wilson’s key insight that selfishness beats altruism WITHIN groups, but alruisitc groups beat selfish groups. Wilson also enumerates the eight core design principles of […]