Conversation Earth

Series produced by Citizen-Powered Media

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Conversations with thought leaders exploring our place on the planet

Weekly half-hour radio series. Free to stations.

See the new one-hour Conversation Earth special: Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day (uploaded separate from this series) https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/330239-welcome-to-overshoot-have-a-nice-day

NOTE: There are 41 virtually evergreen episodes in this series, which has ceased production.

For the first time in history, the activity of human civilization reaches into every corner of the globe. So significant is the role we play that our time has been dubbed the Anthropocene Epoch. This calls for self-examination at a new level. Conversation Earth presents insightful dialog with the leading thinkers of our time. Philosophy, ethics, science, psychology and economics, at a macro level, and all focused on humankind’s relationship with the planet.


78 Pieces

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While world leaders wring their hands over forecasts of timid GDP growth, a growing list of visionaries around the world are collaborating to redef...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 10
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Architect Sarah Susanka observed that houses in the U.S. were getting larger – but some rooms were seldom occupied, and often not even furnished. S...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 9
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“Our computer-generated scenarios all showed this growth stopping in the early decades of the 21st century, and, I must say, looking back now, it s...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Relocalization may be the most important strategy for minimizing climate change. According to Bill McKibben, “working as communities is the most im...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 7
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Do we behave rationally? You might be surprised how often our decision-making deviates from what is in our best interest. Behavioral economist Dan ...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Our ecosystems contribute tens of trillions of dollars to our economy every year, but – as L. Hunter Lovins notes, “At present we’re losing every m...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
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As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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What went wrong with the environmental movement? Environmental activist, organizer and author Lorna Salzman shares her thoughts about climate chan...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
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“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
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How big is your ecological footprint? Probably bigger than you think. After all, out of sight, out of mind. As an originator of ecological footprin...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
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“I don’t think there’s a lot of excuses, frankly, for not doing the right thing.” Anishinaabe orator, author, economist and activist Winona LaDuke ...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 8
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“Gross Domestic Product has now become a fetish,” according to economist Raj Patel. Many undesirable things end up adding to GDP: wars, disease, an...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
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Legendary physics professor Al Bartlett was quick to tell us “smart growth” and “dumb growth” both lead us to the same undesirable end; “smart grow...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 7
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According to Juliet Schor, many of us are giving up “the good life” in our quest for material possessions. Symbols of success, instead of enriching...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 25:56
  • Purchases: 10