ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
There are technologies that decouple human well-being from its ecological impacts. There are politics that enable these technologies. Join me as I interview world experts to uncover hope in this time of planetary crisis.
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Average audio length:
63 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
333 episodes
since May 27, 2020
episodic
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