Curated resources for deep dives
Resources
Podcasts
Overshoot: This podcast tackles today’s social and ecological crises driven by our excessive population and consumption and explores the paradigm shifts needed to bring our human footprint into balance with all life on Earth.
The Great Simplification: Rajesh's one of the favorites for the sheer diversity of perspectives in the Climate space. In this podcast the host, Nate Hagens has conversations with experts in energy, ecology, government, technology, and economics to discuss systemic issues in Climate Change.
Economics for rebels: This podcast aims at communicating ecological economics ideas in order to open them to critical discussion and test their applicability, from global problems to people’s everyday lives.
The Joy of Why: Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.
Scaling Theory: A podcast dedicated to the power laws behind the growth of companies, technologies, legal and living systems.
Cleaning Up: In this podcast Michael Liebreich has a conversation with a leader in clean energy, mobility or climate finance to discuss technical aspects and the nature of leadership required for the low carbon energy transition.
Simplifying Complexity: This podcast is about the underlying principles of complex systems. On each episode, the host Brady Heywood breaks down a specific concept in complex systems in detail.
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Books
Foundational books on Energy
Energy and Civilization A History, by Vaclav Smil

