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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.

Websites

The Honest Sorcerer | Substack
A critic of modern times - offering ideas for honest contemplation. Also on Medium: https://medium.com/@thehonestsorcerer. Click to read The Honest Sorcerer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
Extantia Capital
Extantia is a venture capital firm backing pioneers in climate. As a leading climate tech generalist, the firm’s investment strategies — Extantia Flagship and Extantia Allstars — are dedicated to supporting climate-focused companies and venture funds.
Blog | Raw, No-Filter Energy Insights & Perspectives | Art Berman
Explore cutting-edge energy market analysis with hard core insights that can open your eyes to what is actually happening in the energy market

Tom Murphy blog

Books

Foundational books on Energy

Energy and Civilization A History, by Vaclav Smil

Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet by Tom Murphy

More and More and More by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz