Podcast #36: Jerry Mander
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
A review of tech and social critic Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book, Team Human.
Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.
In a wide-ranging conversation, philosopher Michael Zimmerman contextualizes our technological journey within the history of Western thought.
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
Industrial meat production has extraordinary costs to animal welfare, the environment, and human health. Acknowledging the immorality of these practices gives us an opportunity to align our behavior with our more humane ideals.
After years of arguably no benefits and known risks to antibiotic resistance, antibacterial soap is finally pulled from the shelves.