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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens
Climate Change
Shale Oil
Societal Metabolism
Oil Production
Sustainability
Meta-Crisis
Energy Economics
United States
Peak Oil
Circular Economy
Oil Prices
Oil Industry
Environmental Sustainability
Meta Crisis
Complex Adaptive Systems
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Carbon Pulse
Investment In Oil
Permian Basin

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here.

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Lynn Oliphant
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Alexis Zeigler
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Kristine Tompkins
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Host

Nate Hagens
Host specializing in the intersections of energy, economy, and environment, drawing insights from various expert guests.

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 1.7k ratings
  • Great podcast

    Always interesting. The episode with Dan O’Connor is essential listening for everyone, especially Americans. Exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks, Nate!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Raconteurista
    United Statesa month ago
  • Everything fits together

    I’ve been following Nate Hagens for 3 years and the guests and the topics covered are always engaging and thought provoking. Neither Nate or his guests take sides, they merely speak to the existing science. Ive learned so much and these conversations help me understand how energy, the environment, human behavior and the economy for together. Thank you Nate!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sebammann
    United States2 months ago
  • Very impressed

    He has some major thinkers. Certainly the most wide ranging and best informed podcast on environment science and economy.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    CharlieBulbeck
    United Kingdom2 months ago
  • Geir

    ❤️

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    mactotalendelux
    Norway3 months ago
  • You’ll be glad you listened

    This podcast is a must for anyone trying to understand what is happening at the intersection of energy, the economy, carbon, biodiversity and society! I’m hoping for more on the importance of land use and the hydrological cycles and expect episodes exploring these areas are coming 😉

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    jshcwn
    Canada3 months ago

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Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler
Q: What are the most significant obstacles faced when creating a community like yours?
The challenging part is getting people to cooperate on shared systems and maintain strong legal and financial agreements.
Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler
Q: What resources should people explore to implement similar practices to Living Energy Farm?
They should seek existing communities through intentionalcommunity.org, rather than starting anew.
Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle with Alexis Zeigler
Q: What are your thoughts on living in an intentional community like Living Energy Farm?
There are unique challenges and benefits, especially in sharing resources and energy efficiency, which foster communal living.
Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins
Q: If you had a magic wand and there was no personal recourse to your status or situation, not that I expect you would care, what is one thing you would do to change human and planetary futures?
I come back to having no fear. And that is a luxury of age. But I also have been around activists who have reminded me that, yes, age can influence our understanding of fear, but it is not foreign to young people.
Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins
Q: What went through your mind and your heart when you decided to quit and formally with your late husband, Doug Tompkins, divert your life's energy towards conservation instead of business as usual?
It wasn't the leap that most people imagine it must have been. It was a leap, that's for sure, but all the things I've done in my life have been strung together by a piece of thread that is probably since birth still tugging at me, how those things are connected.

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