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Podcast #12. Deep Changing Our Collective Behavior
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is "Deep Changing Our Collective Behavior." Follow up Teleconference: Of all our existential threats, our biggest is “psychic numbness” – blindness to our situation, reluctance to act,...
Podcast #11. Transportation: Stuck in Traffic
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is "Transportation: Stuck in Traffic." Follow up Teleconference: Only 28% of US energy is used by vehicles, but in American society it is hard to do anything without a car, and we’d be...
Podcast #10. How Much Health Care is Good for You?
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is "How Healthy is Health Care?" Follow upTeleconference: Technically, U.S. curative care is tops, but the American health care system is bloated. The system treats 60% of all adults...
Podcast #9. What Does “Clean” Mean?
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is "What Does Clean Mean?" Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference:...
Podcast #8. Fashionable Waste
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is "Fashionable Waste." Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference: The...
Podcast #7. Deep Change
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is "Deep Change." Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow upTeleconference: To make...
Podcast #6. Quality Over Quantity, Always
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is "Quality Over Quantity, Always." Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow on...
Podcast #5. Organize for Learning
This podcast topic is "Organize for Learning." Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference: By this point, we should have created doubts that we can cure the ills of...
Podcast #4. Symbiotic Thinking
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is "Symbiotic Thinking." Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference:...
Podcast #3. Lawns and Biodiversity
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is "Lawns and Biodiversity." Follow up Teleconference: The waste growing lawns is enormous, but we seldom see it. Seeing something as common as lawn care from a different view...
Podcast #2. The Earth is Finite
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. Follow Up Teleconference: Seen from space, the earth is finite. Its resources, space, and disposal capacity are limited, but we behave as if consumption could expand forever. Economic thinking goes upside down....
Podcast #1. What is Compression Thinking?
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast introduces the concepts: What is Compression Thinking?" Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others....
Compression Thinking Series of 12 Podcasts and Teleconferences
https://youtu.be/EHAjFDmPoj0 Compression Thinking Series (3 minute video) Compression Thinking Series 12 Podcasts and Teleconferences from the Compression Institute by Robert "Doc" Hall and Ethan Berry Why the Compression Thinking Series? Our intent is to engage...
Is 5G Technology at Peak Hype?
Too Little Thought for Consequences? Google 5G technology, or Internet of Things and you open the hype spigot on how wonderful 5G going to be. Up pops “inside scoops” on where to invest in 5G lest you miss out on this next new, new thing. However, doubts are creeping...
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, by Donald Hoffman
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, by Donald Hoffman Book Review by Doc Hall The philosophical and scientific quest to define consciousness is one of the foremost issues of our time. Don Hoffman is at the leading edge of this field of...
The Compression Thinking Series
https://youtu.be/RdV7VDkOKJ0 (2 minute video) Revitalizing Ourselves With: The Compression Thinking Series Although a month or more from roll out, we’re preparing a series of twelve podcasts followed by teleconferences to which you will be invited. Each...
Saved by a Mushroom?
Should Humans Adopt a Mushroom Strategy? The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna L. Tsing In some ways, mushrooms are smarter than people. We should pay more attention. Although not quite said, that’s the...
Nature’s Business Model vs. Human Business Models
https://youtu.be/I67dgTzCpjs Nature’s Business Model vs. Human Business Models (5 minute video) Nature Is Our Landlord by Doc Hall Do you own a house? Two or more houses? If so, do you hold the title to your house, or does a financial institution hold it? If you are...
Call of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth by Charles Massy
Call of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth by Charles Massy Review by Don Stewart Massy is an Australian farmer who earned a mid-life PhD in Human Ecology. In the course of doing the research for his dissertation, he met and studied the methods used by...
Deep Change
https://youtu.be/a14CNvCn3tY Deep Change (video 4 minutes) Deep Diving into Deep Everything “Deep” describes change so complete that we lose our reference points to the past, and struggle to understand. We may have to dredge up unarticulated assumptions about how the...