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Episode 67: Aengus Anderson
May 15, 2016Finally, formally, this is where The Conversation ends--or begins. If you're new, start here.
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Episode 66: Lisa Gray-Garcia
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Episode 65: Rebecca Solnit
May 3, 2016Rebecca Solnit is an author, activist, and geographer, among other things. Her books include A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, and Men Explain Things to Me.
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Episode 64: Peter Gleick
February 13, 2016Peter Gleick researches water and water policy at the Pacific Institute.
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Episode 63: Kim Stanley Robinson
February 11, 2016Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest names in current science fiction. He is the author of seventeen novels and eight collections of short stories.
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Episode 62: Rebecca Costa
February 4, 2016Rebecca Costa is a self-proclaimed sociobiologist, author of The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, and host of the radio program The Costa Report.
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Episode 61: Rainey Reitman
February 1, 2016Rainey Reitman is the Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a co-founder of both the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Chelsea Manning Support Network.
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Episode 60: George Lakoff
January 28, 2016George Lakoff is a cognitive linguist, author, and political strategist.
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Episode 59: Charles Hugh Smith
January 27, 2016Charles Hugh Smith is an economics writer, former builder, and general renaissance man who blogs at oftwominds.com.
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Episode 58: Jason Kelly Johnson
January 25, 2016Jason Kelly Johnson is an architect, designer, and the co-founder of Future Cities Lab.
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Episode 57: Joan Blades
June 4, 2014Joan Blades is the co-founder of Living Room Conversations, a movement dedicated to fostering meaningful dialogue between Americans of different political ideologies.
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Episode 56: The Conversation @ SXSW
April 3, 2014Aengus and Micah draw upon their experience producing The Conversation for a South by Southwest panel about how the science/tech industries implicitly define progress.
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Episode 55: Ed Finn
August 23, 2013Ed Finn is the Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.
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Episode 54: Charles Bowden
July 28, 2013Charles Bowden is a journalist and author. He is best known for his books about Ciudad Juarez, which include Murder City, Down by the River, and Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future.
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Episode 53: Carlos Perez de Alejo
July 16, 2013Carlos Perez de Alejo is a the co-founder and Executive Director of Cooperation Texas, an Austin-based nonprofit that helps organize worker-owned cooperatives.
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Episode 52: Walter Block
July 5, 2013Walter Block is a self-described anarcho-capitalist, chair of the Economics Department at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the author of Defending the Undefendable.
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Episode 51: Phyllis Tickle
May 28, 2013Phyllis Tickle founded Publishers Weekly's Religion Department and has written numerous books about modern American Christianity, including The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why.
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Episode 50: Future of The Conversation
May 17, 2013Aengus and Micah talk about the future of The Conversation, their perpetual need to raise the project's visibility, and hope for funding another season of production. They also address thematic connections that haven't happened.
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Episode 49: Scott Douglas
May 6, 2013Scott Douglas, III, is the Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, an interfaith organization dedicated to poverty relief and legal reform in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Episode 48: Chris Carter
April 17, 2013Chris Carter is a self-taught electrical engineer and founder of MASS Collective, a workspace in Atlanta, Georgia that combines hands-on learning, apprenticeship, and traditional education for students and makers of all ages.
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Episode 47: Oliver Porter
April 3, 2013Oliver Porter designs and implements partnerships between municipalities and corporations, allowing cities to privatize virtually all of their functions.
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Episode 46: Mark Mykleby
March 21, 2013Col. Mark "Puck" Mykleby is a former marine and co-author of A National Strategic Narrative for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, a document that encouraged broadening the concept of defense to include issues of sustainability.
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Episode 45: James Bamford
March 7, 2013James Bamford is an author and journalist who has written extensively about the National Security Agency. His books include The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory.
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Episode 44: John Seager
February 27, 2013John Seager is the President of Population Connection, formerly Zero Population Growth.
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Episode 43: Roberta Francis
February 20, 2013Roberta Francis has been advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment for over thirty years, chairs the ERA Taskforce for the National Council of Women's Organizations and administers equalrightsamendment.org.
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Episode 42: Gary Francione
February 15, 2013Gary L. Francione is an animal rights activist and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers. He is the author of several books including Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement.
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Episode 41: John Fullerton
January 27, 2013John Fullerton is the founder of the Capital Institute, a group dedicated to rethinking the future of finance. Prior to his work at the Capital Institute, he was the Managing Director of JPMorgan.
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Episode 40: Mary Mattingly
January 17, 2013Mary Mattingly is an artist whose work explores the environment, sustainability, community, and survival in an unstable world. Recently, she has brought these themes together with the Flockhouse Project and the Waterpod.
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Episode 39: Richard Saul Wurman
January 9, 2013Richard Saul Wurman is a designer, architect, author of over 80 books, and founder of several conferences including TED, WWW, and EG.
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Episode 38: Alexa Clay
January 1, 2013Alexa Clay is an author, economic historian, and director of thought leadership at Ashoka Changemakers. She is co-author of The Misfit Economy, a forthcoming book that looks for economic innovation amongst pirates, hackers, and gangs.
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Episode 37: David Keith
December 20, 2012David Keith is a Harvard professor of Applied Physics and Public Policy. He has spent over two decades researching climate science and geoengineering, was named a Hero of the Environment by TIME in 2009, and is the President of a company dedicated to reducing atmospheric CO2.
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Episode 36: Ethan Zuckerman
December 13, 2012Ethan Zuckerman is the Director of MIT's Center for Civic Media, a former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, and co-founder of Global Voices, a hub for international news bloggers.
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Episode 35: Chuck Collins
December 5, 2012Chuck Collins directs the Institute of Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is the co-founder of United for a Fair Economy and Wealth for the Common Good, a network of wealthy individuals who embrace fair taxation to support the public good.
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Episode 34: Douglas Rushkoff
November 19, 2012Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, author, and documentarian, among other things. His books include Life, Inc. and Program or be Programmed. His documentaries include Frontline's "The Merchants of Cool" and "Digital Nation."
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Episode 33: Priscilla Grim
November 10, 2012Priscilla Grim is one of Occupy Wall Street's organizers, co-founder of the website We Are the 99 Percent, and co-editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal.
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Episode 32: The Conversation and the Election
November 7, 2012As a presidential election ends, Aengus and Micah talk about the relationship between the political conversation and The Conversation.
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Episode 31: Claire Evans
October 30, 2012Claire Evans is half of YACHT, a "band, business, and belief system" started by Jona Bechtolt in 2002. Unlike most bands, YACHT has a developed a public philosophy. In addition to her musical/artistic adventures, she's also a writer and science blogger.
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Episode 30: Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
October 22, 2012Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. is the Director for the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo and the Project Coordinator for the Perry Choice Neighborhood Initiative. His work has looked at urban planning, regional development, and history in the United States and Cuba.
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Episode 29: Lawrence Torcello
October 15, 2012Lawrence Torcello is a philosopher focusing on ethics, politics, and the environment. He is especially interested in the problem of embracing pluralism while rejecting moral relativism.
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Episode 28: Tim Cannon
October 3, 2012Tim Cannon is a co-founder of Grindhouse Wetware, a group of open-source biohackers in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Episode 27: Patrick Crouch
September 26, 2012Patrick Crouch is the Program Manager at the Earthworks Urban Farm in Detroit, Michigan. The farm is a project of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen and is the only certified organic farm in the city.
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Episode 26: Jenny Lee
September 21, 2012Jenny Lee is a co-director of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit organization focused on the intersection of media and social justice. AMP sponsors the annual Allied Media Conference.
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Episode 25: Frances Whitehead
September 14, 2012Frances Whitehead is an artist, designer, planner, environmental thinker, civic actor, dot-connector, collaborator, and generally difficult person to pigeonhole. She is also a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she founded the Knowledge Lab.
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Episode 24: Synthesizing themes
September 7, 2012Aengus and Micah return to discuss the rifts between anthropocentrists and biocentrists, tech optimists and tech skeptics. They also blather about teleological explanations, and The Conversation as a historical phenomenon. Is there such a thing?
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Episode 23: Carolyn Raffensperger
September 2, 2012Carolyn Raffensperger, is the executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. She is well known for her work on the precautionary principle, but her thought ranges across a wide variety of questions that address the relationship between law and the environment.
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Episode 22: Wes Jackson
August 23, 2012Wes Jackson is the founder and director of The Land Institute where he has spent almost 40 years developing a new form of agriculture that mimics natural ecosystems.
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Episode 21: Robert Zubrin
August 18, 2012Robert Zubrin is the president of The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the exploration and colonization of Mars. He is also the author of The Case for Mars and Merchants of Despair.
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Episode 20: David Miller
August 11, 2012David Miller was the architect of Wyoming's House Bill 85, the so-called "Doomsday Bill," which developed the state's response to a collapse of the Federal Government. He is also CEO of Strathmore Minerals.
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Episode 19: Joseph Tainter
August 7, 2012Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who studies collapse in ancient civilizations and has written The Collapse of Complex Societies.
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Episode 18: David Korten
July 31, 2012David Korten is president of the Living Economy Forum, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, co-founder of YES! Magazine, and a member of the Club of Rome. His books include When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
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Episode 17: Laura Musikanski
July 24, 2012Laura Musikanski is the co-founder of The Happiness Initiative, a group that applies insights from Bhutan's Gross Domestic Happiness project to the American economy. Formerly, she was Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle.
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Episode 16: Thinking Out Loud (Again)
July 22, 2012Aengus and Micah reflect: is The Conversation inherently elitist? If not, how can it be made more democratic? Also, the announcement that Aengus is swamped with traveling, interviewing, and editing. As a result, The Conversation will slow to one episode-per-week and extend production.
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Episode 15: Cameron Whitten
July 15, 2012Cameron Whitten is, in his own words, a "shameless agitator" from Portland, Oregon. He became politically active during Occupy Portland and, at twenty, made a bid to become the mayor of the Rose City with endorsements from the Green Party and Oregon Progressive Party.
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Episode 14: John Zerzan
July 10, 2012John Zerzan is an anarchist and primitivist writer and speaker. His books include Against Civilization and Elements of Refusal.
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Episode 13: Ariel Waldman
July 4, 2012Ariel Waldman is the founder of Spacehack.org, a website that democratizes space exploration. Previously she worked in social outreach for NASA.
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Episode 12: Gabriel Stempinski
June 25, 2012Gabriel Stempinski is an evangelist of the new sharing economy, author, documentary producer, and San Francisco city ambassador for CouchSurfing.
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Episode 11: Lisa Petrides
June 18, 2012Lisa Petrides is the founder of ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a research group dedicated to studying current educational systems and encouraging innovation.
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Episode 10: Timothy Morton
June 11, 2012Timothy Morton is a philosopher, dark ecologist, professor of English, and author of Ecology Without Nature and The Ecological Thought.
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Episode 9: A Brief Status Update
June 8, 2012Aengus and Micah discuss Aengus' interview style and possibilities for visualizing the conversation's metadata.
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Episode 8: Chris McKay
June 4, 2012Chris McKay is a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center. His work focuses on the search for microbial life within the solar system and he is active in discussions of bioethics, Mars colonization, and terraforming.
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Episode 7: Alexander Rose
May 30, 2012Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, a San Francisco-based group dedicated to encouraging long-term thinking. He is also overseeing the design and construction of a monument-scale clock intended to run for 10,000 years.
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Episode 6: Jan Lundberg
May 27, 2012Jan Lundberg is a former oil industry analyst for Lundberg Survey and is currently an environmental activist and advocate of depaving. He is the founder of Culture Change and the Sail Transport Network.
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Episode 5: Andrew Keen
May 24, 2012Andrew Keen, the self-professed Anti-Christ of Silicon Valley, is the author of The Cult of the Amateur and, more recently, Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us.
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Episode 4: Colin Camerer
May 20, 2012Colin Camerer is one of the pioneers of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and economic theory.
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Episode 3: Peter Warren
May 14, 2012Peter Warren works for The Nature Conservancy and has been closely involved in an unlikely conversation that brought together ranchers and environmentalists to manage over 75,000 acres of grassland in Arizona.
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Episode 2: Max More
May 9, 2012Max More is the CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation and founder of the magazine Extropy. He also coined the term transhumanist.
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Episode 1: John Fife
May 5, 2012Reverend John Fife was instrumental in co-founding the Sanctuary movement. He is also active in humanitarian work along the US/Mexico border through Humane Borders.
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Episode 0: What is The Conversation?
May 2, 2012Aengus and Micah give you a little background about The Conversation, explaining what it is, what it isn't, and why they think it's important.