BONUS Part Two Practice: Death Meditation

Read by Kessonga Giscombe, this immersive and transformative meditation takes listeners back through time, and through the 4.6 billion year evolution of our living Earth. Experience a unique perspective of deep time! The Well of Deep Time was written by Stephan Harding and Robert ...  Show more

Greta Thunberg famously chided world leaders for pursuing “fairytales of eternal economic growth”. In this episode we learn how short-termism is baked into our current economic story, and why we need to change this narrative. Ella meets poet, podcaster, and economics student, GEO ...  Show more

On the third and final episode of Planet B, we talk about the economy. We are joined by Fred Joiner, a poet; Keith Hart, an economic anthropologist; Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation; Flora Mile, a sustainability consultant; and Taylor Johnson, ...  Show more

A famous essay argues that “not a single person on the face of this earth” knows how to make a pencil. How true is that? In this 2016 episode, we looked at what pencil-making  can teach us about global manufacturing — and the proper role of government in the economy.

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The so-called Department of Government Efficiency is great branding. Who could be against a more efficient government? But “efficiency” obfuscates what’s really happening here.

Efficiency to what end? Elon Musk, President Trump and DOGE’s boosters have offered various ob ...

The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann believed he was going to  change the world. Adam and his wife Rebekah had a prophet-like visi ...