Human Nature Odyssey S3 E16

What does a livable future look like 100 years from now? If we unlocked unlimited green energy, what would we actually do with it? And are our dreams of a renewable-energy utopia sometimes just as delusional as the fossil-fueled ‘drill baby drill’ mentality?

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Beyond the Brink: Imagining the Possible in a World Unraveling

November 13, 2025
In this final event of the year, Jacqui Patterson (The Chisholm Legacy Project) and Rob Hopkins (co-founder, Transition Network) help us do what feels impossible: imagine a brighter future.

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Beyond the Brink: Imagining the Possible in a World Unraveling

PAST EVENT: November 13, 2025

In this final event of the year, Jacqui Patterson (The Chisholm Legacy Project) and Rob Hopkins (co-founder, Transition Network) help us do what feels impossible: imagine a brighter future.

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Bioregioning: How to Thrive Where We Live

PAST EVENT: September 30, 2025

Although there are no easy solutions to planetary overshoot, or quick fixes to the culture behind it, bioregioning offers a deeply positive and systemic way forward. Watch the recording of this event featuring Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Samantha Power, and Brandon Letsinger.

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Beyond the Brink

Imagining a better future is an act of bravery, especially when you’re aware of all the challenges we face in the present. Envisioning a better world is essential, can be empowering, and is how our actions become the building blocks of real, transformative change.

Bioregioning

Millions of people are searching for a way to live that can meet their needs without undermining the life-support systems of the planet. Although there are no easy solutions to planetary overshoot or quick fixes to the culture behind it, bioregioning offers a deeply positive and systemic way forward.

Troubled Waters

Microplastic pollution is an issue that’s easy to overlook, but it’s deceptively threatening to both ocean and human health. Microscopic plastic particles are now found in nearly everything on the planet—from the deepest parts of the ocean to inside the cells of living beings.

Acceptance and Agency at the End of Modernity

Modernity is a story of inevitable growth and progress deeply embedded in the consciousness of our culture and institutions. But now both the story and the real-world manifestations of modernity may be expiring.

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Where the Wild Things Were

We are experiencing a devastating loss of wild nature—both the habitats that have been left unaltered by human activity and the species that have historically inhabited those places. Where the Wild Things Were offers a place to start for addressing this crisis.

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The Great Unraveling

Environmental and social challenges are now compounding to threaten the very systems that support the world we know. What does this Great Unraveling mean for both human civilization and the global ecosystem, and what we can do in response?

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  • 2 recorded interviews with experts and on-the-ground practitioners
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Private: Deep Dive: Navigating Climate Unraveling

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  • 3 recorded interviews with on-the-ground practitioners
  • 3 articles by Richard Heinberg
  • Additional curated resources

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Private: Deep Dive: Navigating Climate Unraveling

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  • Facilitated discussion to exchange ideas & resources (live/recorded)
  • 3 recorded interviews with on-the-ground practitioners
  • 3 articles by Richard Heinberg
  • Additional curated resources

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Private: Deep Dive: Navigating Climate Unraveling

  • Panel event with renowned experts (live/recorded)
  • Facilitated discussion to exchange ideas & resources (live/recorded)
  • 3 recorded interviews with on-the-ground practitioners
  • 3 articles by Richard Heinberg
  • Additional curated resources

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Beyond the Brink: Imagining the Possible in a World Unraveling

PAST EVENT: November 13, 2025

In this final event of the year, Jacqui Patterson (The Chisholm Legacy Project) and Rob Hopkins (co-founder, Transition Network) help us do what feels impossible: imagine a brighter future.

Sunset
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The King Is Dead, Now What?: The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy

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Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Oceans and Our Health

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