Doomer Optimism

Ashley and Dougald co-host Adam Greenfield to talk about his idea of LifeHouses as featured here https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/from-churches-to-lifehouses.

Previously a rock critic, a bike …

Donald and Ashley interview Clare Coffey about her trio of articles at The New Atlantis:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/phoneless-carless-friendless

Clare Coffey is a writer living in Mo…

Alex Priou is Teaching Assistant Professor in the Herbst Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato’s Parmenides from Universi…

Today Nate interviews Jacob Wolki from Wolki farms in Australia and is joined later in the episode by Geoff Long of Long Story Farms in South Carolina. They talk pasture agriculture, creative farm ma…

Episode description: First time host Donald talks to Rita Koganzon about the politics and history of homeschooling and education in America.

Rita Koganzon is assistant professor of political science…

On this episoode of Doomer Optimism, Tres has a sit down with Julia Dakin, Founder of Going to Seed about Landrace, her environmental journey, and why seed diversity is so important.

Julia Dakin is …

Joseph Lofthouse and Julia Dakin joins returning guests/co-hosts Shane Simonsen and Simon Gooder. The gang talk plant breeding, landrace style. They dig into hybrids, genetic crosses, wild analogues …

Ashley speaks with John and Evan, a Catholic and a Lutheran, about the recent resurgence in interest in religion, and how to embrace faith like a normal person.

John Dios (@RealJohnDios) works, live…

Keturah Lamb lives the American Dream and fears no establishment. She is 4th generation without a social security number or birth certificate. In her early twenties she found the balance of honoring …

Ashley and Ingri (@IngriPauline) discuss women’s health, female archetypes, and how to solve the battle of the sexes.

Ingri is a women's weightlifting coach from Los Angeles, California. After servi…

During the night of February 1/2, 2021, a military junta deposed the elected government of Burma (Myanmar) and instituted martial law.

Protests followed, answered by a violent and swift crackdown by…

Chris and Ashley speak with Dougald about his new book At Work in the Ruins and where it intersects with both the Small Farm Future and Doomer Optimism.

Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer, spea…

Ashley and Donald speak with Jane about her review of the book Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson and what being a homemaker means for modern women.

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Jane Psmith is a pseudonymous suburban housewife …

Flávia Macêdo (@flaviagoma) and Jason have a conversation about her work in Brazil to create a local currency that reflects and reinforces values that aren't reflected in the fiat money system, her i…

In this episode Jason has a conversation with Dakotah Apostolou, CEO of Cohere Network @coherenetwork about their plans to build a global network of regenerative villages, their innovative and inclus…

Two frequent guest/hosts sit down to try to hash out what the f#@k is going on with all this weird horseshoe politics business.

But first they set the stage with a discussion of their beloved western…

-In this episode Jason has a conversation with Chris Jagger (@reggaj) and Viktor Zaunders (@zaunders) about the marketing and distribution (or post-farm) side of local and regenerative food systems. …

Welcome to a Heartland edition of Doomer Optimism. Today Nate goes into the belly of the agribeast with Zach Smith and Jason Mauck. Representing the grain belt from Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, the tr…

Paul, Alex and Ioan talk about searching for an intentional community, how to find the place and the people you can belong to, and community with the land you live on.

Paul d'Aoust @helioscomm is a m…