The Conversation
A collaborative conversation about the future between some of America's greatest thinkers and you. www.findtheconversation.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2016
The Conversation - 27 - Patrick Crouch
Patrick 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.
Agric…
00:40:31 |
Thu 27 Sep 2012
The Conversation - 26 - Jenny Lee
Jenny Lee is a co-director of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit organization focused on the intersection of media and social justice. AMP stages the annual Allied Media Conference and, partnered with …
00:38:41 |
Fri 21 Sep 2012
The Conversation - 25 - Frances Whitehead
As you will soon learn, Frances Whitehead is a remarkably difficult person to put a label on. Artist, designer (designist?), planner, environmental thinker, dot-connector, collaborator... the list co…
00:51:44 |
Fri 14 Sep 2012
The Conversation - 24 - Aengus and Micah's Third Strike
Aengus and Micah return to interfere with your podcast enjoyment. In their third status update, they attempt to synthesize some of the broader trends in The Conversation to date, from the rift betwee…
00:20:42 |
Fri 07 Sep 2012
The Conversation - 23 - Carolyn Raffensperger
Carolyn Raffensperger, JD, is the executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network and the author of Precautionary Tools for Shaping Environmental Policy and Protecting Public Healt…
00:45:11 |
Sun 02 Sep 2012
The Conversation - 22 - Wes Jackson
Dr. Wes Jackson is the founder and director of The Land Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to rethinking agricultural practice and creating new farming systems which result in conservation and ecosyste…
00:48:21 |
Fri 24 Aug 2012
The Conversation - 21 - Robert Zubrin
Dr. Robert Zubrin is the president of The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the exploration and colonization of Mars. We begin by discussing why space exploration and colo…
00:46:16 |
Sat 18 Aug 2012
The Conversation - 20 - David Miller
David Miller is a state representative and mineral explorer in Wyoming. Rep. Miller was the architect of Wyoming's House Bill 85, the so-called "Doomsday Bill," which created a committee to study Wyo…
00:38:15 |
Sat 11 Aug 2012
The Conversation - 19 - Joseph Tainter
Dr. Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who has studied collapse in numerous ancient civilization and penned The Collapse of Complex Societies. This is our first deeply historical episo…
00:40:49 |
Wed 08 Aug 2012
The Conversation - 18 - David Korten
David Korten is an economist, author, and progressive activist with a background in international business. He is the president of the Living Economy Forum, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group,…
00:46:06 |
Tue 31 Jul 2012
The Conversation - 17 - Laura Musikanski
Laura Musikanski is the co-founder of the Happiness Initiative and the former Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle. We spoke about her efforts to encourage governments and citizens to rethink gr…
00:31:56 |
Tue 24 Jul 2012
The Conversation - 16 - Thinking Out Loud (#2)
As part of our effort to keep The Conversation transparent, we're taking ten minutes to bring you up to speed on some of the discussions going on behind the project. A few questions have been badgeri…
00:10:37 |
Sun 22 Jul 2012
The Conversation - 15 - Cameron Whitten
Cameron Whitten is, in his own words, a "shameless agitator" from Portland, Oregon. He became politically active during the Occupy Portland movement and, at twenty, made a bid to become the mayor of…
00:24:11 |
Mon 16 Jul 2012
The Conversation - 14 - John Zerzan
John Zerzan is an anarchist and primitivist writer and speaker. His books include Against Civilization and Elements of Refusal. We spoke about his critique of technology and civilization, movin…
00:35:37 |
Tue 10 Jul 2012
The Conversation - 13 - Ariel Waldman
Ariel Waldman is the founder of Spacehack.org, a platform to allow anyone to participate in space exploration. We spoke about the democratization of science, who science is working for, and some of t…
00:30:06 |
Thu 05 Jul 2012
The Conversation - 12 - Gabriel Stempinski
Gabriel Stempinski is an evangelist of the new sharing economy, author, documentary producer, and San Francisco city ambassador for CouchSurfing. We spoke about how new, sharing-themed tech startups …
00:31:24 |
Mon 25 Jun 2012
The Conversation - 11 - Lisa Petrides
Dr. Lisa Petrides is the founder of ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a research institute dedicated to studying how educators and institutions use information …
00:34:50 |
Tue 19 Jun 2012
The Conversation - 10 - Timothy Morton
Dr. Timothy Morton will turn your notion of ecological awareness on its head. Discarding all cozy notions of being one with nature, he has coined the term "dark ecology" and advocates for an appreci…
00:44:06 |
Mon 11 Jun 2012
The Conversation - 9 - Status Update 1
Aengus and Micah break back into The Conversation for a quick status update on the project: how they have been approaching interviews, some new ways of mapping information, production timeframes, and…
00:17:07 |
Fri 08 Jun 2012
The Conversation - 8 - Chris McKay
Let's take this up a level. Dr. Chris McKay is a planetary scientist who spends his days searching for microbial life beyond Earth from NASA's Ames Research Center. Dr. McKay is also active in disc…
00:36:34 |
Tue 05 Jun 2012
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