Society

Mayor McCheese & Modern Medicine: the Good & Bad of High Energy Modernity (Episode 23 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org

April 23, 2020

modern life

Asher Miller

Asher became the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute in October 2008, after having served as the manager of our former Relocalization Network program. He’s worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Asher founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions anyone can take.

Tags: building resilient societies, Crazy Town

Hurrican Katrina image from NOAA

Offering Testimony on the Decline of the EPA

By Erik Assadourian, Bart Everson, Gaianism

To undermine the Endangerment Finding is a breach of government responsibility, one that will not lead to an improved future for even special interests like energy producers and car companies.

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Traffic on repaired bridge after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement

By Faye Matthews, Andrei Greenwood, Resilience.org

Among a long list of lessons, Katrina taught us that climate migration is not a distant possibility, it’s already here. We were among the first in recent history to be displaced by a storm of its magnitude, but we absolutely will not be the last.

August 29, 2025

Migration map

Where will humanity move when the earth gets too hot?

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

In this episode, Nate is joined by environmental and migration historian, Sunil Amrith, to explore the complex history of human movement – and what it reveals about the looming wave of climate-driven migration.

August 28, 2025