KunstlerCast 242 — JHK Talks with John Norquist of the CNU
#242 –JHK talks with John Norquist, director of the Congress for the New Urbanism and four-term mayor of Milwaukee Wisconsin, about the state of the American city, the future of the Great Lakes Region, and the difficulty in overcoming decades of bad c…
KunstlerCast 241 — Snake Oil: Richard Heinberg on the Great Shale Snooker
#240 — JHK yaks with Richard Heinberg about his new book, Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promises of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Richard is also the author of the great peak oil primer, The Party’s Over, and many other books about the converging dile…
August 2013
“This proposed new facade for the Petersen Automotive Museum is one of two similar designs that has received preliminary approval from the Los Angeles Planning Department.
Kunstlercast #240– Nobody Knows What God Looks Like
# 240 — JHK interviews David Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Politics at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. David is the author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford Press, 2009) and many ot…
KunstlerCast # 239 — Charlie Hall on Reality-Based Economics
#239– JHK shoots the breeze with Charlie Hall, distinguished professor emeritus at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, NY — just retired last month and founder of the Association for Biophysical Economics. We yak about…
KunstlerCast 238 — JHK flying solo this week
# 238 — JHK yaks solo this week following another surgical adventure — neck bones this time — with spotlight on the George Zimmerman verdict, the rumors of Larry Summers as next Federal Reserve Chair, $106 oil, Elliot Spitzer re-entering politics, a…
KunstlerCast#237 — The Trophic Conundrum. Chatting with Brian Czech about the paradox of economic growth
JHK talks with Brian Czech, founder of The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy and author of the new book Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Economy, published by the New Society Press. The ne…
KunstlerCast 236 — Talking with Farming Activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming
#236 — JHK talks with Severine von Tscharner Fleming, 30, a next ten agricultural activist, founder of Greenhorns and the National Young Farmers’ Coalition. She also works with the Farm Hack organization, the Family Farm Coalition and is editor of the…
July 2013
Proposed Film and Media Study Facility by Lafayette College for downtown Easton, PA. This off-campus melange of incoherently orchestrated buildings is anchored at the corner by a blank-wall “Borg” cube.
KunstlerCast 235 — Talking to petroleum geologist Jeffrey Brown
#235 — JHK talks with Texas petroleum geologist Jeffrey Brown about the global oil export-import scene, the shale oil situation, and the public’s misunderstanding of oil realities. Jeff originated the model for understanding the decline of global oil …