Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Send us a text (buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/244372/open_sms)
Did a whimsical 1960s TV sitcom presage climate migration and a reversal of urban growth? We're not calling for a Godzilla-esque teardown of cities, but climate change is forcing a serious urban rethink. Jason, Rob, and Asher offer visions of better infrastructure, policies, and culture that you can embrace, even if your home is in the city.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• Wikipedia page for Paul Henning (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Henning) , creative force behind the spate of 1960s rural sitcoms.
• The Rural Climate Dialogues (iatp.org/documents/rural-climate-dialogues) : A Community-Driven Roadmap for Climate Action in Rural Minnesota is a report by Tara Ritter with good summary statistics on the rural U.S.
• “Total and urban population (hbs.unctad.org/total-and-urban-population/) ” in UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2023.
• United Nations prediction (un.org/en/desa/around-25-billion-more-people-will-be-living-cities-2050-projects-new-un-report) about urban migration.
• “Out-of-Towners Head to ‘Climate-Proof Duluth (nytimes.com/2023/03/10/realestate/duluth-minnesota-climate-change.html) ,’” article by Debra Kamin in the New York Times.
• “Indonesia Is Moving its Capital to a Futuristic, Green City (architecturaldigest.com/story/indonesia-is-moving-its-capital) ,” article by Katherine McLaughlin in Architectural Digest.
• Anthropogenic mass (weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/weight-accumulation-human-made-mass-earth/) – the weight of everything humanity has built, statistics from the World Economic Forum..
• Analysis of transportation-related energy consumption and urban density (https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environment/us-cities-factsheet) , published in “U.S. Cities Factsheet” from the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems.
• The 15-Minute City (15minutecity.com/)
• Retrosuburbia (retrosuburbia.com/) : The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future, book by David Holmgren.
• Global Ecovillage Network (ecovillage.org/)
• Daily Acts (dailyacts.org/)
• StoveTeam International (stoveteam.org/)
• One Planet Council (oneplanetcouncil.org.uk/)
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
Send us a text (buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/244372/open_sms)
Did a whimsical 1960s TV sitcom presage climate migration and a reversal of urban growth? We're not calling for a Godzilla-esque teardown of cities, but climate change is forcing a serious urban rethink. Jason, Rob, and Asher offer visions of better infrastructure, policies, and culture that you can embrace, even if your home is in the city.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• Wikipedia page for Paul Henning (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Henning) , creative force behind the spate of 1960s rural sitcoms.
• The Rural Climate Dialogues (iatp.org/documents/rural-climate-dialogues) : A Community-Driven Roadmap for Climate Action in Rural Minnesota is a report by Tara Ritter with good summary statistics on the rural U.S.
• “Total and urban population (hbs.unctad.org/total-and-urban-population/) ” in UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2023.
• United Nations prediction (un.org/en/desa/around-25-billion-more-people-will-be-living-cities-2050-projects-new-un-report) about urban migration.
• “Out-of-Towners Head to ‘Climate-Proof Duluth (nytimes.com/2023/03/10/realestate/duluth-minnesota-climate-change.html) ,’” article by Debra Kamin in the New York Times.
• “Indonesia Is Moving its Capital to a Futuristic, Green City (architecturaldigest.com/story/indonesia-is-moving-its-capital) ,” article by Katherine McLaughlin in Architectural Digest.
• Anthropogenic mass (weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/weight-accumulation-human-made-mass-earth/) – the weight of everything humanity has built, statistics from the World Economic Forum..
• Analysis of transportation-related energy consumption and urban density (https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environment/us-cities-factsheet) , published in “U.S. Cities Factsheet” from the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems.
• The 15-Minute City (15minutecity.com/)
• Retrosuburbia (retrosuburbia.com/) : The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future, book by David Holmgren.
• Global Ecovillage Network (ecovillage.org/)
• Daily Acts (dailyacts.org/)
• StoveTeam International (stoveteam.org/)
• One Planet Council (oneplanetcouncil.org.uk/)
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
