Steppin' Off The Edge

Steppin' Off The Edge


Latest Episodes

Abundant Maker Driven Culture
December 20, 2011

"I may not know you. I may not agree with you. In fact, I probably don’t agree with you or many of the things that you believe in. But I will fight to my death that you have a life where you get to do what you want to do and in return you will do the s

Coherent Communications About Collapse
November 30, 2011

The C-Realm podcast and Extraenvironmentalist are two of the preeminent podcasts available today. Their hosts, KMO and Justin Ritchie, step off the edge with me for a 3-way conversation about podcasting and the common narrative of collapse. Though it may

Astrobarryology
October 27, 2011

AstroBarry Perlman steps off the edge with me to discuss his lifes' passion: Astrology, "is a craft, a mystical craft at the center of which is a beautiful mystery which nobody has yet been able to confidently say how it works despite thousands of years o

The Evolution of Adhocracy
September 15, 2011

When the sun’s up, Emlyn O'Regan is a senior developer for an e-learning company. In the evenings Emlyn quietly chips away at his little corner of the internet, inventing prolifically, writing furiously on his point7.wordpress.com blog and pondering wha

Sacred Earthonomics
August 04, 2011

Charles Eisenstein wrote Ascent of Humanity in 2007 about the history and future of civilization from the unique perspective of the evolution of the human sense of self. As we pass through what he describes as the convergence of crises that is birthing th

Thriving During Challenging Times
July 04, 2011

As the metaphorical waves of globalization crash hard upon the beachheads of peak oil, climate change and unsustainable economic growth we need to prepare to be able to thrive during challenging times. Cam Mather is an author and speaker who lives off-the

Opening the Black Box of Bureaucracy
June 04, 2011

There are two cultural narratives coming to a head: The institution of government which holds the idea of the nation state and the location you live as the driving factor in how your interests are represented in making policy and the crowdsourcing, wiki-c

A Contour Crafting Conversation
May 11, 2011

Contour Crafting is a layered fabrication technology which aims to build houses efficiently. This episode features an interview with the process creator Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. Berokh steps off the edge with me to

Innovation on the Ocean
April 03, 2011

What does it take to get 1,000 floating countries to set sail upon the oceans of planet earth? The Seasteading Institute (TSI) is an ambitious organization that wants to foster such platforms of innovation to apply the same entrepreneurial spirit of high

Backcasting to the Future
March 01, 2011

"As humans, we decide what we want and we create that future." I wanted to understand more about the areas of environmentalism and sustainability, so this month I step off the edge with Karen Miller, Junior Advisor for The Natural Step. We explore some cr