EcoPod

About EcoPod

This podcast – inspired by the ludic and irreverent spirit of Arne Næss – is an independent forum designed to discuss suppressed or underexplored themes relating to the most burning questions of our time - from the climate crisis to our post-pandemic future. Always with a deep ecologic twist. EcoPod is created by Nina Witoszek and a group of Arne Næss Master Students at the Center for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo. They are joined in the studio by participating producer David Chocron.

Publisher

Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 May 2020

Latest episode

4 Jun 2020

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Jun 2020

   Apocalypse Now? A Race Against Time

   How does the mantra "we have no time" influence our environmental agendas? Who is we in “we have no time"? The author of Gaia theory, James Lovelock, claims in his latest book, Novacene, that humanity has passed the tipping point and that only AI’s superintelligence will act with Gaia to keep the life going. Arne Næss’s motto, on the other hand, has been “It’s never too late”. Who is right?

2. 

   20 May 2020

   “The Ecological Self”: from Mindfulness to Mushrooms

   How do we reach an ecological self? Do we need to practice tai-chi, go vegan or take magic mushrooms? In this episode we discuss the strategies of transcending the egoistic self. We also probe the question whether it’s always benign to be ONE with all living beings.

3. 

   11 May 2020

   The Profits and Pitfalls of Green Groupthink

   Is the green "groupthink" necessary to save the planet? Or does it make us into fundamentalist eco-freaks? With Nina Witoszek and a group of Arne Næss Master Students at the Center for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo (UiO). They are joined in the studio by participating producer David Chocron.