Podcasts by Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities
Edenicity (noun) 1. An eden-like city. 2. Economic + ecological abundance. What will it take to build cities as modern day Edens? Discover how design can heal the world and make everyone rich.
Further podcasts by Kev Polk
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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41 Building Edenicity from 2020-11-19T06:00
How will Edenicity actually get built?
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40 Rating Your Edenicity from 2020-11-12T06:00
Take the quiz and discover how abundant and sustainable your life really is (or isn’t!).
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39 Securing Your Privacy from 2020-11-05T06:00
In this episode I’ll discuss the big dystopian fear that has haunted sustainability for decades, and why Edenicity is designed to win you far more privacy than you have now.
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/edenicity-abundantly-sustainable-cities/38-befriending-animals/">38 Befriending Animals</a><small> from 2020-10-29T06:00</small></h5>
<p class="card-text"><p>How to transform our relationship with domestic animals so we can feed everyone in the world and end the mass extinction.<br/><br/><a href=){kind=link}
37 Manufacturing a New Reality from 2020-10-22T06:00
How to massively expand manufacturing while saving the Earth. If you thought Tesla's Gigafactory was big, wait till you hear this!
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36 Recycling Everything from 2020-10-15T06:00
A complete tour of recycling in a city built to end the mass extinction... with a special destination at the end!
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35 Ending Pollution from 2020-10-08T06:00
How ecologically sound city design can end pollution and clean up the environmental wreckage of the past.
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34 Balancing Inequality from 2020-10-01T06:00
Should a city support or limit inequality? Answer: Both! Here’s why...
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33 Opening Borders and Minds from 2020-09-24T06:00
How cities can accommodate immigration so the world can become twice as rich, without the seemingly obvious downsides.
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32 Powering Edenicity from 2020-09-17T06:00
Why we’ll have enough solar power for everyone in the world within this decade.
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31 Changing Big and Fast from 2020-09-10T06:00
Why small and slow solutions to environmental problems are doomed to failure and what to do instead.
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30 Coming of Age from 2020-09-03T06:00
For anyone who has wondered where the adults are in the modern world, this episode examines how city design can help people grow up.
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29 Living with Nature from 2020-08-27T06:00
Trying to live closer to nature is a mistake. Here’s how to fix that.
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28 Fleeing the City from 2020-08-20T06:00
Why fleeing the city to escape disease and crime is a huge mistake.
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27 Ending Racism from 2020-08-13T06:00
How city design can end racism while healing the planet.
26 Finding Justice from 2020-08-06T06:00
How to design a city that is secure, honest and equitable.
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25 Getting Free Money from 2020-07-30T05:00
How a universal basic income would make cities economically stronger and ecologically more sustainable. Caution: the first two minutes of this program may challenge what you thought you knew abo...
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24 Defying the Housing Crash from 2020-07-23T05:00
What happened when I bought a home at the peak of the housing bubble, and sold three years later in the depths of the housing crash? This episode tells my story, and how it provided the first cl...
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23 Reinventing a Neighborhood from 2020-07-16T05:00
A step-by-step guide to making a neighborhood happier and healthier for its residents and the planet. With worked examples and free downloadable checklist.
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<p class="card-text"><p>How to create wealthier cities by sharing more.<br/><br/><b>Resources</b></p><ul><li><a href=){kind=link}
20 Fixing Permaculture from 2020-06-25T05:00
In which I call out what is wrong or missing in Permaculture and suggest changes so we can build something that actually can end the mass extinction, reverse climate change and provide abundantl...
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19 Understanding Permaculture from 2020-06-18T05:00
In which I take you on a brief tour of permaculture so you can better understand the context of Edenicity without taking an 80-hour course. And if you are permaculture certified, it’s a great qu...
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18 Governing a City from 2020-06-11T05:00
If politics seems a painful topic right now, it's because the whole edifice is crumbling under the weight of new realities and perceptions. In Episode 18, I'll take you on a tour of ho...
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17 Maintaining Populations from 2020-06-04T05:00
In which I use a global biomass census and Predator vs. ET simulations (among other things!) to explore what it takes to sustain large, vibrant cities without killing the world.
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16 Surviving Disasters from 2020-05-28T05:00
Edenicity vs. pandemics, earthquakes, locust plagues and more. It's like 17 disaster movies rolled into one. But in this case (spoiler alert!) the hero is the city.
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15 Building Soil from 2020-05-14T05:00
How nature and successful civilizations build soil, and how Edenicity will use these models to create a permanently wealthy civilization. If Episode 14 was like Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes B...
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14 Losing Soil from 2020-05-06T17:00
Why civilization after civilization squandered their soils and fell, why soils are even more imperiled in the modern world, and how Edenicity will learn from these mistakes. If Episode 13 was li...
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13 Understanding Soil from 2020-04-23T09:00
In which I bury techno-escapist fantasies such as The Singularity and identify the highest technology we will ever use to build a permanently abundant civilization.
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12 Commuting Like a Rockstar from 2020-04-16T04:00
How to design a transportation system 20x more functional, sustainable and affordable than anything the world has ever known – and get all the solar energy and building blocks a city needs as a ...
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11 Feeding the World in Style from 2020-04-09T04:00
How a human-scale food system can feed 10 billion people on 97% less land than we use now, with higher quality and social justice than the world has ever known.
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9 Factoring a Neighborhood from 2020-03-26T04:00
Why is housing ripe for a Tesla-like disruption? What will that disruption borrow from the tech industry ... and grade school math?!
8 Making Everyone a Billionaire from 2020-03-19T05:00
Why sustainable cities will generate almost unimaginable wealth over the next 3 decades, in two different ways. And how to tell if a city is part of this green rush --or if it's poised on t...
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7 Learning from Rat Park from 2020-03-12T05:00
Discover what a mind-blowing experiment with drug-addicted rats can teach us about designing better cities. Caution: this episode is hazardous to your existing worldview!
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6 Becoming a Green Millionaire from 2020-03-05T04:00
How you can make an extra million dollars by making sustainable lifestyle choices, and how cities could be better designed to support that.
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5 Designing Greatness from 2020-02-26T12:00
Discover the design secrets behind Apple, Tesla Motors and other disruptive companies, and why we should design cities as if they were consumer products. If you're interested in the future ...
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4 Living Longer and Healthier from 2020-02-22T07:00
You can add up to 6.4 years to your life expectancy with two lifestyle tweaks that also happen to be the two best things you can do for the planet. But most towns and cities make these lifestyle...
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3 Getting Real from 2020-02-20T05:00
A world tour of car-free cities, sustainable housing and gigantic ecological restoration projects that heal people and landscapes without austerity.
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2 Ending Mass Extinctions from 2020-02-13T17:00
The global mass extinction threatens our existence in a much more immediate way than climate change. In this episode, we’ll explore how our relationship with the environment is causing this prob...
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2 Ending Mass Extinctions from 2020-02-13T17:00
The global mass extinction threatens our existence in a much more immediate way than climate change. In this episode, we’ll explore how our relationship with the environment is causing this prob...
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2 Ending Mass Extinctions from 2020-02-13T17:00
The global mass extinction threatens our existence in a much more immediate way than climate change. In this episode, we’ll explore how our relationship with the environment is causing this prob...
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1 Defining Edenicity from 2020-02-06T21:00
Edenicity (noun) 1. An eden-like city. 2. Economic + ecological abundance.
The story of a new word, a new hope, a new approach to sustainability, now that environmentalism has failed.<...