Duncan Crary's Blog, page 25
March 22, 2012
KunstlerCast #199: Communications Wasteland
JHK and Duncan have a ramble 'n rant episode on the robitification of our communications landscape, that wasteland of overcomplexity and hyperdependence of modern technology. Sponsor: http://theheirloom.blogspot.com/
March 14, 2012
KunstlerCast #198: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities – Part 2
JHK and Duncan speak about America's small industrial cities with Catherin Tumber, author of The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World. Sponsor: CNU20.org
March 8, 2012
KunstlerCast #197: Catherine Tumber on Small Cities - Part 1
James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Catherin Tumber, author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World. Tumber is a journalist and historian and research affiliate in the Community Innovators Lab in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.Sponsor: http://cnu20.org
February 29, 2012
KunstlerCast #196: JHK's Veganism
JHK talks about his experience being a 97 percent vegan and how the American diet may change in the Long Emergency. Sponsor: http://cnu20.org
February 22, 2012
KunstlerCast #195: Reading the Landscape
James Howard Kunstler shares his thoughts on the experience of moving through the landscape and built environment on foot, rather than by car. Sponsor: http://www.CNU20.jpg
February 15, 2012
KunstlerCast #194: What Does Urban Really Mean?
James Howard Kunstler helps host Duncan Crary define the term "urban," a term that is often misunderstood or confusing to the general American public.Sponsor: http://cnu20.org
February 8, 2012
KunstlerCast #193: Listener Mail Bag
In this episode, James Howard Kunstler and Duncan Crary go through the KunstlerCast listener mail bag. Topics include: David Brooks's recent 180 on the "wonders" of suburbia, the Zeitgeist movement, the fate of ebooks, home maintenance during The Long Emergency, rural Illinois and other topics. Sponsor: http://CNU20.org
February 1, 2012
KunstlerCast #192: Arthur E. Berman, Petroleum Geologist
James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Arthur E. Berman, who is a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; associate editor of the AAPG Bulletin; director of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil. Berman has published more than 100 articles on petroleum geology and technology and has made more than 50 presentations in the last year to professional societies, investment conferences and companies. He speaks to Jim tonight about the history of shale gas "fracking" and a lot of the "magical thinking" surrounding the prospects of America becoming "energy dependent" through fracking.
January 25, 2012
KunstlerCast 191: Get Used to Being Uncomfortable
James Howard Kunstler comments on the rising rates of pessimism in the U.S. in response to Capital cronyism, the dissapearing American dream, and our own entitled wishful thinking.
January 18, 2012
KunstlerCast #190: The Trust Horizon
JHK discusses the growing mistrust for government in the U.S. and the rise of local trust networks in response. The inspiration for today's show comes from The Automatic Earth blog, http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com
