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It’d be easy, with the clusterf**k of crazy-making economic, geopolitical, and democracy-in-decline news dominating the scene, to forget that the unraveling of environmental systems waits for no pe...

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Join your fellow Crazy Townies on June 23, 2026, by registering at resilience.org/crazytownhall. The Crazy Town Hall is a live, online get-together for our most engaged listeners, affectionately k...

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Crazy Town: Episode 125. The Lighter Side of Dark Ages with Chris Smaje

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Crazy Town: Episode 126. The Hypocrite’s Guide to the Galaxy: Muddling Toward a Sustainable Footprint

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Is hypocrisy the one thing that can grow infinitely on our finite planet? When you learn that humanity’s fossil fuel burning, including your own, is contributing to climate chaos, what can you do? ...

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Chris Smaje visits Crazy Town for some farmer-to-farmer straight talk with Jason Bradford. Are these two long lost cousins? Both dropped out of academia years ago to become philosophizing farmers (...

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Thursday, May 28 | 1 PM PT Free, online event Register at resilience.org/events

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Crazy Town: Episode 124. Take Me to the River: Getting Rid of Deadbeat Dams

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Crazy Town: Episode 123. Mailbag: The Crazy Townies Speak!

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People REALLY love their impervious surfaces. Concrete structures practically permeate human-built landscapes. Rather than layering ever more concrete on top of living soils, in waterways, and all ...

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Crazy Town Episode 122. Birdbrained: When Nature and Technology Collide

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What happens when technology and competition start to invade our experiences in nature? For example, what if you’re so focused on documenting a bird sighting in your iPhone app that you fail to app...

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Crazy Town: Episode 121. Being Team Human in Crazy Town

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Have you ever had that feeling in your gut, when you suddenly realize that the person you’re talking with might have a screw or two loose? What about when you’re the one others are trying to slowly...

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BOOK GIVEAWAY🌳 Join us for "The Hidden Power of Forests: Connection and Cooperation from Roots to Canopy" this Thursday at 10am PDT. This 90-minute event featuring Dr. Nalini Nadkarni and Dr. T..

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Crazy Town: Episode 120. You Ain’t Gonna Live Forever: The Dos and Don’ts of Legacy Building.

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What can we learn about death from the X-Men, small screaming rodents, and unwitting college students in psychology experiments? It turns out that the fear of death (or death anxiety) affects human...

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Crazy Town: Episode 119. Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning @AmericanResiliency

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Crazy Town: Episode 118. Choose your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction

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What if there were a news outlet that actually covered the most important environmental stories of our time? Dr. Emily Schoerning and her nonprofit, @AmericanResiliency translate the latest and mos...

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