The Resilience Funders Network brings you a special conversation with Nate. Nathan J. (Nate) Hagens is a leading public intellectual working at the nexus of multiple components of the polycrisis and threats to civilization with a focus on the fundamental role of energy and our dependence on growth, the Superorganism.

His podcast series, The Great Simplification is the leading podcast in Earth Sciences in the world. His Frankly reflections are personal observations as he connects biophysical and social truths with great passion for all living creatures. His video The Great Simplification presents the clearest description of the polycrisis available.

Hagens has brought his history in finance and years on Wall Street, his role with The Oil Drum and the Post Carbon Institute, years teaching students Reality 101 at the University of Minnesota, founder of the Institute for the Study of Energy and our Future (ISEOF), and time as a farmer in Wisconsin to the big questions of the moment and our shared human experience. To talk about Nate without mentioning his four dogs, is to seriously miss the power of love and connection, and neglect key components of a complex man helping us make sense and find agency in this complex world. Co-hosted by Michael Lerner and Joan Diamond.

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Nate Hagens is a well-known speaker on the big picture issues facing human society and currently teaches a systems synthesis Honors seminar at the University of Minnesota ‘Reality 101 – A Survey of the Human Predicament’ Nate is on the...

Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His current initiatives at Commonweal are Omega, the Omega  Resilience Awards, the Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles Global, CancerChoices, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal....

Executive Director of Stanford University’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere and of the Crans Foresight Analysis Consensus. Joan has executive background in private and non-profit sectors, including Fortune 500 energy enterprises, and is a senior scenarist who facilitates...

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