The Compression Thinking Series of Podcasts and Teleconferences: Recent Episodes
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is “Deep Changing Our Collective Behavior.” Follow up Teleconference: Of all our existential threats, our biggest is “psychic numbness” – blindness to our situation, reluctance to act, inability to Deep Change. (The psychologist Carl Jung might have called it a “psychic epidemic.”) The desire […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is “Transportation: Stuck in Traffic.” Follow up Teleconference: Only 28% of US energy is used by vehicles, but in American society it is hard to do anything without a car, and we’d be desperate without long-haul movement of materials. The US landscape is now […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is “How Healthy is Health Care?” Follow upTeleconference: Technically, U.S. curative care is tops, but the American health care system is bloated. The system treats 60% of all adults for a chronic disease, and 40% of them for more than one. In addition, […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “What Does Clean Mean?” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference: Can you be too clean? Microbiome research suggests that you can; that you need a strong immune system. […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Fashionable Waste.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference: The waste of being fashionable is enormous when it is a commodity marketed to everyone. The podcast spews out a […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Deep Change.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow upTeleconference: To make big changes in how we think and work, we must successfully challenge our deepest assumptions and beliefs. Some are […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Quality Over Quantity, Always.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow on Teleconference: Commercial quality refers to the properties of a product or service. Compression Thinking expands that definition to the […]
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This podcast topic is “Organize for Learning.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference: By this point, we should have created doubts that we can cure the ills of the environment while preserving high-growth expansionary economic systems. Changes will be huge. They may […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Symbiotic Thinking.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow up Teleconference: Symbiotic Thinking is Systems Thinking with an added twist. For every decision of consequence, give its effects on nature top […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is “Lawns and Biodiversity.” Follow up Teleconference: The waste growing lawns is enormous, but we seldom see it. Seeing something as common as lawn care from a different view illustrates how to use Compression Thinking guidelines. Think of your lawn as an ecology, not […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. Follow Up Teleconference: Seen from space, the earth is finite. Its resources, space, and disposal capacity are limited, but we behave as if consumption could expand forever. Economic thinking goes upside down. We don’t want to think about this, but we must. But we’ll start with the […]
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Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast introduces the concepts: What is Compression Thinking?” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Follow Up Teleconference: Many risks imperil ecologies all over the world. When we hear of them, it is usually one […]
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