The Lifeboat Hour: Recent Episodes
Progressive Radio Network
An original mix of music with madness; laughter with loss, skills with sorrow, community with calamity, love with grief, and joy in the moment.
Carolyn talks with Ivey Cone, producer of Fuki Cafe and Extinction Radio, about how we navigate these turbulent times and stay connected with the Earth.
Being an elder has less to do with age than with wisdom. Dr. Harvey Austin and Carolyn discuss Harvey's new book "Elders Rock."
Dean Walker and Carolyn talk about "Full Spectrum Living---With Death In Mind." What does it mean to live with passion and purpose in a time of extinction?
In this episode, "A Light In Dark Times," Carolyn offers an urgent Winter Solstice, inspirational "fireside chat." Where are we going as an Earth community? What is the Earth asking of us right now?
Tyler Hess returns to the Lifeboat Hour to share his perspective as a member of the millennial generation on climate chaos, the collapse of industrial civilization, and how living in intimate relationship with Earth in the face of the Sixth Great Extinction sustains us and all life in the universe.
Author and wisdom teacher, Mirabai Starr, joins Carolyn to discuss the Dark Night Of The Globe as well as The Dark Night Of The Soul in troubled times.
Carolyn is joined by activist, author, and Rumi scholar, Andrew Harvey as they discuss the human shadow and the global crisis and how we can heal both the personal and collective shadow.
Carolyn and Charles Eisenstein are all over the map discussing things they both care about deeply.
Carolyn talks with energy activist Nancy La Placa about the climate cost of fossil fuels and dirty energy with some surprises about which forms of energy really are cleaner.
Carolyn and Francis Weller discuss the need to become skilled practitioners of conscious grieving along with his new book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow.
Carolyn's team producer, Peter Melton, joins her for a conversation about the COP21 Paris Climate Conference along with a discussion of Carolyn's California tour beginning October 23.
Carolyn talks with authors, storytellers, and ritualists Barry and Maya Spector about their annual grief ritual and Barry's book, "Madness At The Gates Of The City: The Myth of American Innocence."
Author and psychotherapist Jed Diamond and Carolyn discuss his new book "The Power of Two"--- how couples working together can help us heal from industrial civilization and make life easier for our descendants.
Carolyn and one of her team members, author Dean Spillane Walker, discuss the question: Who do we want to be in a time of chaos and extinction?
Jennifer Hynes returns to the show to talk about her second piece of monumental climate research "The Demise of The Arctic"
9/11 Special: Jenna Orkin discusses Mike Ruppert's "Crossing The Rubicon" and talks about the environmental devastation that occurred on 9/11 and persists to this day.
Richard Heinberg and Carolyn discuss the collapse of the economy and the oil industry in 2015.
Stephen Jenkinson and Carolyn discuss grief, his new book Dying Wise, and the deeper meaning of the word "catastrophe."
My guest Peter Melton and I discuss how we know what we know and still live life with peace, passion, and purpose and keep our hearts open.
Carolyn and New Zealand activist Kevin Hester discuss climate chaos and recent concessions made by leading climate scientists regarding the severity of our predicament