What protects biodiversity loss from being seriously addressed? Are there keyinsights that could shuffle the deck toward real solutions?

 William E. Rees and colleaguesapproach ecological limits and consider a range of possible outcomes. Featuring Ian Pfingsten, Francisco Dallmeier, and Rosa Vasquez Espinoza.

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Let’s expand the birth frontier to include who we are throughout our lives. Our special guests, Becca Tarnas and Sean Kelly, discuss the archetype of birth, C.G. Jung, Stan Grof, and the origins of transpersonal psychology.

It turns out that birth is an all-encompassing subject.

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A doula, a midwife, and a birth anthropologist walk into a podcast studio... but not just any doula, midwife, and birth anthropologist.

 These are among the world’s finest,gathered to converse on some of the most compelling issues in being born.Featuring Betty-Anne Daviss, Robbie Davis-Floyd, and Debra Pascali-Bonaro.

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Does anything need to transform when it comes to birth? Education? Practice? Policy?A reduction in anxiety and pain?

In search of guidance, we hear frommidwives, doulas, and birth practitioners exploring wiser ways forward.

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What’s happening in birth today? What is a matrist society? Who rules birth? Ready for eBirth?

In this episode we discover Saharasia,uncover the inventor of obstetrics, and drop in on Hollywood’s approach tobirth. Welcome to the age of medicalized, techno-driven birth. What you don’tknow could hurt you and yours.

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There’s no instruction manual for birth, but there are ways to deepen our understanding. On Birth is just such a way.

The Essence explores the complete arc from preconception to conception, pregnancy, birth, and bonding. It’s whole kit and kaboodle, offered for your consideration anddelight. Featuring Ina May Gaskin and Debra Pascali-Bonaro.

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The Catalysta Players take to the Centrale stage to enact a day in the life of the Luddites, a visit with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury crowd, a step behind the sceneswith Walter Reuther, and a sad day for the inventor of chess.

It’s all here as we sally forth into a very short history of automation.

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Three vital voices speak on the gusher that is technological innovation. We’re pleased to welcome Noam Chomsky, Dan McQuillan, and Daniel Broudy as they reflect on how to nourish a democratic society, who gets to decide the future of tech, and what a democratic economy might mean.

A searching conversation for ourrapidly changing age.

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People Get Ready explores a book called, what else? People Get Ready: The FightAgainst a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.

This timely work connects the dots between rapidly accelerating computing power,capitalism, and democracy. Our journey begins with the book’s authors, RobertMcChesney and John Nichols, in a lively conversation touching on technology,politics, economics, and community.

The story starts now.

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Welcome to the first season of Catalysta. Bienvenue from the founders of Catalysta, Chickie Munch and Binnie Bunny Munch. Willkommen from Schmutz Munch. G’day from Wally Koala.

Bienvenido to this season’s themes of birth,Buckminster Fuller, biodiversity, tech, democracy, food & spirit. Benvenuto to the gardens, classroom, snug, café, and temple of Catalysta Centrale. Huānyíng.

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