Doomer Optimism

By Doomer Optimism

Doomer Optimism is a podcast dedicated to discovering regenerative paths forward, highlighting the people working for a better world, and connecting seekers to doers. Beyond that, it's pretty much a $... more

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How many episodes does Doomer Optimism have?

The podcast currently has 270 episodes available.

Doomer Optimism episodes:

March 19, 2024 DO 210 - Catalyzing Urban Food Forests in Chattanooga with Jonathan Parks Allen and Jason
In this episode Jonathan and Jason talk about Jonathan’s relationship to the South, his Orthodox faith and Interest in Islamic history, anarcho-agrarianism, the commons, and his current efforts helping to catalyze urban community food forests in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Food Forest Organization: chattanoogafoodforests.org
Substack: https://jonathanparkesallen.substack.com
Twitter: @‌Mar_Musa
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1h 26min
March 12, 2024 DO 209 - Podcast about podcasts w/ Donald and Ashley
Donald asked Ashley to sit down to think out loud about the pros and cons of continuing to devote time to podcasts, as both a creator and as a listener. Please feel free to weigh in on this topic in the YouTube comments!
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1h 19min
March 05, 2024 DO 208 - The DO of Anna Karenina with GG, Evan, Nate, and Jason
A panel discussion talking about the brilliant book Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - how it relates to DO themes of agrarianism, relationship, religion, and much more
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1h 12min
February 27, 2024 DO 207 - What has happened to the left? With Ashley Frawley, Gord Magill and Ashley Colby
Gord and the two Ashleys discuss the modern state of leftism: what remains of it, and how to navigate the upside-down world where the professional-managerial elites have hijacked the conversation.
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1h 21min
February 20, 2024 DO 206 - Christianity with Jordan Hall, Mash Tun Timmy and Ashley
Ashley invites Tim and Jordan to both share stories about their recent conversions to Christianity. We discuss the limits to rationality and the importance of relationship, place and people.
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1h 32min
February 13, 2024 DO 205- Jeffrey Bilbro
Nate and Jeffrey Bilbro of Front Porch Republic sit down and discuss agrarianism. Rather than simply a general term for rural life, they discuss the economic, philosophical and moral aspects of agrarianism that make it a holistic approach to human individual and social life, distinct from the overly ideological -isms of capitalism and communism that have dominated 20th century social and political thought.
Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.
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1h 9min
February 08, 2024 DO 204 - Cabin X DO crossover with Jackson Steger, Grin and Ashley
This is a syndicated episode where Grin and Jackson invited Ashley on their podcast, Campfire, to talk about Doomer Optimism and where it intersects with their project, Cabin, building a network of modern villages.
https://campfire-by-cabin.simplecast.com/episodes/37-homesteading-homeschooling-and-home-economics-with-ashley-colby-fitzgerald-and-grin
Campfire is produced by Cabin, which is comprised of internet friends building a global network of modern villages. Learn more at cabin.city
Read more about the future of living at futureofliving.substack.com
Ashley Colby Fitzgerald is a cohost of Doomer Optimism and founder of the Rizoma Field School. This episode explores how to prep for periods of instability, varying methods of homeschool, localism, agroecology, relationships in a time of crises, and integrating children into intentional communities. Cabin's technical lead (Grin) joins as cohost.
Twitter:
Ashley: @‌RizomaSchool
Jackson Steger @‌JacksonSteger
Grin: @‌grin_io
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58min
February 06, 2024 DO 203 – Kris de Decker and Low Tech Magazine, with Josh and Simon
We speak with founder and editor-in-chief of Low Tech Magazine, Kris de Decker, about his work since 2007 highlighting technologies of yesteryear, developing simple and low-cost energy systems to run his apartment and publishing, building un-hackable websites powered completely off of solar, and advocating demand-side management as a superior approach to sustainability.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
https://www.notechmagazine.com
Support the work of Kris and his collaborators by purchasing low-tech versions of his online magazine, AKA books (compendiums of website content)!
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1h 18min
February 01, 2024 DO 202 – Alexis Zeigler, Living Energy Farm - with Josh and Ashley
Living Energy Farm is a pioneering off-grid project in central Virginia. They have developed relatively low-cost methods for taking advantage of solar energy in the form of passive solar-thermal systems for space heating and water heating as well as DC electricity. Their “DC microgrids” systems power household appliances and computers/phones, in addition to a wide array of hand tools and shop tools. This is accomplished by efficient “daylight drive” using power from PV panels to directly run DC motors, or by using energy stored in robust nickel-iron batteries.
They have also prototyped an array of low-cost homestead technologies used for biogas systems, drying seeds and foodstuffs, harvesting crops and doing other “tractor work.”
This fast-paced conversation outlines the technologies developed by LEF and contextualizes them in Alexis’ and community members’ philosophy of practical non-nonsense environmental technologies for achieving good quality of life as an antidote to typical, mainstream, middle class, bourgeois environmentalism.
Learn more about their work:
livingenergyfarm.org
livingenergylights.com
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1h 15min
January 30, 2024 DO 201 - The philosophy of Charlotte Mason with Tessa Carman and Ashley
Tessa Carman and Ashley reminisce about their time at the Front Porch
Republic Conference before moving on to discuss the educational and life
philosophy of Charlotte Mason.
Tessa Carman writes and teaches in Maryland. With J.C. Scharl in 2022,
she translated the Old English vision poem The Dream of the Rood. Her
writing can be found at tessacarman.wordpress.com.
Here are a few pieces that may be of interest to DO listeners:
“Children Are Born Persons: Exploring Charlotte Mason’s First Principle
of Education”
“Nurturing Goodness: Exploring Charlotte Mason’s Second Principle of
Education”
“Authority and Docility: Exploring Charlotte Mason’s Third Principle of
Education”
“Fleeing the Ephemeral and Pursuing the Eternal,” Front Porch Republic,
July 4, 2023
"Joining the Dance: Setting Aside Screens to Build the City,” Front
Porch Republic, November 15, 2022
“Following Christ in the Machine Age: A Conversation with Paul
Kingsnorth,” Mere Orthodoxy, September 13, 2022
“A Time to Replant, a Time to Rebuild,” Fare Forward, May 26, 2021
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1h 33min

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