I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced “Co’burn” cos it’s Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks! 

We cover:

🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies.

🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy.

🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar.

🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper!

🪶 Will politicians ever “solve” climate change?

🪶 Why you can’t question capitalism

🪶 How the growth imperative works

🪶 Changing the narrative through language

🪶 The debt treadmill for “developing” nations

🪶 The closest thing we’ve had to utopia in human history!

🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling

🪶 Hitting bodily limits

🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel

🪶 Riches without an income

🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity

🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution!

🪶 How to share even when you’re a scoundrel only child like me

🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS

Linda’s books

The Quiet Revolution (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life)

Eat My Shadow (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!)

Living the Good Life

Linda’s articles in Organic Gardener magazine

A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers

Linda on Instagram

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann

Seed Freaks ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania

David Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future

Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns License: Attribution 4.0

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