The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
by Rico Verde
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Rationing Paradise: How Permits and Fees Create Sustainable Tourism
Jun 11, 2026
36m 45s
The Travel Paradox: How Mass Tourism Destroys What It Claims to Celebrate (Part 2 of 3)
Jun 4, 2026
37m 59s
The Travel Paradox: How Mass Tourism Destroys What It Claims to Celebrate (Part 1 of 3)
May 27, 2026
30m 02s
The High Cost of Looking Away: How Economic Blindness is Shaping our World
May 17, 2026
36m 32s
Beyond Catastrophe: What's Really at Stake in the Climate Crisis
Apr 30, 2026
32m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/11/26 | Rationing Paradise: How Permits and Fees Create Sustainable Tourism✨ | sustainable tourismenvironmental protection+3 | — | — | ColoradoBlue Lakes Trail+3 | sustainable tourismenvironmental protection+3 | — | 36m 45s | |
| 6/4/26 | The Travel Paradox: How Mass Tourism Destroys What It Claims to Celebrate (Part 2 of 3)✨ | mass tourismclimate change+3 | — | COVID | Arctic | mass tourismaviation emissions+3 | — | 37m 59s | |
| 5/27/26 | The Travel Paradox: How Mass Tourism Destroys What It Claims to Celebrate (Part 1 of 3)✨ | mass tourismclimate change+4 | — | — | summer vacationparadise+1 | mass tourismclimate change+5 | — | 30m 02s | |
| 5/17/26 | The High Cost of Looking Away: How Economic Blindness is Shaping our World✨ | economic blindnessglobal crises+3 | — | — | — | economic blindnessglobal oil+3 | — | 36m 32s | |
| 4/30/26 | Beyond Catastrophe: What's Really at Stake in the Climate Crisis✨ | climate crisisenvironmentalism+3 | — | America | — | climate crisisenvironmentalism+5 | — | 32m 01s | |
| 3/26/26 | One Man's Ego. Eight Billion People. One Planet.✨ | politicschaos+3 | — | — | — | presidencychaos+3 | — | 39m 52s | |
| 3/18/26 | The Last War - Why Humanity's Oldest Problem is Finally Solving Itself (Part 2 of 2)✨ | warhuman conflict+3 | — | — | Iran | warIran+3 | — | 33m 23s | |
| 3/11/26 | From Nuclear Nightmares to Digital Warfare: How We Traded Apocalypse for Algorithms Part 1 of 2✨ | nuclear warfaredigital warfare+3 | — | — | Iran | nuclear nightmaresdigital warfare+4 | — | 30m 11s | |
| 2/19/26 | Beyond Spectacle: Building Power That Lasts (Part 2 of 2)✨ | political strategycommunity empowerment+3 | — | Faith & Freedom CoalitionDemocrats+1 | — | Obama2008 franchise model+3 | — | 31m 49s | |
| 2/11/26 | Beyond Spectacle: Why Big Marches Don't Work for the Left – (Part 1)✨ | protestslocal organizing+3 | — | DAREMADD | — | protestsorganizing+5 | — | 31m 45s | |
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| 2/4/26 | THE BIG STUPID: Trump’s Devastatingly Effective War on Knowledge (Part 3 of 3)✨ | knowledge infrastructurepolitical strategy+4 | — | America's knowledge infrastructureresearch institutions+2 | — | Trumpknowledge+5 | — | 35m 34s | |
| 1/28/26 | THE BIG STUPID: The $7 Trillion War on Human Attention (Part 2 of 3)✨ | climate breakdownhuman attention+3 | — | $7 trillion industry | — | climate changeattention economy+3 | — | 37m 16s | |
| 1/21/26 | THE BIG STUPID - Why We're Getting Dumber When We Need to Be Smarter (Part 1 of 3)✨ | intelligence declineenvironmental impact+3 | — | — | developed worldClimate change | intelligenceIQ scores+3 | — | 33m 42s | |
| 1/16/26 | Apocalypse Autopsy: Transformation Stories (Part 2 of 2)✨ | transformationsociety+3 | — | — | Europe | apocalypsetransformation+3 | — | 37m 40s | |
| 1/7/26 | Apocalypse Autopsy: Are we the Asteroid or the Dinosaurs? (Part 1 of 2)✨ | environmental disastersextinction events+4 | — | — | — | Earthextinction+6 | — | 29m 10s | |
| 12/30/25 | Beyond Doom: Navigating the Poly-Crisis (Part 2 of 2) | SHOW NOTES Why Everything Feels Like It's Falling Apart at Once—and What That Actually Means When wildfires, pandemics, refugee crises, and wars all seem to strike simultaneously, it's not just bad luck. This episode introduces "polycrisis"—the framework that explains why climate change creates droughts that destroy crops, driving migration that destabilizes governments, bringing climate deniers to power who worsen the original problem. These aren't separate disasters. They're interconnected ... | 39m 21s | ||||||
| 12/20/25 | Beyond Doom: The Data Behind Hope (Part 1 of 2) | SHOW NOTES Think we're doomed? The data tells a different story. More than half of young people worldwide believe humanity is headed for extinction, but when researchers examine the actual numbers, they find something surprising. Death rates from natural disasters have fallen tenfold since the 1920s. Child mortality dropped from 43% to 4% globally. And in 2012, something remarkable happened that most people still don't know about—the world hit peak per capita carbon emissions, and they've bee... | 31m 05s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | PLASTIC PLANET: How Big Oil Created our Next Addiction (Part 3 of 3) | SHOW NOTES You've been recycling for years, diligently sorting your bins and feeling good about doing your part. But what if the whole system was designed to fail from the start? In this episode, we reveal the uncomfortable truth about recycling rates, industry deception, and why the companies making plastic never wanted recycling to work in the first place. We explore the connection most people miss: how America's fracking boom supercharged the plastics industry and reshaped the global waste... | 35m 59s | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | PLASTIC PLANET: The Visible Crisis – When the World Woke Up (Part 2 of 3) | EPISODE SHOW-NOTES For decades, we knew plastic was a problem. Scientists published papers. Environmentalists raised alarms. But knowing and seeing are two very different things. In 2015, a sea turtle with a plastic straw lodged in its nostril changed everything. That eight-minute video of agony went viral with over 110 million views, and suddenly plastic pollution wasn't just data—it was undeniable suffering you couldn't scroll past. This episode explores the moments when plastic's invisibil... | 33m 02s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | Plastic Planet: From Miracle to Menace (Part 1 of 3) | SHOW-NOTES WHY THREE EPISODES ON PLASTIC? You already know plastic is bad. You've heard about ocean garbage patches and sea turtles with straws in their noses. You've been told to recycle and use reusable bags. So why spend three full episodes on something you already understand? Because almost everything you think you know about the plastic crisis is incomplete—or deliberately misleading. These three episodes reveal what's actually happening: how we were systematically trained to accept pe... | 38m 10s | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | GOLD — AFTER THE SHINE | Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are rarer metals than gold, but the yellow metal is more recognizable to the naked eye. There has been a cultural feedback mechanism over the centuries so that we get taught that gold is valuable, therefore it is. So, it is a more obvious sign of status and conspicuous consumption. That's why we make our most significant objects, wedding rings, Olym... | 23m 27s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | Electrify Everything: The Path to Zero Carbon | In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools in the fight against climate change: electrification. Currently, America runs on millions of tiny fires—cars, trucks, furnaces, and factories burning fossil fuels. The solution? Plug them in. Key Takeaways: Transportation: Electric vehicles are leading the way, with EVs now making up nearly 6% of new car sales. While passenger cars are straightforward to electrify, heavy-duty trucks and aviation remain challenging due to battery limit... | 33m 29s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | Shrinking Trump - Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 3 of 3) | The Real-World Costs What happens when psychological dysfunction meets ultimate power? In our final episode, we examine the cascading failures already underway - and the catastrophic scenarios ahead. In This Episode: How binary thinking creates the perfect conditions for authoritarianismWhy millions now construct identity through hatred instead of valuesThe collapse of truth: when words become weapons, not descriptions of realityWhen shame stops working: corruption without consequencesFive po... | 34m 49s | ||||||
| 10/8/25 | Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 2 of 3) | SHOW-NOTES How does individual psychological dysfunction become mass contagion? This episode explores the transformation from personal pathology to cultural crisis—examining how smart people voluntarily humiliate themselves for power, how politics has replaced religion as identity, and how projection weaponizes confusion. We trace the coarsening of American discourse, the capture of institutions by appearance over competence, and how extreme wealth literally rewires the brain to eliminate emp... | 39m 52s | ||||||
| 10/2/25 | Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (1 of 3) | SHOW-NOTES Something disturbing is happening in real time, and mental health experts are sounding urgent alarms. The most powerful person in the world is showing clear signs of cognitive breakdown – creating words that don't exist, telling impossible stories as cherished memories, choosing advisors based on how they look rather than what they know. But here's what makes this truly dangerous: millions of people are adopting these same dysfunctional patterns as their own. This episode reveals ... | 34m 06s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.