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GrowthBusters

GrowthBusters

56 episodes

Humankind has outgrown the planet, so we explore ways to recover from growth addiction. We dig into the more fascinating and hard-hitting aspects of public policy and the joy of living sustainably. It’s all about ending our culture’s love affair with “more,” which is not making us happier and is killing our planet. No half-hearted greenwashing here; we share the brutal and joyful truth! Co-host Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Learn more about the film at www.growthbustersmovie.org. Co-host Stephanie Gardner earned a masters degree in environmental law and policy, and has expertise and experience in sustainable energy.

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83: We Roasted Elon Musk, Raising the Curiosity of Thousands

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds

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82: Governor Whitmer Unveils Ponzi Population Policy

Published: July 14, 2023, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds

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81 Overpopulation Think Tank Part 2

Published: June 7, 2023, 7:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 31 seconds

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80 How Do We Get Out of This Mess? University Students Brainstorm

Published: May 22, 2023, 11:54 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 5 seconds

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79 Overpopulation Think Tank Part 1

Published: April 25, 2023, 12:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 19 seconds

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78 Discussing Overpopulation: Let's Clear the Minefield

Published: March 30, 2023, 8:32 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 35 seconds

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77 Fact-Checking News of Chinas Demographic Crisis

Published: Feb. 11, 2023, 4:32 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes

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76 Now Here's What We Call an Eco-Superhero

Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 11:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 58 seconds

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75 A Vasectomy Could Save Herschel Walker a Lot of Money

Published: Dec. 28, 2022, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds

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74 Bleak Friday, 8 Billion Post-Mortem and Damage Done by Guilt

Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 13 seconds

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73 Eight Billion is Too Many: Dont be a Twit About Overpopulation

Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 8:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 23 seconds

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72 Upping Our Game Alerting the World to Limits to Growth: New Online Community

Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 11:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 40 seconds

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71 World Population Day 2022: Were Overpopulated. Pass It On.

Published: July 9, 2022, 2:08 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 58 seconds

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70 Paul Ehrlich on The Limits to Growth

Published: June 1, 2022, 7:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 29 seconds

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69 Chickens are Coming Home to Roost

Published: May 11, 2022, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds

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68 Paul Ehrlich, Unfiltered (Special Earth Day Episode)

Published: April 19, 2022, 4:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 8 seconds

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67 Obsessive-Compulsives Guide to Cutting Your Carbon Footprint

Published: March 30, 2022, 12:47 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 50 seconds

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66 Can Living a 1.5 Degree Lifestyle Make a Difference?

Published: March 9, 2022, 12:03 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 17 seconds

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65 What Do College Students Think Their Future Holds?

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 14 seconds

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64 Is Parenthood an Entitlement?

Published: Jan. 26, 2022, 12:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 40 seconds

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63 Stuck in Traffic? Head to Mars

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 12:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 44 seconds

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62 World Leaders COP Out

Published: Dec. 6, 2021, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 25 seconds

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61 Rebelling Against Black Friday Consumerism

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 15 seconds

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60 Populating and Plundering the Universe

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 5 seconds

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59 Too Much of a Good Thing: Richard Heinberg

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds

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58 Billionaires in Space

Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 22 seconds

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57 Overshoot: World's Best Introduction

Published: July 28, 2021, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

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56 Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Green New Deal

Published: July 9, 2021, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 9 seconds

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55 More Fun, Less Stuff

Published: June 18, 2021, 3:36 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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54 The Good Ancestor: Following the Intergenerational Golden Rule

Published: April 19, 2021, 11:56 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 41 seconds

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53 Finding Common Ground

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 1:31 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds

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52 Shrinking Your Travel Footprint

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 10 seconds

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51 Philosophy of Shrinking Footprints

Published: Dec. 26, 2020, 3:48 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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50 Taking a Vacation from Carbon Emissions

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 25 seconds

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49 Damn, It's Earth Overshoot Day Already!

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 9 seconds

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48 Things Are Not Fine

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 11:34 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 26 seconds

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47 Sarahs Wildlife Friendly Wedding

Published: July 8, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds

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46: 1-See Planet of the Humans; 2-Resolve Overshoot

Published: June 12, 2020, 1:19 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 28 seconds

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45 Planet of the Humans: What Did the Film Get Right?

Published: May 28, 2020, 4:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 31 seconds

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44 Just Sitting Around Waiting for the World to End

Published: May 8, 2020, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 42 seconds

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43 Paul Ehrlich - Uncensored on Earth Day 50th Anniversary

Published: April 22, 2020, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 49 seconds

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42 The Silver Lining of COVID Induced Recession

Published: April 9, 2020, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds

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41 Bury Mom in the Back Yard? The Ins & Outs of Green Burial

Published: March 15, 2020, 6:18 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 15 seconds

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40 Is GrowthBusters a Good Earth Day Movie?

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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39 You Have to Stay Poor Im Having a Steak

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 17 seconds

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38 Sustainable New Years Resolutions

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 12:22 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 3 seconds

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37 A Finer Future?

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 32 seconds

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36 Dont Make Me Stop this Spaceship!

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 48 seconds

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35 Decoupling Nonsense

Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 6 seconds

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34 Coming Out as Childfree

Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 5 seconds

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33 Is the End Near?

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 7:13 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 7 seconds

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32 Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day

Published: July 24, 2019, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 46 seconds

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31 We're in Deep: Earth Overshoot Day 2019

Published: July 24, 2019, 12:22 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 25 seconds

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30 Overshoot Playlist: Top 10 Environmental Songs

Published: June 15, 2019, 6:33 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 20 seconds

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29 Avengers: Endgame I Cut the Population in Half; Dont Make Me Do This Again

Published: May 30, 2019, 12:04 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 47 seconds

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28 Masturbate, Don't Procreate

Published: May 15, 2019, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

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27 Climate Change Will Take Food Off Your Table

Published: April 1, 2019, 11:36 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 14 seconds

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26 Running Out of Gas

Published: March 14, 2019, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 13 seconds

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25 How to Have a Green Wedding

Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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24 Wild Hope - Nature Rocks!

Published: Feb. 8, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 53 seconds

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23 What Do You Do When The End is Near?

Published: Jan. 19, 2019, 12:18 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 32 seconds

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22 Cleaning up Our Dirty Laundry

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 12:42 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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21 Drink More Wine, Eat More Chocolate

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 6:24 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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20 Pick One: Catastrophe or Disaster

Published: Nov. 4, 2018, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 5 seconds

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19 Hurricanes, Climate Change & Contraception

Published: Oct. 13, 2018, 12:29 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds

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#18 How Fast is Our Goose Being Cooked?

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 9:29 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 51 seconds

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#17 Trump Can't Keep It Up (Economic Growth)

Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 1:25 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 10 seconds

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#16 Earth Overshoot Day

Published: July 25, 2018, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 28 seconds

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#15 Do Only Villains Care About Overpopulation?

Published: July 10, 2018, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 1 second

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#14 One Thing That Will Guarantee Climate Disaster

Published: June 27, 2018, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 46 seconds

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#13 Downsize Me

Published: June 11, 2018, 5:49 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 11 seconds

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#12: Are We Too Stupid to Manage the Planet?

Published: May 18, 2018, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 34 seconds

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Green Cars, Coffee and Kitchen Scraps

Published: April 20, 2018, 12:11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 48 seconds

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Small is Beautiful After All

Published: April 2, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 45 seconds

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Would You Eat a Bug to Save the Planet?

Published: Feb. 28, 2018, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 51 seconds

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Trashing the Planet is Macho

Published: Jan. 13, 2018, 11:31 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 18 seconds

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More Kids, Fewer Kids, or No Kids?

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 12:12 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds

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Changing the World Starts at Home

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds

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Cities Must Bend Over & Accept Population Growth

Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 23 seconds

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Growth Addiction Set Stage for Hurricane Disasters in Houston & Florida

Published: Oct. 6, 2017, 7:31 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 30 seconds

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William & Kate Plus 8

Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 58 seconds

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Water Insanity in the West & Sustainable Ecological Footprint

Published: Sept. 8, 2017, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 17 seconds

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Welcome to GrowthBusters Podcast #1

Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 1:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 55 seconds

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Paving Paradise #3: Drinking the Pro-Growth Kool-Aid

Published: Sept. 6, 2016, 12:46 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds

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Paving Paradise #2: The Local Growth Machine

Published: July 26, 2016, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

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Paving Paradise #1: World Population Day & Water in the West

Published: July 11, 2016, 11:23 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 30 seconds

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