Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF) an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.

Nate holds a Masters Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.

Malin Pinsky

Malin Pinsky — The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life

In this conversation, Nate is joined by marine ecologist Malin Pinsky, whose decades of research shed light on the dramatic migrations of marine species due to rising ocean temperatures.

May 28, 2025

Andrew Millison

Andrew Millison — Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action

In this conversation, Nate sits down with permaculture educator Andrew Millison to discuss the Great Green Wall project, a massive ecological initiative aimed at combating desertification in the Sahel region of Africa.

May 27, 2025

Human hand cave art

Social Overshoot? Dunbar’s Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs

In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the effects of technology on modern relationships, and how Dunbar’s number infers a ceiling on the number of people we can meaningfully interact with.

May 23, 2025

Tom Crowther

Thomas Crowther — No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature

In this episode, Nate is joined by ecologist Thomas Crowther to discuss the critical importance of biodiversity as an intricate web of life that supports all other living beings, not just through the sheer number of species, but because of the complexity of interactions within ecosystems.

May 21, 2025

Information overload

Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking?

In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the increasingly wide variability in people’s ability to consume and metabolize information on the converging crises actively playing out in our world.

May 20, 2025

life

Artificial Intelligence – In Service of Life?

In this special Earth Week edition of Frankly, Nate delves into what it truly means for a technology or project to be “in service of Life,” using the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence as an example.

May 19, 2025

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