Living the Change: How TGS Viewers are Transforming Their Lives and Communities
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A few months ago, we invited viewers to share the projects, initiatives, and lifestyle changes they've embraced after becoming aware of the global challenges facing humanity. In this special compilation episode, we're featuring just a few of the many inspiring videos that were submitted. The responses were diverse and surprising, ranging from community education and regenerative projects to small-scale repair shops and off-grid living. We hope these examples serve as inspiration for the kinds of prosocial actions we can each take in our own lives.
Additionally, if you tend to listen to the podcast on audio platforms, we encourage you to check out the video version of this episode. Many of the listeners who submitted videos visually show their work, projects, and environments and there are some fun cameos of animals, as well.
Many thanks to all those who submitted a video, and the reminder of how many actions are available to us right now to improve the initial conditions of the future.
Most importantly, thank you to each of you for playing a positive role in our collective future(s).
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| 0:00.0 | Back in February, I invited you, the viewers, to share the changes you've made in your own life or work after becoming aware of the topics covered on this podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Lots of you submitted videos, of which my team and I have selected a few to highlight in the following compilation. |
| 0:25.1 | In viewing these videos, I was honored, |
| 0:32.7 | very heart-warmed, and I was truly amazed by the diversity of age, location, and professions who are taking on projects in their corners of this blue-green earth to respond to the human |
| 0:39.3 | predicament. And I find it very heartening that while there seem to be an overwhelming |
| 0:44.5 | number of global problems that are beyond our control, there's also many actions that we can |
| 0:50.3 | take right now to improve the initial conditions of the future. |
| 0:55.1 | Additionally, if you're listening to this on audio platforms, |
| 0:58.0 | I encourage you to check out the video version of this episode. |
| 1:01.7 | Many of the listeners who submitted videos visually show their work, |
| 1:05.1 | projects, and environments. |
| 1:06.8 | There are some fun cameos of some spunky animals, |
| 1:10.1 | which was very fun to see. |
| 1:12.3 | With that, please enjoy these select examples of what the great simplification listeners are doing in response to what they've learned on this platform. |
| 1:22.5 | Hi there. I'm Derek. I'm a biology and environmental science teacher in Minnesota. |
| 1:27.7 | So one way that my understanding of the future has changed is that I've learned and realized that we not only need to reduce energy usage for mitigating climate change, it's also mandatory that we reduce energy usage because of resource constraints. |
| 1:51.0 | So one concrete action that I've taken to prepare the youth around me for a resource-constrained future is to develop a high-quality energy unit in my environmental science class. |
| 1:57.0 | So I have taken lots of language from the Great Simplification podcast and made it accessible to my students through this lesson. |
| 2:05.1 | So for example, we talk about somatic and extrasomatic energy use. |
| 2:08.9 | We talk about human labor equivalents of energy use. |
| 2:12.1 | We talk about conventional versus tight oil extraction. |
| 2:15.5 | We talk about supply chains, Goldilocks technology, and of course the |
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