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April 22 is Earth Day, a day when we can talk about the planetary situation without fear of social reprisal. This week's episode focuses on cultural terms and their biophysical equivalents from an Earth Day perspective. The economy takes money and technology and tells a story about distributing the largesse of that system to all the humans. A human ecosystem not only includes money and technology but energy, materials, pollution, externalities.

For this year’s Earth Day presentation, I highlight common terms in the English language - the meanings of which we've come to take for granted. These words semantically imbue our understanding, perspective, and even behavior but have become untethered from the systemic reality they attempt to describe. Words have power. What we call things and how we describe things matters.

This presentation is recommended to be viewed on Youtube with the accompanying visuals, but can still be listened to and understood in audio-only form.

Thanks to my team - Leslie Batt-Lutz, Lizzy Sirianni, Luke Robert Mason, and Jason Figueredo for putting this together. Also thanks (as always) to my friend DJ White for helpful input. Thanks to Joan Diamond, Kyle Saunders, Maia Nillson, Rex Weyler for helpful input.