Resources

Explore our library of resources, featuring presentations, publications, and educational short-form videos. Dive into in-depth explorations of energy, human behavior, economics, and the environment.

Presentations

Power Shift

Power Shift Shattering Illusions about the Energy Transition and Our Future

Energy expert Nate Hagens shatters conventional wisdom about the force that truly powers our world and warns that our current trajectory is unsustainable.

Keynote at Canadian Congress 2024, invited by Kira Cooper (Waterloo) for ESAC, on the constraints, challenges & possibilities of building a more sustainable culture.

In a world of converging crises, the core issue is our relationship with energy, nature, and each other. What if civilization is an organism growing without a plan?

What if the energy transition doesn’t work? Nate Hagens suggests there may be no solution to our insatiable hunger for energy.

Publication

Economics for the Future: Beyond the Superorganism

Illuminate the layers of the human predicament, revealing the interconnected social, economic, and ecological challenges that shape our world.

Publication

Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures, Vol. 1

A world where people navigate uncertainty with understanding, working together to create a more resilient future.

Publication

The Bottlenecks of the 21st Century: Essays on the Systems Synthesis  of the Human Predicament

When people see the forces shaping our world clearly, they can make informed choices, respond creatively, and contribute to a collective future

Educational

Human Predicament

This is a 75-minute synthesis of the human predicament: brain/behavior, energy/economy, and environment created for freshmen college students.

The recent environmental/systems science documentary, Living in the Futures Past by Jeff Bridges, featured and was co-written by Nate Hagens. ISEOF also created a study guide for high school students giving summaries of key issues raised in the movie about brain/behavior, energy, money, and ecology.

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