What Could Possibly Go Right?
We're asking provocative thought leaders what they see emerging as we try to tackle global crises.
Friends in NYC, I'm speaking on August 25 with a bunch of consciousness luminaries on the light duty topic of ARE WE DOOMED. I'd love to see you there. see cmts
04/08/2024
My first public anything in many years on the topic much on my mind for many years. I will be very interested what the other panelists have to say. New York City, August 25, 2024.
ARE WE DOOMED?: A Frank Discussion about the End of the World Great minds come together to discuss runaway AI, ecological collapse, nuclear war, with free drinks and entertainment.
25/04/2024
Vicki and Bella invite you to come over to my new home. We'll tell you all about it below in the cmnts.
27/02/2024
The video I posted 2 days ago, Coming of Aging, now has nearly 72K views in 3 days. WTF. What does that mean? If anything?
That's the topic of my latest post on Substack:
We all get to be famous now But why do we want to?
Fans of WCPGR, we're planning the Spring set of interviews. I'd like to include one or two women over 70 who you see as wise elders. I think we all need some grandmother wisdom. We've already been blessed by interviews with Joanna Macy and Hazel Henderson. Who else?
Douglas Rushkoff makes another appearance on our podcast, sharing his latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right? Listen to his previous interviews in episodes 28, 52 and 83.
As 2022 comes to a close, enjoy this casual chat between Douglas and Vicki.
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Kritee Kanko is a climate scientist, Zen priest, Educator & founding spiritual teacher of Boundless in Motion. She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain, a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center and faculty for many organizations for courses at the intersection of Ecology and spirituality. She has served as a scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund.
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Geneen Marie Haugen, PhD, grew up as a free-range wildish kid with a run amok imagination. She is a guide to the experiential, intertwined mysteries of nature and psyche with the Animas Valley Institute, and is on the faculty of the Esalen Institute, Schumacher College, and the Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality. Her writing has appeared in many journals and books, including Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth; Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth; Parabola Journal; Ecopsychology Journal; DailyGood.org; High Country News; and others.
She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- The power in our unique creativity and imagination as human beings
- The value of becoming more receptive to the dreams and consciousness of the community, earth and universe around us
- The increasing awareness of traditional Indigenous and ecological knowledge in the Western worldview
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28/11/2022
Gwendolyn Hallsmith is the Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives, a non-profit organization she founded in 2002, and has just celebrated their 20th anniversary. She is the author of six books on sustainable community and economic development and has worked with communities all over the world to foster caring communities, vibrant local economies, good governance, efficient services, and healthy ecosystems. She founded Vermonters for a New Economy to work on economic solutions at the state level, and the Headwaters Garden and Learning Center, an ecovillage in Cabot, VT.
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What Could Possibly Go Right? In this interview series sponsored by Post Carbon Institute, Vicki Robin, activist and best-selling author on sustainable living, talks with provocative thought leaders about emerging possibilities and ways humanity might step onto a better, post-...
15/11/2022
Per Espen Stoknes, a psychologist with PhD in economics, is a TED Global speaker, and serves as the director of Centre for Green Growth at the Norwegian Business School. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he’s also serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Learning from the Future (2004, in Norwegian), Money & Soul (2009) and the “Outstanding Academic Title of 2015” award winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). Per Espen has also served as member of Norwegian Parliament.
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Sherri Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. Sherri is an author and cohost of the syndicated radio program Love (and revolution) Radio, which focuses on real-life stories of heart-based activism and revolutionary spiritual change. She was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation (Penawahpskek). She speaks and teaches around the world on issues of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change.
WEBSITE: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-10-31/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-90-sherri-mitchell/
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Joanna Macy, Ph.D, author & teacher, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with learnings from six decades of activism. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and postmodern science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her thirteen books, which include three volumes of poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke with translation and commentary.
As the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects, Joanna has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.
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Recorded in the spring 2022, this conversation with Janine Benyus helps us see where to go plant our feet as our world goes through big changes
Janine Benyus is the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Since the book’s 1997 release, Janine’s work as a global thought leader has evolved the practice of biomimicry from a meme to a movement, inspiring clients and innovators around the world to learn from the genius of nature.
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Phoebe Barnard is an environmental and societal futures analyst and sustainability strategist, global change ecologist, biodiversity conservation biologist, climate risk and resilience specialist, policy wonk, and film co-producer. She is the chief executive officer at the Stable Planet Alliance and an affiliate professor at UW Bothell and UW Seattle. Phoebe works at the intersection of science, society, sustainability, policy, planning, and media storytelling.
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05/10/2022
Check this out!
Opinion | Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following A book about choosing sustainable living over work is more relevant than ever, but its co-author says a key part of her message has been lost in translation.
03/10/2022
Kinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a co-founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). Dr. Webb graduated from Yale University School of Medicine with honors and currently splits her time between Indonesia, international site assessments, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Guardians of the Trees is her debut.
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Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He has written 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn). Most recently, he organized the all-volunteer community project, The Carbon Almanac.
By focusing on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas and changing everything, Seth has been able to motivate and inspire countless people around the world.
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To close out the season, Vicki welcomes back fellow podcast host and good friend, Douglas Rushkoff. Their casual chat covers an array of topics, from truth-telling to social capital. Douglas exposes the "false premise of winning at capitalism" and he and Vicki connect over their shared opinions on our consumer culture.
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Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty books include Team Human, based on his podcast. Others include bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool.
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Here are three takeaways about healthy soil from our host, Vicki Robin...
#83 Margaret Klein Salamon: Embracing Our Emergency Mode for Climate Mobilization
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Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is the Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund. She is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people face the truth of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She founded and directed The Climate Mobilization from 2014-2020, advocating an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. She is the Founding Principal of Climate Awakening, a project to unleash the power of climate emotions through scalable small group conversations. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency
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"If the media is no longer “fair and balanced”, we need to be. These are complex times. Most of the time, most of us are in over our heads. Can we get good/ at not knowing enough/ to be right /but enough to be kind, curious, and thoughtful? Can we think clearly about what’s going blaringly wrong/ without sacrificing appreciation for what’s going steadily and invisibly right?"
#82 Betsy Taylor: Using Regenerative Agriculture to Give Our Land a Break
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Betsy Taylor is president of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions LLC. For over thirty years, she has built a solid reputation as a philanthropic advisor, social change leader, motivational speaker, and problem solver. For the past four years, Betsy has worked to build the field of regenerative agriculture through grant-making, network development, global convenings, and general cheerleading about the potential of our lands to sequester carbon pollution while boosting food security and habitat protection.
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"Politics might be black and white, but ethical choices are shades of gray. Every human wrestles with their conscience."
A message from our host, Vicki Robin:
"At Post Carbon Institute, we think in systems. And so I’m strangely reminded of a scene in the Monty Python movie, The Life of Brian, about the systems that bind us...."
#81 Helaine Olen: Insist On Your Dignity
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Helaine Olen is an award-winning opinion writer for the Washington Post Opinion section. An expert on money and society with a deep understanding of public policy, she writes, speaks and consults on issues including Social Security, retirement, healthcare, student loans and women’s financial issues. Helaine has appeared on The Daily Show, Frontline, C-Span, the BBC, MSNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace and more to share her forward-thinking commentary on politics, economics and consumer and regulatory issues.
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Complete show notes: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-05-31/what-could-possibly-go-right-episdoe-81-helaine-olen/
#80 Britt Wray: Feeling and Healing Our Climate Anxiety
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Dr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of the ecological crisis.
Britt is the creator of Gen Dread, the weekly newsletter about “staying sane in the climate crisis” and author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (2022). She has hosted several podcasts, radio & TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is a TED speaker.
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Vicki Robin shares three difficult things we can all do to help our planet:
#79 Stacy Mitchell: Fighting Outsized Corporate Power with an Anti-Monopoly Movement
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Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She directs its initiative to decentralize economic power and level the playing field for independent businesses. She has produced many influential reports and articles, designed local and federal policies, and collaborated to build effective coalitions and campaigns.
Our host Vicki Robin says: If global supply chains are disrupted, we need more local food and local energy. The question isn’t how can corporations feed the world, but how can our laws and institutions increase the ability of regions to feed themselves?
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