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-pandemic path.
Episodes
123 episodes
Special Bonus: We Are The Great Turning (Joanna Macy with Jess Serrante)
Vicki Robin, the once and possibly future host of What Could Possibly Go Right?, breaks her hiatus to share the first episode of We Are the Great Turning, an intim...
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#106 Douglas Rushkoff: Tolerating Ambiguity and Choosing Communal Over Isolation
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
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Episode 106
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58:06
#105 Laura Oldanie: Rich and Resilient Living
Laura Oldanie is a green living and money coach who blogs at Rich & Resilient Living, where she explores money and lifestyle choices for a regenerative future. Her goal is to help people achieve financial freedom and live their best lives i...
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Episode 105
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36:33
#104 Susan Griffin: Creating Meaning Through Stories
For over fifty years, through twenty books and one Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Griffin has been making unconventional connections between seemingly separate subjects. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work Woman and ...
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Episode 104
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39:28
#103 Margaret Wheatley: Finding Our Right Work and Path of Contribution
Margaret Wheatley, Ed.D. began caring about the world’s peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea. As a consultant, senior-level advisor, teacher, speaker, and formal leader, she has worked on all continents (except Antarctic...
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Episode 103
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#102 Alisa Gravitz: Citizen Leadership and Individual Actions
For over 35 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization that develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on climate, regenerative agriculture, labor justice and re...
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Episode 102
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46:43
#101 Anne Stadler: Love is a Guiding Force, Pulling Us Forward
Anne Stadler is a pioneering elder and board member at Sourcing the Way. Her specialty is offering services that support self-organizing individual and collective leadership. She opens space for the emergence of spirited leadership and inspired...
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Episode 101
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44:27
#100 Riane Eisler: Shifting from Domination to a Partnership System
Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. Her newest work, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partners...
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Episode 100
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#99 Fran Korten: Growing Awareness of Our Global Interconnectedness
Fran Korten is former executive director, publisher and contributing editor for YES! Magazine, where she wrote about opportunities to advance a progressive agenda in politics, economics, and the environment. She lives in Bainbridge Island, Wash...
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Episode 99
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53:48
#98 Kristin Ohlson: Mutualistic Relationships of Nature
Kristin Ohlson is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her newest book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World. Her last book was The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers and Foo...
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Episode 98
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51:11
#97 Douglas Rushkoff: Adopting Alternative Narratives of Success through Mutuality
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.Douglas Rushkoff is an author and document...
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Episode 97
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57:20
#96 Kritee Kanko: Fueling a Sense of Belonging for Collective Power
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 an...
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Episode 96
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45:08
#95 Geneen Marie Haugen: The Creative Power in our Imagination and Awareness
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 Inst...
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Episode 95
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38:40
#94 Gwendolyn Hallsmith: Moving Back to a Caring Economy
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 d...
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Episode 94
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#93 Vicki Robin: Morphing the American Dream
Hear from our host Vicki Robin in another solo episode, as she shares a topical theme for “What Could Possibly Go Right?” including:Ideas for creative solutions and alternative arrangements to address America’s housing issues
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Episode 93
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20:58
#92 Per Espen Stoknes: Addressing Inequality to Support the Earth for All
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 entrep...
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Episode 92
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53:19
#91 Heather Cox Richardson (replay): Rewriting the Politics of the American Dream
With the mid-term election underway in US this week, we feature a replay of our interview with Heather Cox Richardson, as heard on episode 8 in July 2020. Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and an expe...
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Episode 91
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24:50
#90 Sherri Mitchell: Finding Groundedness for New Stories to Emerge
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 ...
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Episode 90
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#89 Joanna Macy: Treasuring Your Emotional Connection to the World
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. ...
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Episode 89
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36:09
#88 Janine Benyus: Biomimicry to Inspire and Design Better Systems
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’...
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Episode 88
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#87 Phoebe Barnard: Our Most Profound Humanity
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 c...
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Episode 87
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40:00
#86: Kinari Webb: Radical Listening for Respect, Understanding, and Solutions
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...
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Episode 86
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43:32
#85 Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac
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 recen...
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Episode 85
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