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.

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#3 Victoria Santos: What Can We Be to Each Other?

Young Women Empowered ’s Victoria Santos approached our big question with a focus on social justice and racial equity. Her passionate insights included: The pandemic and recent protests provide the opportunity to reveal who we are to each other and who we can be to each other. That COVID-19 is having a disproportionate burden on people of color, indigenous people and the disenfranchised. That this isn’t just a crisis of today; that it has been accumulating for generations and we need to get to w...

Jun 30, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 3

#2 Bill McKibben: What Crises Can Teach Us

In today’s episode, Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, and Co-Founder of 350.org shares his perspectives on “What Could Possibly Go Right?” including: Learning from the pain and trauma of the current crises in a destabilized planet. Reconnecting with the physical reality of the world outside of our online lives. Knowing speed matters in our response to climate change, as well as understanding that actions will be disruptive but necessary. Recognizing that social solidarity and a unified, f...

Jun 25, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 2

#1 Saru Jayaraman: Extraordinary Moment of Opportunity

Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United , shares insight into the current perfect opportunity for wage change in the food service industry, including: How the pandemic has laid bare the troubles with tips-based pay structures, such as the ineligibility of many service workers to qualify for unemployment benefits due to sub-minimum wages. How the shut down during the pandemic is allowing for reconfiguration and reimagining of the re...

Jun 25, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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