Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher, and co-host of the podcast, A Matter of Degrees. Dr. Wilkinson co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, in support of women leading on climate. Her books on climate include the bestselling anthology All We Can Save (2020, co-editor), The Drawdown Review (2020, editor-in-chief and lead writer), the New York Times bestseller Drawdown (2017, lead writer), and Between God & Green (2012). She addr...
Jul 27, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 50
John Wood, Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist, and a noted writer and speaker on issues of political and racial reconciliation. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: The optimism that “we come to remember the higher-minded traditions of moral and social idealism that have inspired this country towards social progress in the pas...
Jul 20, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Penny Livingston is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She has been teaching internationally and working professionally in land management, regenerative design, and permaculture development for 25 years. She holds an MS in Eco-Social Regeneration, has 3 diplomas in Permaculture Design, and has been studying the Hermetic Tradition of alchemy and herbal medicine making all over the world. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Righ...
Jul 13, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. He is the Founder of the Liology Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: The increasing recognition of our shared humanity and connection, “eve...
Jul 06, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. Schor’s research focuses on consumption, time use, and environmental sustainability. Her books include After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win it Back (2020), The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (1998), and The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (...
Jun 29, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Eric Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, Director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship & American Identity Program, author of several popular books, and former White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and later as the President’s deputy domestic policy adviser. He has served as a board member of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Washington State Board of Education, and the Seattle Public Library. He is a co-founder of the Alliance for Gun Res...
Jun 22, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Christabel Rose Reed is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and activist. She is on a mission to link inner transformation with social change and empower people to embark on the entwined journey of inner and outer healing. In 2015, Christabel and her sister Ruby founded Advaya, the London-based system change initiative that organizes around the principles of radical regeneration and joyful revolution. Since then they have launched a media platform called EarthSpace and organized over 150 events incl...
Jun 15, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Richard Heinberg is an author, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, and widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost educators on the need to transition society off fossil fuels. His forthcoming book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL is now available for pre-order. Since 2002, Richard has spoken to hundreds of public, government, and business audiences around the world, and has made countless appearances on radio and television. He is the award-winning author ...
Jun 08, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 43
May East is a sustainability educator, spatial planner, and social innovator. Her work spans the fields of cultural geography, urban ecology, and women’s studies. Designated one of the 100 Global SustainAbility Leaders three years in a row, she leads a whole generation of regenerative designers and educators in 55 countries working with community-based organizations and intergovernmental agencies in the development of policy guidance and projects strengthening climate resilience, food security, ...
Jun 01, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honored and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He has held positions at National Geographic and Discover Magazine and won the top awards in science journalism multiple times, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Revkin has written acclaimed books on the history of humanity’s relationship with the weather, the changing Arctic, ...
May 25, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA. She has been a visionary advocate for peace for several decades. Whether in board rooms or war zones, legislative offices, or neighborhood streets, Jodie’s enthusiasm for a world at peace infuses conciliation, optimism, and activism wherever she goes. Jodie addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That the war economy is in the structures around us that are violent, opp...
May 18, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Victor Lee Lewis is a progressive life coach, trainer, speaker, and Founder of the Radical Resilience Institute. As a social justice educator, Victor brings a unique, socially progressive vision to the work of personal growth, personal empowerment, and emotional health. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That many esteemed institutions and structures that we deeply believe in are counterfeit to what we really want and need. That humanity and lif...
May 11, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Glacier Kwong is a political and digital rights activist born and raised in Hong Kong. She is the founder of the NGO Keyboard Frontline and is a Research Fellow at Hong Kong Democracy Council in the US. In self-exile in Germany, she is pursuing her PhD in Law at the University of Hamburg, with her research focusing on data protection and surveillance in Hong Kong and China. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: “We don't persist because we se...
May 04, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Alan AtKisson has been working professionally in sustainable development since 1988 and has been recognized internationally as a pioneering innovator and thought leader in the field. He currently serves as Assistant Director-General of Sida , the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, where he leads the Department of Partnership and Innovation. Alan is a musician and an author whose books include bestseller Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist’s World . Alan a...
Apr 27, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Kay Taylor is an evolutionary astrologer, author, and teacher who has been integrating soul-centered astrology with a range of healing wisdom for over 35 years. Author of Soul Path Way, Kay runs the Soul Path School to train individuals in intuitive mastery, psychosynthesis, and astrology. She maintains a thriving full-time consulting practice based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: The shifts in consciousness in...
Apr 20, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Hailing from Celina Tennessee, Trae Crowder is a standup comedian, writer, and self-proclaimed “Liberal Redneck.” Trae gained national attention (or notoriety, depending on your viewpoint) with his viral video rants and has been performing and touring his particular brand of Southern-fried intellectual comedy for over a decade. Trae addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” through his socially aware comedic view, sharing thoughts including: That there’s inexorable positive progr...
Apr 12, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Ellen Bass is an award-winning poet, author, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Her poetry books include Indigo, Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love . Her nonfiction books include the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth . Bass founded poetry workshops at Salin...
Apr 06, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Dr. Jem Bendell is the Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and a Professor of Sustainability Leadership with the University of Cumbria. He works as a researcher, educator, and advisor on social and organizational change, with over 25 years of experience in sustainable development initiatives in over 20 countries. In 2018, he authored the viral Deep Adaptation paper, downloaded around a million times. Jem addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That “pe...
Mar 30, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 33
New York Times best-selling author Kim Stanley Robinson joins Vicki Robin this week. Widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction, Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including The Ministry For The Future , the best-selling Mars trilogy, and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain , The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312 . In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. From his perspective as a utopian science fiction writer, he...
Mar 23, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Michelle Singletary is an author and award-winning personal finance columnist. She writes the nationally syndicated personal finance column “The Color of Money”, which appears in The Washington Post. She is a frequent contributor to various radio programs and has appeared on national talk shows and television networks. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That the joy of this pandemic could be a lasting effect on people reaching out and helping t...
Mar 16, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, founder of Earth Activist Training , and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: The boost in people being politically engaged this past year, tuning up and caring for democracy “like an old creaky car” That more people paying attention to climate change and increasingly understanding the infrastructure changes and ...
Mar 09, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 30
The third set of What Could Possibly Go Right? kicks off with host Vicki Robin reflecting on past episodes, sharing her motivation for creating this series, and revealing what she hopes to find as we embark on a new set of interviews. Her thoughts include: That cultural scouts have this “carefully cultivated sense of looking squarely at reality and trying to pick a path, a critical path forward on behalf of the common good”. That cultural scouts have an educated sense of the future, with perspec...
Mar 02, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Our host Vicki Robin reflects on the interview with media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff, as heard on episode 28 of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” Connect with Douglas Website: rushkoff.com Twitter: twitter.com/rushkoff Follow WCPGR on Social Media Facebook: facebook.com/WhatCouldPossiblyGoRightPodcast Twitter: twitter.com/postcarbon Instagram: instagram.com/postcarboninstitute/ Learn more: https://bit.ly/pci-wcpgrseries Support the show Complete Show Notes...
Dec 23, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty books include the recently published 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 . Rushkoff’s work...
Dec 22, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Our host Vicki Robin reflects on her conversation with author and moral philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, as heard on episode 27 of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”. Connect with Kathleen Website: riverwalking.com Website: musicandclimateaction.com Follow WCPGR on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhatCouldPossiblyGoRightPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/postcarbon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/postcarboninstitute/ Learn more: https://bit.ly/pci-wcpgrseries Support the show...
Dec 17, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Kathleen Dean Moore, Ph.D., is an Author, Moral Philosopher, Environmental Advocate. She served as Distinguished Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Oregon State University, where she wrote award-winning books about our cultural and moral relations to the wet, wild world and to one another. But her increasing concern about the climate and extinction crises led her to leave the university, so she could write and speak full-time about the moral urgency of climate action. Kathleen shares thoug...
Dec 15, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Host Vicki Robin is joined by Sherri Mitchell today to reflect on episode 26 of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” They discuss what Julian Brave NoiseCat had to share about this big question, especially with an Indigenous perspective. Sherri Mitchell is a Lawyer, Indigenous Rights Activist & Educator. Learn more about Sherri at sacredinstructions.life Connect with Julian Brave NoiseCat Website: julianbravenoisecat.com Twitter: twitter.com/jnoisecat Follow WCPGR on Social Media Facebook: https:...
Dec 10, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Julian Brave NoiseCat is Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum. A Fellow of the Type Media Center, NDN Collective and the Center for Humans and Nature, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Julian grew up in Oakland, California and is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie. Julian...
Dec 08, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Our host Vicki Robin considers her interview with author and journalist, Judith D. Schwartz, as heard in episode 25 of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” She discusses stories of regeneration and metaphors of seeds for the open-mindedness and possibilities that are sprouting. "The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Connect with Judith Website: judithdschwartz.com Twitter: twitter.com/judithdschwartz Facebook: facebook.com/ju...
Dec 03, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Judith D. Schwartz is an author who tells stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and cultural nuance. She takes a clear-eyed look at global environmental, economic, and social challenges, and finds insights and solutions in natural systems. She writes for numerous publications, including The American Prospect, The Guardian, Discover, Scientific American, and YaleE360. Bringing insights from her latest book, “The Reindeer Chronicles”, Judith addresses the question of What Could Pos...
Dec 01, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 25
