What Could Possibly Go Right?

Vicki Robin
  • 4.5 (8)
  • SOCIETY & CULTURE
  • UPDATED WEEKLY
What Could Possibly Go Right? Podcast

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.

  1. 1 AUG

    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 intimate kitchen table conversation with the elder ecophilosopher and guide Joanna Macy.As Joanna approaches the end of a long life dedicated to healing our imperiled planet, she begins the conversation with Jessica Serrante, her student and dear friend, “standing afresh with what it’s like to live on Earth at this moment.” As we look in...

    29 min
  2. #106 Douglas Rushkoff: Tolerating Ambiguity and Choosing Communal Over Isolation

    10/07/2023

    #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 52, 84, and 97.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 bo...

    58 min
  3. #105 Laura Oldanie: Rich and Resilient Living

    14/06/2023

    #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 in socially and environmentally conscious ways that equally value people, planet, and profit. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2009 and has been exploring how to earn, spend, invest, and manage her money to bring about the change ...

    37 min
  4. #104 Susan Griffin: Creating Meaning Through Stories

    05/06/2023

    #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 Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians in A Chorus of Stones, she has shed a new light on countless contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism.She answers the question of “What Co...

    39 min
  5. #103 Margaret Wheatley: Finding Our Right Work and Path of Contribution

    29/05/2023

    #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 Antarctica) with all levels, ages, and types of organizations, leaders, and activists. Her work now focuses on developing and supporting leaders globally as Warriors for the Human Spirit. Margaret has written ten books, including the classic Leadership and the N...

    1h 1m
  6. #102 Alisa Gravitz: Citizen Leadership and Individual Actions

    21/05/2023

    #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 responsible finance. As part of Green America's Center for Sustainability Solutions, which focuses on transforming supply chains, Alisa Gravitz co-chairs innovation networks on carbon farming, regenerative agriculture, climate safe lending, solar an...

    47 min
  7. #101 Anne Stadler: Love is a Guiding Force, Pulling Us Forward

    15/05/2023

    #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 forms for collective evolution. A founder and organizer of local, national, and international peace efforts, and an award-winning television producer at KING 5-TV in Seattle Washington, Anne has decades of experience in guiding the formation of emergen...

    44 min
  8. #100 Riane Eisler: Shifting from Domination to a Partnership System

    04/05/2023

    #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 Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, co-authored with anthropologist Douglas Fry, shows how to construct a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on Partnership rather than Domination. Dr. Eisler is founder and president of the Center...

    1h 0m
See All (123)

Ratings & Reviews

4.5
out of 5
8 Ratings

About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Vicki Robin
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    123
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 What Could Possibly Go Right?
  • Show Website
    What Could Possibly Go Right?

You Might Also Like

To listen to explicit episodes, sign in.

Stay up to date with this show

Sign in or sign up to follow shows, save episodes and get the latest updates.
Select a country or region

Africa, Middle East, and India

Asia Pacific

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

The United States and Canada