The Great Maw of Consumerism
A friend and I bought the house I live in. It was 2009. A sliver of a moment when the financial system tanked enough that this water/mountain view home in Langley — albeit homely and needing siding — could...
Holy Sh*t, Overshoot! Don’t Dither; Do
July 28 was EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. On July 29 we went into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature. We entered overshoot ~ 40 years ago. When I saw the...
Playing with FIRE
In 2017, I was on the speaking circuit for the FIRE (financial independence retire early) vast community of super smart, spreadsheet literate people working towards early retirement. Few understood the inner dimensions of the path they were on, and...
Vicki Robin interviewed on FacingFuture.TV
Vicki Robin—PCI board member and host of What Could Possibly Go Right?—was recently interviewed by Stuart Scott, a dedicated activist and promoter of the Scientist’s Warning to Humanity, on the FacingFuture.TV show.
The Year of Choosing Daringly
2020 took a big bite out of our complacency and our “it-can’t-happen-here” denialism. The shocks to our personal and global systems will reverberate for the rest of our lives. The harvest of these ruptures, though, begins now. We can’t...
Vicki Robin mentioned in CNBC Select article
Vicki Robin—PCI board member and host of What Could Possibly Go Right?—was mentioned, along with her New York Times best-selling book “Your Money or Your Life,” in an article by CNBC Select. From the article: “Education is really key,” says...
Vicki Robin interviewed by Douglas Rushkoff on Team Human
Vicki Robin—PCI board member and host of What Could Possibly Go Right?—was recently interviewed by Douglas Rushkoff on his popular podcast, Team Human. Robin will be helping us find ways to emerge from this moment of social and economic...
Recovering from Covid
Count me among the tens of thousands of cancer survivors who’ve said, “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but it’s one of the best things that ever happened to me.” When I told friends, in 2004, that I had...
Vicki Robin interviewed on The Optimist Daily Update podcast
Vicki Robin, PCI Board Member and host of the What Could Possibly Go Right? podcast, was interviewed on The Optimist Daily Update podcast with Summers & Kristy.
Gritty Hope: now what could possibly go right?
“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that...