As I write the big climate conference in Paris is drawing to a close.  Chatter fills the media on whether it can make a big difference, with endless description of the political, economic and ideological hurdles that have to be cleared to make possible solutions that match the scale of the challenge. What’s possible?  As with all  Read More»

In an upcoming episode we explore the Next System, which touches on a debate that’s vital right now: can capitalism be revised and revitalized to serve most of the people, or does it need to make way for something else altogether? You’re invited to an online discussion of this question that promises to be smart  Read More»

Watch this. What does it make you feel about what’s possible?

It’s so simple. If you’re slogging around in a dark place and seeing no exit, just try one thing.  Sing! Have 2 or 3 tunes that sometimes make you smile–  this one really does it for me– and sing it out, loud or soft, once or twice or three times.  Everything changes in a moment.  Read More»

We’re pleased to let you know that Immense Possibilities is moving to Friday night, alongside public broadcasting’s other current affairs programs. Beginning July 6, we’ll be on the air (and on the IP website) every Friday at 8:30pm Pacific time, right after Washington Week in Review. And we’re excited about our first episode in this new time slot, described right here.

If you’re in Southern Oregon and, like many IP fans, you see the local food movement as a cornerstone of building healthy communities, mark March 15 and 16 on your calendar. That’s your chance to spend time with Joel Salatin, organic farmer, leader of the New Food movement, and author of Folks, This Ain’t Normal. Visit the JCLAC website for details.

There’s a tradition as old as warfare, a ritual that happens after the battle: a warrior is welcomed home by the grateful community he protected. Except that our attitudes towards recent American combat have been so conflicted and divided that veterans have often come home to something very different.

Going local, that is. Our conversations last night with Michael Shuman (who probably coined the term with his 1990s classic, Going Local…watch our dialogue in the box to the left) and then, in the aftershow, with SOU Prof Ric Holt, made it clear that there aren’t many states and communities that AREN’T focusing hard on,  Read More»

Thanks for your great response to our Farm to School program (in the streaming video box through June 14, then in the archive section below). Yes, we agree: they're doing immensely good work. writing service Tell your localist-leaning friends about our show next Tuesday, June 14, with the immensely smart Michael Shuman!

Thanks to IP's earliest viewers for your great enthusiastic welcoming of our debut program with Frankie Lappe and the young women who are re-founding Camp Odyssey. This week we get an hour with the Executive Editor of Yes! Magazine, the night before the magazine's huge 15th Anniversary Celebration in downtown Seattle. They're getting the recognition  Read More»