Immense Possibilities

The Occupy Tea Party conversation

Jeff — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:09:57 +0000

Some say there’s no conversation in America today that’s more important. In Southern Oregon, it began with our January broadcast here on IP. On April 23, it filled the Congregational Church chapel in Medford with a wide range of people working for a better world. It’s the dialogue between Tea Party and Occupy leaders who want to know if there’s enough common ground for cooperation towards a future of immense possibilities. Here’s what the Medford paper had to say the next day. This conversation must continue, and it will. If you want to know about future events, enter your email address in the box in the righthand column of any IP webpage.

A delightful local food leader

Jeff — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:05:06 +0000

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.

A GREAT guest

Jeff — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:23:45 +0000

There’s an amazing woman who has been unearthing and championing immense possibilities LONG before we ever thought of a title for this program: Frances Moore Lappé. Frankie’s back with us for a great conversation about “living democracy” in 2012. We are really happy about that.

Watch our show with Frankie stream live Tuesday, February 21, at 7:30pm PST. And you can have friends watch the show in the archives anytime after that.

The Welcome…

Jeff — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:10:53 +0000

Sometimes building community begins by tending to the wounds that have torn it apart.

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.

The Welcome Home Project aims to change that. Our half-hour program on the project aired Tuesday, July 5, and is still featured at the website.

EVERYBODY’S doing it

Jeff — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:44:19 +0000

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, and sometimes legislating, stronger local economies. We have to stay focused on this, to stubbornly support local enterprise and push our community leaders to adopt the best emerging policies to keep our wealth circulating more thoroughly in our own communities.

IP will do its part. Keep watching, be in touch with ideas, and tell your friends to visit out our website.

Farm to School’s a hit

Jeff — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:00:06 +0000

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.

Tell your localist-leaning friends about our show next Tuesday, June 14, with the immensely smart Michael Shuman!

Our week celebrating Yes!

Jeff — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:55:56 +0000

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 they deserve for achieving so powerfully exactly what we started IP to do: ignite realistic hope.

Join us for our show on Yes! and the world it’s helping to create, this Tuesday, May 31 at 7:30pm Pacific time. And tell your friends!

Two webcasts down, with Frankie on deck…

Jeff — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:10:34 +0000

Hope you were able to see the first two IP webcasts, on May 10 with Journey of Action and our story on Time Banks and on May 17 with Ocean Robbins –check THAT show out in the video player to the left. Now we’re getting ready for our public television debut with Frances Moore Lappé and Camp Odyssey. If you join us this Tuesday night, May 24, you’ll be excited like we are…

Getting Ready to Launch

Jeff — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:56:31 +0000

We’re just getting ready to launch Immense Possibilities with our first public webcast, 8pm PDT on Tuesday, May 10. And we are, may I say, pretty excited…