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Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Global Tax Avoidance: Who's Responsible?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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We investigate the complex world of tax avoidance, starting with the mining industry in Zambia. Activists, documentarians, and economists give pers...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:04
Solar Access Warming For Renters
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Browning
Is your home one of the millions that haven’t been able to get solar because you’re a renter? The cost of solar panel installation is half of what ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2
When CEOs Become Activists
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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Given their significance to global economies, corporate leaders' influence reaches beyond the walls of their businesses. How do they use that power...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:39
The Shirt Off Your Back: Lydia Wendt and Michael Townsend
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lydia Wendt
Among the inherent contradictions of capitalism, according to Karl Marx, is that private profit rests on the backs of workers who gain little from ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Jill Stein
From: Cannabis Radio News
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Jill Stein was the Green Party candidate for president in 2012 and is seeking the party nomination again in 2016. The Green Party of the United St...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 19:39
Richard Lunt: Transparent Solar Cells
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Lunt
Imagine a world where every window-laden skyscraper generates its own solar power, where the skylights in your ceiling are a source of light and el...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Todd Thorner on Independent Power Producers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Todd Thorner
Have you ever driven by a hillside covered with wind turbines and wondered, “Who owns those, and is the energy produced up there making it to my ho...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
12: Anya Fernald, Belcampo Meat & Kara Goldin, Hint Water: A New Kind of Hunger Game
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Anya Fernald, Belcampo Meat Co
What we eat in America is largely driven by the big food companies' ability to churn it out fast and cheap--and it's leading to toxic environments ...

Bought by KSJD, WPSU, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Why We Cheat: Stories of Dishonesty and Human Nature from Dan Ariely and Others
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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In this last installment of our three-part series on workplace ethics in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org, we take an honest look at cheating....

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:21
Green Brewers: New Belgium & Alaskan
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jennifer Vervrier
This week on Sea Change Radio, we are talking about green beer, and it’s not even St. Patrick’s Day. First we talk with Jennifer Vervrier, the Dire...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Measuring Methane
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
When we think of the potential dangers of fracking for natural gas, what may come to mind is the dramatic image of flaming tap-water. But the prosp...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Under Magnolia (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WFAE, WABE, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 6
Under Magnolia
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, WABE, KVSC, KENW and more


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
10: Julie Bornstein, StitchFix and Mariam Naficy, Minted, Reinventing Retail
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Mariam Naficy, Minted
Traditional shopping is incredibly inefficient, says Julie Bornstein of StitchFix (and formerly Sephora). But, is the alternative to buy everything...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
How to Save a City (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The first 24 hours after a city declares bankruptcy, there’s a reckoning: what gets to stay and what has to go. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, KPVL, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
11: Brandi Chastain, Soccer Pro and Missy Park, Title Nine-The Power of Sports for Girls
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Brandi Chastain
The US Women's soccer team won the World Cup in 2015--the first time since Brandi Chastain was on the field in 1999. In this episode, we talk to Br...

Bought by KSJD, WRIR, KPOV, KUT, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
5: Leila Janah & Erin Ganju-Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Millions of Women
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Leila Janah, SamaGroup
There are billions of people across the world who are living in poverty and 800 million people who are illiterate--two-thirds of them women and gir...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Innovation & Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 38:38
  • Purchases: 1
4: Tanya Holland & Ann Wheat-The Grit Required of Women to Succeed in the Restaurant Business
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Tanya Holland, Brown Sugar Kitchen
What's it take to succeed in a competitive restaurant market? In a $683 billion industry, less than 5% of restaurant owners are women. Tanya Hollan...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
3: Kira Wampler, Lyft & Ilana Stern, Weddington Way-Women Driving the New Economy
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Ilana Stern
Transportation and weddings are both multi-billion dollar industries--and if you're a business person, that means opportunity for reinvention.On th...

Bought by KCSB-FM, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Getting Around: Urban Transport Solutions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Amanda Eaken
We’ve all deliberated ad nauseum about which road to take to avoid traffic. Today’s discussions about transportation choices are more about the mod...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
2: Kirsten Tobey & Kristin Richmond, Revolution Foods; Alex Bernadotte, Beyond12: Hot Food and High Tech
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kristin Richmond & Kirsten Tobey, Revolution Foods
How good food and good data improves student success. The female founders of Revolution Foods and Beyond 12.

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
1: Lindsey Turrentine, CNET & Caterina Fake, Flickr and Foundery: A Woman's Place in Tech
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Lindsey Turrentine, CNET.com
Lindsey Turrentine, of CNET.com & Caterina Fake founder of Flickr and Findery.

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Latest Oil Glut: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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It comes as little surprise that the author of a book entitled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future is a critic of...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1