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Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 01:01
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was a “whistleblower?”
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her inter...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that a truly sustainable food system, includes standards for working conditions, fair wages and pricing, gender equity, and environmen...
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 28:00
Kristine Jones started a business on a whim in an obscure, cutthroat industry. Then she got serious about building a strong company.
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 13:45
Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz, singers, songwriters, and activists
Interview by Gary Kanter: Sharon and Mike, two passionate and harmonious voi...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 28:14
A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 57:36
- Purchases: 1
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 29:02
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:08
Just a stone’s throw from Orlando’s Disneyworld, Florida’s Lake Apopka used to be a premier recreational lake, until agricultural chemical runoff p...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Mark McDermott, a Union Activist, Community Organizer, and Historian
Interview: Mark tells us how we can and must work together to protect victori...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 27:39
Would you believe, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that every order of fast-food served with a slice of tomato is part of a system of sl...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
American consumers are told that “cheap” protein is the product of an efficient, consolidated meatpacking industry. However, the environmental toll...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Labor leader César Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city cle...
- Added: Jan 10, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 01:33
Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 4
What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 04:58
Storm Reyes tells her son, Jeremy Hagquist, about growing up in migrant farm worker camps during the early 1960s.
Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, WTJU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 4
Barbara Moore (R) tells her daughter, Olivia Fite (L), about becoming a bricklayer in the...
Bought by WVBI-LP, WXPR, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KERA and more
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 02:14
- Purchases: 6
Brian Weir is following his passion as a woodworker. He might still be working at a job he hated if it wasn't for his wife. This piece was produced...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 2
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 3
Chris Cunningham fronts the Seattle band Ravenna Woods. He looks the part, too, with a lip ring, skinny jeans and facial hair. What he doesn't look...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Delmarva Public Media
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 10:42
- Purchases: 2
Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 29:00
