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Detroit’s image is pretty tarnished these days. Car factories are closed. Unemployment is through the roof -- as high as 50% according to some offi...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
From courtroom battles to government regulation, we take a look at how citizen groups around the world are holding oil companies accountable for en...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 17:01
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Road to Rehabilitation is littered with good intentions and foreclosures. Host Audra Wilson discovers that many Americans were literally addic...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 10, 2010
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1
This is a satire on the scandals of a few years ago when there was a lot of fiction on the books of corporations. It is based on Jack And The Beans...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Sep 30, 2010
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 1
In a new series, “Stuff that Works” we look at good ideas that solve a specific problem. All across West Africa, you can buy water on the street. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
The revolving door between the federal government and its favorite contractors sets up abuses.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
What is it with kids today? It’s rhetorical, but everyone’s got an answer, including the innovative group of SCSU students who form the Art Studen...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 1
The US has been hemorrhaging high-paying manufacturing jobs since the 1959s.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 03:59
There’s lots of talk these days about the economy and the trade deficit appears to be part of the problem.
You can see why: you just have to check ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 03:45
If you can’t read or write, how can you sign important documents or cash your paycheck? In Afghanistan, you get a signet ring. Engravers carve r...
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 02:57
Camels are critical in parts of Africa and the Middle East. If you want to buy one, they’re not cheap and haggling over the price is a long establ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 02:24
President Obama made his first Oval Office address last week. He spoke about the oil spill in the Gulf, and his plans to repair the damage, which ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2010
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 1
You can’t turn on the TV or open the newspaper these days without seeing something about South Africa. That’s because the World Cup – the biggest ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 04:35
- Added: Jun 06, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Mexico City is, in many ways, an old-fashioned place. Vendors still ply neighborhood streets, issuing a variety of calls to lure customers from th...
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 03:27
Storytelling & Social Media: Using this Potent Combination to Build a Brand
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 27:46
A new business helps local restaurants save money and help the planet by composting.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
Oil continues to gush into the seas of the Gulf coast. At Shell Beach, Louisiana the fishermen’s lives are on hold. The oyster and shrimp boats i...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
Tragedy. Hopelessness. Devastation. A lot of words have been used to describe Haiti after the earthquake, almost all of them negative. But Gran...
Bought by WBEZ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
Social Strategies and the Enterprise: A CMO’s Perspective
- Added: Apr 02, 2010
- Length: 30:07
Social Media on the Retail Front Lines
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 31:38
In Hong Kong's downtown financial district, it’s not the well-to-do bankers who earn the most respect. It’s the people who shine their shoes. The...
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 02:10
