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Meg Whitman on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Meg Whitman talks about the importance of being bold, and the value of getting “in the arena,” even if you make mistakes. Well-known as one of the ...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
2023-04-07 Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate cr...

Bought by KUOW, Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 12
20230407: Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You, 4/7/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate cr...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
The Progress Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon D. Erickson
It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Kim Campbell: How to Be a Good Ancestor
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Caption: Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell sees hope for the future when we adopt one simple framework: how can we become good ancestors for future generations?
During this session, the Right Honorable Kim Campbell talks about how her path led to becoming the first female Prime Minister of Canada, the traje...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 49:00
Dismantlng Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Unprecedented concentrations of wealth. Fundamental changes in the economy. A weakened institutional government, making it more difficult to meet p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Joint Resolutions would more than quintuple mining taxes in Nevada
From: Brian Bahouth
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The way mines are taxed in Nevada is enshrined in the State Constitution, and the Constitution is not easily revised, but any one of 3 joint resolu...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:15
Patriots of Two Nations
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Spencer Critchley
A well run democracy takes a lot of work on the part of the citizenry. People need to be informed. In America today, there is a rising brand of lib...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Making of a Democratic Economy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Democracy Collaborative logo
Here are some numbers that will make you think. Just 26 people – call them billionaires – own as much wealth as half the people on the planet. At t...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Follow Up on the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
From: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Series: ACTEC Trust and Estate Talk
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Congress enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 which doubled the estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer tax exemption. Hear more about ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:34
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About the Economy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But the dangers we face due to its oper...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 57:43
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Fred Block
Most people believe that capitalist economics are self-regulated. According to UC Davis economic sociologist Fred L. Block, this view is simply an ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Communities Over Commodities: How to Get There?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fight Power With Power
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
Facebook Breakup: Time to Cash Out?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mark Zuckerberg at The Original Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia (9/24/17). Posted on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page.
Will Davies, author of the Happiness Industry, has written in the London Review of Books that “Destroying privacy in ever more adventurous ways is ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:18
Reno plans to learn from early start cannabis sales
From: Brian Bahouth
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Nevada voters approved Ballot Question 2 last November by a 54 to 46 percent margin, and according to the initiative, the Nevada Department of Taxa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 08:47
Kill It to Save It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Corey Dolgon
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The New Morality
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Eden Collinsworth
What is right, wrong, good, bad? A discussion of morality in changing times.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, and WETS


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
The Revolution Where You Live
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sarah van Gelder
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Is Going To Happen To Your Money After The Election?
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: The Steve Pomeranz Hour
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Want To Know How To Invest Well? First, Learn The Language, What Is Going To Happen To Your Money After The Election? The Best Value Of Your Car? ...

Bought by WSGE, WNMU-FM, WLRN, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Democracy or Oligarchy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Roslyn Fuller
Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Commerce With Compassion
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Colombian Farmer , Credit: Lush.co.uk
A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3