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Caption: Laura Flanders
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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Did you know that anti-trust legislation helps protect our democracy? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cover of the book, "America's Black Capital", Credit: Hachette Book Group
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Welcome to melodically challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Why shopping local REALLY matters.

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Laura Flanders, Credit: Photo by Don J. Usner
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. N...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Artwork by Phil Wrigglesworth
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that most poultry sold in supermarkets is produced by an unjust “tournament system” that pits farmer against farmer? Join Food Sleuth ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that the majority of farmers struggle to make a living? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that Danone North America, owner of Horizon Organic, dropped its contracts with 89 organic dairies in New England and Upstate New York...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 37:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that industrial agriculture is economically flawed, and survives by externalizing its costs to taxpayers, while spending billions of d...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that now is the critical time to facilitate a just transition of land to the next generation of farmers? But the next generation of f...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Newport Beach, California, USA, Credit: Philip Graves
This week on World Ocean Radio: part thirty of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we ask, "What is the natural capital value of our h...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 04:27
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-nine of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss the March 2021 release by the UN De...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 05:19
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part fourteen of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we assert that it's time to close our minds to pa...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:26
Caption: Gar Alperovitz
How extreme is wealth disparity in the U.S.? Imagine every person in the economy walks by, in order of income from low to high, with heights propor...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:31
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Did you know that reducing food waste is among the leading ways to mitigate climate change? According to the Natural Resources Defense Council Up t...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that there’s a price to pay for increasing food production without regard to planetary impact? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and regist...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that the food system can be a tremendous economic driver in communities facing economic hardship? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and regi...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that every apple in the supermarket is hand-picked? And that out of tens of thousands of varieties of apples, only 11 make up 90 perc...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that industrial agriculture cannot “feed the world” sustainably? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelg...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that cooperative grocery stores strengthen regional economies and put money and resources back into local communities? Join Food Sleut...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1