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From: Barb Seaman
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:27
Iran-born Fif Ghobadian created San Francisco fashion brand Road Twenty-Two to provide jobs for women released from prison.
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 13:36
Tatiana Garcia Granados started The Common Market to bring farm food to her Philadelphia neighborhood. Now she's taking on the nation's broken food...
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 14:55
SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by David Castellan and Cynthia Leung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company has since grown to two st...
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 37:48
MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 14:28
- Purchases: 1
With her nonprofit One Simple Wish, Danielle Gletow is bringing the joy of childhood to the lives of foster kids, one wish at time.
Bought by WOUB
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 14:45
- Purchases: 1
Kathy Brough and Anita Saville created Budget Buddies to help homeless women break free of poverty, aided by a sisterhood of volunteer personal-fin...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 15:00
- Purchases: 1
Hear how Houston pool-builder Kryshon Bratton has used the entrepreneurial "pivot" to stoke growth and create the work-life balance she wants.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 11:57
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 12:45
Meet Donna Peel and Stacy Ratner, two very different women taking on two very different social missions -- both with inventive, entrepreneurial non...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 19:46
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 1
Cacao was born in a bean-shaped area in the upper Amazon and is believed to have been grown and used—first, as a drink—in countries that now encomp...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 24:01
What is craft chocolate? The short answer is: It’s complicated. This episode might not give you all the answers, but you will most definitely learn...
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 24:00
Episode 5 — Sensory overload! We explore how taste, touch, sight, smell and sound influence how we experience chocolate. With a soundtrack designed...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 24:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 28, 2017
- Length: 05:51
- Purchases: 1
Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls bills itself as the world’s first crossdressing academy. We spend time with its founder,...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 1
Toronto retailer Melissa Austria has created thriving menswear stores that appeal to guys who hate to shop but want to look good.
- Added: Nov 10, 2016
- Length: 11:44
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 13:23
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 1
Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 12:12
- Purchases: 1
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “What the World Needs Now Is Love” by Jackie DeShannon in April of 1965. The song was written...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 07:09
Getting around sprawling Santa Clara County is a trick for anyone, but for those without housing, getting to and from services and opportunities is...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
