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EE 24-36: For owners and for labor, restaurants are difficult, 9/6/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with geographer Jen Watkins on her experience as a server and her research on the industry.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
2024-08-09 Unions You Wouldn't Expect Bargaining for Climate Action
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Last year was the hottest in recorded history, and this summer, much of the United States has already experienced record-shattering heat waves. Tha...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240809: Unions You Wouldn't Expect Bargaining for Climate Action, 8/9/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Last year was the hottest in recorded history, and this summer, much of the United States has already experienced record-shattering heat waves. Tha...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-11-17 Six People Who’ve Changed Jobs for Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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One of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Since time is one of our most valuable resources – and we spend so muc...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
231117: Six People Who’ve Changed Jobs for Climate, 11/17/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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One of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Since time is one of our most valuable resources – and we spend so muc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
EE 23-21: The Chocolate Moose is more than ice cream, 5/19/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Local ice cream shop puts the focus on community with Food Truck Fridays.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Staffing the Mission
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ayushi Vig
We hear a lot about the challenges placed upon today’s workforce. It’s not easy. Now, compare that to those working at nonprofit organizations. The...

Bought by WHFR and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
EE 23-06: Rethinking the restaurant industry, 2/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with geographer Jen Watkins on her experience as a server and her research on the industry.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
COVID and the Revolution in Restaurants
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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In this episode we speak with restaurateurs and a labor activist about how the pandemic is reshaping how some think about tips and the minimum wage...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:53
Staffing the Mission: Improving Jobs in the Nonprofit Sector
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Besy Leondar-Wright
One of the most vulnerable business sectors during the coronavirus is nonprofits. A recent story in The Wall Street Journal reads “Nonprofits Strug...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Addressing Economic Class Conflict
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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While some organizations and individuals believe there is multidimensional inequality in the U.S., this PEACE TALKS RADIO program is only about eco...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WRIR, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Graphite Design + Build
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet some of the guys from Graphite Design and Build! GDB create custom sculptures, models, and signs f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Commerce With Compassion
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: La Montanita Food Coop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Credit: La Montanita
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
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Pilot
From: Consensus Coop
Series: Consensus
Caption: Congressman Chaka Fattah
Philly Congressman Chaka Fattah, lead sponsor of the Coop Jobs Act, KALW takes us inside the bike coop ColectíVelo in Oakland, and the Coop Job of ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pam McKissick Without Reserve - Multi-Generational Workforce
From: Auction Network Productions
Series: Pam McKissick Without Reserve
Caption: Host Pam McKissick, Credit: Auction Network Productions
This program is all about embracing our multi-generational workforce. The focus is on the differences in the way generations of Americans -- BabyBo...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers' Fight for Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Saru Jayaraman
Americans eat out more than any other people. But the workers who put food on our restaurant tables are struggling to feed themselves and their fam...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Markets or Regulation, Is That the Question?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Should government supplement markets to increase the public good? Should it regulate markets to protect the public good? How much is too much regul...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
IN EXCESS
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today we speak with author Chuck Collins of the Institute For Policy Studies, whose new book is titled The Moral Measure of the Economy

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 28:01