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In this episode, we talk about how cities can recover economically from the COVID-19 pandemic and launch into a greener and more equitable form of urban life with NYC Comptroller, Scott Stringer.

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Mel and Stef take a closer look at our last four interviews, drawing connections and painting a picture of the future based on key nuggets from past episodes.

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Former Häagen-Dazs CEO and founder of the L'Oréal Prestige innovation World Lab, Fabrice Leclerc, shares his ideas about how we can transform corporations to do business that maximizes life instead o…

What if time spent helping others could earn you help in return? Get to know the ways the Zeitpolster time bank is creating systems of mutual care in this episode with Gernot Jochum-Müller.

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So nice, we had to do it twice! Dive deeper into the topic of Unconditional Basic Income in our second webinar, co-hosted with FEASTA and Vermonters for a New Economy. We discuss the finer points of …

Earlier this year, we co-hosted two webinars with FEASTA and Vermonters for a New Economy to discuss the feasibility and mechanics of an unconditional (or guaranteed) basic income. This episode is an…

Economic empowerment and community agency are the new humanitarian aid. In this episode, we're exploring the power of digital currencies to spark economic activity and build resilience in refugee com…

There's an inherent catch-22 in decarbonization. Building wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars requires the use of rare metals like cobalt and nickel. The question is: are we willing to sac…

Domination and partnership. Our guest this week, Riane Eisler, looks at the history of human society through these two lenses. When in a domination configuration, our familial, economic, and politica…

With the development of peer-to-peer networks like blockchain and Holochain, we are witnessing the birth of a new generation of the internet. There are myriad applications of this technology to revol…

A healthy ocean is essential to the survival of almost all life on Earth. Unfortunately, at it's last check up, the ocean wasn't doing so hot. Acidification, melting ice caps, pollution, and overfish…

Pandemic. Vaccine. Climate emergency. Is it controversial to say that we need scientific knowledge to understand and deal with issues like these? Not on our show. But it's no question that public tru…

These children had nowhere to go. Then, Silke Rösner created Kinder Paradise. Kinder Paradise is a children's home in Ghana where kids who have been orphaned, abandoned, or formerly enslaved can find…

Care about climate change? Concerned about political polarization? Confused by economics? Let John Barry, professor at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's Universi…

This time, we're tackling faith. While most of our episodes are about technology, economics, science, or community organizing, these aren't the only areas people turn to for hope about the future of …

With the birth of decentralized platforms, like block-chain, we’re seeing new possibilities open up for people, not just in world of crypto-currency, but as a way to securely share data and knowledge…

Industrial agriculture has led to deforestation, land degradation, and biodiversity loss around the world. In this episode, we’re speaking with Festus Kiplagat, an expert in agroforestry and the foun…

In our relatively short existence as a species, the human race has had a dramatic impact on the Earth. But what if human society could emulate and collaborate with nature rather than trying to domina…

If the entire history of the planet Earth were a novel, readers of the book who got to our current chapter might start worrying about the possibility of an unhappy ending. Luckily for us, that story …

Most of us are aware that social media has caused us to become more polarized. Specialized algorithms feed us content from like-minded people to keep us entertained and addicted to their platforms. T…