Pod of Gold

When you flush, where does it go? In this episode, we speak with Cheryl Hicks, former Executive Director and CEO of the Toilet Board Coalition. Learn about the untapped value of sanitation and an eme…

How can we mobilize people en masse to act on behalf to the environment? Maybe it's through song and dance. In this episode, we speak with Kofi Debrah, co-founder of Oko Forest and one of the produce…

What role will technological innovation play on the road to universal wellbeing? In this episode, we’re speaking with Nicolas Henchoz, Founder and Director of the EPFL+ECAL Lab in Lausanne, Switzerla…

Where does money actually come from? What's the difference between a private bank and a public bank? These questions and more are answered in our interview with Ellen Brown, Chairman of the Public Ba…

When we can see the impact of the climate crisis on our own lives, we become motivated to act. That has certainly been the case for Dominique Perret. Dominique is one of the world's most accomplished…

Political polarization and misinformation have led to many people to become confused by or completely disengaged from conversations about the climate. Now, Will Hackman is working on a way to address…

Is it possible to build a world economy that actually stops climate change? In this episode, we get to hear from Dr. Barbara Buchner, executive director of Climate Finance at the Climate Policy Initi…

Holochain is a distributed digital ledger. Like Blockchain, it allows transactions to be recorded securely without a centralized database. Unlike Blockchain, its design is scalable, without a limitat…

Greenpeace is one of the most recognizable names in environmental advocacy. In this episode, we have the privilege of speaking with Jorgo Riss, director of Greenpeace Europe. We ask him how a campaig…

So you have a brilliant idea for a new policy or campaign to improve the world. Great. Now what? When it comes to policy and activism, an idea can only go so far. How you achieve it is it's own chall…

In the last year, all of our working lives have been turned upside-down by the COVID-19 pandemic. But are these changes just for now? Or will we see a complete culture shift in the way we conceptuali…

1 billion women around the world remain outside of the formal financial system today. Yes, you read that right. 1 billion. In this episode we speak with Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of W…

In 1934, Werner Zimmermann and Paul Enz created the WIR currency to help stabilize Switzerland's economy through the pangs of the Great Depression. Today, the WIR still circulates, strengthening and …

Is democracy under threat? Persisting inequity and increasing polarization brings the strength of representative governments into question. In this episode we speak with Niheer Dasandi, a Senior Lect…

Economics touches all of our lives. Shouldn't it be easy to understand? Turns out, it's mostly common sense. You just need the right person to explain it to you. And that person is Howard Yaruss. How…

Indigenous economic models value collaboration over competition, harmony with nature over extraction, and subsistence over accumulation. In our first episode of 2021, we speak with Rebecca Adamson, a…

The Korean War is the longest standing overseas US conflict. It's been 70 years since it began and North and South Korea remain deeply entrenched in the ideological and political struggles engendered…

The fashion industry has a waste problem. In addition to being one of the worst polluters of our world's waters, this industry sends billions of dollars worth of unused textiles to landfill each year…

Unconditional Basic Income. People around the world are in desperate need of economic relief in a pandemic that has exposed and exacerbated extreme levels of disparity and poverty. A basic income cou…

How do you jumpstart an economy in a community that has no money? Create a new currency. Will Ruddick is one of the directors of Grassroots Economics, a non-profit foundation focused on community dev…