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S1 45. Guy Kawasaki: Conventional Business Wisdom That's Wrong
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, host of the Remarkable People podcast, author of Wiser Guy, Think Remarkable, and sixteen other books, and adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz. Kawasaki…
S1E44 44. Education, Inspiration and Innovation at Sweet Farms
Nate Salpeter, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sweet Farm Foundation, shares concepts of interconnections between food, action, and investment. In his presentation, we learn how the team at…
S1E43 43. Period Poverty: Giving Girls Their Days Back
Every day, more than 500 million women and girls live without access to menstrual supplies. This often forces them to use unsafe materials that put their health at risk and cause them to miss school…
S1E42 42. Telenovelas Empowering Women
Some of the world's most difficult problems – like poor reproductive health and violence against women – are now being addressed through the medium of prime-time serialized dramas also known as soap…
S1E41 41. The Memory Project - A Kinder World with Art
This episode refers to a number of visuals that are in the video version which can be seen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4IDQhRnwnT1iqINDJo6rXc or on YouTube:…
S1E40 40. R.I.P. Medical Debt
Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Over 40% of Americans are currently dealing with the challenges of medical debt. RIP Medical Debt was founded in 2014 by two…
S1E39 39. Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin
Mount Tamalpais College is an independent liberal arts college located in San Quentin State Prison. Corey McNeil has been a student since 2011 and joined the staff of Mount Tamalpais College as a…
S1E38 38. South African Township Micro-Enterprises
To view the video and visuals in this podcast, see: https://youtu.be/OlJkOXbR4EwThis presentation examines the unseen micro-enterprises of the South African township economy through a socio-spatial…
S1E37 37. Talent Beyond Boundaries & Displaced Professionals
Betsy Fisher is the US Director of the NGO Talent Beyond Boundaries and a lecturer in international refugee law at the University of Michigan Law School. She is an immigration lawyer and advocates…
S1E36 36. Thailand's Remarkable Bamboo Schools
Students play an important role in the management of the school which empowers them to bring social and economic development to their communities, as well as learn leadership, empathy and compassion.…
S1E35 35. Rotary Takes On Cervical Cancer
For $2.50 a woman can be protected against cervical cancer. A quantum leap in technology and affordable vaccines now make it possible to eliminate the often fatal disease of cervical cancer. This…
S2E34 34. Tree Views Help Hospitals, Schools and Children
Imagine walking into a classroom and…you are under a tree. Branches, leaves and the sun bursting through, the feeling of being outside. Forty plus years of empirical science developed at the…
S1E33 33. Inexpensive Eye Exams with Adaptive Optics
$4 glasses are one of the most affordable healthcare interventions. In this episode, we describe how a breakthrough in adaptive optics makes this possible by providing accurate and inexpensive eye…
S1E33 32. Two Gay Grandpas Travel
Starring on the hit YouTube channel, Grandpa Bobby and Grandpa Scott tell the stories of their travels. Travel as Service: Traveling is more than an opportunity to visit important cultural and…
S2E31 31. Diary of a Dying Girl
Diane Shader Smith, has had a vibrant career as a writer, speaker, publicist, and fundraiser with an extensive roster of clients during her multi-decade career. When Diane’s daughter Mallory died at…
S1E30 30. Dateability: Making Love Accessible for the World's Largest Minority
Dateability is the only dating app designed for the disabled and chronically ill communities. People with disabilities and chronic illness often encounter ableism on other dating apps. We understand…
S1E29 29. The 4-day Week and the Future of Work
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is director of research and programs at 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit promoting the 4-day workweek. Alex will present an overview of the global 4-day week movement, which aims…
S1E28 28. Re-icing the Arctic to Slow Tipping Points and Climate Change
Today we'll learn about an organization called Real Ice. Climate change, caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, could cause the global temperature to increase by several degrees by the end…
S1E27 27. Internet Archive Founder’s Interview
Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, presenting "Universal Access to All Knowledge." Current statistics: https://archive.org/about/ More about the Rotary eClub of Silicon…
S1E25 26. 3M Teen Winner: Detecting and Treating Mid-ear Infections
Leanne Fan is a high schooler from San Diego, CA. In 2022 she was named America's Top Young Scientist by 3M. Fan's invention can both detect and treat mid-ear infections, and at a low cost. Details:…
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Inspiring Solutions for a Better World has published 46 episodes since June 2023, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
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