Ian Randall’s August 24, 2004
August 19, 2009 1 comment
Ian Randall’s full interview will be up tomorrow.
Indego Africa and Social Enterprise
August 18, 2009 No comments yet
Indego Africa provides jobs and fair trade wages for Rwandan women. They are not just a non-profit organization, but also a social enterprise, meaning that they make a lot of the money that supports their organization not from donations, but through the work they do. Joshua Lebowitz heads Indego Africa’s board here in Chicago his [...]
Chaos: How One Chicago Cop Survived the Riots of 1968
August 12, 2009 3 comments
1968 saw the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In Chicago 1968 was the year of The Democratic Convention. Officer Wayne Wiberg was there and he gives us the rare perspective of a policeman in the middle of a “police riot.” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here Photo by: [...]
Behind the Scenes: Art in Movies
July 29, 2009 1 comment
Props, sets, make-up, and all around art department person, Vanessa Conway talks about making the things that make the movies. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download here “(We made) an entire twenty foot tree out of cardboard and muslin… pretty dangerous, but awesome”
Electronic Waste: How Computer Screens and Circuit Boards are Poisoning Rural China
July 27, 2009 1 comment
By: Amy Cade Waste is bad. Electronic waste is worse. At the Sustainable Electronic Initiative I am trying to find out as much as I can about how much e-waste exists, how it is dealt with, who is dealing with it, and what can be done about it. The most important of all of the e-waste problems [...]
Riot in Washington Park
July 23, 2009 3 comments
Keith Fort has done a lot of shows in Chicago, and he’s got about a million stories to tell. This one is the best. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here “They were up on the stage in the middle of the show and they were angry.”
The Power of the $150 Computer
July 11, 2009 4 comments
Willie Cade and the people who work at PCRR are looking to bridge the digital divide, save the environment and get your old computer out of you attic. Just how they plan on doing that is explained in the interview below. Interview with Willie Cade Part 1 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download [...]
Money, Hitmen, Brazil, Explosives and Emeralds (Part 2)
July 1, 2009 2 comments
The second half of our interview with anthropologist and University of Chicago Alum Professor Brian Brazeal. This part of the interview concerns Brian’s own personal experience of the emerald trade and his method for studying the sellers, the buyers, and a place called the Rat Market. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download Here “Even the [...]
Money, Hitmen, Brazil, Explosives and Emeralds
July 1, 2009 4 comments
Emerald mining is a business fraught with international intrigue and explosions as professor and anthropologist Brian Brazeal explains. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “If anybody tries to take my mine I’ll shoot em’.” See part 2 tomorrow
Wednesday Podcast: Joi Podgorny
June 24, 2009 No comments yet
If you’re lonely it’s not the internet’s fault. Joi is a kids online communities specialist, and digital socialite extrodinare. – [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download here “My bread and butter is community, I make people be friends with each other and talk to each other and have those kinds of relationships” For [...]
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