EP 412 Can We Achieve Authentic Diversity?

EP 412 Can We Achieve Authentic Diversity?

https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Diversity-Michelle-Silverthorn/dp/0367085674 No matter the effort we say is being put behind the movement for more diversity in the workplace, the sad reality is that the numbers are dismal.  In the Fortune 500 companies where diversity numbers are compiled, fewer than 4 percent of their workforce is racially and ethnically diverse.  Additionally, a study of 279 …

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EP 411 Unprepared: America in the Time of the Coronavirus

EP 411 Unprepared: America in the Time of the Coronavirus

https://www.jonsternfeld.com/ In the introduction to the book we base this podcast on, Tim Egan describes the response to the coronavirus as ‘perhaps the greatest collapse of American society in so short a time, ever.’  Why did a confluence of unmet concerns coalesce around this health crisis, including economic suffering, disparities in care, inability to mobilize …

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EP 410 What Happens When Some States Are No Longer Habitable?

EP 410 What Happens When Some States Are No Longer Habitable?

https://www.keenanclimate.com/ Does the title sound like science fiction?  Then you haven’t been paying attention when heat besieged California this summer in ways unseen in generations.  Or that a surge in air-conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid.  Or that in Death Valley the 130 degree temperature was possibly the hottest ever measured on Earth.  Not to …

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EP 409 Self Neglect is Growing Threat Among America’s Elderly

EP 409 Self Neglect is Growing Threat Among America’s Elderly

https://www.napsa-now.org/ Most people are aware that the elderly are vulnerable and that this population is often targeted by scammers and abusers.  Elder abuse, whether it is physical, emotional or financial, is a real concern for family members of seniors.  However, there is a growing threat that receives less attention: self-neglect.  That concept may be new …

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EP 408 Can Technology Change Education?

EP 408 Can Technology Change Education?

https://failuretodisrupt.com/ Imaginations have run wild over the years as to what technology can do to change education. Some had predicted that half or more of courses by now would be offered on line at a lower cost and with great results. It turns out that in this fevered moment, as the pandemic descended upon the …

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EP 407 Corporations In Denial As To Damage Done

EP 407 Corporations In Denial As To Damage Done

https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Strength-Denial-Corporations-Defending-Indefensible/dp/0520296281 Faced with proof that they were harming people or the environment, corporations have long denied evidence, blamed victims complained of witch hunts, attacked their critics and found other rationale for their harmful activities.  No denial campaign was more insipid than that of the tobacco industry.  That effort set the standard for establishing doubt in …

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EP 406 Changing Nature of Global Trade

EP 406 Changing Nature of Global Trade

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691191768/outside-the-box In his book ‘The Box’ Marc Levinson explained how shipping containers were essential in the growth of international trade.  Now as he looks at the new wave of globalization, he sees a changing landscape.  Countries have begun to recognize, even before the recent pandemic, that supply chains can be precarious and unreliable.  And while …

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EP 405 400 Friends and No One to Call

EP 405 400 Friends and No One to Call

https://www.valwalkerauthor.com/400-friends-and-no-one-to-call/ The concept of true friendship has been challenged by the notion that someone who friends you on Facebook really can be counted on when you’re in need. You can be well-connected in the digital sphere and find yourself isolated and alone when the chips are down. Val Walker, a rehabilitation consultant, grief counselor and …

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EP 404 How Will the Universe End?

EP 404 How Will the Universe End?

https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Astrophysically-Speaking/dp/198210354X All good things must come to an end, as the song goes. It’s no less true for the universe than it is for love stories. It’s not something we spend much time thinking about because a)it’s too depressing and b)it’s likely billions of years into the future. Please don’t confuse the universe with the …

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EP 403 Leave It As It Is: You Can’t Improve It

EP 403 Leave It As It Is: You Can’t Improve It

https://www.amazon.com/Leave-As-Theodore-Roosevelts-Wilderness/dp/1982105046 One wag called it a ‘conservationist rom-com’, when the big personality of Theordore Roosevelt came into contact with the big hole, The Grand Canyon. It was there that he spoke the words which became the title of David Gessner’s new book, ‘Leave It As It Is’. Yet, it seems that Americans can’t leave well …

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