The Squirrel News Podcast

The Squirrel News Podcast

A show about the amazing solutions to the world’s biggest problems

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#37: Meet a Jew
44 Minuten
Prejudices about Jews are still widespread today. Yet many young people in Germany have never consciously met a Jew. The project ‘Meet a Jew’ aims to change this by bringing Jewish volunteers together with school classes and clubs. In this epis...
#36: Rediscovering the past to shape the future – with special guest Jim Klein
55 Minuten
In this special, personal episode, we continue our conversation about history with a special guest and a special project in which Jonathan's father recently rediscovered the story of Kurt Klein and Gerda Weissmann Klein: two Jews who left Germa...
#35: Personal notes on current events and the past
55 Minuten
In this episode, Ed and Jonathan, a Jew in LA and Jonathan a German in Berlin, reflect on current political events and their personal relation and experience with it: The rise of the far-right AfD in Germany, mass protests against it, and how...
#34: MDMA and social change
48 Minuten
Can psychedelics like MDMA drive positive social change? Journalist Rachel Nuwer wrote a book on "MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World", and in one chapter she describes how taking the drug in a scientific study seems to have...
#33: Why toilets are a key to progress
32 Minuten
When thinking about global development, toilets are not the first thing that comes to mind. But facilitating access to toilets for everyone has surprising benefits for health, nutrition, safety, education and the economy. In this episode, Sarik...

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A German Journalist and a Jewish Comic discuss the latest and greatest solution based news stories from around the world. A podcast about the amazing, wildly creative things people are doing to solve our biggest social problems today – from goats helping to fight wildfires to prisons without wardens and guns. Hosts: Ed Crasnick, Jonathan Widder Tags: solutions, society, sustainability, social innovation, solutions journalism, constructive journalism.

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