Elm City Podcast: Recent Episodes
City Atlas: New Haven
City Atlas is a new project about the future of New Haven. We feature and promote the sustainability goals of New Haven and Yale, and help connect members of the Yale community to the city's new initiatives and civic organizations. We aim to strengthen the ties between social justice, sustainability, and community building.
City Atlas: New Haven is modeled on City Atlas: New York (newyork.thecityatlas.org). City Atlas: New Haven is the beginning of a network of sites in partnership with universities, drawing on talented young people to create a new, locally relevant platform for a public conversation about the future.
This is our podcast! Check out what types of visions New Havenites have for the future of this city. Also be sure to check out our branch in Beijing (beijing.thecityatlas.org)!
Amanda Rinderle and Jonas Clark are the co-founders of Tuckerman & Co, a clothing company which makes high-quality workwear that’s better for people and the planet. Tuckerman's first products are a collection of high-quality dress shirts made from organic cotton, Italian fabric, and manufactured in Fall River, Massachusetts. Founded in 2014 as a Benefit Corporation, they also became a Certified Benefit Corporation in 2015.
Learn more about Tuckerman & Co by visiting: http://www.tuckerman.co/
Produced by Liana Epstein, in conjunction with City Atlas: New Haven. February 2016.
Liana Epstein tells us about City Atlas: New Haven, a new project about the future of New Haven. City Atlas is a bottom-up publication that highlights the good initiatives happening throughout the city with the goal of working together toward a greener, greater future for the city. In particular, Liana talks about the powerful role of listening in community initiatives — and listening a lot.
VetWheels is a program started in New Haven, CT in which veterans with serious mental illness learn bicycle repair, maintenance, and safety in a small group setting as they rebuild a used bicycle to keep for their personal use. In this episode of GovLove, we sat down with the Program Coordinator and Bike Mechanic of VetWheels to hear how this small program tapped into broader community efforts and how it can be replicated in other towns.
Executive Director of Common Ground, Melissa Spear, talks about sustainability, education, and community involvement in the New Haven area.
Chris Randall, founder of the "I Love New Haven" photography initiative, speaks to us about his work in New Haven, as well as his hopes for the future of the city.
Anthony Correa, highlighted in this episode, is the Director of Recruitment for the Elm Seed Enterprise fund, the oldest student-run microfinance organization in the world. Hailing from Miami, Florida, Anthony will be a senior at Yale this year.
Produced by Meghan O'Sullivan, in conjunction with City Atlas: New Haven. July 2015.
Music by Kevin MacLeod (track title: "Backed Vibes Clean.") Original music available at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Jazz_Sampler/Backed_Vibes_Clean_1973. Attribution: Backed Vibes Clean (Kevin MacLeod (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/) ) / CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)