Next City

By: Straw Hut Media
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  • Summary

  • Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow. Grab a seat from the bus, subway, light-rail, or whatever your transit-love may be and listen on the go as we spread solutions from one city to the Next City .
    2024 Straw Hut Media
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Episodes
  • Summer Break!

    Summer Break!
    Jun 19 2024
    This is Lucas Grindley from Next City, a show about changemakers and their stories. We’re on a brief hiatus for summer break, but we’ll be back next Wednesday with more inspiring and workable ideas that move our society toward justice and equity.

    If you can’t wait for the next story, head to NextCity.org for the latest coverage.

    As always, we’d love to hear any feedback from our listeners. Please feel free to email us at info@nextcity.org. And if you haven’t already, subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, Goodpods or anywhere you listen to your podcasts. We’ll see you next week.
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    1 min
  • A Climate Documentary on Solutions

    A Climate Documentary on Solutions
    Jun 5 2024
    The documentary film “How to Power A City” looks across communities in the United States to uncover multiple approaches, big and small, for mitigating climate change. In this episode, writer and director Melanie LaRosa outlines what she found and why she chose to focus on solutions.
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    35 mins
  • Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"

    Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"
    May 22 2024
    Just over a year ago, we delved into a groundbreaking initiative by a foundation in Vancouver. Their question was: What if we gave people experiencing homelessness a lump sum of cash, no strings attached? The results were nothing short of remarkable — though they probably shouldn’t be surprising. Now, two years after that experiment ended, the idea is spreading to cities across the United States. So let’s revisit that initial episode — when we asked, what really happens when you give money to people experiencing homelessness?
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    27 mins
Management Economics Political Science
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