Are We Here Yet?

Where Economics, Urbanism & Culture Collide

Episode 95 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Episode 95 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

The Durable Local Economy. Pt II With Bruce SieferThis episode is part II of our interview with Bruce when we sat down to talk in spring 2022. Bruce Seifer is author of Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy Click here for book and Community Owned...

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Episode 94 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Episode 94 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

The Durable Local Economy With Bruce Siefer Bruce Seifer is author of Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy Click here for book and Community Owned Businesses. Click here for book  While Director of Economic Development under the Bernie Sanders and...

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Episode 93 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Episode 93 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Sludge In Your BackyardSo many of our challenges  faced when building our communities are made complex by their multi-disciplinary nature.  This does not excuse the need for a rigorous approach to solutions that benefit the widest spectrum of people. Today's podcast...

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Episode 92 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Episode 92 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Community vs. Consumption In an August 3, 2021 article from The Atlantic, Journalist Amanda Mull explored the fragility of our ultra-individualism personified in consumption.   The pandemic placed on display that which many of us instinctively knew or observed before....

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Episode 91 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Episode 91 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Music that Heals with Volkan EfeThe music of Turkey and the surrounding region of the near east is music of a crossroads.  From a culture that has given and taken from global perspectives for thousands of years. For our guest Volkan Efe, the music of Turkey, the...

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Episode 90 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Episode 90 Are We Here Yet? Podcast

Employee Ownership Online Education ProgramContinuing our Democratic Capitalism series this week we spoke with Dr. William Castellano and Dr. Jim Terez of Rutgers University School of Management and Labor relations. The pair developed the Employee Ownership Online...

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