A Special Treat: Episode 69 of The Department (Amanda went to Japan and all we got were these lousy trends)

How can we do good things in difficult times? The seemingly small things we do as individuals are actually really radical, impactful, and important. And if we do these good things with members of our ...

1 Apr 20252h 2min

How can we do good things in difficult times? The seemingly small things we do as individuals are actually really radical, impactful, and important. And if we do these good things with members of our ...

24 Mars 20252h 30min

Over the past few years, we have explored many different facets of the secondhand economy: resellers and the ethics of reselling secondhand items, the various secondhand platforms, the fine art of thr...

17 Mars 20252h 16min

One of the challenges facing all of concerned citizens is where and how to find accurate and reliable news.  This week Amanda is joined by Elizabeth Segran, Senior Staff Writer at Fast Company Magazin...

24 Feb 20252h 27min

2025 is a lot. Things are kinda overwhelming right now: there’s a lot of news to digest and it's coming fast, it’s hard to suss out reality from fiction, and we don’t know what we can do to help. And ...

10 Feb 20251h 46min

This is part four in a continuing series about slow fashion and inclusivity. Amanda is joined by some rad people doing great work making slow fashion more inclusive:Itohan Asemota is the founder of HN...

5 Feb 20251h 44min

This is part three in a continuing series about slow fashion and inclusivity. In this episode you'll meet two people working to get more people into slow fashion and highlight size inclusive ethical b...

28 Jan 20252h 4min

Despair. Apathy. Not believing that things can change and be better. Just fully discounting any possibility of progress.  Have you struggled with these feelings? It's called doomerism and you're not w...

20 Jan 20251h 31min