Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBlake Pagenkopf: Rebooting Our Political Operating System
Episode 494
In many PCs, the first software to run after hitting the power button is called BIOS (Basic Input-Output System). BIOS loads the computer’s operating…
5 years, 4 months ago
Denise Hearn: The Myth of Capitalism
Episode 493
Every year, Strong Towns founder Chuck Marohn releases a list of the best books he read that year. Past lists have included books that shaped the Str…
5 years, 4 months ago
Ben Hunt: We're Not Going to Fix This from the Top Down
Episode 492
What do we call a society that—from Wall Street to Main Street, from Washington, D.C. to your local city council chambers—seems to have been uprooted…
5 years, 4 months ago
Bonus Episode: The Bottom-Up Revolution
Episode 491
Here’s a taste of our newest podcast, The Bottom-Up Revolution, hosted by Rachel Quednau. In this episode, you’ll hear from Alexander Hagler, an entr…
5 years, 4 months ago
What Are We Waiting For?
Episode 490
What is keeping us from doing the things we need to do right now? Why do we outsource the response to urgent problems to the federal government and o…
5 years, 4 months ago
Help Shape the Future of the Strong Towns Podcasts
Episode 489
We'd be deeply grateful for your feedback on this podcast—what sort of episodes you like best, how you access the show, etc. Fill out our survey at…
5 years, 7 months ago
KAXE's Dig Deep on George Floyd, Coronavirus, and More
Episode 488
Two Minnesotans -- Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn -- are regular commentators on KAXE community radio out of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and have regular …
5 years, 9 months ago
Strip Mall
Episode 487
What a new strip mall reveals about the massive disconnect between what's "good" for the macro-economy and what's actually good for a local community…
5 years, 9 months ago
A Good Life in a Prosperous Place
Episode 486
On the final day of the member drive, Chuck discusses what success means for the Strong Towns movement. Sign up to become a member at strongtowns.org…
5 years, 9 months ago
Smart Cities: "Are we creating solutions looking for problems?"
Episode 485
In this special crossover edition of the Upzoned podcast, we're looking at the "smart cities" movement in general...and the ill-fated Toronto waterfr…
5 years, 9 months ago