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	<title>The Carbon Offset You Can Actually See &#8211; Sustainable Finger Lakes Climate Fund</title>
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	<title>Grounds for Change &#8211; How a Cup of Coffee Makes for a Better Economy</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Most people walk into Gimme! Coffee and order a latte. They don&#8217;t think about who owns the espresso machine, who voted on the charitable donation policy, or how the packaging decision got made. After this conversation, they might. Claire Christensen is the Executive Director of Gimme! Coffee — which means she runs the place day...]]></description>
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	<itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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	<title>Ithaca HOURS &#8211; The Most Important Economic Experiment You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[What If Your Town Printed Its Own Money, and It Actually Worked? In 1991, as the U.S. economy stumbled through recession, a community organizer in Ithaca, New York did something radical: he printed money. Not counterfeit dollars — something more interesting. A labor-backed local currency called Ithaca HOURS, where one note equaled one hour of...]]></description>
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	<itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
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	<title>Found: One of the Most Radical Stores in Ithaca Doesn&#8217;t Look Radical at All</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly two years before this conversation, Vanessa Weber and Jeremiah Cigno overheard something at a flea market in Trumansburg that changed the trajectory of their lives: the owners of Found in Ithaca, a multi-vendor antique and vintage mall, mentioning that they wanted to sell. &#8220;Excuse me?&#8221; they said, in near unison. Six months later,...]]></description>
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	<title>Is Shared Kitchen Ithaca the Future of Small Town Food Business?</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A lot of people grow up thinking they want to own a restaurant one day. Rod Rotondi will tell you that&#8217;s one of the hardest ways to build a food business. Packaged goods, sold wholesale to grocery stores and distributors, might be one of the best. Rod is the founder and executive director of Shared...]]></description>
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	<itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
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	<title>LocalFiber — Weaving a New Economy From the Ground Up</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I started selling yarn, my family looked at me askance and said, nobody&#8217;s gonna pay twenty-five dollars a skein for yarn when they can go down to Walmart and get five skeins for $25. And I said, I&#8217;m not competing with Walmart. My product is totally different from what Walmart&#8217;s offering.&#8221; Lisa Ferguson is...]]></description>
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	<itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
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	<title>Beyond Insurance — The Healthcare Model That&#8217;s Changing Everything</title>
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	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s not about patient care anymore. It&#8217;s about dollars, from pretty much all angles of the system right now. And that&#8217;s really frustrating for patients.&#8221; That&#8217;s Matt Simone, and he built his entire practice around fi]]></itunes:subtitle>
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