#20: People Walking

Jonathan Widder | Posted on June 8, 2022 |

Loneliness is now considered a public health issue. Is there a cure? Chuck McCarthy may have invented one by chance, when he started a service that connected people who didn’t know each other before to talk a walk together. In our new episode, we’re talking to Chuck about the great potential of common walks and the suprising outcome of scheduled conversations with strangers.

Hosts: Ed Crasnick, Jonathan Widder. Editing: Thomas Barth.

The Squirrel News Podcast

A German Journalist and a Jewish Comic discuss the latest and greatest solution based news stories from around the world. A podcast about the amazing, wildly creative things people are doing to solve our biggest social problems today – from goats helping to fight wildfires to prisons without wardens and guns.

Hosts: Ed Crasnick, Jonathan Widder

Tags: solutions, society, sustainability, social innovation, solutions journalism, constructive journalism.