#1: Global minimum tax rate, pig whisperer, lying flat in China

Jonathan Widder | Posted on September 18, 2021 |

In our first episode, we’re talking about the prospect of a global minimum tax rate, a Dutch farmer who invented a unique “pig toilet”, and a movement among young people in China who are highlighting the need for a lifestyle change by “lying flat”.

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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.

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

In our first special episode, we’re presenting amazing approaches like a prison model without wardens and guns in Brazil, and we’re talking to Fritzi Horstman, the founder of the Compassion Prison Project.

Further stories mentioned

Brazil’s jails reduce recidivism rates without wardens and guns, DW

Reducing incarceration decreases number of violent crimes in the US, Reasons To Be Cheerful

Prison with no fence helps women readjust to life in the community before their release, Charlotte Observer

Fitness entrepreneurship course offers a second chance to the formerly incarcerated, Next City

Two prisoners care for fellow inmates with mental illnesses in pioneering US initiative, The Christian Science Monitor

Former inmates partially run probation system in US, BBC

Prisoners are becoming lawyers in the US, Reasons To Be Cheerful

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