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I Am Interchange
by Tate Chamberlin
I Am Interchange immerses you in the world of adventure journalism, where we fearlessly explore the monumental global changes, inequalities, and urgent issues surrounding the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Through raw, unfiltered storytelling, we dive into the tension within these goals and share the stories from the front lines of systems change.
Episodes
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Design Against the Machine
A kid draws something. Doesn't matter what — a horse, a spaceship, a person with the arms coming straight out of the head. And they hold it up, and the drawing is, by any honest measure, terrible. And they are completely, radiantly proud of it. There's no gap yet between what they meant and what...
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Follow the Food
Okay, think about the last tomato you ate. Not a good one. A regular one — grocery store, middle of winter, pale on the inside, kind of mealy. Doesn't really taste like anything. That tomato traveled further than most people go on vacation. Picked green, somewhere warm, weeks before you saw it.…
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Unfinished Republic
Here's something worth sitting with: the people who govern us mostly come from a narrow slice of the rest of us. Lawyers, for one. In the United States, they fill more than half of Congress. But it's wider than any single profession — it's wealth. The system favors the people who already have....
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Open Source Society
There's a word that keeps coming up when you talk to people who build software for a living. The word is fork. To fork something means you take an existing codebase — someone else's rules — and you branch off. You make your own version. You run it your own way. And nobody can stop you. We're at...
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Notes from the Earth
There's a moment. A specific moment when someone decides to stop waiting for permission. Maybe it's quiet. Maybe nobody's watching. But something shifts — and the path they were supposed to take starts to look a lot less interesting than the one they're about to make up entirely. Today, we're...
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The Amazon is Breathing
Here's the thing about the Amazon basin. There's a number scientists use when they talk about it — the number of species living there that we haven't discovered yet. And here's what's strange about that number: we don't know what it is. We can't know what it is. We only know it's enormous. That...
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Water in the West
Water doesn't begin at the tap. It begins in the dark—underground, in aquifers older than memory. As snow in mountain air. As vapor. As storm. Something that refuses to stay still. By the time it reaches us, it has already lived many lives. There's a saying in the West: whiskey is for drinking,...
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My Place, My Sovereignty
This is the third episode. The last in a three-part series. My Place, My Sovereignty. Recorded at the Eco Nomic Futures Summit. A gathering about systems—but really about people. About land. About new economies. I'm Tate Chamberlin. In this episode, I'm joined by Ruben Hernandes and Miles...
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Gangstagrass
This story starts at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska. At the HATCH Summit. A gathering about world-building and cultivating relationships—set in a town with a long memory, including its role in the Underground Railroad. And from there, it moves to music. To Gangstagrass. They're...
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BioCulture
This is episode two, recorded at Eco Nomic Futures in San Francisco. Not a conference exactly—more a meeting point. Where conversations crossed paths around food, land, economics, and what happens when systems lose their connection to life. Tate Chamberlin is joined by Jacob Huhn and Warinkwi...
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Heart of the Heartland
Today, we're somewhere that feels both familiar and overlooked at the same time—Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska. The kind of place people call flyover country, a place many don't think twice about, even as the people who live here are quietly shaping a future the rest of us will...
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First Nations Economic Compact
Turtle Island. Before there were countries—before anyone called this land the United States, or Canada, or Mexico—this was Turtle Island. A continent of nations, overlapping territories, trade routes stretching farther than modern highways, and relationships thousands of years old. Today, that...
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Nutrition Centered Economy
Every town has one. A school. A cafeteria. A lunch line. And somewhere in that line, a kid is staring down a plastic tray of food that — for millions — might be the only real meal they get that day. We don't often think of it this way, but the school meal program is the largest restaurant chain…
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State of Journalism
Once upon a time, journalism started with a letter nailed to a tree—or a door. Some declaration, some warning, some truth someone wanted heard. And people would gather in the square to listen. News wasn't just information; it was a shared experience. Then came the daily paper. Then the evening...
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Human Migration and Displacement- Part Two
Here's the thing about leaving. Sometimes you plan it for years — a better job, an education, a shot at something bigger. Other times it happens overnight. Governments fall. Food disappears. You run. This episode of Dispatch from the Heartland is about human migration and displacement — one of…
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Taxation Without Representation- The Quest for DC Statehood
Washington, D.C. isn't just a backdrop of monuments and marble. It's a living, breathing city—home to more than 700,000 people who work, who raise kids, who build their lives here. Known for decades as Chocolate City, D.C. carries a proud history of Black culture and resilience. And yet, unlike...
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Food Security
A vacant lot, once overlooked and forgotten amid the rush of urban life, now pulses with vibrant life—flowers bloom where concrete once stood, vegetables sprout in neglected corners, and hope takes root in every crack. Yet, even these transformed spaces remain fragile—vulnerable to neglect,...
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Glacier Nation
Beneath the surface of our planet's icy crown lie stories of ancient times, fragile ecosystems, and communities woven into the glaciers' icy embrace. These frozen giants—part of the cryosphere, the world's vast frozen regions—are more than just stunning landscapes; they are vital sentinels of our...
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World Building
Imagine a city alive with stories—every corner whispering tales of dreams, struggles, and aspirations. It's a place where communities don't just live, but co-create their surroundings, weaving narratives into the very fabric of their environment. This is the essence of World Building—where...
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In Full Color
In this podcast, host Tate Chamberlin is joined by internationally acclaimed musician Teneia Sanders and Rabbi Joshua Lesser in discussion about queer community, pride, and the perspective necessary to walk, hand in hand, through an increasingly hostile political landscape with tenacity and…
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WEPOWER
In this episode, Tate Chamberlin hosts Charli Cooksey, Founder and CEO of WEPOWER. For Charli, her calling to uplift marginalized communities and reshape policy often faces systemic barriers. When passion alone isn't enough, how do we keep moving forward amid oppressive forces? Charli stands at a...
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The Hopeful Beat of the Next Generation
In this episode, host Tate Chamberlin delves into the profound silence surrounding hope and the role of youth in activism. Joined by next-generation leaders Royce Mann, Andini Makosinski, and Addie Strom, they confront the challenges facing a generation navigating institutional constraints,...
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Limelight Rainforest
Without the Amazon, the world as we know it ends. With no hyperbole, it is the churning epicenter of weather systems worldwide. It creates rain. It regulates temperature and humidity. It stores carbon dioxide. It regulates trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean and all the moisture they move. It...
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XPRIZE Rainforest
Each year at the G20 Summit, the "Group of 20" heads of state and international governments meet to address issues impacting global economies, politics, and environmental health. This year's Summit in Rio de Janeiro hosted the XPRIZE Rainforest award ceremony, the culmination of a five-year...
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Vibrant Data
How does ecological data analysis inform financial policies that challenge the status quo to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, thereby addressing the climate crisis and saving the world as we know it? It's a mix of positioning, ingenuity, investment, and good old-fashioned...
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A Just Transition
Wealthy nations, which have profited from exploitation and extraction, face a crucial moment to confront their histories. This recognition is vital for real change and challenges our assumptions about environment, race, religion, and wealth. We must also consider the ethical implications of...
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The Freedom of Forgiveness
It's not hard to be inspired by Candice Mama, even her voice burbles forth with the twinkling lyricism of joy. And that joy, that effervescence of self, has been hard won in a story capable of breaking even the soundest of hearts: the violent loss of her father at the hands of "the most evil man…
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We the Founders: Building A Shared Democracy
As we approach 2026, marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we find ourselves at a critical inflection point for democracy. The promise of equity demands that every policy and investment provide significant, sustained support to those most in need. This support must…
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The Revolution Will Be Watered: Mexico City's Grass Roots Movement
We often find ourselves looking to leaders and governments to direct solutions for our increasingly complex problems, but what better place to look than at a problem's source. As Mexico City struggles under the yoke of a burgeoning population and ever-dwindling resources, particularly water, it…
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African Regenerative Futures: Part 2
As young Tanzanians, in particular, struggle to define their way in the world, questions arise about the true nature of opportunity, and what to do when there is a lack. Does the mere existence of options suffice? Amidst political and social landscapes intent on the misleading adage to "pull...
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African Regenerative Futures: Part 1
With its pristine beaches, Stone Town's historic charm, and the vibrancy of the Masai people, Zanzibar is an island as alluring as it is elusive. It is here, after all, in this remote reach of the world so beautifully enveloped in nature that some of the greatest technological and digital…
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City Dilemma: Renewal or Reinvention
In the fight to save humanity—to literally reweave and rework the underpinnings of our social and structural fabric—how far is too far? Many speak of hope, of community coming together and manifesting viable, regenerative solution after solution, emboldening innovators to rise up from the ashes…
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Women Moving Markets
Hub Culture presents The Chronicle Discussions: Women Moving Markets. Where we champion the remarkable women driving change in our markets and communities. Join us as we share the inspiring stories of these trailblazers, exploring their journeys through the corporate and government landscape…
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The Power of Listening
Step into the world of active listening and environmental conservation as we take you on a journey through the rainforest, where cell phones connected to solar panels are used to detect the sound of chainsaws and thwart illegal logging. Join us as we explore the remarkable intersection of...
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The Thrumming, Thumping Heart of the Planet
Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and scattered sparsely across the Colombian and Peruvian borders, reside the Indigenous people of the Kichwa Nation. With more than 400 organized communities comprised of ayllus — groups of families — the Kichwa clans currently retain the rights to over 1,115,000...
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Stem Cells & Cognition
What does it mean to heal? Emotionally and mentally, as we begin to peel back the protective layers of denial, isolation, internalization, projection—like so many filters obscuring what is, what has happened, what lies beneath—we are left with something alien—raw, fragile, and often…
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The Power of Feminine
Many would be surprised to realize that women only secured the right to vote in this country a little over a century ago, and that, perhaps tellingly, they began attending institutions of higher learning in remarkable numbers at about the same time. The female presence in business is further…
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A New Social Contract
What gives rise to joy? To hope? What of meaning? And reconciliation? Many might espouse some presumed inherent worthiness of work—a legacy of things getting done—in defining a life well lived. Others might speak of the importance of family, of intimate connection, of love as all you need. In…
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Transformational Troubadour
Few people are untouched by the humble power of music. When we're in the depths of grief or the quietude of mid-winter blues, little soothes—provides the same solitary comfort and seen-ness—as concisely as Nina Simone's throaty crooning or Yo-Yo Ma's haunting cello suites. We employ music to help...
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Floating Down the Spine of the Earth
On the cusp of a new moon, a group of HATCHers — seekers, adventurers, and innovators — took a trip down the Nile in search of paths both into the heart of some age-worn darkness and outward beyond the confines of their modern vernacular. They found a way forward by looking back, way back, to a...
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Finance & Activism
It often feels impossible. As the masses become increasingly aware of corruption and active manipulation throughout financial, political, and infrastructural systems, answers remain few and far between. How do you challenge the financial giants — institutions woven into the very fabric of our...
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Decentralization
Oxford defines decentralization as "the transfer of control of an activity or organization to several local offices or authorities rather than one single one." Essentially, decentralization dethrones the few to empower the many, in arenas ranging from technology to politics to social reform. With...
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Systems Change
What do we mean when we talk about systems change? And what systems do we seek to change? Systems change seeks to identify the underlying cause of social, economic, environmental, political, and cultural problems by uncovering the root factors — beliefs, structures, policies, and perspectives —...
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Regenerative Community
In this episode, our host, Tate Chamberlin hosts Tony Cho, CEO and founder of Future of Cities, which aims to positively impact 1 billion people through innovations in the built environment; Stan Stalnaker, social globalization expert and founder and chief strategy officer of Hub Culture, a...
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A COP Half Full
In this episode, our host Tate Chamberlin hosts climate activist and SDG advocate Marc Buckley at the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. One of the first climate speakers trained by Al Gore, Buckley seeks to "empower billions of global citizens to live...
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FreeFlow
In this episode, our host Tate Chamberlin is with Karoline Zizka, Florian Fournier, and Fernando del Sol of FreeFlow, a global movement to empower the people with sustainable access to complementary education, internet, and currencies (banking) for less than a dollar per month through an...
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The Internet of Internets
In this episode, Tate Chamberlin hosts Kristof de Spiegeleer and Sabrina Sadik of ThreeFold, a growing global partnership intent on building "an open-source, peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure that removes all forms of centralization from the global IT systems." Coined the "People's Internet,"...
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Ocean Health = Planet Health
In this podcast, Our Host Tate Chamberlin is joined by Marcus Eriksen, scientist, and co-founder of The 5 Gyres Institute, "a leader in the global movement against plastic pollution." Eriksen and his wife, 5 Gyres co-founder Anna Cummins, have manned the Institute's helm since 2009, leading 19...
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The NextGen of Systems Change
In this episode, our host Tate Chamberlin is joined by Olympian, facilitator, and community organizer Pamphinette Buisa with HATCH NextGen activists and students Olivia Bulis and Ruby Jenni in reflections on diversity, decolonization, systems change, and why empowering youth may be the first step...
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Systems Change in Education
In this podcast, our host Tate Chamberlin is joined by Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, Cindy Chin, and Elyse Klaidman in a discussion examining the good, the bad, and the ugly of our current education systems and innovative approaches to STEAM explorations, both in and out of school. Dr. Oluseyi is a…
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I Am Interchange immerses you in the world of adventure journalism, where we fearlessly explore the monumental global changes, inequalities, and urgent issues surrounding the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Through raw, unfiltered storytelling, we dive into the tension within these goals and share the stories from the front lines of systems change.
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Tate Chamberlin
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