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Audio lectures brought to you by Social Innovation Conversations, co-hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review's Managing Editor Eric Nee.

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Education

Investing in Education in China

Justin Cahill talks about how his enterprise built a company called RISE, which now boasts 30,000 children learning English in more than 100 learning centers in one of the fastest-growing markets in world.

Featuring Justin Cahill | Aug. 16, 2012 | 11 minutes
 
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Education

GS | SU Global Education Conference: Kunskapsskolan Case Study

A look at new schools in Sweden that provide personalized and hands-on classroom experience.

Featuring Peje Emilsson | Aug. 8, 2012 | 11 minutes
 
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Government

Promoting Civic Engagement and Voting

Organizations are finding that subtle changes in language make a difference in how people vote.

Featuring Todd Rogers | Aug. 8, 2012 | 45 minutes
 
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Health

Promoting Health Through Weight Loss

Harvard business professor Leslie John reports on studies providing financial and social incentives to get people to lose weight.

Featuring Leslie John | Jul. 31, 2012 | 33 minutes
 
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Environment

Environmental Sustainability Through Recycling

Kate White shares research about how positive and negative messages around recycling influence people’s behavior.

Featuring Kate White | Jul. 24, 2012 | 32 minutes
 
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Global Issues

Improving Educational Achievement for Minorities

Stanford assistant professor Greg Walton examines a psychological factor that contributes to inequalities between socially marginalized and non-marginalized groups.

Featuring Greg Walton | Jul. 18, 2012 | 37 minutes
 
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Global Issues

Food, Water, and Energy

In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shares her insight on the necessary steps to sustainably feed the nine billion people that will be living on our planet by 2050.

Featuring Ann Bartuska | 1 | Jul. 17, 2012 | 21 minutes
 
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Microfinance

Mobile and Branchless Banking

In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman speaks with one of branchless banking's greatest proponents and the co-founder of Eko India Financial Services, Abhishek Sinha.

Featuring Abhishek Sinha | Jun. 27, 2012 | 28 minutes
 

Civil Society

The Civic Impact of Youth Volunteerism

McAdam reviews two follow-up studies of youth activists, and assesses the experiences and their long-term effects on volunteers.

Featuring Doug McAdam | Jun. 4, 2012 | 74 minutes
 

Technology & Design

Solar Power in a Suitcase

In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.

Featuring Laura Stachel & Hal Aronson | Apr. 18, 2012 | 35 minutes