David Glickman, owner of Vermont Butcher Block and Board Co., talks about surviving rejection when he asked for money on the ABC TV show “Shark Tank,” and Janice St. Onge, president of the the Vermont Flex Fund, talks about the financial lifeline and socially responsible investment the Flex Fund made in Vt. Butcher Block. In the second half, Porter Fox, author of Deep: The Story ofSkiing and the Future of Snow, talks about his global journey to explore the impact of climate change on skiing.
Investing in the future: August Burns and Jane Dale discuss how Grounds for Health, a small international nonprofit organization based in Waterbury, Vt., has pioneered a low-cost way to screen and treat cervical cancer, the #1 killer of women in developing countries. And … Continue reading
Duncan McDougall discusses the work of the Children’s Literacy Foundation in prisons and in rural communities in Vermont and New Hampshire. Author Ann Jones speaks about the plight of soldiers returning from war, which she writes about in her book, “They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars—The Untold Story.”
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