Elm City Podcast City Atlas: New Haven

Amanda Rinderle and Jonas Clark are the co-founders of Tuckerman & Co, a clothing company which makes high-quality workwear that’s better for people and the planet. Tuckerman's first products are a collection of high-quality dress shirts made from organic cotton, Italian fabric, and manufactured in Fall River, Massachusetts. Founded in 2014 as a Benefit Corporation, they also became a Certified Benefit Corporation in 2015.

Learn more about Tuckerman & Co by visiting: http://www.tuckerman.co/

Produced by Liana Epstein, in conjunction with City Atlas: New Haven. February 2016.

Liana Epstein tells us about City Atlas: New Haven, a new project about the future of New Haven. City Atlas is a bottom-up pub­li­ca­tion that high­lights the good ini­tia­tives hap­pen­ing through­out the city with the goal of work­ing together toward a greener, greater future for the city. In par­tic­u­lar, Liana talks about the pow­er­ful role of lis­ten­ing in com­mu­nity ini­tia­tives — and lis­ten­ing a lot.

VetWheels is a program started in New Haven, CT in which veterans with serious mental illness learn bicycle repair, maintenance, and safety in a small group setting as they rebuild a used bicycle to keep for their personal use. In this episode of GovLove, we sat down with the Program Coordinator and Bike Mechanic of VetWheels to hear how this small program tapped into broader community efforts and how it can be replicated in other towns.

Executive Director of Common Ground, Melissa Spear, talks about sustainability, education, and community involvement in the New Haven area.

Chris Randall, founder of the "I Love New Haven" photography initiative, speaks to us about his work in New Haven, as well as his hopes for the future of the city.

Anthony Cor­rea, high­lighted in this episode, is the Direc­tor of Recruit­ment for the Elm Seed Enter­prise fund, the old­est student-run micro­fi­nance orga­ni­za­tion in the world. Hail­ing from Miami, Florida, Anthony will be a senior at Yale this year.

Produced by Meghan O'Sullivan, in conjunction with City Atlas: New Haven. July 2015.

Music by Kevin MacLeod (track title: "Backed Vibes Clean.") Original music available at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Jazz_Sampler/Backed_Vibes_Clean_1973. Attribution: Backed Vibes Clean (Kevin MacLeod (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/) ) / CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)