Durable Good

Stories worth telling about why - and how - people care for others, serve their communities, and endure through adversity. durableproductions.substack.com

Durable Good is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Durable Good, a society show with 12 episodes published.

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  On Maintenance

  May 15, 202615 minS0

  <p>Ray Jennings has been away from Durable Good for two months. A Maine spring will do that — the list of things requiring attention is long, and it doesn’t negotiate.</p><p>This podcast is inspired by a Maine Spring and a chance encounter with a civil wedding that Ray wasn’t expecting to walk into. Just a couple, a clerk behind a high counter, a pen on a chain, and the quiet machinery of public record-keeping doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. It’s the kind of moment that shouldn’t be all that extraordinary. It stayed with...

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  An Interview with Razan Abd El Haque and Courtney Brown of Proximity2Humanity.

  Feb 27, 202647 minS0

  <p>Razan Abd El Haque and Courtney Brown trace the arc of their lives from early awakenings about responsibility and service to decades of community-based work in conflict settings and at home. From founding Proximity International to amplify voices amid war, to launching Proximity2Humanity to advance community-based solutions in the aftermath of war or in the face of local challenges, Courtney and Razan take a deeply humanitarian approach to the way that they encounter communities and the people that live in them. </p><p>What emerges in this conversation is not only a record of humanitarian action, but a...

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  Bearing Witness As Public Service

  Feb 7, 202613 minS0

  <p>This episode of Durable Good looks at bearing witness as a form of public service in a time when civic values are ignored as coercive authority works to entrench its power. Drawing on examples from Cairo, Tehran, Minneapolis, and historical moments of transition, the episode examines how acts of coordination and mutual aid preserve dignity, civic life, and social ties under threat.</p><p>The essay explores why coercive power seeks to isolate and fragment collective opposition, how community response can succeed or fail during periods of uncertainty, and why sustained relationships and mutual obligation are central to resilience...

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  What December Makes Visible

  Dec 28, 202510 minS0

  <p>Editors note </p><p>This episode began as something celebratory and ended up becoming something else.</p><p>It’s a reflection on what the end of the year tends to make briefly visible: the shape of our social lives, the relationships that are present, the ones that have drifted, and the small, often awkward moments where connection still surprises us.</p><p>Moving between research, memory, and lived experience, this episode explores how social isolation doesn’t usually arrive as a dramatic rupture, but as something more subtle. A narrowing of time. Fewer chances for conversations to wander. Live...

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  A Durable Good Interview with Jason Aplon

  Dec 3, 202532 minS0

  <p>Jason Aplon has spent more than three decades working in some of the most difficult post-war and transitional environments in the world. A deeply thoughtful colleague and widely respected practitioner, he has worked in more than 30 countries with communities that are fragmenting, recovering from violence, or trying to rebuild a political center after the guns fall silent. His work has placed him on the front lines of post-war transitions - where former fighters return home, institutions falter or begin again, and the social contracts that once held people together must somehow be rebuilt.</p><p>In our conversation, Jason...

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