# Episodes

## [Episode 111: Climate Heroes - Saving Food in Uruguay](https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-111-climate-heroes-saving-food-in-uruguay "Permalink to Episode 111: Climate Heroes - Saving Food in Uruguay")
A college student in Uruguay finds a way to salvage food that would otherwise be thrown away. With the help of friends, he manages to not only provide healthier food options for vulnerable communities, but also fight climate change.

## [Episode 110: Costumbres - Casitas in the Bronx](https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-110-costumbres-casitas-in-the-bronx "Permalink to Episode 110: Costumbres - Casitas in the Bronx")
Leonor Torres finds a sense of community and a way to preserve customs from Puerto Rico at El Flamboyan garden and its _casita_ in the Bronx, but it almost gets destroyed.

## [Episode 109: Costumbres - Chapitas in Venezuela](https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-109-costumbres-chapitas-in-venezuela "Permalink to Episode 109: Costumbres - Chapitas in Venezuela")
Growing up in Venezuela, Gyorgy Aponte played a makeshift version of baseball, “chapitas,” using bottle caps and a broom. With his family and baseball buddies dispersed around the world, he decides to pass on the custom to his son in Canada.

## [Episode 108: Costumbres - La once in Chile](https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-108-costumbres-la-once-in-chile "Permalink to Episode 108: Costumbres - La once in Chile")
Journalist Kalú Downey and her friend worried that Chilean teatime known as “la once” was fading, so they launched a social media project to celebrate it, only to discover deeper meanings behind the custom.

## [Episode 107: Costumbres - Quinceañeras in the U.S.](https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-107-costumbres-quinceaneras-in-the-us "Permalink to Episode 107: Costumbres - Quinceañeras in the U.S.")
As the daughter of recent immigrants from Ecuador, Francis Gortaire didn’t get to have a traditional _quinceañera_ when she turned 15. But, for her 30th birthday, she decided to host the _quinceañera_ she never had and shared an important announcement with her community.