Citizen-Powered Media

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Producers of the free weekly radio series (2015-2017), and now ocassional one-hour specials under the same banner - Conversation Earth. Citizen-Powered Media is a 501(c)3 non-profit media organization helping educate the public about important social and environmental issues. We also produce the GrowthBusters podcast about sustainable living.

Series

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78 Pieces

Conversations with thought leaders exploring our place on the planet


Pieces

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Most scientists agree the current level of human population, in combination with present living arrangements, is damaging our ecosystems. But doing...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson corrects misconceptions, debunks myths, and shares a variety of surprising facts about overpopulatio...

Bought by KTRL, KMUD, and KTRL


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

Bought by KTRL, XRAY.fm, KMUD, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
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How and why did our society come to value economic growth so highly that we pursue it at the risk of our long-term survival? For some time scientis...

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  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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We need to change the way we think if we want to extend the shelf-life of our civilization, according to Frances Moore Lappé, author of EcoMind: Ch...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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We’re not living on Earth as if we want to stay, observes Mike Nickerson. In our last episode, Mike Nickerson shared his vision for, and the joy of...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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“We could be having so much fun that there just isn't time to consume resources on a quantity, or produce waste on a quantity that would be problem...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Efforts to date are falling far short of achieving the greenhouse gas reduction needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption. Bioethicist Travis...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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With human activity disrupting the climate, do we have a moral imperative not to have children, or to have only one child? Bioethicist Travis Riede...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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How can policymakers be persuaded to abandon the most widespread public policy goal on Earth? In our last episode, Brian Czech explained that econo...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTRL, WSLR, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4