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Irrigation Efficiency Paradox
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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According to the US Geological Survey, 70% of the available freshwater worldwide is used for irrigation. Industrial agriculture and modern irrigati...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 05:18
Transmission: Irmgard Emmelhainz (en Español)
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:43
Transmission: Irmgard Emmelhainz
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:57
Transmission: d'bi.young anitafrika
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Is it my greed? Is it my greed that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to share? Is it my fear? Is it my fear that propels me to behav...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 09:53
Transmission: Luis Jacob
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Do you even know what you want to want?” Jacob takes us on a looping and circuitous path through self-care and empowerment rhetoric. “Own it!” “Y...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:16
Transmission: Fariha Róisín
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve really ever had it.” Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in com...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Kevin Gotkin
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“When I say ‘Let’s get cozy,’ I’m asking you to join me in the making of a new and better world.” Gotkin reflects on the historical, social, and p...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Romily Alice Walden
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it” Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric me...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Macarena Gómez-Barris
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“We envision a timeless and a historical future. We bury our seen and unseen dead. We mourn all of our losses. We catalogue our human and more-than...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Françoise Vergès
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“To live, we need to breathe, to be held and to hold, to love and be loved, to make kin and communities. Yes, to love and be loved.” In a rousing...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:39
Transmission: Ravyn Wngz
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Keep going, keep going.” Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman;...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome Message
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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Returning in a new iteration for 2021, "Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” invites artists, public intellectuals, and writers to radica...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Transition Movement
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part 43 of the BLUEprint Series outlining a new and sustainable path forward with the ocean leading the way. In thi...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:22
A Utopian Solution
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode, part thirty-nine of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we follow up on last weeks' examination of China's response to the climate cr...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You (AAPI Heritage Month Story)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we hear from US Congressman Andy Kim about how the power competition between China and the US creates fear and anxiety on the home...

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  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
International Ecosystem Accounting
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode, part thirty-seven of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we continue to discuss the take-aways from the recently published 2nd United...

  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
Facing Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we talk about climate policy with former California Governor Jerry Brown, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and former Colombian president Juan...

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  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Can We Vaccinate 7.9 Billion People?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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If you live in the United States, there’s a good chance you’ve already been vaccinated, or at least have an appointment booked, but people who live...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Exporting America's Gun Problem
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, journalists J Brian Charles and Ioan Grillo join us to talk about how complicated gun violence is, and how tighter gun laws could ...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Ocean Services Summary
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Newport Beach, California, USA, Credit: Philip Graves
This week on World Ocean Radio: part thirty of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we ask, "What is the natural capital value of our h...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 04:27
Why They’re Protesting in Burma
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Burma was supposed to be a transitioning democracy, and the power-sharing agreement between its military and civilian leadership was regarded as on...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
F-Word: Royalty, Racist? Really?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"In the context of the Divine Right of Kings, the who-said-what-to-Harry and Meghan question. is most certainly missing the white supremacist fores...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
Why the Solarwinds Cyberattack Was Inevitable
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week on WorldAffairs, New York Times reporters David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth join us to talk about the threat of cyberwarfare, how the Unit...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Democracy in Peril + A Resurgent Russia
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we’re partnering with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University to talk about the state of dem...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Yemen's Hunger Ward
From: Mateo Schimpf
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After more than five years of civil war, Yemenis are bracing for what could be the worst famine the world has seen in decades. Hunger Ward, a new d...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 17:30
  • Purchases: 2

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