Sea Change Radio

Series produced by Alex Wise

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Sea Change Radio iss a weekly show covering the shifts to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. The show is nationally syndicated and podcast globally.

Launched in January 2009, the show evolved from Corporate Watchdog Radio, founded by Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon in 2005. Alex Wise became the show's Host & Executive Producer in May of 2010. Focusing on sustainability innovators in a wide-range of fields, Sea Change guests have included Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Stewart Brand and Paul Hawken.


547 Pieces

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Within Our Grasp: Sharman Apt Russell on Childhood Malnutrition
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sharman Russell
As Anne Frank wrote in her diary, “hunger is not a problem, it is an obscenity.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author Sharman Apt Russ...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Nicole Taylor of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Nicole Taylor
This past year has been trying for everyone, with the economically vulnerable particularly hard hit. In a heartening turn, there has been an uptick...

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  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

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  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Malavika Vyawahare: Commercial Tuna Pirates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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When we hear the term “resource curse,” it usually refers to the exploitation of countries with rich stores of natural resources like fossil fuels ...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Scott Lerner: Hydrogen Vehicle Update
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Lerner
Back in February of 2013 when we spoke to hydrogen vehicle expert Robert Boyd, the mass market appeal of hydrogen cars seemed somewhat limited to s...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crystal Kolden: Prepping For Wildfire Season
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Crystal Kolden
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sammy Roth: Shutting Down Diablo Canyon
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
We are on the brink of the hottest months of the year. For those of us in California this means getting ready for the nuisance of rolling blackouts...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Liz King: Civil Rights In Our Public Schools
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Who Speaks For The Water?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Varsha
In the film adaptation of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the unscrupulous Aloysius O’Hare sells oxygen. The audience is shocked and dismayed by this want...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Arqlite: Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sebastian Sajoux
This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn about a small, innovative company that is recycling all sorts of plastics and turning them into gravel. We ...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Motavalli: EV Updates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Motavalli
If you haven’t considered buying an electric vehicle yet, there’s a good chance that in the not-so-distant future, the decision will already be mad...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rod Graham: Color-Consciousness Not Colorblindness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Celia Ouellette: The Business of Punishment in America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Celia Ouellette
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: Breaking Down Biden’s Climate Plan
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The infrastructure bill currently being negotiated in Congress includes some important climate-related allocations. Environmentalists, of course, f...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sami Grover: We’re All Hypocrites Now
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sami Grover
Have you ever heard the term climate hypocrite? Maybe you’ve noticed as it was applied to some high profile celebrity or advocate flying across the...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Immune To Tragedy: Gun Regulations in America
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robyn Thomas
Globally suicide accounts for about 20% of all gun-related deaths. But in the United States, the country with the highest per-capita civilian gun o...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tru Earth CEO Brad Liski: Detergent Insurgent
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brad Liski
The next time you’re doing a load of laundry, take a second and think about all that goes into cleaning your clothes. You’ve probably contemplated ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beth Hoffman: Betting The Farm
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Beth Hoffman
It’s a familiar theme from television, the movies, and literature: city folk, sick of the hustle and bustle of urban life, decamping to a bucolic e...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shamus Roller on Housing Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shamus Roller
For the past year and a half, we've been watching the numbers: Covid cases, ER beds, deaths, and, more recently, immunization rates. There's anothe...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Solving America's Traffic Cop Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brett Simpson
Two summers ago, calls to defund the police swept across the nation, spurred by high-profile incidents of police brutality against people of color....

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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