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Intertribal Electric Highway Greens Rural Charging Desert

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

A new EV charging network fills a big gap in the nation's charging map and brings electric vehicles, jobs, and healing to reservations.

Bought by WFHB

Clean Truck Coalition Puts Pedal to the Metal

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Sierra Club staff and volunteers attending virtual meeting of California Air Resources Board, Credit: Sierra Club

Activists accelerate states' switch to zero emission big rigs

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB

Old Docs Take New Patient: The Climate

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Robin Cooper, Psychiatrist and Climate Activist

Older doctors talk about their journey from medicine to hardcore climate activism. Bill McKibben introduces his new group Third Act and explains w...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KZYX, WFHB, and RadioStPete Florida

Farewell to Factory Farms

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Meet farmers pioneering the movement away from industrial meat production

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KZYX, and WFHB

New Year's Pledge Helps Millions Eat Healthier

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Veganuary is a month long challenge to substitute plant products for meat and dairy. Even those who don't stay vegan make long term cuts in consum...

Bought by KMXT and WFHB

Got Methane?

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

A look at the climate and health impacts of dairy digesters

Bought by KICI Iowa City, RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

When in Vermont, Watch Where You Put Your Apple Core

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

The Green Mountain State banned food from landfills to cut methane and mountains of garbage in half

Bought by KVNF, KRZA, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City

Kiss Your Gas Goodbye

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center

To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KICI Iowa City

Is Your Money Fueling Wildfires?

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Move your money from big Wall Street banks that finance fossil fuel to community banks with better values.

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Playing Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Board games about climate solutions inspire action. 4 game designers tell their stories.

Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, and WYAP

You Don't Have to be Rich to Drive Electric

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

EV carshares in low income neighborhoods and low priced used electric vehicles are making them accessible for everyone.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and RadioFreePalmer

When you see a barricade, do you feel safe?

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Slow Streets' hit a bump in Oakland and turned into something better.

Bought by WFHB

Saving COVID's Car Free Streets

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Activists organize to preserve COVID's silver lining, streets safe for cyclists that provide routes across the city.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB

Funding Cool Communities

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Stories about communities raising money to lower emissions

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and WYAP

Land for New Farmers

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

There's a lot of farmland about to change hands. We can make sure it's distributed fairly to good stewards.

Bought by KRZA, WYAP, and WFHB

This Is My Home

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Diane Wilson and Sharon Lavigne defend their Texas and Louisiana communities from petrochemical pollution, in the courtroom, on the water, and in...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WMPG, WFHB, and KRZA

Stories from The Big New Jersey Plastic Ban

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council

Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Re-Localizing Food

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Local Food Hub's Free Farmacy Program

Food hubs in Charlottesville VA and Warrenton VA support local farmers and provide fresh produce for their communities. When COVID broke long sup...

Bought by KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KVNF, and KRZA

Healthy Soil for a Healthy Planet

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

How do we turn agriculture from climate pollution to climate solution?

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KRZA

Vampires Shut Down Power Plants

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: team installing water heater controllers

The refrigerator or water heater in your home can be part of the clean energy revolution.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KICI Iowa City

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