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Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Ark of Space by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1968)
Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in thi...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
Caption: Shulamith Firestone in about 1970, the year “The Dialectic of Sex” was published. Credit Michael Hardy
The Dialectic of Sex is widely considered the most influential book of Second Wave Feminism. In it Firestone argues that the biological sexual dich...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Caption: Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Credit: Ed Ritger
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Our primary task for this 90-minute Interchange, and it seems a kind of irony, is to find a way to define Democracy away from our current conceptio...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:29:01
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Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:01
Caption: Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Stephanie Smith. COO, Greencastle LLC
When Californians think of Texas, images of JR Ewing and pump jacks quickly come to mind. But the Lone Star State is greener than you think – it le...

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  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 57:38
Caption: Amory Lovins, Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute
Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will autonomous cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our str...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Debbie Dooley, President, Conservatives for Energy Freedom, Co-founder, Tea Party Movement
Can the far right and far left come together on clean energy despite the polarization in Washington DC? While Democrats and Republicans may have di...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
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Direct action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling c...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Lowell Bergman, Investigative Journalist
How closely does the story of climate denial mirror the story of tobacco denial? For decades, cigarette makers downplayed the dangers of smoking wi...

Bought by KZYX, KCMJ Community Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: James Coleman, Fellow, Alliance for Climate Education, Credit: Ed Ritger
As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Strip. The...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Helene York, Simran Sethi
Getting people to connect the dots between food and the environment may be one way to engage them in the climate change fight, suggests author and ...

Bought by KUNM and KMUD


  • Added: Feb 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Holmes Hummel, Founder, Clean Energy Works, Credit: Ed Ritger
With stock market values at near-record highs, how is the clean tech sector doing? What technologies are most promising for making money and getti...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Bob Inglis, Former Republican U.S. Representative, South Carolina, Credit: Ed Ritger
Much has been made of the partisan divide when it comes to climate change. But are there Republicans out there who accept the science and believe ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Josh Freedman, George Lakoff, Daniel Goleman, Greg Dalton, Credit: Ed Ritger
Evolution designed our brains to protect us from immediate, day-to-day threats to our survival. But environmental change is a less than clear, less...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Larry Goulder, Tony Juniper, Greg Dalton, Credit: Sonya Abrams
It’s hard to put a price on something that’s always been free, but if Mother Nature were a corporation, she’d be a large-cap stock. Think about it ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Tony Thurmond, Assemblyman (D-15)
What’s the future for California with a Donald Trump White House? The country's biggest and bluest state is at odds with the emerging administrati...

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  • Length: 59:00
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Happiness. We all want it. But what can that word mean? What do we imagine we’re seeking as we spend much of our time and effort in pursuit of happ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Muhammad Ali
Studs Terkel was a champion of a working folk and icons alike, and sometimes, he even managed to bring the two together. In this 1975 interview wit...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KPIK-LP, KRDP, WEAA, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 56:25
  • Purchases: 16
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A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the author describes political issues of the day, the new influence of ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1