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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
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
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
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
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
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...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Pamela Crossley of Dartmouth College & Sarwar Kashmeri of Norwich University discuss China's bold strategic gamble to develop the connections from ...
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 04:38
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
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
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
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
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
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
It must sting Hindu Americans that Aslan, an Iranian-American often called upon to speak out against stereotyping Islam, seems to be now playing a ...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 05:59
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 ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Only days after announcing that the one China policy was no-good under a Trump Administration, U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack, stiffed Ta...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:56
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
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
Finally, after years of gestation and convoluted, secretive negotiations under President Obama, the Trans Pacific Partnership passed away in its sl...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 04:54
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
As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 04:50
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
Mongolia's religious preferences center around the Dalia Lama. China's don't. Mongolia invited the Dalia Lama to pay homage to his lineage, China s...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 04:49
The Dalai Lama will not be invited to Mongolia again after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's recent trip there angered China, which considers h...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 04:41
An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 04:49
