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Unmade in America: The Wages of Factory Work
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Conveyor belts in abandoned Wrigley gum factory.
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...

Bought by WCPN and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
#865- The Socialistic Dream
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Is socialism a dream of the ignorant or an attainable goal? News piece that is certain to garner attention and spark conversation from the nations ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
190315: EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal, and Climate, 3/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Andrew Wheeler as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Greg Dalton sits down for a rare in...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-03-15 EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal, and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Andrew Wheeler as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Greg Dalton sits down for a rare in...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, Nevada Public Radio, NPR Now, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
#862- News piece "Like Many Voters- look at all the bonds"
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Like many voters the latest ballot was packed full of bonds. What is a bond? Do people really understand what they are? Who pays for them and why a...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:20
2019-02-22 Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFOI Radio, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
190222: Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy, 2/22/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-01-27 Cool Clean Tech
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Davida Herzl, CEO and Co-Founder, Aclima
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal ...

Bought by WJCT, KMXT, KPIP-LP, KSFR, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
#856- Newscast- "The seduction of socialism"
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Many call for socialism in lieu of capitalism. Is it a pipe dream? Does socialism work? Why is the concept so alluring to some? Do they truly under...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2019
  • Length: 04:50
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About the Economy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But the dangers we face due to its oper...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 57:43
UnCommonCore Presents: Shoe Biz with Conrad Bradford and Alicia Walters
From: Tom Howell
Caption: Alicia Walters, Credit: Tom Howell
As the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) comes to visit Conrad Bradford talks to Alicia Walters about the shoe business.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
Under Cover of Subversion: Employer Activism Against Labor
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of peaceful strikers (1912 Lawrence textile strike)
While citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within: a business community committed to the ranc...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 58:12
2018-07-08 Making the Grade: Corporations and the Paris Climate Accord
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When you think of climate activism, Wall Street doesn’t immediately come to mind. But as investors are coming to realize, they do have a voice – an...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WUTC, MPR News Stations, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Corporations and the Future of Democracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can money really be a form of speech?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2018-06-03 Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé: Plate to Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Anna Lappé, Author, Diet for a Hot Planet
Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé are two of the country’s most prolific and influential authors writing about feeding a crowded planet with a destabil...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KWIT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
2018-05-06 Selling the Science of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: David Fenton, Founder and Chairman, Fenton Communications
The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet and disrupting our economies. Yet many people still don’t believe that climat...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
2018-04-08 Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto Industry
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 bill...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Aquaculture Revisited
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Offshore aquaculture operation, Credit: NMFS/NOAA
Aquaculture has long been a controversial industry fraught with conflict: waste and feed pollution, use of antibiotics, escape of genetically modif...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:08
The Ongoing Race for Arctic Oil
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Svalbard, Norway , Credit: Thomas Hallermann | Marine Photobank
The pursuit for oil continues, even as many alternatives emerge and investments are displaced. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Nei...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:50
A World Ocean Fund for Responsible Investing
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Early in 2018, BlackRock asset management chair Larry Fink issued a statement declaring growing public demand for companies to serve a social purpo...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
2018-03-04 Cloudy Days for Solar?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The price of solar power has declined dramatically in recent years. That’s good news for homeowners, the environment and the economy. Renewable pow...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
Thursday, February 1, 2018 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
Caption: Two marble statues of robed women atop a building- one is Lady Justice with her sword and scales., Credit: Thomas Quine/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Thursday, February 1, 2018.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 11:19
Freedom to Exit: The Libertarian Use of Market Ideology
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Original Walton's Five and Dime, now the Wal-Mart Visitor's Center, Bentonville, Arkansas., Credit: Photo taken by Bobak Ha'Eri. (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
2018-01-14 Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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...

Bought by KQUA, KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
2018-01-07 Net Zero Living
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Conservation begins at home – literally. Designing and operating a home that generates as much power as it uses is rapidly becoming a reality. Mean...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, WLPR , and NPR Now


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5