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Saltwater Engineering
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Desalination plant in Hamburg, Germany, Credit: World Atlas | worldatlas.com/articles/can-we-make-drinking-water-out-of-ocean-water.html
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill gets us thinking about seawater: as a resource for fresh drinking water, as a means for robust rene...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
190503: 2019-05-03 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility, 5/3/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
Sunburst: The Power and Viability of Solar Energy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Solar energy has emerged worldwide as a serious and viable alternative to fossil fuels, and can now be found in many places around the world. In th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:52
The Virtual Power of Innovation
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Invention and management of energy systems have led to increased efficiency and less reliance on unsustainable supplies of fossil fuels. In this ep...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:02
190329: Insane Mode: Tesla’s Wild Ride, 3/29/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
2019-03-29 Insane Mode: Tesla’s Wild Ride
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUOW, WMRA, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
Is “Green Growth” Malignant? Perspectives on the Green New Deal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Tirana Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri
Some think that “green growth” would be unlikely to stop global warming, and would only worsen numerous other global environmental crises. While a ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
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
190215: Can California Go Carbon Neutral?, 2/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
2019-02-15 Can California Go Carbon Neutral?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the bac...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KVMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Edge: Part Three of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we begin to present the ocean edge in thematic ways with The Working Edge, outlining the various social structures, industries, exchange,...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
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
Teaching Ethics
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 48:02
  • Purchases: 1
2018-12-30 Going Carbon Negative
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
Fri. 12/07 - Microsoft Calls for Regulation of AI
From: Brian McCullough
Series: Techmeme Ride Home
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Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition AI, the Crypto market crash is starting to claim casualties, Reddit is quietly doing very well...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 20:33
2018-12-09 Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
2018-12-02 A Four-Zero Climate Solution
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’s Ar...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KMXT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Catalog of Life: Data Collection for a Sustainable Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The Catalog of Life is an online database of the world's known species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. It holds the essential inform...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
2018-11-18 Are Human Lives Improving?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Ethics of Drone Warfare
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are drones the herald of a more sanitized and efficient form of war, or do they represent the dystopian reign of uncaring technologies?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Underwater War: Marine Tech in the Information Age
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Ships have long been used for exploration and trade, as well as for colonial expansion and conflicts at sea. We are using technological achievement...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 1
Police Story: The Myth of the Municipal Force
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Office of Public Safety adviser Robert N. Bush and South Korean Counterpart.
In Violence Work, Micol Seigel shows how the police put violence to work for the state; policing being the quintessential translation of state powe...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
2021-04-18 The Ethics of Algorithms
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would you trust your life to an algorithm?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, and Capital Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Leaving Teaching for Tech
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Former teacher and current tech worker Sophia talks about why she left the classroom, how people perceive teachers, how to bring STEM to four-year-...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 34:51