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This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 05:20
This week we continue the Earth Optimism Series, a 24-episode project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal, to address oc...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 05:21
In the 20th century, U.S. waterways had become dumping grounds for industrial, urban, and agricultural waste. Today many of these waterways are get...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
World Ocean Radio is set to embark on a series highlighting optimistic projects, perspectives, and organizations helping to raise awareness at the ...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 06:05
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet people confronting racist depictions of Muslims and Arabs in pop culture and politics; and two young w...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The public trust doctrine is designed to protect our natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Plaintiffs in a number of legal cases...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 05:10
The age of unlimited growth driven by fossil fuels is over. A new world view is required now, one around which we can organize our values and behav...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 05:16
In January of 2016 the UN General Assembly accepted a 1,752 page report entitled "The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assess...
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 05:21
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 05:44
Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 05:02
First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
There are many whale-related hot button topics being discussed today: hunting (particularly by the Japanese), seismic testing, inexplicable strandi...
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 04:42
The conversation continues about the future of the Arctic this week with further outcomes from the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland. Du...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 05:16
The Arctic Circle, an assembly founded by the President of Iceland and held annually to help define the deliberations of the Arctic Council, was he...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 05:35
This week marks the 350th episode of World Ocean Radio, a weekly program of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean issues from science a...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 05:30
Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 04:07
The Next System Project was developed to identify alternatives, foster conversations, evaluate fresh ideas, and propose solutions that will help us...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 05:26
What is the possibility of a post-capitalism economic model to support the values and behaviors for a new era filled with alternative technologies,...
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 05:24
The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 05:45
Because of persistent drought and water crises due to unsustainable practices, California is facing many challenges to its very existence. It is wa...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 05:23
"Virtual water" is used to produce everything that we incorporate into our lives each day but is not listed on labels or calculated into price. Whe...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Four competing essayists debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think Off" in New York Mills, Min...
Bought by KUOW, WEKU, KUOW, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
Competing essayists Jennifer Nelson and Jason Steck debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think ...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
What would the American landscape look like if we had no legislation? Would it be habitable today? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 05:34
The “Planning with Water” series continues this week with discussion of the current water crisis in Brazil. In this episode of World Ocean Radio ho...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:19
