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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
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Fred Block
Most people believe that capitalist economics are self-regulated. According to UC Davis economic sociologist Fred L. Block, this view is simply an ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Robot for Developers and Educators
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Image of the robot Misty II, used with permission., Credit: Misty Robotics
Engineer Ian Bernstein talks about his startup’s newest consumer robot released by Misty Robotics: Misty II. Based on what he learned developing hi...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 34:01
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
Communities Over Commodities: How to Get There?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Your Space
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Sena Mourad-Friedman the director of development at The Fair Housing Center, an organization that...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Fight Power With Power
From: Cooler Earth
Series: Cooler Earth Podcast
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What if we could create a profoundly more equitable world? Renewable energy has the potential to disrupt power dynamics created by fossil fuels, bu...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 23:00
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...

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  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Facebook Breakup: Time to Cash Out?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mark Zuckerberg at The Original Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia (9/24/17). Posted on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page.
Will Davies, author of the Happiness Industry, has written in the London Review of Books that “Destroying privacy in ever more adventurous ways is ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:18
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...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
A Precautionary Tale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Ackerman-Leist
The village of Mals, Italy is on the eastern Swiss boarder in the shadow of the Alps. It’s been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. Recently, th...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Impossible Presidency
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacket cover, Credit: Design by Nicole Caputo
The American presidency has changed over the last few decades. Along with the 24/7 news cycle the demands placed upon the office holder are far gre...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2017-10-15 Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that report...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
2017-10-01 Happening with James Redford
From: Climate One
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Fossil fuels are in favor again in Washington. New opportunities are opening to mine coal and drill for oil despite the fact that the costs for fos...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Toast Masters
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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No, we're not talking about the breakfast staple you may eat every morning, we're talking about the speech kind of toast. Toastmasters is an intern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 1
2017-09-10 Yvon Chouinard: Founding Patagonia and Living Simply
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Yvon Chouinard is a legendary climber, surfer and environmentalist. He is also the reluctant entrepreneur who founded Patagonia, Inc., one of the m...

Bought by KQUA, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, KGNU Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
2017-09-03 Aligning Profits with the Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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“How do you move from a place of simply trying to stop bad things and asking instead how would you make products and services in a sustainable mann...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Organized Now - tips and strategies from Amanda Sullivan
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Amanda Sullivan, Credit: Amanda Sullivan
What are the secrets to de-cluttering?

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
Successful Leadership Coaches Influence Clients' Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Learn how to change behavior
Learn how the Emotion Roadmap helps leaders and others to get changes in behavior.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 45:01
Butterflies, Toads and Fish
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
Financing Land Without Water
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Most of us have lived our lives knowing that if we want a glass of water, we simply turn on the tap and out comes that delicious liquid. But in tod...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:58
RDD: Graphite Design + Build
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet some of the guys from Graphite Design and Build! GDB create custom sculptures, models, and signs f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1