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Wind is of particular relevance to the ocean, as evidenced by the number of near and offshore wind turbine proposals currently projected and in mot...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:37
We continue to look for solutions to our most pressing future challenges: fresh water, food, energy, health, and security. In this episode of World...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 05:34
The crisis of water is an indisputable one, as evidenced by a public increasingly aware of the urgency of ocean and fresh water issues. In this epi...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 05:26
There are many organizations, conferences and commissions dedicated to ocean policy, research and education. Yet public perceptions of ocean issues...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 05:11
Advances in technology bring us new, visionary underwater devices to record and transmit observational data. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 05:20
Our traditional approach to protection from sea and surge has been the hard edge, with the mission to shield us from the encroachment of water. In ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:23
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill continues a discussion of the Global Environment Facility/ United Nations Development Progra...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 05:33
Civilization was built by the sea. The 20th century waterfront was an accumulation of functions that were best placed on or near the coast. As popu...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:45
The Ocean Health Index defines a healthy ocean as one that sustainably delivers a range of benefits to people both now and in the future. World Oce...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 06:14
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will argue that it is time for the Obama administration to declare the waters of the Arctic ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:37
The sea has been a source of storytelling and real-time adventure tales since the beginning of narrative and most every culture has its archetypal ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 06:18
In "Eaarth, Making a Life on a Tough New Planet", author Bill McKibben analyzes the damage we've done to our terrestrial and marine environment, ou...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 06:22
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss a system which does on occasion fail us, if we don't fail it first; and he'll a...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:37
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting April 21st, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the nerdy host, opened with the news, includi...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 54:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 06:19
We at the World Ocean Observatory use the belief "The Sea Connects All Things" as the basis for our work to inform citizens and unite to sustain th...
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 05:09
Climate change was in the news again recently, with reports from Durban, South Africa where another U.N. Summit took place. In this episode of Worl...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 04:22
World Ocean Radio follows the progress of all the major developing ocean-related alternative energy technologies including wind, wave, tidal, and s...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 05:04
Garbage is not generally the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fuel sources. However, commentator Mark Blackmon says that where he...
- Added: Sep 01, 2010
- Length: 02:52
Some of us have built our own units. You can too!
- Added: Jul 08, 2010
- Length: 01:42
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
Energy from the wind is renewable and pollutes very little, yet the wind supplies only a small percent of the United States electricity. Why?
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
Two of the greatest environmental threats of the twentieth century - leaded gas and freon - were the work of a single man named Thomas Midgley. His...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
." The key obstacle to these cars, and their achilles heel, is getting the hydrogen to the car.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1