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Maple Grove Hot Springs
From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water
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On this episode of Ways of Water Connor of Radioactive went to Maple Grove Hot Springs

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 10:57
Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag- Aquinnah)--Making Art Through Native Lifeways
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
Caption: Elizabeth James perry
Wampum & Fiber Artist and 2023 National Heritage Fellow Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) discusses her artistic practi...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Climaturity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marc Cortez
The controversary surrounding climate change is frequently charged with emotion. It’s a challenge. If you believe the health of the planet is in da...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Solve Climate Change Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Poison Life No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mat Simon, Credit: Wired magazine
Our world is surrounded by microplastic pollution. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s in the food we eat. Our homes are among the most polluted place...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on the Planet
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael Webster
When it comes to climate change, it’s easy to feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Temperatures are rising to unsustainable levels. Larger an...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Raj Patel, Credit: TheStar.com
The network of systems that make up our bodies – respiratory, digestive and nervous system to name a few - is seen by conventional medicine as self...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Jacket Cover
It’s no coincident that our planet is on fire. Look more closely and you’ll find that our society, politics and bodies mirror the world. We, too, a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Novelist Andrew Krivak
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Andrew Krivak, Credit: Sharona Jacobs
Andrew Krivak Andrew Krivak talks about The Bear a meditative novel about the last of humanity which is a surprisingly uplifting book and also a re...

Bought by WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
Thicker Than Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erica Cirino
We are surrounded by plastics. Literally enveloped. It has become so ubiquitous to our lives, frequently, we don’t even think about it. It surround...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Carnism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Melanie Joy
The average American consumes more than 234-pounds of meat every year. That’s chicken, beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, and fish. That may not even ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Letting the Light In
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place Season 3
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What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Lost and Found (part 2)
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place Season 3
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What have you lost in the pandemic? What have you found? We asked these questions to people from New York to New Mexico. What they told us has gi...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:20
Season 3 Trailer
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
Caption: Shelter in Place Season 3, Credit: Sarah Edgell
How can we feel at home even when our world feels out of control? Shelter in Place, an award-winning arts and wellness podcast, is back for seaso...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:46
Ocean Plastics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Blaustein
Massive wildfires, flooding and natural disasters: It’s obvious to most observers now that climate change is no hoax. But, most of us feel that the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dave Lindorff
It’s no longer out of sight out of mind. Many of our landfills have become a public health hazard. That’s especially true of those near a body of w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Water Defenders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Cavanaugh
Water. As people are becoming more aware of the seriousness of climate distruption, it’s become easier to discuss the shortage as well as the extre...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
At Home in the World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Cover, Credit: N. Putens
When the Sierra Club was created in 1892, its original mission was to preserve the wilderness. The men who formed the group under the leadership of...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Booktalk: Journalist and Film Maker Sebastian Junger’s “Freedom”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“The change was immediate. The country opened up west of Harrisburg and suddenly we could drink from streams and build fires without getting caught...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2021
  • Length: 09:17
Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
The Roadless Rule Policy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ken Rait podcast
January 12, 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of the Forest Service’s Roadless Rule Policy. It is designed to protect millions of acres of America’s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Planetary Health
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Howard Frumkin
Recent events around the globe clearly demonstrates the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet. Heat waves in California, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diversifying Power
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jennie C. Stephens
The inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has also thwarted the country’s response to the climate crisis. Some feel it’s due to le...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
What happens when paper gets recycled?
From: Possibly
Caption: Paper recycling plant , Credit: Bas Emmen
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:50