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The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sandcastles
From: Adriana Cargill
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Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 3
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 11
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about local government.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Stories from The Big New Jersey Plastic Ban
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cities Declare Climate Emergency
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Two men address their fear of climate change by getting their cities to declare a climate emergency and commit to rapidly lowering emissions.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Healing Power of Trees
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Volunteers planting trees in Louisville
Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bryce Andrews, author of "Down From the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Bryce Andrews about his book "Down From the Mountain"

Bought by Gallatin Valley Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
  • Purchases: 1
Rising Green From the Ashes
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Wildfire victims rebuild all solar, all electric homes with help from their community energy program. Hear one family's story, learn what makes a h...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Spectrum 10/09/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How do you "graduate" astronaut school? We ask Europe's newest astronaut. Also, the strange story of a roaring Himalayan flo...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 08/21/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's Spectrum: An apple a day keeps the doctor away - We take a look at how South Africa has become a world leader in penis transplant...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 06/19/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Smart cities in Finland - On this week's show: A smart city? Going by what the experts tell us, the cities of the future will be d...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 05/15/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week’s show, it’s all about insects… An unbelievable collection of data gathered by the entomological society in Krefeld shows that the bio...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rats! New York vermin might be making you sick
From: Sarah Wyman
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Rats and other vermin are adversely impacting respiratory health.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
Living Planet 03/16/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on Living Planet: Caribbean after the storm - In 2017, two hurricanes of the highest intensity — Category 5 — wreaked havoc on the ...

Bought by KRJF-lp, WXDU, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 11
Spectrum 03/13/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: Germany’s wild boar Problem - For German hunters, it’s open season on wild boars all year round. There is, perhaps, good reason for t...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KRZA, WYAP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 6
Corrections in a Small City
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we cover John Shook's talk about key issues in the criminal justice system for small cities.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:56
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 17 | Reef-A-Palooza: Part I
From: Tom Howell
Series: The New York (High-End) Audio Show
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Recorded live to tape from the streets, businesses, trade shows, homes, garages, work spaces, factories and classrooms, The UnCommonCore Podcast ex...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 55:54
Part 3: Green movement pivots toward minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: A few members of Outdoor Afro Cleveland, including Smith-Woodford (holding sign), Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 3 of series -- The Great Lakes region is home to millions of people of different races and ethnicities. But diverse backgrounds – and issues ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Part 2: Flint water crisis a turning point for Green movement
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: WT Stevens replaces a pipe under a Flint street, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 2 of series -- Historically, the environmental movement hasn’t always been welcoming to people of color – and issues that are important to the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WBFO, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 8
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
Telltale Signs
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Two stories of ecological disruption: the great sea star wasting, and a graveyard of trembling aspens.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:03
Rising Seas in Silicon Valley
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Sea level rise is a global concern, and on the whole, policy and funding for mitigation aren’t keeping pace. Today on Gen Anthro, producer Isha Sal...

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:52
  • Purchases: 2
Unstable ice leads to a deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: New York State Police / Snowmobile , Credit: New York State Police
More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6
N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5