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Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pre-Election Special: Noam Chomsky and Universalizing Resistance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week Laura Flanders checks in with one of the leading social critics of our time, MIT professor emeritus, Noam Chomsky. He shares how this el...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
525: Democracy On The Ballot / 526: Worshipping Waterfalls, 10/17/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Democracy On The Ballot" - We’re getting close to the next presidential election. And if you feel like the stakes are higher this time, ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
453: Eye-To-Eye With Animals / 454: Is Capitalism Broken?, 2/8/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Is Capi...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
Under the Influence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert H. Frank
It’s well understood that our environment affects our behavior. Realistically, though, it works both ways. Our behavior profoundly impacts our envi...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
449: Hope: How Do We Make It? / 450: Getting Jazzed, 1/25/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
HOUR ONE: "Hope: How Do We Make It?" - We continue our three part series on hope. Can you create it through activism, faith, music or some other ac...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, On Fire, in which she argues that addressing the climate crisis requires more than simply r...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
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427: The Secret Language Of Trees / 428: When Women Rule, 11/9/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Secret Language of Trees" - When was the last time you listened to a tree? Biologists are just beginning to unravel their vast netwo...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
Morality and the Environmental Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roger S. Gottlieb
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....

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  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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377: Loving Bees / 378: Facing Hate, 5/18/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Loving Bees' - Bees are endangered, but all over the world, people are stepping up to save them — in backyards, science labs, and the ur...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:57
371: Hope: How Do We Make It? / 372: The Sound Of Silence, 4/27/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
HOUR ONE: "Hope: How Do We Make It?" - We continue our three part series on hope. Can you create it through activism, faith, music or some other ac...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Steve Schechter
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with clean energy activist and advocate Steve Schechter.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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The home ownership gap continues to widen.

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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A Dystopian Future
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.

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  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Canyon for Sale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Nash
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
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The Free Market Assault on Science: Kerryn Higgs #212 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
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Toward the Tipping Point
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jeremy Lent
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Collision Course: Kerryn Higgs #211 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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How and why did our society come to value economic growth so highly that we pursue it at the risk of our long-term survival? For some time scientis...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
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What Keeps Our System Stuck? Mike Nickerson #209 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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We’re not living on Earth as if we want to stay, observes Mike Nickerson. In our last episode, Mike Nickerson shared his vision for, and the joy of...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural Metamorphosis: Mike Nickerson #208 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“We could be having so much fun that there just isn't time to consume resources on a quantity, or produce waste on a quantity that would be problem...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
End of Ponzi Economy: Jerry Mander #203 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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Was globalization a temporary state that has run its course? That’s the case made by Jerry Mander, who believes there is plenty of evidence that th...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Running on Empty: Rex Weyler #109 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
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