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Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
This week, along with the rest of the country, we'll be piling my plate high with abundant turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple pie. It seem...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 30:00
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has produced a new film series on the dustbowl. It features survivors, experts on climate and farming, as well as s...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 28:30
Hurricane Sandy highlighted the devastating effects of a changing climate and rising sea levels like perhaps no other event we have seen in this co...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Do you cringe when you hear the term “clean coal?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio feels that this term is not only an oxymoron it’s offens...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 30:01
Magical thinking. According to the McGraw Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine, this is a condition, “similar to a normal stage of childhood ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 28:16
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 29:56
In his book, Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability, Philip Warburg takes us behind the scenes of ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 28:48
Remember when the tobacco industry hired a PR firm to convince us all that smoking wasn’t addictive and didn’t cause cancer? Now we know better but...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 29:46
Recently on Sea Change Radio, we discussed the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California, and the social movement that’s pushing back against one of...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 30:01
If you’re listening to this show, chances are you believe that climate change is real, that it’s a problem, and that human actions have brought us ...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 29:02
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Bill McKibben is one of the world’s leading environmentalists.
In addition to his recent success leading a coalition to stop the construction agai...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Has this ever happened to you: you’re sitting in your car, engine idling, watching the cars in front of you and behind you move only inches at a ti...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Walmart. What does the name of the world’s largest retailer evoke for you? Do you think of its reputation as a poor employer and its anti-union tac...
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 30:01
What is the United States Chamber of Commerce? Many Americans hold the misconception that it’s a government agency. It is not. It is the most signi...
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 30:00
Carnegie Council's Evan O'Neil ponders the future of mega-cities, and leading Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun discusses China's air and water crisi...
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 23:23
Trained as an ecologist, our guest this week on Sea Change Radio uses complexity theory to map spheres of influence and find solutions to any numbe...
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 30:00
The bankruptcy of solar startup, Solyndra, earlier this year had the clean energy naysayers up-in-arms, saying that Solyndra’s demise proved that g...
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 30:00
If you could get the President’s attention for just long enough to tell him the ten things you’d like him to do to save the planet, or at least put...
- Added: Oct 12, 2011
- Length: 29:59
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from U.S. Congressman Jerry McNerney, representing California’s 11th District. In an earlier appearance on Se...
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
In just a couple of decades the plastic bag has become ubiquitous on this planet – these “disposable” items don’t biodegrade, however, so they’ve b...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Sep 14, 2011
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Ask an environmentally aware friend of yours what they think about ethanol and the response will probably be negative. Critics of this long-establi...
- Added: Sep 14, 2011
- Length: 30:00
The United Nations forecasts that by 2050 the world’s population will exceed 9 billion. How will that affect life on the local level, on the global...
- Added: May 25, 2011
- Length: 29:33
It took humankind 1800 years to get from a global population of about 200 million to 1 billion. But it only took us 200 years to go from a billion ...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
