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Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
How will our current climate policies and actions be viewed by future generations? Our first guest this week on Sea Change Radio is pretty sure our...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant Daniel Yergin published his long-awaited sequel to the The Prize called The Quest: E...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Our planet’s rising oceans are no longer the purview of pessimistic doomsayers – they are the new reality. This week’s guests on Sea Change Radio a...
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 29:59
For better or for worse, cars are not leaving the American landscape anytime soon. The automobile is woven into the cultural fabric of our country ...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Water is our most important nutrient, but the major threats to clean water may surprise you. Join Food Sleuth Radio Host and Registered Dietitian, ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2012
- Length: 28:00
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
Are genetically engineered foods safe to eat? Would labeling help consumers? Join Food Sleuth Radio Host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelga...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 46 percent of Americans believe in creationism. Is this belief hurting our planet? In his new book, professor, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 27, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
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
Aside from some aesthetic advances and rudimentary low-flow innovations, the modern flush toilet basically has not evolved since its prototype firs...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever been to the dump? It’s a pretty smelly place. Part of what you’re smelling is methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that’s created as bi...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
What do you get when you combine the contoured and colorful aesthetic of Gaudi with the sensibility of an ecological innovator? You might get my gu...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 29:51
Named for the rich red dirt that once colored its rushing waters, the Colorado River has been dammed, diverted and drained to a trickle of its form...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 30:01
The average American generates between 88 and 120 pounds of plastic waste per year. Imagine what it would mean for you to cut that down almost enti...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
Ocean pollution is something most of us are well aware of whether it be from seeing plastic bags washed ashore or images of marine life stuck in oi...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 30:01
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
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 2
