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Constant Wonder - Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jay Nichols is convinced that water is very good for us. Not just the conventional wisdom of keeping hydrated, being in, near, on, or around water ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Experiencing Awe in Tragedy
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A preeminent researcher tells about his personal experiences of wonder. Feelings of awe beneath the desert stars, and endless wonders he feels are ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Anxiously Ever After: A Father Faces Mental Illness With Humor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Clint Edwards has told a few whoppers in his day, things that he didn't even need to lie about. For example, he wrecked his bike once and then told...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Infrasound
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The fossil fuel industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, low carbon, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes, and generate electr...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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
2022-09-09 No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WGCU, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220909: No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung, 9/9/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Constant Wonder - How Can You Reforest the Desert Without Planting a Single Tree?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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In some semi-arid regions of Africa, there is a forest underground, just waiting to sprout.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
2022-07-22 Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production toge...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
20220722: Turning Down the Heat: Decarbonizing Cement and Steel, 7/22/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Along with aviation, the construction industry is one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors in the global economy. Cement and steel production toge...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022-04-08 Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

Bought by WGCU, Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
20220408: Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?, 4/8/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
20220311 Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
20220311: Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal, 3/11/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
2022-02-25 Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
20220225: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace, 2/25/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
2022-02-18 Our Greatest Unintended Experiment
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For years, scientists, activists, and politicians have tried to warn the world of the potential catastrophic consequences of dumping greenhouse gas...

Bought by KRVS, WVTF, Maine Public Radio, KUHF, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 13
220218: Our Greatest Unintended Experiment, 2/18/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For years, scientists, activists, and politicians have tried to warn the world of the potential catastrophic consequences of dumping greenhouse gas...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Andrea Copping: The Latest on Marine Energy Projects
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Copping
We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Energy Sources for the Future with Magnetic Miles
From: Ken Grey
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Energy Sources for the Future with Magnetic Miles. Magnetic Miles COO John Pierson and Maximum Health Radio talk self-perpetuating magnetic energy,...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
Top of Mind - What To Save, Deepfake Geography, Stereo Smell
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: How do National Park officials decide which plants and animals to save as the climate changes? Topic 2: Imagine the harm a fake satellite ...

Bought by WYAP, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSTK


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Dimming the Sun
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Dimming the Sun, Credit: Seth Shostak
Does geoengineering offer a Plan B if nations at the U.N. climate meeting can't reduce carbon emissions? The Glasgow meeting has been called “the l...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Ecology: The Infrastructure of the Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.S. Senate is negotiating a $3.5 trillion infrastructure package.  President Biden, a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3