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Oceans of Energy
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
Nukes in Utah – the past is present as Oppenheimer opens on Big Screen and Northrop Grumman seeks state tax incentives to build next-gen ICBMs
From: KRCL
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This is a 4-way interview with Inkstick military industrial complex reporter Taylor Barnes, and Scoville Peace Fellow and KRCL History Project Co-D...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 25:21
Shrimpbox: A Cleaner Approach To Seafood
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Russek
Shrimp is America’s most popular seafood product. Yet, the industry is rife with problems, from human slavery to ecological devastation. This week ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
We Know the Heat Is Coming. SF Has a Plan.
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco plans for future heat waves after record breaking heat in 2017 claimed six lives.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Trapped wildlife? Surprise hamster babies? Distressed dog? Animal Control can help.
From: KSFP
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Animal Care and Control in San Francisco helps both pets and wildlife in distress in the city and can arrest those who harm them. We step behind th...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:27
New Year's Pledge Helps Millions Eat Healthier
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Veganuary is a month long challenge to substitute plant products for meat and dairy. Even those who don't stay vegan make long term cuts in consum...

Bought by WFHB, KMXT, and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Is Your Money Fueling Wildfires?
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Move your money from big Wall Street banks that finance fossil fuel to community banks with better values.

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


  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wolves at the Well: The Corporate Grab of Public Water
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Columbia River Valley from the Oregon Shore towards Washington, Credit: Chris Light, Wikimedia Commons
Water is critical to maintaining the balance of life. Some corporations claim ownership of fresh water sources to bottle and sell for profit. Other...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cool Pavings
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Los Angeles streets are the testing ground for climate resilient streets

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


  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Utopian Dinner Table: How to feed the world in 100 years
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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You'll hear about ongoing food insecurity issues from food scholar Raj Patel, and hopeful solutions from families in the Black Creek community gard...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Red Deal
From: Generation Justice Admin
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What is The Red Deal? Tune in to hear one member of The Red Nation share about this movement document and how it aims for the liberation of Indigen...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 14:57
Housing as a Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Spectrum 03/20/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: It's electric! (& almost autonomous) Someone gives you €25 million. In exchange, you have to build an autonomous car – basically from...

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


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Using Social Media for Wildlife Monitoring
From: Betsy Brown
Caption: Instagram Hashtag Search for #monkseal
Learn how scientists are using social to monitor endangered monk seals and the people who see them in the wild.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:25
Environmental Policy and Energy Plans for the Future
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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A visit with former California Assemblymember and environmental champion, Fred Keeley. Fred has been an advocate for the oceans and land for as lon...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Carbon Eating Microbes Make Fish Food
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Merc Martinelli and Brian Sefton, owners of Oak Bio, discuss their company's plans to use carbon from the atmosphere to create products like fish f...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
Cooling the Planet with Ocean Currents
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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In this show we interview Dr. Alan Miller of "Cool it, Earth!", a company working to use ocean thermal energy technology (OTEC) to produce clean en...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Feb 04, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
G.M.nO! Genetically Modified Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Seed Academy at Seven Seeds Farm, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The movement for GMO regulation is going local. And the seed and pesticide companies are fighting back. As part of “What the Fork”, a multi-media...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
Kim Ferraro: Hoosier Environmental Council
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s EcoReport feature, Kim Ferraro, Water and Agricultural Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, talks about the ag-gag or ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
January 23, 2014
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s EcoReport feature, Kim Ferraro, Water and Agricultural Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, talks about the ag-gag or ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:41
Lueken’s Grocery Embracing 21st Century Ideas
From: Zach Wenzel
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Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:16
Not Just for the Birds
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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One key to curtailing the West Nile virus? Birds.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Electrofishing survey on Lake Superior
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Grand Portage Trust Lands technician Roger Deschampe watches for stunned fish, Credit: Carah Thomas
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
Deep in the heart of fracking
From: Civic Commons
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:30