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Derek Walker: New Sheriffs on Climate Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Derek Walker
Which of the Trump-era environmental transgressions made your heart hurt the most? Was it when they loosened CO2 emission restrictions on power pla...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Jim Furnish + Kate Sheppard on the Last Frontier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Furnish
According to the State of Alaska website, the state’s name derives from the Aleut alyeska, meaning “great land.” Today on Sea Change Radio we talk ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Joe Brewer: Farms of the Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Brewer
For environmentalists “agriculture” can be something of a dirty word, associated with other words such as, pesticides, water consumption, pollutant...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lloyd Alter: Design Trends in Housing + E-Bikes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lloyd Alter
2020 has certainly been a strange year. Everyone is waiting for things to go “back to normal” but what will normal be? Will there be any adaptation...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
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...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Richard Delaney: Heading Down The Cape
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rich Delaney
As the author of “Jaws,” Peter Benchley, put it, “You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of ...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rebecca Leber: A Brand New Day
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rebecca Leber
The New York Times recently compiled a list of 104 environmental protections that the Trump administration has rolled back in four short years — th...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dan Dicker: Turning Oil Green
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
In the words of the late US Senator Everett Dirksen, “the oil can is mightier than the sword.” Whether it is mightier than the COVID-19 virus remai...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holy Smoke! Air Quality Meteorologist Scott Landes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Landes
With record-setting wildfires blanketing large swaths of the Western United States in smoke, we thought it appropriate to speak to someone who know...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Progress for Who?
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Phillips Committee resident Richard Habersham, Credit: Paige Polk
In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 33:46
605-Monsoon Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Under Pressure: Jeremy Hance
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeremy Hance
These dark and troubling times have left very few of us stress and anxiety free. So we thought we'd check in with an expert on germophobia and anxi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
602-Solar Flares
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
600-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Paul Wheaton Pt. II: Permaculture Gardening
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Wheaton
As you’re spending more time at home, and hanging out in the back yard or porch more than usual, are you noticing an urge to plant things? Apparent...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Wheaton Pt. I: Home Heating Solutions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Wheaton
Many of us are spending a whole lot more time at home these days, and are consequently knee-deep in a bunch of home improvement projects. A great a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Castle Redmond: Hope For Racial Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Castle Redmond
In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peac...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Megan Milliken Biven: Mississippi Dredging
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Megan Biven
Some of Louisiana’s best buffers against the storms that lash its coast annually are the little spits of land in the Gulf of Mexico — they slow dow...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Barbara Freese: Industrial Strength Denial
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Barbara Freese
The next time you hear the White House assert that up is down and down is up, consider what paved the way for this template of mendacity. This week...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Frederick Kaufman: Voices Inside Our Heads
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
When faced with something overwhelming, terrifying, or incomprehensible, the human mind can get pretty creative. This week on Sea Change Radio, we ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jeremy Miller on Foxes, Henhouses and Trojan Grouses
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeremy Miller
The Republican habit of putting wolves in charge of our nation’s henhouses hits those who love the environment particularly hard. This week on Sea ...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Dow of Deception: Mark Tulay
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mark Tulay
As the horrendous economic news continues to pile up, somehow stock prices keep bouncing back, leaving many of us scratching our heads. This week’s...

  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Marie Mutskui Mockett: American Harvest
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Marie Mockett
Anyone who has gone to the grocery store during the COVID-19 health crisis must have wondered to themselves at some point why there was no toilet p...

Bought by KVSC and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Muckraker: Jared Yates Sexton
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jared Yates Sexton
As most of us have been cooped up doing our best to keep the pandemic at bay, the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has decided that his j...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00