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Happier Campers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alyssa Ravasio
It's summertime, time to make your camping reservations. Oops, should have done that three months ago! This week's guest on Sea Change Radio, Alyss...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 2
Raj Thamotheram: Forcing Corporate Stewardship
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Raj Thamotheram
What will it take to get the CEOs of the world's largest fossil fuel companies to wake up to the realities of climate change? Our guest this week o...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Robin McDowell: Exposing Modern Slavery
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robin McDowell
Human slavery. Many of us think of it as a terrible chapter of US history that ended in the 19th century. But, according to the United Nations, sla...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Companies Corroding Communities
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neela Banerjee
According to the Supreme Court, corporations are people. The absurdity of this statement notwithstanding, it is clear that, like people, corporatio...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ole Kaven
Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Gary Nabhan: Seeds of Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gary Nabhan
The next time you are putting a slice of tomato on your sandwich, ask yourself where it came from. Not which area of the country, but which seed st...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 4
Alexandria Sage on Self-Driving Vehicles
From: Alex Wise
Caption: Alexandria Sage
The glamour of the limousine is undeniable - who wouldn't want to be shuttled about town without a care in the world? Traffic, parking, sobriety? S...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
Desalination: Is It Time To Drink The Pacific?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
Transforming ocean water into potable drinking water seems so remarkably cool on so many levels. But alas, desalination remains both expensive and ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 3
David Rolf: The $15 Minimum Wage Fight
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Rolf
Back in 2014 we spoke with David Rolf, president of the Pacific Northwest branch of SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, about his effo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tim Dickinson: Sunshine State In The Dark
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
Think about the sunniest states in the U.S. Florida, the place that calls itself "the sunshine state" is sure to come to mind. Indeed, the solar i...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Alex Camacho: Supreme Court Climate
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Camacho
Remember the Paris Climate Agreement, when it looked for a moment like world leaders were actually going to address our shared global concern? Well...

Bought by KVNF, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Salt Of The Earth: Farm Zero’s Mike Fawcett
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mike Fawcett
Farm Zero is a five year-old startup company that’s a concept for sustainable agricultural systems that use sea water rather than fresh water as th...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Johan Rockström: A Swedish Perspective On Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Johan Rockstrom
Given its northern latitude, Sweden is warming more rapidly than many other places in the world. Johan Rockström, one of Sweden’s leading environme...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Roy Scranton’s Arctic Cruise
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Roy Scranton
When we try to visualize the Arctic, we usually think of ice as far as the eye can see. But, unfortunately, that’s changing. This week’s guest on S...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Richard Lunt: Transparent Solar Cells (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Lunt
Imagine a world where every window-laden skyscraper generates its own solar power, where the skylights in your ceiling are a source of light and el...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
We'll Always Have Paris: Vivienne Walt on COP21
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Vivienne Walt
Victor Hugo said of Paris that nothing was more fantastic, more tragic, or more sublime. Will the same ever be said of the COP 21 climate agreement...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Bill McKibben: Putting the X in XL
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben
The drawn-out fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline recently ended in a triumph for environmental activists, when President Obama announced he ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Imitations: On GMOs and Concrete
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Borel
Now that Stephen Colbert has put his alter ego to bed, some of you may be missing broadcasters pretending to be someone else. Well, apparently, Col...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cutting Edge: Knives + Politics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Simha
This week on Sea Change Radio, we hear from a craftsman who makes razor-sharp kitchen knives, and with a progressive political talk show host who r...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Yours, mines and ours
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Troubled Coastlines From Louisiana To Maine, Pt. II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Bob Marshall about Louisiana’s shrinking coastline. And this week we...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Bob Marshall: Louisiana Encroachment, Pt. I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Get The Lead Out: Kevin Drum & Sarah Hess
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Drum
The policy decisions we make today will have an impact on the next hundred years and beyond. It kind of makes you think, what policy decisions from...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
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
In the Shadow of the Smokestacks (Part II): Richmond, CA
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Roger Kim
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