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Finless Foods: A Different Kettle of Fish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shannon Cosentino-Roush
Long time Sea Change Radio listeners know a thing or two about the challenges of being both a seafood lover and an environmentalist. It’s hard to k...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WNED Buffalo, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 3
This Week in Water for April 2, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Grueling Sporting Event Is Doing Science. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 7
John Stoehr: What the Right Gets Wrong on Race
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
If you tend to get annoyed when you hear pundits criticize politicians for "politicizing" an inherently political issue, then this week’s show may ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Meltdown! with Eric Epstein
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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How a stuck valve almost destroyed the State of Pennsylvania

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
A Royal Pain—How King Tides in California Reveal a Troubling Future
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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California has been inundated with heavy rain in recent weeks as atmospheric rivers from the Pacific Ocean unleash moisture. But within a few decad...

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 4
Émile Torres: Effective Altruism + Longtermism Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Emile Torres
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our two-part series examining the effective altruism movement and "longtermism." We speak to phil...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for October 30, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Skip This Chore to Help the Climate. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 4
Midterm Musings: Robijn Van Giesen on the ’22 Election
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Robijn Van Giesen
With less than a month to go before the midterm elections, concerned citizens across the country are deciding which candidates to support through c...

  • Added: Oct 13, 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
Bianca Fortis on Florida's Efforts to Disenfranchise Former Prisoners
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bianca Fortis
Florida sort of defines the term "swing state." The smallest of variables can push the outcome of Florida's elections in one direction or another -...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Daniel Nichanian on the Nuts and Bolts of Local Elections
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Nichanian
Anyone who paid attention to the ugly aftermath of the 2020 presidential election suddenly realized that a coterie of state-level bureaucrats had a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Indonesian Coal + Food For Soul
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lara Gilmore
This week on Sea Change Radio, we dig into the archives and listen to two very different stories about consumption. First, we speak to global journ...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Revelator’s John Platt on Endangered Species
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari writes, “When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Alex Gilbert on West Virginia v. EPA
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
It seems like these days every sentence that begins with "The Supreme Court..." finishes with truly appalling news -- another draconian ruling rega...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Fleck: Drought Dilemmas and the Colorado River
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Promise of Psychedelic Therapy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Oli Mittermaier
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 2: Recall Rubbish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Hog Wild: Susanne Rust on the Feral Pig Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Susanne Rust
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Ted Nordhaus: What Are Environmental Protections Protecting?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Historian T.J. Jackson Lears once said, "All history is the history of unintended consequences." This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Ted N...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anne Clunan on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Anne Clunan
War has suddenly returned to Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been swift, shocking, and devastating. In addition to killing thousands of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Andrew Winston: The Case For Doing Business Differently
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Winston
In 1970, the economist Milton Friedman wrote a controversial piece for the New York Times Magazine entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Global Investigative Journalism Network + Pandemic Plastic Use
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tara Duggan
An icon of 20th Century journalism, Walter Cronkite, once said, “The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to kn...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Celia Ouellette: The Business of Punishment in America (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Celia Ouellette
People sometimes like to quote that Bible passage about “an eye for an eye” when justifying a punitive criminal justice system focused on retributi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News on the New Normal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Berwyn
The Marshall Fire that swept through the Boulder, Colorado area in the last days of 2021 seemed to be an aberration - a destructive wildfire raging...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1