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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
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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
616-100 Million Year Old Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia, Credit: Yewenyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1370203
In western Australia, rock samples and maps of the local geology obtained while exploring for gold show evidence of a 3 mile diameter meteor crater...

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


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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
614-Rare Atira
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen o...

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


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
611-Aurora Mysteries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Auroral displays have been observed and reported on throughout human history. Data from NASA's 5 Themis (Themm us) satellites analyzed by powerfu...

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


  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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
607-Good Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artistic illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. , Credit: Image Credit: Dieter Spannknebel / Getty Images
Nearly every day during the monsoon rainy season in the American southwest, afternoon thunderstorms require putting mountain top telescopes and ca...

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


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
YBYG198: You Bet Your Garden # 98 When should you PICK your Produce?!, 8/13/2020
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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In this episode of You Bet Your Garden Mike teaches you "When to Pick your Produce. Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
601-Phaethon's Child
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is h...

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


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
600-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
YBYG195: You Bet Your Garden # 95 A Fresh Look: Happy Tomato Planting Tips, 7/23/2020
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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On this fresh look at an episode of You Bet Your Garden, host Mike McGrath takes you through ALL the HAPPY TIPS to get your tomatoes in the ground!...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
595-Monster Comet C/2020 H2 (Pruyne)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13
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

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