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Can we beat the traffic by taking to the skies? Sailing over freeways in a flying car, getting to work in minutes instead of hours, has long been t...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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Nearly 25 percent of America’s electricity now comes from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states, and Puerto Rico and Washingto...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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Nearly 25 percent of America’s electricity now comes from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states, and Puerto Rico and Washingto...

Bought by WJCT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WLPR , Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
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Today’s solutions for addressing climate change are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve family planning, shut down coal...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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This week on the show: Science on the move - On the ground, up in the air, and in the belly of a barge — science is everywhere. Zip around wi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Send in the bots! - Right now, hundreds of power plants around the world are splitting atoms. But when a reactor malfunc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUOW, WMRA, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFOI Radio, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
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Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’s Ar...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KMXT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
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On this episode of Culture Clique we conclude our coverage of electric vehicles in Winona, MN. Willard Huyck goes to Bluff Country Coop to learn ab...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 10:58
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When you think of climate activism, Wall Street doesn’t immediately come to mind. But as investors are coming to realize, they do have a voice – an...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WUTC, MPR News Stations, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Ashley Allen, Mars Corporation; Host Greg Dalton
As the planet heats up, it’s affecting many of the foods we love – when and where they’re grown, how they get to the grocery store and how much we...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KVCR, KAAD-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
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The price of solar power has declined dramatically in recent years. That’s good news for homeowners, the environment and the economy. Renewable pow...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
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After more than a century of ruling the roads, oil is starting to lose its dominance over the auto industry. More and more automakers are introduc...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KWIT, KUHF, and NPR Now


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bill Nye, Television Host and Science Educator
As the Science Guy, television’s Bill Nye inspired a generation of children to love science as much as he does. But these days, he’s speaking to a ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WLPR , NPR Now, KCMJ Community Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Barton "Buzz" Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Credit: Ed Ritger
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Amory Lovins, Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute
Will the rapid arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will autonomous cars merely put drivers out of work and clog our str...

Bought by MPR News Stations


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Oliver Morton, The Economist, Credit: Ed Ritger
In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and reach for the fire extinguisher. Some would argue we’re in the midst of a climate emergency –...

Bought by KRZA, KZYX, and KMUD


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3