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2023-11-03 Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
231103: Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late, 11/3/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
2022-10-02 Climate Change and Collective Action
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Why has it been so hard for us to coordinate on fighting global warming?

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
13-14: Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community, 10/27/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Joanna Macy
Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecologica...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
03-11: Beloved Community: Hello My Other Self, 1/6/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff
In today’s radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience – the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
Puerto Rico: Freedom From Fantasy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura interviews journalist and author, Professor Ed Morales, Lecturer of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York, NY...its a city with close to 100 billion dollar budget every year and 1 deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
13-06: How Close Does It Have to Get?: The Open Space of Democracy, 11/2/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
In her writing and her life, Terry Tempest Williams reflects an expression of something better and higher in each of us. Here she wrestles with th...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
More on Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
Carbon Shock
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Schapiro, Credit: Center for Investigative Reporting
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Federalizing Floods
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 4
The Road to Ruin Is Paved -- A Fierce Green Fire
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
99% Invisible #53- The Xanadu Effect (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Can a building be too big to fail?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #25- Unsung Icons of Soviet Design (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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Imagine you're a country with 17 timezones. Your citizens want cassette players, but your factories only make tanks. What do you do?

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
99% Invisible #24- The Two Fates of the Old East Portico (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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When the District recovered the old Capitol columns, it forgot about the other fragments that had also once held up the country's icon of democracy.

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #22- Free Speech Monument (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The inscription on the granite reads, “This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation...”

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 17
World on the Edge – A Discussion with Author Lester Brown
From: Daphne Wysham
Series: Earthbeat
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The world is facing a potentially devastating 'Food Bubble,' that according to pioneering environmentalist Lester Brown.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 56:59
Sea Rise
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Rising sea levels, Credit: marineinsight.com
The oceans are slowly rising due to ice melt and the warming of the waters. And at least one east coast city has hired a Dutch firm to evaluate op...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
How The Connected Community Paves The Way To Sustainability; An Earthway Perspective
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: James Reidy
Today on Culture Clique we visit with James Reidy, Associate Profesor in Recreation, Tourism and Therapeutic Recreation at Winona State University...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 42:33
  • Purchases: 1
Connecting a City through Greenways
From: Smart City Radio
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This week on Smart City, we'll learn how green space can connect a community, even in one of the most industrialized states in America. And we'll ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WLRN, WBEZ, and WFSU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4