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The industrial revolution ushered in an era of more efficient transportation. As history has shown us, the impact of our ability to move easily acr...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 7
Environmentalists have been talking for a long time about the threat to the planet. Now, a prominent voice is directing our attention to a related ...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
You may or may not have heard of the Farm Bureau but it is one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in this country, representing over six m...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Oceans cover about 70% of our planet, and represent over 95% of all of the earth’s water. The human impact on the ocean includes temperature rise, ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Snow is such an exciting event for those of us living in southern Arizona and when it does snow the local jabber is always about famous snow falls ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 05:07
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 04:57
Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 05:02
Lesquerella is named in honor of Leo Lesquereaux and Wikipedia reminds me that he was a “Swiss bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany.” S...
- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 10:00
Production of animal protein is producing vast amounts of climate-eating gases. But a new generation of companies are creating innovative food pro...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WJCT, KZYX, WGCU, KBBI Alaska and more
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 11
You’re walking the aisles of your local grocery store, picking out fresh ingredients for dinner — you get to the counter, pay for it, bag it, and y...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Well, it was a cold winter, but as I sit and write this blurb it is 75 degrees outside with overnight lows in the low 30s. Now that is classic sout...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 05:12
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the i...
- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
How do you usually react to the stream of dire warnings about climate change and wildlife extinction? Does it motivate you to do more to make a dif...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 28:30
What can we do to be better citizens, better consumers and better advocates for the planet? Fighting waste and saving forests are a good place to s...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Shelter is on the first rung of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs. And yet, as a society, we have not cracked the code for ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains. Park L...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 05:48
Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without their coffee ritual. And they tend to be pretty particular about it — wha...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Road trips with a truck load of native plants are a lot of work, but are especially satisfying when you head home with very few plants in the truck...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 06:16
think I talked more about Toumey oak (Quercus toumeyi) than yellow bells. It is an awfully sweet little native oak. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t occ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:20
For goodness sake, I forgot to mention the black-tailed jackrabbit’s ears! The large ears are magnificent parabolic reflectors that keep them well ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 05:30
Back in the 1930s, when the US was in the midst of an economic crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted a set of policies to protect the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...
Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, MPR News Stations and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2019
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
Growing up watching “The Love Boat,” some of us thought of a cruise as a romantic and exciting way to see the world. New research out of Johns Hopk...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The first time you saw a fleet of rent-able electric scooters huddled together on a city sidewalk, what was your reaction? Annoyance at yet another...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00