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Season 1, Episode 34 - 'Ecological Civilization' feat Dr Philip Clayton
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Season 1, Episode 11 - 'Doughnut Economics' feat Rob Shorter
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Imagine an economy that works for everyone.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 3
240112: Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates, 1/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Dissonant Landscapes: Music of Iceland
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Dissonant Landscapes," which explores how Icelandic musicians are often discussed in relationship to the...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
771-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA
NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

Bought by Raven Radio, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
MN Reads: "Climate Grief" by Shawna Weaver
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?
From: Open to Debate
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous: Parables of Healing for the Environmental Movement
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Earth's temperature is rising and time is running out to change direction according to the IPCC. But veteran organizer/strategist Ben Jealous (...

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


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
741-Africano(529)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA Stardust
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WYAP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Near Earth, Credit: ESA
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
730-Busy Night(518)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: -Dieter-Spannknebel-Getty-Images
On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
721-Eric’s Night(507)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist Conception , Credit: Getty Images
Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may ha...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
719-What A Night(505)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's Conception Benu and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
705-One Half Inch(491)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Hubble Image. Sharp star images., Credit: NASA
Fuzzy, spread out, asteroid images due to atmospheric and or equipment produced distortions can cause important objects to slip through an asteroid...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
2022-01-14 Should Nature Have Rights?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
220114: Should Nature Have Rights?, 1/14/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58