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Bearing Witness
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Happy New Year

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:52
Wild Contentment
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I could be over thinking the feeling I got when I saw that lone coati from the now named coati mundi bluff, but it was wonderful. The other flora a...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:17
2023-02-24 Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

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


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
20230224: Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener, 2/24/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
2023-02-10 What We’re Watching in Climate Now
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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2022 was a banner year for climate – both in terms of climate-fueled disaster and historic federal investments in clean energy, electric vehicles a...

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
20230210: What We’re Watching in Climate Now, 2/10/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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2022 was a banner year for climate – both in terms of climate-fueled disaster and historic federal investments in clean energy, electric vehicles a...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
2023-01-13 REWIND: Coping with Climate Through Music
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

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


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20230113: REWIND: Coping with Climate Through Music , 1/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Mus...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
2022-12-30 Revisiting The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossil Fuel Falsehoods
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...

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


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20221230: Revisiting The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossil Fuel Falsehoods, 12/30/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Breaking the Habit
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The botanical name of our 3 needle per fascicle (bundle) Chihuahuan pine is Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana. Further south into Mexico where the ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 04:35
2022-12-16 Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
20221216: Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner, 12/16/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
California Buckthorn
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
Goodding Willow by a Pond in the Hills
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
Sara's Onion
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Canyon Tree Frog
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Western Amphibians

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
Le Quatro Volte Review
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
2022-11-18 In Person at COP27: Funding the Global Energy Transition
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate One has been at this year's UN climate summit, COP27, where one of the issues at the forefront of the conversation has been “loss and damag...

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221118: In Person at COP27: Funding the Global Energy Transition, 11/18/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate One has been at this year's UN climate summit, COP27, where one of the issues at the forefront of the conversation has been “loss and damag...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Asclepias Lemmonii
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
Condalia correllii in the Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
Coral Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
The Melampus Daisy
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:28
Fall Festival of Fall Blooming Asteraceae
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:19