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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 05, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We have problem. Over 40-percent of the world’s population lives in poverty. Add to that our natural resources are quickly disappearing. Now mix in...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We’re continuing our “money machine” series on the cost of carbon capitalism. Gas gets cheaper, the weather gets warmer, and for our guests the env...
- Added: Jan 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 3
Nights are getting brighter and most of us no longer experience true darkness.
Bought by WCNY, WXDU, KKRN, WTJU, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 6
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
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...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Which is the better way to “feed the world” – with organic or “conventional” agriculture? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Mel...
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
When a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department approaches Middlebury writing professor Don Mitchell about tracking endangered India...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 01, 2014
- Length: 22:19
- Purchases: 1
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 2
We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...
Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
While California is experiencing one of it’s driest seasons, the east and south are having one of the coldest and wettest. Is this climate change, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We’re told that genetically engineered Golden Rice is the answer to third world Vitamin A-related blindness, but is it? Join Food Sleuth Radio host...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Farmer Joe Maxwell says: “I raise hogs; I don’t produce pork.” Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her in...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Benjamin Kilham has been researching and living with black bears for nearly twenty years. He has become an expert in black bear behavior, as well a...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 22, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Journalist and author Alan Weisman traveled to 21 countries to ask four questions that experts agreed were probably the most important on Earth. Hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 01, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Can you flip your middle finger at a cop? Hunger In America. Climate Change. Two movies you must see. And what's wrong with the DCCC? Weekly series...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 29:58
Winner of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of American Poets, Gary Snyder discusses the changing worlds of ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Why do farmers choose to produce food organically? And what are their challenges as neighbors plant genetically modified crops that are sprayed wit...
- Added: Aug 15, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Only a farmer can describe the boots-on-the-ground realities of raising our nation's food supply. Howard Vlieger is a farmer and crop nutrition ad...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 28:00
