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Interview with Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka about his latest book, Car Wars. The resurgence of the electric car in...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 23:50
- Purchases: 1
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 28:30
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 4
Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world discovered the Surui people. Contact...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 28:30
A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about reproductive he...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
The foods we put on our plates have ripple effects way beyond our personal health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Nobody hitchhikes anymore. Back in the 1980s getting a ride with a stranger became decidedly un-trendy. Rugged individualism was in and ridesharing...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
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
Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two people working on very different fronts of the environmental movement. Our first guest is Dale Wannen, w...
Bought by KVSC and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
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
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share his practice of carrying blue marbles with him wherever he goes, gifting them to ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 05:06
With the climate crisis staring us right in the face, the need to transform our daily routines has become increasingly apparent. A part of the solu...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 29:59
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 2
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 29:56
Aside from some aesthetic advances and rudimentary low-flow innovations, the modern flush toilet basically has not evolved since its prototype firs...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
If you sit at the edge of Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and watch as waves ferociously slap the sands, you can’t help but recognize the awesome power o...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
Battery operated cars. No longer the exclusive domain of little kids huddled around a remote control, electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
We often hear about vertical economic growth and vertical integration in business but the idea of growing our food vertically sounds fantastical.
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- Added: Nov 22, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Remember when Lex Luthor designed a weather-controlling machine? Superman, of course, foiled his sinister plans…or did he? Using technology to cont...
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Last on Sea Change Radio, we heard from renowned energy expert Vaclav Smil, as he spoke about his book, Energy Transitions, the future of electric ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Lars Klüver of the Danish Board of Technology talks about the World Wide Views on Global Warming project he directs that will gather opinions of ev...
- Added: Apr 08, 2009
- Length: 29:30
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
